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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

My Morning in Exile

Today ShysterBall celebrates the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the 1994-95 strike! Sure, it was terrible, but at least we didn't get a 72-win team winning the AL West! In other news:

  • Hey, you and Tommy LaSorda? I hate Tommy Lasorda.


  • The Tigers' arms are going to be stretched come this postseason, though there's not a lot to be done about it.


  • Has the 500 home run club been diminished?


  • Is this the end for Tom Gordon?


  • Keep a thought in your heart for Scott Schoeneweis.


  • Are the Joba kid gloves doing more harm than good?


  • Nostalgia sucks, even when I'm sympathetic to it.


  • I may have a longer post about that last one later today.

    Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 11:21am


    Comments

    John Willumsen said...

    Re: the Tigers stretched arms, I think often you most see the effects of a long season + post-season work the next year. 2006 White Sox and 2009 Rays immediately come to mind. Though you could argue that regression is all but inevitable for a team that makes it to the W.S. as getting there almost always involves a healthy dose of luck sauce.

    Posted 08/12  at  12:51 PM
    HP3 said...

    re: Tommy Lasorda

    Fatso never misses a photo-op. I can’t stand him either and wish he would go away; never to be seen or heard from again.

    Posted 08/12  at  01:02 PM
    Mark said...

    See, and I would have guessed Tom Gordon retired years ago. So…yay, Ton Gordon, for sticking in there!

    Posted 08/12  at  01:12 PM
    Will said...

    “Once upon a time, before Sirius and XM and MLB.com, there was a thing we called radio.”

    What the hell have I been listening to in the car this morning? The TV set? And anyhow, since I’m too cheap for cable and MLB.TV has decided that I’m in a blackout zone for the Rockies, my only option is to listen to the radio.

    Also, SI loses my respect by forcing its url into my quoted sentence there.

    Posted 08/12  at  02:05 PM
    Aaron Whitehead said...

    Thanks for the “Fletch” reference.  Although I have to admit that the commercials for the postseason a few years ago that featured LaSorda were pretty good.  Still, it sounds like the Cyclones are taking the word “Fame” a little too literally.

    Posted 08/12  at  02:05 PM
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