Comment from a post about the Tigers on Deadspin:Wow, that's almost a brilliant way of making the Lions look like a winning franchise. I heard that if the Tigers win the WS, Jon Kitna will be the first thing torched.
Alrighty. here we go. maggs = doomed at comerica, his two homers notwithstanding.
but my buddies from NYC-area asked me yesterday if either NL team stands a chance versus the Tigers. No. friggin. way.
Did you see who the Cards and Mets threw out there in game four? Reyes and Perez: two guys who couldn't cut it as Justice League fans, let alone National League pitchers. Yeesh.
Plus, the Tigers have all kinds of time to get that bullpen healed up. If they lose, it's Gaines' fault.
Not so! Notice how I didn't pick them to win the Series (although I secretly disagreed with my pick -- totally legal!). They'll win, and it'll be BECAUSE of Gaines.
Nonsense. The fact that you're going to game 1 of the series completely and utterly destroys any chance of the Tigers winning the World Series of MLB in 2006.
Check with Todd Fritz. He's well-versed in the "die-hard-fan-ruins-it-for-everyone-else" finger-pointing that make sports everything they can be -- and more.
Bullcrap. If rabid fans = losses then the Indians wouldn't have won that World Series back in...
oh wait.
Besides, if you going to Comerica didn't jinx it for game 4, nothing will. The only thing that will stop Detroit is a lack of gum...or hitting and pitching.
OK. What's the deal with Ken Macha getting the axe?
I can just see Billy Beane and him having the year-in-review conversation. ....
Billy: Kenny, you met or exceeding all of our expectations of you this year.
Ken: Well. Great. I think I owe it to my coaching staff. And the players deserve a lot of credit, too. They played their butts off.
Billy: Except in Detroit.
Ken: Er ...
Billy: Look, don't take this the wrong way, but ... Kenny, we're looking for somebody who can take us all the way.
Ken: Well, I mean we were...
Billy [interrupting]: Ah, ah ah. Now Kenny, we both know this team collapsed on itself after murdering the Twins. And that, truth be told, you mis-managed this sucker the entire series against Detroit.
Ken: In all fairness, I think "mismanaged" is a mischaracterization.
Billy: Yes. Well. I don't really care what you think.
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: That's it? You can't say anything in your defense?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: See, This is what I'm talking about. This is what you looked like when Detroit put two on in the bottom of the ninth in game four.
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: Street was out of gas. How could you not see that?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: How could you leave him out there against Ordonez?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: Nothing? You got nothing?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy [incredulous]: Ken, I really wish you'd have made a better effort -- both in that game and here today. I'm disappointed. For both of us. You're fired.
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Alrighty. here we go. maggs = doomed at comerica, his two homers notwithstanding.
but my buddies from NYC-area asked me yesterday if either NL team stands a chance versus the Tigers. No. friggin. way.
Did you see who the Cards and Mets threw out there in game four? Reyes and Perez: two guys who couldn't cut it as Justice League fans, let alone National League pitchers. Yeesh.
Plus, the Tigers have all kinds of time to get that bullpen healed up. If they lose, it's Gaines' fault.
Do you think the 2006 World Series will actually start in 2006?
Not so! Notice how I didn't pick them to win the Series (although I secretly disagreed with my pick -- totally legal!). They'll win, and it'll be BECAUSE of Gaines.
Nonsense. The fact that you're going to game 1 of the series completely and utterly destroys any chance of the Tigers winning the World Series of MLB in 2006.
Check with Todd Fritz. He's well-versed in the "die-hard-fan-ruins-it-for-everyone-else" finger-pointing that make sports everything they can be -- and more.
Bullcrap. If rabid fans = losses then the Indians wouldn't have won that World Series back in...
oh wait.
Besides, if you going to Comerica didn't jinx it for game 4, nothing will. The only thing that will stop Detroit is a lack of gum...or hitting and pitching.
Gaines is allowed to go to the game, but I would recommend he not publically pick the Tigers to win.
Fortunately I don't think he's forecast anything since declaring the Twins 'eliminated' back in June.
Oh I forgot you picked 'against' the Tigers. Genius! There's hope for you yet.
OK. What's the deal with Ken Macha getting the axe?
I can just see Billy Beane and him having the year-in-review conversation. ....
Billy: Kenny, you met or exceeding all of our expectations of you this year.
Ken: Well. Great. I think I owe it to my coaching staff. And the players deserve a lot of credit, too. They played their butts off.
Billy: Except in Detroit.
Ken: Er ...
Billy: Look, don't take this the wrong way, but ... Kenny, we're looking for somebody who can take us all the way.
Ken: Well, I mean we were...
Billy [interrupting]: Ah, ah ah. Now Kenny, we both know this team collapsed on itself after murdering the Twins. And that, truth be told, you mis-managed this sucker the entire series against Detroit.
Ken: In all fairness, I think "mismanaged" is a mischaracterization.
Billy: Yes. Well. I don't really care what you think.
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: That's it? You can't say anything in your defense?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: See, This is what I'm talking about. This is what you looked like when Detroit put two on in the bottom of the ninth in game four.
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: Street was out of gas. How could you not see that?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: How could you leave him out there against Ordonez?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: Nothing? You got nothing?
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy [incredulous]: Ken, I really wish you'd have made a better effort -- both in that game and here today. I'm disappointed. For both of us. You're fired.
Ken: [blank stare]
Billy: Hey, can you leave? I gotta make a call.
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