Did Sports Illustrated just give us the jinx? They picked the Tiger's to win it all.
GO TIGERS!!!!

GO TIGERS!!!!
Did Sports Illustrated just give us the jinx? They picked the Tiger's to win it all.
GO TIGERS!!!!
Did Sports Illustrated just give us the jinx? They picked the Tiger's to win it all.
GO TIGERS!!!!
See this: POST on how good our 4 & 5 starters are. This also provides my conclusion of how they're superior to Willis and the rest of Detroit's staff.
And don't worry, I won't be on him the entire season if Willis "doesn't turn it around." I was just giving evidence on how I think his career is regressing and how he actually is NOT better than our #3, #4 or #5 like you said earlier.....
Possibly because of your previous quote:
Of course, all of this discussion began with me giving my preseason prediction that the Tribe would win the AL Central over Detroit in '08 and the sole reason was our edge in pitching.
Did Sports Illustrated just give us the jinx? They picked the Tiger's to win it all.
GO TIGERS!!!!
GO JINX!!!!
Actually in truth I kinda like the Tigers. Phils really came out well in that Polanco trade. Lets see, Polanco...no, errors, hits about .340....and we got some guy that tried to light everyone on fire and has been sitting in a Venezualen jail since. Very good deal for the Phils.
Jimbo,
I understand your point stating that there is still some uncertainty in whether or not the Indians rotation will be able to repeat last year's brilliant success. You are right. Too many variables come into play such as injury and such. (Being a Cleveland sport's fan, I can certainly attest to that). I personally am worried that our two top starters (CC and Fausto) can hold up throughout this upcoming year, since they both pitched a record amount of innings last year. I worry less about CC since he is older and time tested. He is also in the last year of his contract and is playing for a huge payday. Fausto is still young and last years success was completely unexpected to be honest. If he does repeat his dominance again this year, this kid is the real deal.
8 minutes till the ballgame!
GO TIGERS!!!
Let me turn that around for you - what happened to that great pitching staff of your's yesterday? Good thing you had hitting yesterday, you sure as all hell, had no pitching.
It's a long season (too long in my opinion, 140 games would be more than enough), and yesterday we couldn't buy a clutch hit, and the bullpen (gulp) was, shall I say, less than stellar.
I'll tell you what happened Paul: Jim Thome happened! This will forever be his home field. Every time he's here he does great. Plus, if you take away Sabathia's 2 bad pitches to him that resulted in homers, the margin of victory would've been much greater. Besides, we got bored after the 2nd inning being up 7-2 and were just toying with the Sox.
Here's the starting pitching stats for Ace's Buehrle and Sabathia
Buehrle:
1.2 IP, 7 H, 7 ER, 1 SO, 37.80 ERA! (I love inflated early season stats!)
Sabathia: (Take away Thome's 2 HR's and 4 RBI's and Sabathia didn't look that bad)
5.1 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 7 SO.
* BTW, our best player Victor Martinez left the game in the bottom of the second inning with a strained left hamstring. The verdict is still out on his condition as we wait for the MRI results later on this afternoon.....
I hope 2 games don't make a season. Another loss today, the mighty Tiger bats a sleep at the wheel today, only 3 hits, all by Renteria.
I hope 2 games don't make a season. Another loss today, the mighty Tiger bats a sleep at the wheel today, only 3 hits, all by Renteria.
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