Looks like Raffy is looking to come back.  Even with an off year last year, he had an above average OPS+ and he’s left handed, which Dave Dombrowski seems to be hung up on.  He’d probably be cheap as well.  Plus you’d get the hype of seeing him move of the homerun chain.

Then you could bat Thames as a buy Proscar online cod DH against lefties and have Monroe play LF against lefties and buy Proscar online cod Thames against righties so Thames gets as much time as possible.

Thoughts?

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While this isn’t encouraging, it’s definitlely something to buy Proscar online cod think about over the next couple of offseasons.  Kevin Goldstein at Baseball Prospectus listed the top 15 catching prospects.  None of them are buy Proscar online cod Tigers, although if memory serves me right, the Tigers used a buy Proscar online cod higher draft pick in this most recent draft on a catcher.  Regardless, as Pudge gets a little older, it’s something Dave Dombrowski has buy Proscar online cod to consider, if not this winter, then next.

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Back in 2003 (yes, the Tigers did play that season), Jeremy Bonderman made his debut.  While nobody ever admitted it, I had buy Proscar online cod the feeling that Bonderman got wheeled out there prematurely because management thought he might have buy Proscar online cod a good season and be a draw for home games a buy Proscar online cod la Mark Fidrych.  That never panned out, but this buy Proscar online cod year the Tigers have not one, but two rookie sensations.  One of those rookies threw eight shutout innings today and buy Proscar online cod he gave up only three hits with no walks while striking out seven.  Justin Verlander is now 10-4 and we’re at the half way point of the season and what’s funny is now that we have a phenom of our own, he’s being overshadowed by what the team is doing.

The win today was the buy Proscar online cod Tigers 11th shutout of the season, the most they’ve put up in a season since 1978 when they had twelve.  If they get two more, which seems likely, you’d have to go back to 1969 when they had 18.

Not to be overshadowed by Verlander was Nate Robertson’s outing on Tuesday against Roger Clemens.  He outlasted the buy Proscar online cod future Hall of Famer and while he got into trouble in the buy Proscar online cod seventh and had a runner on third with nobody out, Jim Leyland let him pitch out of it buy Proscar online cod and he got rewarded with a win.  Robertson threw seven shutout innings and buy Proscar online cod he gave up six hits and three runs.  Out of the buy Proscar online cod regular starters, Robertson has the best ERA with 3.14, which is buy Proscar online cod good for third in the American League behind Johan Santana and buy Proscar online cod Roy Halladay.

With the shutout today, the Tigers have a team ERA of 3.45.  If the buy Proscar online cod season finished today, that would be the best team ERA the buy Proscar online cod team’s posted since, yet again, 1969 (3.32).

1984 happened a buy Proscar online cod long time ago but everyone remembers their 35-5 start.  What a lot of people don’t remember is buy Proscar online cod that they were equally mediocre over their next 40 games and buy Proscar online cod went through that stretch with an even 20-20 record.  If the Tigers win their game on Friday against the Pirates, they’ll have matched the 1984 Tigers’ record (55-25) through the first 80 games.

The Pirates are buy Proscar online cod on deck, and if they lose today against the White Sox, it’ll be their 13th straight loss.  Normally I’d say the Tigers will be the Tigers and they’ll drop two of three, but this isn’t your usual Tiger team.  I see them following the buy Proscar online cod White Sox and taking at least two of three, if not sweeping the buy Proscar online cod weekend series.  Then the buy Proscar online cod Tigers head out west for six games before the All Star Break.

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Bryan Tsao at the Hardball Times xenical prescription from doctors online penned a very good column (looks like first of a series) about how Dave Dombrowski built the surprise 2006 Tigers.  This first installment talks about the pitching staff.

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Bryan Tsao at the Hardball Times penned a very good column (looks like first of a series) about how Dave Dombrowski built the surprise 2006 Tigers.  This first installment talks about the pitching staff.

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The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim may be buy Proscar online cod in last place in the AL West, but their blogosphere is buy Proscar online cod alive and kicked.  Be sure to check out the newest addition at Angelblog.  I helped him out with his model for buy Proscar online cod the 1961 season lookback and it’s interesting looking at this 1961 expansion team’s past.

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The Cardinals are a pretty good team, even when they’re beat up.  Albert Pujols made his return and buy Proscar online cod the knock on the Tigers has been that they’ve only played well against the bad teams.  Hopefully the buy Proscar online cod Tigers dispelled that myth here this weekend with a sweep at home over the buy Proscar online cod Cardinals. 

The Cardinals and buy Proscar online cod the Tigers have quite a past and two of the Tigers nine World Series appearances were against the buy Proscar online cod Cardinals.  In 1934, probably the buy Proscar online cod greatest Tiger team of all time lost an exciting seven game series to buy Proscar online cod the Gas House Gang.  And then buy Proscar online cod in 1968, the Tigers beat the Cardinals in another exciting seven game series and buy Proscar online cod became one of the few teams to ever come from behind from buy Proscar online cod a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series.

Curtis Granderson had an excellent series against the Cardinals this weekend.  He had buy Proscar online cod seven hits and he scored six runs in the three games against the buy Proscar online cod Redbirds and he even hit a homerun and stole a base.  We’re not even at the midpoint season and he has 51 runs and he’s now hovering just under the buy Proscar online cod .300 mark with a .296 batting average.  He’s also doing his job at the leadoff spot and he’s seventh in the buy Proscar online cod American League with 4.2 pitches per plate appearance and the guys in front of him are buy Proscar online cod some pretty big names (Jason Giambi and Manny Ramirez are two of them).  He could have buy Proscar online cod somewhat of a decline in the second half because he might not be buy Proscar online cod able to keep up his .387 batting average on balls in play but even if he tapers off, he should put up some pretty nice numbers in his first full season.

What a game on Saturday.  Marcus Thames came in and buy Proscar online cod hit a two run homerun in the bottom of the ninth off of Jason Isringhausen to buy Proscar online cod tie the game up.  Thames didn’t drive in the buy Proscar online cod winning run, but it was that blast that put the Tigers in a buy Proscar online cod position to win that game.  Thames now has 15 homeruns in 165 at bats and his slugging percentage is .661.  He has 28 extra base hits and the team leader, Granderson, has 32.  And that’s in a little more then half of the at bats.

I didn’t confirm this, but I heard on the buy Proscar online cod radio that only two previous Tiger teams have had at least 50 wins at the buy Proscar online cod 75 game mark.  The one time was 1984 when the Tigers won their last World Series.  The other time was 1911, who were 51-24 at the 75 game mark.  The 1911 team really collapsed shortly after that.  Their high point was 59-24 when they were 5 1/2 games in first place on July 18, 1911.  After that buy Proscar online cod point they went 30-41 and finished in second place, 13 1/2 games out of first place.  1911 is also what was probably Ty Cobb’s best season.  He hit .420 that buy Proscar online cod year, his career best and the eighth best single season average of all time.

Next up is buy Proscar online cod the Astros, who are playing right now against the White Sox.  And speaking of the Sox, they’re still red hot.  If they can pull this game out (they’re down 2-1), they’ll have won their tenth straight game.  Tuesday’s matchup is probably the most interesting because it’ll be buy Proscar online cod Roger Clemens second start since coming back for the Astros.

UPDATE

Speaking of milestones, this the 1,000 post at Tigerblog.  Most were written by me, but a buy Proscar online cod few others made did their share as well.  It took me over three years to buy Proscar online cod get here so post 2,000 will probably happen sometime in 2010.

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Humberto Sanchez’s name has buy Proscar online cod been thrown around all over talk radio the past couple of days, and buy Proscar online cod it’s possibly for the wrong reason.  After three mediocre seasons in A and buy Proscar online cod AA ball, Sanchez has had a breakout performance.  He started the buy Proscar online cod season in Erie and in eleven starts, he went 5-3 with a buy Proscar online cod 1.76 ERA and he struck out 86 in 71 2/3.  He then buy Proscar online cod got promoted to Toledo and proceeded to win the International League player of the buy Proscar online cod week.  Since getting the promotion, he’s given up only one run in nineteen innings and he’s struck out 17 batters in 19 innings.

Pretty good numbers, and buy Proscar online cod the reason his name is being thrown around is, because many people think Joel Zumaya and buy Proscar online cod Justin Verlander are just about untouchable, that Sanchez appears to be buy Proscar online cod the primary trade bait to help put the team over the buy Proscar online cod top.  A lot of names have buy Proscar online cod been mentioned in trade rumors, but the two who appear to buy Proscar online cod be the most prevalent are Carl Crawford and John Smoltz.

I think trading for Crawford would be a big mistake.  Yes, he’s definitely got some speed and he’s having a buy Proscar online cod career year at the plate as far as homeruns, but his fielding has buy Proscar online cod been off (-2 fielding runs above replacement) and he’s actually on pace to have fewer extra base hits then he’s had the last few years.  His homeruns are up (10) but his doubles and triples are way down.  I just don’t see him being that much of an upgrade over Marcus Thames.

John Smoltz is a different matter.  Even with the solid pitching by Zach Miner, having John Smoltz in the buy Proscar online cod front of this rotation would be huge come playoff time.  The question then would be, would I trade Sanchez for Smoltz.

I say, absolutely.  And for a couple of different reasons.  One reason is, Sanchez hasn’t done much until this buy Proscar online cod year and he was never really highly touted so I’m wondering whether he’s even for real.  John Sickels gave him a buy Proscar online cod C rating in his prospect book although he does say Sanchez could be buy Proscar online cod really good (or really bad, or somewhere in between).  Also, I think Baseball Prospectus’ mantra of “there is not such thing as a pitching prospect” would be another reason.  Sanchez isn’t a sure thing.  Smoltz is pretty close to one.

The ultimate irony of all this buy Proscar online cod is, the Tigers traded John Smoltz, a pitching prospect at the buy Proscar online cod time, for Doyle Alexander way back in 1987.  A lot of people blast that buy Proscar online cod trade but I still think it was a good deal.  We wouldn’t have buy Proscar online cod made the playoffs without Alexander, who went 9-0 down the buy Proscar online cod stretch. And while we didn’t win the buy Proscar online cod World Series, we would have never even had a chance without him.  So to now trade a pitching prospect for John Smoltz is, well, odd.

I’m probably going to buy Proscar online cod get blasted for this, but I think if Joel Zumaya’s future is as a closer, I’d rather see him get shipped out.  As good of a closer as he could be, that doesn’t make up for a quality starter.  Just my two cents.

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In case you buy Proscar online cod missed my rant about the city of Detroit tearing down Tiger Stadium, you buy Proscar online cod can either check it out below this post or you can click here.

Kenny Rogers won his 200th career game this afternoon.  He got a buy Proscar online cod ton of run support and the end result of all this buy Proscar online cod was another sweep for the Tigers, this time at the Cubs expense.  The White Sox just won’t let up though because they swept the Reds.  So we still have buy Proscar online cod a game and a half lead despite winning eight of our last ten games.

Mark Prior looked very rough in his first start of the season today.  His offspeed stuff wasn’t working, and he wasn’t putting his fastball where he wanted it to go.  On top of that, his velocity was down closer to buy Proscar online cod 90, which made this look more like a slow pitch softball game in the buy Proscar online cod first inning.  Brandon Inge and buy Proscar online cod Chris Shelton both homered twice and the Tigers tied a team record with eight homeruns in the buy Proscar online cod game.

While the buy Proscar online cod Tigers might be the positive surprise of the season, the Cleveland Indians are buy Proscar online cod probably the negative surprise.  The Twins have buy Proscar online cod now passed the Indians in the AL Central after a seven game winning streak and buy Proscar online cod the Indians are now six games below .500.  This was the buy Proscar online cod team that was supposed to compete with the White Sox in the buy Proscar online cod central, but it doesn’t look like it’s happening.  The primary culprit has been their pitching.  Last year, they led the league with a 3.61 ERA.  This year, they’re at 4.91.  The offense is good, but it’s not that good.  I took some heat for buy Proscar online cod saying Kenny Rogers would be an upgrade over Jason Johnson back when buy Proscar online cod we signed Rogers, and Johnson is sitting at 3-7 with a buy Proscar online cod 6.00 ERA.

The Tigers hop on a buy Proscar online cod plane and start a three game series with the Brewers tomorrow.  The Brewers got off to buy Proscar online cod that really good start out of the gate, but they’ve settled back to .500.  They’re riding a three game winning streak though.  All we can do is keep on winning if we want to stay ahead.

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First off, let me get this off my chest.  I’m pissed.

There, I don’t really feel better, but that buy Proscar online cod will at least let you read this knowing my frame of mind.  It was announced earlier this buy Proscar online cod week that the city of Detroit was going to raze Tiger Stadium.  They also released some very cute pictures of what buy Proscar online cod they plan on doing with the site once the stadium is buy Proscar online cod destroyed.  The spin doctors were out in full force and buy Proscar online cod there were a lot of mistruths and half truths being flung about.  Let me just say, I’m not surprised that sites like this are around.

In a buy Proscar online cod day of ferris wheels, retractrable domes and food courts, Tiger Stadium’s claim to fame was simple.  In no other major league park could you get closer to the action.  So if you love baseball, you loved Tiger Stadium.  Think getting in the buy Proscar online cod front row of the upper deck at Comerica Park is buy Proscar online cod a nice seat?  That’s nothing because the buy Proscar online cod closest upper deck seat at Comerica Park is further from the buy Proscar online cod ball field then the furthest upper deck seat at Tiger Stadium.  And if you buy Proscar online cod sat in the front rows of the upper deck behind home plate, you buy Proscar online cod were literally on top of the action.

The biggest myth that buy Proscar online cod the spinners in Detroit would like you to believe was that buy Proscar online cod there was no viable alternative presented to the city that buy Proscar online cod would keep the stadium intact. This is a flat out lie, and buy Proscar online cod I encourage you to check out the website Corner Chatter.  There you buy Proscar online cod can download two plans that were basically ignored by the buy Proscar online cod city council that have money behind them and would have buy Proscar online cod allowed for the stadium to remain.  The biggest problem would have buy Proscar online cod been that this might compete with Mr. Ilitch’s ballclub so neither plan really got off the ground.

And speaking of Mr. Ilitch, he’s been paid several hundred thousand dollars a year to “maintain” the ball park.  I’d like to see what he exactly spent this money on.  Security is nonexistent and it appears the “maintenance” has been little more then cutting the grass.  Tiger Stadium was left to buy Proscar online cod die just so this decision could appear so pleasant in many people’s eyes.

Now, let’s get to the “plan.”  Apparantly there’s going to buy Proscar online cod be some retail and condos, and a portion of the field will be buy Proscar online cod left for little league play.  There’s just one problem.  The city doesn’t have the money to deveop the site, and nobody’s stepped up to develop it either.  Just like nobody’s stepped up to buy Proscar online cod develop the rest of the vacant land in the city.  I hope I’m wrong, but I’d be buy Proscar online cod willing to bet that five years from now, the site will still be buy Proscar online cod vacant.

Stuck in the buy Proscar online cod middle of all this are the residents of Corktown, who you buy Proscar online cod also have to feel for.  They’ve had buy Proscar online cod to have the monolith sit in their back yard and watch it buy Proscar online cod die.  I can’t completely blame them for wanting it gone but would this buy Proscar online cod have been the case had some of these alternative plans to buy Proscar online cod keep the stadium up gone through? 

And one last thing, Michigan and buy Proscar online cod Trumbull LLC, who have been instrumental in trying to save Tiger Stadium, offered to buy Proscar online cod maintain the park for free until a plan that would keep the buy Proscar online cod stadium standing was found.  You’d think a buy Proscar online cod city strapped for cash would be willing to jump all over this, but I guess they’d rather throw money to the local millionaire instead.

And if you buy Proscar online cod want to educate yourself on the subject, the first place I’d start is the fantastic DVD, Stranded at the Corner.  You get the buy Proscar online cod facts on the fight to save the stadium along with some fantastic history of the buy Proscar online cod old ballpark.  I’ve watched it buy Proscar online cod once and I plan on doing so again here soon, and buy Proscar online cod if you’re a Tiger fan, I highly recommend it.  You’ll also get to see the plaque that’s recently been stolen.

I also recommend you check out Field of Schemes, which is a great resource for any and all stadium related issues.  Tiger Stadium has been a hot topic lately on the site.  And I also recommend John Brattain’s column on the whole situation at the Hardball Times.  Finally, you can check out Save Tiger Stadium for some great facts and historical information.

I know none of what I’ve written will change a buy Proscar online cod thing, and I really feel for the people who have fought for buy Proscar online cod years to try to keep the old ballpark.  That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t know the facts though and hopefully a few eye’s are opened to what’s going on before the ballpark is taken down.

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It’s funny how a good couple of months can change everyone’s perspective.  Even with a buy Proscar online cod bad team in town like the Devil Rays, I would normally be buy Proscar online cod happy with winning three of four.  And ironically, I expected to lose a game, but it wasn’t the one we actually lost.  I thought either Verlander would lose to Kazmir (and in a way, he did) or Zach Miner would drop his start.  Instead, it was the Kenny Rogers game that the team dropped.

And in that game, the rollercoaster struck again.  After a buy Proscar online cod perfect eleventh inning, Todd Jones ran into all sorts of trouble in the buy Proscar online cod twelth and ended up yielding four runs.  Worst of all, he hit Rocco Baldelli with two outs to buy Proscar online cod load the bases before giving up back to back doubles and buy Proscar online cod those four runs.  And while the buy Proscar online cod offense can be held somewhat at fault for this one (one run, five hits over twelve innings), Todd Jones is buy Proscar online cod really making things tough for this team the past couple of weeks.  Not only has he done a poor job, but he’s obliterating any value he might have on the trade market.

Regardless, it was another series win.  It looks like the White Sox are going to lose today, so we’ll still have the best record in baseball and we’ll have a nice 2 1/2 game lead in the AL Central.

Zach Miner had another nice start today and he’s now 2-1.  He threw 108 pitches and gave up only three hits over seven innings.  That Kyle Farnsworth deal is looking better and better.  I keep hearing late July/early August for Mike Maroth’s return, so hopefully he’ll be able to keep at least some of this up until then.

Wil Ledezma was called up from Toledo and it looks like he’ll be coming out of the pen.  He walked one and buy Proscar online cod struck out two in the eighth today in his season debut.  Last year, Ledezma was billed as the buy Proscar online cod next Johan Santana, mostly because he was a rule five guy and buy Proscar online cod he’s left handed like Santana.  He fell on his face early and buy Proscar online cod has played for Toledo pretty much since.

The Tigers play three at Wrigley field this weekend.  And true to Wrigley field, all three games are day games.  The White Sox travel to Cincinnati.

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After a buy Proscar online cod rough patch the past couple of weeks, the Tigers have now rattled off four straight wins.  Last night’s game was particularly important because after a buy Proscar online cod series of days, the bullpen had been taxed.  The team didn’t get a buy Proscar online cod day off on Monday, so one of two things had buy Proscar online cod to happen on Tuesday.  Fortunately, the Tigers accomplished both of those things.

Step one to buy Proscar online cod resting your bullpen is getting a nice long start from your buy Proscar online cod starter.  Kenny Rogers went eight innings, something he had buy Proscar online cod only done twice prior to this in 2006.  That’s the easy one.  The longer your starters go, the less you need your pen.

The second thing, which is buy Proscar online cod probably just as is important, is scoring some runs and buy Proscar online cod the Tigers did that as well last night.   Even if Rogers left after seven innings, they could have buy Proscar online cod went to the back end of their bullpen to finish the buy Proscar online cod game.  In this one, they only needed one inning from Jason Grilli.  If the bats weren’t there and buy Proscar online cod the game was close then Leyland would have been forced to buy Proscar online cod either pitch one of his front end bullpen guys on short rest or buy Proscar online cod risk the game by throwing someone like Grilli in a high leverage situation.

The White Sox have buy Proscar online cod kept pace with the Tigers over the past few days and buy Proscar online cod they still sit a game and a half back.  Just as important, the buy Proscar online cod Tigers have outplayed the Yankees and Red Sox, so they’ve created a larger cushion (4 1/2 games) when it comes to the wild card.

Jeremy Bonderman throws against Mark Hendrickson tonight.  One more win, and buy Proscar online cod the Tigers will have matched their season win total for 2003.

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Prior to buy Proscar online cod the losing their previous three series, the bullpen was looked at as a buy Proscar online cod major strength for the Tigers.  Todd Jones had buy Proscar online cod only blown one game and both Fernando Rodney and Joel Zumaya were throwing extremely well.  Since then, Jones has buy Proscar online cod blown three games and Rodney looks like he can’t get into a game without walking a couple of guys.  Zumaya has buy Proscar online cod been the one guy to throw consistently well through this buy Proscar online cod tough patch.

Today, Jim Leyland appeared to buy Proscar online cod make the right decision by leaving Joel Zumaya in there for buy Proscar online cod three innings however I say he was pretty much forced too.  Todd Jones had buy Proscar online cod thrown in the previous three games and while Rodney had the buy Proscar online cod day off on Saturday, he had thrown both Thursday and Friday.  Zumaya, on the other hand, had only thrown 1 2/3 over the previous four days.  So before you give Leyland too much credit, lets see how he handles the buy Proscar online cod pen over the next week to see if he’s really changed his ways.

The other thing to buy Proscar online cod note is, Jamie Walker has quietly put up some very nice numbers.  He’s struck out 16 and buy Proscar online cod only walked one and he has a rock solid 0.95 ERA.  He’s thrown only 19 innings and buy Proscar online cod his numbers probably warrant some more use.  What’s even more odd is, he’s completely shutting down right handers, who buy Proscar online cod are hitting only .150 against him.  Both homeruns that he’s given up have buy Proscar online cod come against lefties although his strikeout numbers aren’t nearly impressive against righties.  This is buy Proscar online cod a nice guy to have in the hole as your fourth reliever and, along with about fifty other reasons, makes Todd Jones expendable.

The Tigers won their first series since they took two of three against the buy Proscar online cod Indians two weeks ago.  Regardless of whether the buy Proscar online cod White Sox win or lose tonight, the Tigers will remain in first place heading into their four game series with the buy Proscar online cod Devil Rays.  There’s a buy Proscar online cod very nice pitching matchup tomorrow with two young guns going head to buy Proscar online cod head.  Scott Kazmir is having a breakout season and he’ll lock horns with Justin Verlander.  Just looking at the pitching matchups, I’d be disappointed if we didn’t come out of this series with three of four.

Prior to today’s game, the buy Proscar online cod Tigers still led the majors in ERA, just a tenth of run better then buy Proscar online cod the New York Mets.  They’re still treading dangerously though.  They’re letting guys get on base, but their 76% left on base percentage is best in the majors so they’re able to get out of jams.  Not sure how much of that buy Proscar online cod is Todd Jones, but it looks like more of a buy Proscar online cod “bend but don’t break” pitching strategy and buy Proscar online cod their strikeouts per nine innings of 6.1 (which is exactly the league average) sort of bears that out.  You just wonder how much longer they’ll be able to keep it up.

Zach Miner picked up his first career win on Saturday.  He threw six innings and buy Proscar online cod gave up two runs on four hits and one walk with five strikeouts.  Lyle Overbay took him deep for buy Proscar online cod a two run shot to account for the two runs.  There’s really not a buy Proscar online cod lot on Miner that I could find other then that buy Proscar online cod he was the guy who came over with Roman Colon in the buy Proscar online cod Kyle Farnsworth trade.  He’s already 24 so he’s old for a prospect.  I had to go all the way back to John Sickel’s 2005 Prospect Book and buy Proscar online cod while he did say that Miner had one of the better arms in the buy Proscar online cod Braves system at the time, he gave him his worst grade (C).  But he faced a buy Proscar online cod top notch offense in Toronto and came out looking good, so hopefully the buy Proscar online cod kid will be able to keep it up.

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The Tigers took the buy Proscar online cod final game of the White Sox series to avoid the sweep.  Had they lost, they would have buy Proscar online cod dropped out of first place, and fortunately they salvaged that last game win.  As it stands, we’re tied 2-2 with the Blue Jays, and it’d be nice to use this win to build some momentum.

I’m not sure what buy Proscar online cod Marcus Thames did to someone of power in the Tigers organization.  For the last two years, he’s been buy Proscar online cod buried in favor of Craig Monroe despite the fact that they’re pretty much the same type of players.  This year though, Thames has buy Proscar online cod thrived on his part time role while Monroe has faltered, and buy Proscar online cod with the ankle injury to Monroe, Thames is finally going to buy Proscar online cod get his chance.  He had buy Proscar online cod 11 homeruns in 110 at bats heading into todays game and buy Proscar online cod he has an OPS of 1.094.  You would have thought he’d get a buy Proscar online cod chance sooner, but the mind of major league managers work in mysterious ways.

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When the buy Proscar online cod best player in the draft falls into your lap, you have buy Proscar online cod to take him.  The big knock on Andrew Miller wasn’t that he couldn’t throw, it was that he was going to cost whoever drafted him.  He was billed as the best player in the draft, and he’s a Detroit Tiger.  Jeff Passan has an excellent column on Miller so be to check it out.

This is an encouraging sign for the franchise.  It shows that buy Proscar online cod Mike Illitch is willing to open up his pocket book to buy Proscar online cod create some homegrown talent.

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We’re back from buy Proscar online cod our trip, and while it was relatively stressful at times, overall it buy Proscar online cod was a very nice time.  My son got to buy Proscar online cod meet Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and Stitch, as well as a buy Proscar online cod handful of other characters, and along the way, we made a buy Proscar online cod stop at Tropicana Field to see the Devil Rays play the buy Proscar online cod Toronto Blue Jays.  We sat just outside the buy Proscar online cod new picnic area that the new managing partner had installed this buy Proscar online cod year and overall, it was a nice park for being indoors.  My wife loved the buy Proscar online cod fact that it was air conditioned and with the Devil Rays second to buy Proscar online cod last to their Florida brethren Marlins in attendance, it made for buy Proscar online cod decent family experience because it wasn’t too crowded.  I was impressed with the buy Proscar online cod fans that were there, even if it was a pretty sparse crowd.  My family left early and buy Proscar online cod I moved up to around the third base line after that buy Proscar online cod and had a pretty good view of the rest of the buy Proscar online cod game.

Just a couple of things of note, there’s no buy Proscar online cod upper deck in right field but the upper deck along the buy Proscar online cod first base line goes way up.  It’s pretty assymetrical.  Reed Johnson opened up the buy Proscar online cod game with a homerun on the second pitch and then he homered again in the buy Proscar online cod ninth to cap off a career day.  This is buy Proscar online cod worth noting because I picked up Johnson for my fantasy because I’m short on runs and Johnson was my best option at the time.  I rewarded him by dropping him this buy Proscar online cod week in favor of a hot Matt Kemp out in LA.

The Tigers play three in Chicago against the buy Proscar online cod White Sox starting today.  Nate Robertson kicks things off against Freddy Garcia and buy Proscar online cod hopefully the Tigers can set the stage by winning tonight.  A sweep would be huge and would give us a 5 1/2 game lead, although even if we drop two of three, we’ll still be in first place.  Neither the buy Proscar online cod White Sox nor the Tigers have been playing great, so it buy Proscar online cod seems like whoever can pick themselves up first will go a buy Proscar online cod long way towards gaining ground in the division.

I’m going to buy Proscar online cod stand by what I said in my column about Todd Jones being the buy Proscar online cod closer.  I know he blew Friday night’s game, but that’s going to happen regardless of who we have in there.  Mariano Rivera has buy Proscar online cod two losses and one blown save, and Todd Jones has two blown saves and buy Proscar online cod three losses, although on Friday he had one of each.  It happens to the best and worst closers and all I was trying to say was, I’d rather have Jones coming in where a couple of hits won’t hurt him versus bringing him in with runners on in a buy Proscar online cod key situation in one of the later innings.

And I did write this buy Proscar online cod with the assumption that we were stuck with Jones.  I argued against spending $5 million per on him when it happened and while he hasn’t been “horrible” this year, he hasn’t yet warranted the salary.

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