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First off, it’s been another busy weekend and I never got a chance to plug a roundtable discussion I took part in with Billfer, Lee Panas and Geoff Young over at Ducksnorts prior to the series.  It was a pretty good discussion so be sure to check it out.  The most important part was where I was the deciding vote between Johnny Grubb and Ruppert Jones.

Todd Jones took a ball off his leg today and he stayed in to pick up his fourteenth save of the season.  He didn’t even use one of the two runs the Tigers gave him so he was really locked in.  Joel Zumaya made his second appearance of the season and he gave up two hits, a walk and a run in one inning.  And what about Justin Verlander.  He walked five but struck out a season high ten batters in just 5 1/3 innings.  The win pushes his record to 4-9.

Magglio Ordonez and Ivan Rodriguez both went yard in this one.  Ordonez drove in three while Edgar Renteria singled, drew a walk and scored twice.  Pudge was a perfect two for two with two walks.  It was the first time Pudge drew two walks in the same game this year and the last time he did was last August.

The Tigers have now won four straight series and they’ve won 10 of their last 12 games.  The White Sox play tonight but at worst, the Tigers will be six games back.  Unfortunately, the Twins have caught fire too and they’ve won six straight and they lead the Tigers by three games in the loss column. 

Next up are the Cardinals after an off day tomorrow.  There’s going to be a lot of stuff going on with regard to the 1968 World Series and this is a good time to push Sock It To ‘Em TIgers, which was a collaborative effort between the Mayo Smith Society and SABR.  It’s a pretty definitive guide to the 1968 Tigers and it includes bios on everybody who got an at bat with the Tigers that season.  My contributions were bios for Les Cain and Wayne Comer, and while both are lesser known players, both had a very interesting story.  I’m working on something similar for a book on the 1984 Tigers set for release next year and my player is catcher Dwight Lowry.

Armando Galarraga followed up a nice start by Kenny Rogers with his seventh win of the season as he pushes further for the Rookie of the Year award.  There’s still a lot of games left to be played, but this was Galarraga’s eleventh start and the Tigers have won nine of those and his ERA is now down to 3.03.  He gave up two unearned runs yesterday on seven hits and two walks with five strikeouts in six innings.  Freddy Dolsi threw two shutout innings and Zach Miner closed it out with a shutout ninth.

Placido Polanco had the big day at the plate with four hits.  He doubled, singled three times, drew a walk, drove in two and scored three runs in the 7-2 win.  Carlos Guillen went two for four with his 19th double, two RBIs and a run.

The Tigers get the night off tonight and then it’s off to San Diego for a three game series.  We’ll miss Jake Peavy so hopefully the Tigers can win their fourth straight series.  The Indians are now in the rear view mirror and next in line are the .500 Twins, who the Tigers trail by two games.  At this point, the Tigers just have to keep the wins rolling.

The hype surrounding the return of Fernando Rodney was shortlived as he and Freddy Dolsi combined to give up five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning in the Tigers 8-6 loss to the Giants.  Dolsi gave up a pair of singles and got one out before Rodney came in and gave up a three run blast to the first batter he faced.  A double, a walk and another double later and a 4-3 lead turned into an 8-4 deficit in a hurry.

It’s too bad because Justin Verlander had a solid start.  He gave up two three runs (two earned) on five hits and just one walks with seven strikeouts in seven innings.  It’s his third straight start in which he’s struck out more batters then he’s walked, his longest streak of the season.

Marcus Thames brought the big stick and he belted a pair of homers.  Ivan Rodriguez had a team high three hits to go with his two runs and Curtis Granderson drove in a pair.

Kenny Rogers gets the nod tonight and he’ll go up against fellow lefthander Jonathan Sanchez.  I like all of those walks that Sanchez has given up (41 in 80 1/3 innings) and hopefully the Tigers can capitalize on the lack of control and get back in the win column.

This game had it all.  You had a four inning, pre-rain delay pitchers duel, back to back homers and a near fatal meltdown by the bullpen.  Still, you have to be happy with quite a few things in this game.  First off, they held on and won and they also got another nice outing from their starting pitcher.  Nate Robertson improved to 5-0 and he threw six shutout innings.  He probably would have thrown more had it not been for the rain.  Denny Bautista looked sharp with two shutout innings but then Bobby Seay and Todd Jones combined to give up four runs in the ninth inning.  Fortunately, with the tying run on second base, Jones got Juan Pierre to fly out to center to end it.

Marcus Thames and Brandon Inge hit back to back solo shots in the sixth inning and while those looked like padding at the time, each of those runs were needed.  Carlos Guillen had three hits and he was one of five Tigers to finish with a multi-hit game.  Clayton Kershaw was sharp, but in that case, nature was our friend and Kershaw didn’t come back into the game after the rain delay.

The White Sox lost again so the Tigers are back to just five six back.  They’re a half game back of the Indians (tied in the loss column) and they’re one and a half back of the Twins (one in the loss column).  The Tigers hit the road and they’ll play tomorrow night against the Giants.  It’ll be a solid matchup of young pitchers with Justin Verlander going up against NL Cy Young contender Tim Lincecum.

The Tigers continue to pick up ground in the division with another win over the Dodgers this afternoon.  It wasn’t pretty, but Eddie Bonine won in his major league debut.  He gave up six runs on nine hits with two strikeouts (no walks, which is nice) in 5 1/3 innings.  Casey Fossum gave up a run but he’s now closer to getting his ERA under 20 while Zach Miner and Bobby Seay combined to throw three shutout frames to close out the game.

Every Tiger starter got a hit in this one except for Carlos Guillen.  Miguel Cabrera and Marcus Thames both went yard in the Tigers six run fourth inning while six Tigers had at least two hits.  Ivan Rodriguez had a team high three hits while Magglio Ordonez scored a team high three runs.

The Tigers now six games under .500 and if the White Sox lose (they’re down 1-0 through seven innings), the Tigers will be seven games back.  An Indians loss would be nice too but they’re up 3-2.

Tomorrow, the Tigers will send Nate Robertson to the mound and he’ll take on Dodgers top prospect Clayton Kershaw.  The lefthander probably should be a Tiger, but because of the way the Royals drafted in the past (cheap), the Tigers didn’t end up picking him.  In 2006, Andrew Miller was probably the best pitcher in the draft, but because of signability issues, the Royals took Luke Hochevar with their top pick instead and four other teams passed on Miller.  Had the Royals or anyone else taken Miller, the Tigers would have most likely picked up Kershaw, who went to the Dodgers with the very next pick.

Anyway, Kershaw has had a tough time in his first major league season but the kid just turned 20 two months ago.  Hopefully the Tigers can continue Kershaw’s string of mediocre starts.

It’s been one of those weeks.  Things started off with what I first thought was a tornado but ended up being just massive gusts of winds as probably the worst storm I’ve ever seen came through.  Our next door neighbor has a tree in their yard (we’re talking big trees, not saplings) that’s partially in ours and two doors down on the other side, my neighbor has been working on getting a tree removed that landed on his roof.  Nasty stuff and we lost power for a couple of nights.

Last year, I had to take a couple of weeks off for a variety of reasons, both personal and computer related.  That was when the Tigers   That was when they had their best stretch of the season and they won 11 of 12.  Since I’ve been gone, the Tigers have won five of six including three straight over the first place White Sox.    They also won their first game when the scored two runs or less this afternoon when Miguel Cabrera hit a walk off homer in the 2-1 win.

The pitching came through in this one.  Six runs over three games isn’t bad and the Tigers got the bats going with thirteen runs of their own.  They didn’t set the world on fire, but it was good enough.

The Dontrelle Willis thing is kind of baffling.  In fact looking at his stat line is downright funny.  Opponents are hitting just .189 against him but he’s also walking nearly two batters an inning.  Hopefully his time in Lakeland will be fruitful.

The bad news is, the Tigers are still eight games back.  They’re knocking on the Indians door though and they’re three back of the Twins.  Getting into a second place position is important because then the Tigers don’t need a bunch of chips to fall before to move up.

Justin Verlander’s start was very impressive (yes, I know I’m jumping around, I have some catching up to do).  It was the Tigers first complete game of the season and Kenny Rogers followed that up with a solid outing today.  Tomorrow, it’ll be Armando Galarraga going up against Derek Lowe.  Eddie Bonine will make his first career start tomorrow (I thought Chris Lambert would have been a better choice) and we’ll get to see the guy the Tigers almost got instead of Andrew Miller back in 2006 when Clayton Kershaw throws.

It’s too bad we can’t talk too much about the Tigers win tonight, but the victory was bittersweet because the Tigers got news that Jeremy Bonderman is likely out for the season with a blood clot in his pitching shoulder.  This is basically the same problem that sidelined Kenny Rogers for a bulk of the season last year.  Bonderman will be missed because so far this year, he’s been the Tigers most consistent starter of late and he seemed to be turning the corner with four straight solid starts. It’s worth nothing that, beginning in the 2002 off-season, individual health insurance policies were limited to 2 to 3 year increments, as opposed to the entire length of the contract. When Insurance Companies limit the length they will insure a player’s contract for or even offer insurance to, a team is less willing to accept the risk involved in offering a long-term contract to a player.

This gives the Tigers a reason to keep Armando Galarraga in the starting rotation and he’ll fill in for Bonderman for the time being.  It was also nice to see the Tigers hang Bonderman’s jersey in the dugout during the game.  If there ever were rallying point for this ballclub, this would be it. The Tigers did double up the Indians today.  Carlos Guillen, Marcus Thames and Edgar Renteria all went yard while Renteria had a particularly good game hitting leadoff.  He went three for four and his homer was a grand slam.

Kenny Rogers is slowly finding his groove and despite not winning this afternoon, he had his fourth solid pitching performance in his last five starts.  He gave up three runs (one earned) on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts in seven innings and he’s one good start from getting his ERA under five.  Zach Miner picked up the win and he improved to 3-3 while Todd Jones got the final out of the game and he picked up his ninth save of the season. Armando Galarraga gets the nod tomorrow and he’ll face Jeremy Sowers.  Game time is 1:05.

Another game with two runs or less, and another loss.  Paul Byrd was the Cy Young look alike tonight as he and the Indians pen held the Tigers to two runs on five hits.  Brandon Inge put the Tigers on the board with a solo shot in the sixth and then Jeff Larish hit his first career homerun with a solo shot in the seventh.  Carlos Guillen had two of the Tigers five hits and nobody drew a walk.

Justin Verlander was 35-17 in his career heading into this season and he looks like he could match that loss total this year alone, if not flirt with 20 losses.  Oddly, Verlander has just two no-decisions in thirteen starts (should have been a win) and he’s been on the losing end of nine of those eleven decisions.  He had just one tough inning but it was for three runs in the fourth inning.  Denny Bautista made his return after a stint on the disabled list and a rehab assignment and he was tagged for a solo homerun in his one inning of work.

The White Sox look like they’re going to win so that’ll put the Tigers ten games back.  It’s not looking good folks and if they’re a dozen back or so after the end of the White Sox series, the Tigers will face a near insurmountable task in making the playoffs.

Tomorrow is another game of the week and I’ll be at a wedding reception so I’ll probably miss most of this one.  Kenny Rogers will go up against Aaron Lafey.

Casey Fossum was having an excellent season with Toledo and now with the Tigers, he has an ERA of 135.00 after two relief appearances.  Still, the four runs he gave up were icing on the cake after a tough start by Nate Robertson.  The lefthander gave up five runs on eight hits and three walks with five strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.

The Tigers were held in check at the plate and they picked up just four hits.  Marcus Thames and Ramon Santiago both reached base twice with singles and walks and none of the hits were for extra bases.

Since the Tigers finished a three game sweep over the Yankees on June 1, the Tigers are a less then stellar 10-20.  Even worse, the Tigers have a no win situation with the White Sox and Royals playing each other tonight.  If the Sox win, the Tigers will be nine back in the loss column for first place.  If the Royals win, the Tigers will be back in a tie for last place. 

This weekend is big.  The Tigers start a four game series with the Indians beginning Friday and I like the Justin Verlander versus Paul Byrd matchup.  We’ll miss Cliff Lee, who’s throwing tonight.  If the Tigers want to start making up some ground, they’re going to have to take three games in the Indians series and two of three against the White Sox after that.  At this point, .500 ball isn’t good enough.

The experimentation continued yesterday as Dontrelle Willis and Armando Galarraga effectively split their start yesterday in an attempt to get Willis some innings.  Willis didn’t allow a run in four innings and he gave up just two hits but he walked five, including three walks alone in the fourth inning.  The Tigers took a 3-0 lead in the top of the fifth inning and then saw it disappear when Galarraga, in his first inning of work, gave up a three run homer in the corner to Eric Chavez.  The Tigers took the lead back in the seventh on Carlos Guillen’s RBI single, but Casey Fossum, who had just been called up and who made his Tiger debut, combined with Zach Miner to give up a run in the eighth.

Then the Tigers lost it in the eleventh.  Bobby Seay left with a runner on second and one out and while Freddy Dolsi eventually got that lead baserunner out on a fielder’s choice, a single, a walk and another single later and the A’s had their second straight walk off win of the series.

The Tigers drew twelve walks in all but they stranded fifteen guys.  Edgar Renteria, who was 0 for 5, came and went with ten men on base.  Carlos Guillen and Magglio Ordonez each drew three walks while Placido Polanco went two for six with a run and an RBI.

The best the Tigers can finish on their west coast swing is now 4-5.  It’ll be Nate Robertson going up against Justin Duchscherer this afternoon.  The fact that Duchscherer is on my fantasy team pretty much ensures that the Tigers will find their stroke and put up a ten spot.

The Tigers are now 0-22 when they score two runs or less after Francisco Cruceta gave up the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to Bobby Crosby last night.  It’s unfortunate because Kenny Rogers has had two straight solid starts but for is efforts, he didn’t get a decision in either of them.  And just as bad, Francisco Cruceta, who was heralded as a savior of sorts in the bullpen, is now 0-3 with a 5.40 ERA.  In his last three games, he’s taken the loss in two and blown a save in another. 

The Tigers picked up just five hits in this one.  One of them was a solo homer by Curtis Granderson while another was an RBI single by Jeff Larish.  Miguel Cabrera was the only Tiger to reach base twice with a pair of walks.

Tonight is going to be an odd one.  Leyland wants Dontrelle Willis to get some innings, so it looks like he and Armando Galarraga are going to basically split the start. Willis will throw the first four or five innings before Galarraga takes over and hopefully finishes the game up with a win.  Willis hasn’t thrown in over a week since coming off the disabled list.  At this point, it looks like they should have kept him down in the minors longer.

The Indians and Royals both won, while the White Sox lost so the Tigers are still 6 1/2 back but they’re just one ahead of the Royals and two back of the Indians.  A lot will be determined over the weekend when the Tigers play four against the Indians.

Half of the twelve runs the Tigers and Mariners scored this afternoon came in the final frame as the Tigers took the rubber game in their series against the Mariners and evened their record at 3-3 on their west coast trip.  The game was a back and forth, semi-pitchers duel until the ninth inning when the flood gates opened and the Tigers scored four before the Mariners scored two in the 7-5 win.

Placido Polanco broke the 3-3 tie with an RBI single but it was a two run double to cap off the four run fourth by Miguel Cabrera that would prove to be the difference in this one.  Curtis Granderson scored three times while Cabrera and Magglio Ordonez both drove in a pair.

Jeremy Bonderman gave up his share of hits (12) but only three of those baserunners came around to scored in seven innings.  More importantly, he struck out five and didn’t walk anyone.  He also has his ERA down to a respectable 4.29 so he still has the team lead if you discount Armando Galarraga’s 3.44 because he doesn’t have enough innings to qualify yet.  Zach Miner threw a shutout eighth and he improved to 2-3 while Todd Jones gave up a two run shot in the ninth but would have had to give up twice that number of runs to blow the game.

The White Sox lost so the Tigers are now just six games out of first place and they’re only one back of the third place Indians.  Next up are the Athletics, who have been a little bit of a surprise after their first sale this offseason.  In fact they’re just one loss worse then the White Sox and they sport a 10-7 record against the AL Central.  Kenny Rogers gets the nod and he’ll face Rich Harden in the opener tomorrow.

At least this time, it was a pitcher who you could actually see shutting down a team.  Felix Hernandez threw seven innings of the Tigers ninth shutout in a game that saw the Tigers pick up a mere two hits without a single walk.  In fact just as many batters were hit by pitches then reached base otherwise and one of those was negated when Marcus Thames grounded into a double play.  Placido Polanco had struck out just twelve times prior to this game yet he struck out three times and it’s just the third time in his entire career that he’s struck out three times in a game.

Justin Verlander had a mediocre start and he’s now 2-8.  He gave up four runs on eight hits and two walks with a strikeout in seven innings.  Aquilino Lopez gave up a run in the eighth to finish out the game.

In the fourth inning, Kenji Johjima stole home.  I didn’t see the game, so I’m curious if this was just a straight steal or did something odd happen?

The rubber game is tomorrow afternoon.  Jeremy Bonderman will go up against Miguel Batista.

The Tigers kick off their series today with the Mariners and there’s quite a bit of news since the Tigers played their last game.  Matt Joyce has been sent down and Clete Thomas has been brought back up.  In the meantime, Marcus Thames is going to get a shot at being the full time left fielder.  This is something a lot of people have been waiting for as Thames is one of those guys who shows just enough flash to impress people.  There’s no doubt the power is there, but it’ll be interesting to see how he does when he gets a healthy dose of right handed pitching.  In 2006, Thames got a career high 348 at bats.  Against right handed pitching that season, he hit .266/.335/.569 which was even better then against left handed pitching.  Still, his career platoon split of over .100 points of OPS is pretty telling. 

It also begs the point that with Jacque Jones gone, Thames is really all there is so you wonder why they waited even this long to make the move.  I still don’t quite understand why Matt Joyce was sent down although the official excuse was that they wanted Joyce to play every day.

Jeff Larish makes his major league debut tonight.  He’ll be batting seventh at the DH spot.  Thames will be batting fifth and in an odd move, Miguel Cabrera has been dropped down to sixth.  Brandon Inge will spell Pudge behind the plate.

Of Baseball Prospectus’ many features are their playoff odd reports.  Every morning, Clay Davenport runs a simulation of the season a million times to see where everyone ends up on average.  Right now, the Tigers stand just under a 10% chance of making the playoffs and they’re slotted at 77 average wins.  They do a lot better in the PECOTA adjusted report, which kind of accounts for the fact that everyone thought the Tigers should be good, so they have them finally living up to their true potential.  There, they still have a healthy 35% chance of making the playoffs with 85 average wins.  In both, the number of wins on average to win the division was around 90-91.  If the Tigers want to win 90, they’ll have to go 68-41 the rest of the way.  That’s a 62% winning percentage, which no team in baseball has right now.  So they’ll have to play just a bit better then the team with the best record in baseball (the Cubs at the moment), just over twice as long of a period of time.

You don’t hear a lot about position battles during the season anymore.  In a way though, Jim Leyland has created just that by relegating Dontrelle Willis to the pen in favor of Armando Galarraga. He’s basically telling Galarraga the spot is his for the time being as long as he doesn’t give him a reason to yank him.  So far so good as Galarraga rose to the occasion last night with a nice start in the Tigers win.  Maybe now is a good time to light a fire under some of the other Tigers players.

It’s amazing how good the Tigers have been in their wins yet so bad in their losses.  One of the options at Bill James Online is to view the breakdown for a team by wins and losses and the numbers are skewed.  In the Tigers 31 losses, they’ve scored just 62 runs.  That’s a nice, even two runs a game.  They’re ERA is 5.78 and they’re hitting at a paltry .210/.280/.320.

In the Tigers 22 wins, they’ve scored 192 runs.  That’s almost nine runs a game and they’re hitting .332/.402/.578.  They have more then twice as many homeruns (39 versus 16) in nine fewer games.  Even the pitching is better with a 3.50 ERA.

In a similar chart, the Tigers have scored seven or more runs thirteen times and they’ve won all 13 times.  Similarly, they’re 19-2 when they score six runs or more.  When they scored five runs or less, they’re 3-29.  That includes an 0-20 record in games in which they’ve scored two runs or less.

The Tigers avoided a sweep yesterday as they beat the Angels 6-2.  Marcus Thames led the way with a pair of homers and four RBIs in a game that saw five Tigers have multi-hit games.  Curtis Granderson singled twice and scored a pair of runs while Magglio Ordonez reached base three times with two singles, a walk and a run.

Armando Galarraga had one of his best starts of the season and he pitched into the ninth inning when he finally yielded two runs.  He gave up two runs on four hits and three walks with the two runs coming on a two run homer in the ninth.  Todd Jones came in and he got the final two outs of the game.

The league has been trying to pick up the pace of the game and at least last night, it worked.  The game clocked in at just 2:35.  Tuesday’s game was even shorter at 2:20 and this is in a time when three hour games are usually the norm.

The Tigers have the day off while the they travel to Seattle to take on the Mariners.  This is the team the Tigers swept last week so hopefully they can do it again and finally get back on track.  Nate Robertson pitches the opener and the Tigers hitters will face Carlos Silva.

The Tigers offense was held in check once again as they lost a 3-2 game to the Angels late last night.  This time, the Tigers managed just three hits and one of them was a two run shot by Miguel Cabrera.  The Tigers rotation contiued their turnaround as Jeremy Bonderman had a nice start.  He gave up just two runs on six hits and he struck out seven while walking just one in 7 1/3 innings.  Aquilino Lopez gave up the game winner in the bottom of the ninth after the Angels scored two in the eighth to tie the game.

Gary Sheffield is now on the disabled list and Jeff Larish has been called up to take his place.  I like this move because the immediate reaction would have been to call up Mike Hessman with all of the homers.  Larish has been no slouch though and he’s hitting .274/.369/.589 with sixteen homers at Toledo.  He walked at least 80 times each in 2007 and 2006 and I like that dimension.  And hopefully he’ll play as well as his predecessor callups, Clete Thomas and Matt Joyce.

The rubber game is tonight.  It’ll be Armando Galarraga going up against Joe Saunders.

On a good note, Kenny Rogers had his best start of the season.  Seven shutout innings, and he gave up just five hits and a walk.  The pen did a nice job too with Freddy Dolsi, Zach Miner and Bobby Seay combining to give up just one run in 4 1/3 innings.  Unfortunately, that one run was the only one for either side as the Tigers lost to the Angels 1-0 in twelve innings.

It’s bad enough getting shutout again, but to go twelve innings without scoring a run?  Five different Tigers managed a hit a piece while Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Guillen drew two walks each.  Carlos Guillen made two more errors at third but neither played a part in the run the Angels scored in the twelth.

The end result is the Tigers are no back in the cellar in a tie with the Royals (who have lost eight straight).  Jeremy Bonderman gets the nod tonight and it’ll be Ervin Santana throwing for the Angels.  Game time is 10 pm so it’ll be a late one.

The Tigers just kicked off their game with the Angels.  During the pregame show, I decided to check something.  On August 7, 2006, the Tigers essentially peaked in their magical season.  They were 40 games above .500 before they went on a little bit of a spill.  What’s odd is how that stretch has basically gone on into 2007 and now into 2008.  Since that time (almost two years), The Tigers are 128-134 in the regular season.  If you count their 8-5 playoffs in 2006, then they’re 136-139.  Almost .500.  So for a long period of time, the Tigers have basically played like a .500 team.

Anyway, some food for thought as you’re watching the game.

The Tigers failed to capitalize on both their sweep over the Mariners and their 19 run outburst last night as they dropped the rubber game to the Twins.  You have to feel for Justin Verlander in this one because he threw another nice game.  Then he had to watch Francisco Cruceta give up a grand slam to Jason Kubel.  Cruceta now has seen his ERA baloon from 1.86 to 5.06 in the course of one bad inning.  Todd Jones also gave up a run but by that time, this one was pretty much over with.

Of course it didn’t matter all that much because the offense laid another egg.  If it weren’t for Carlos Guillen’s solo homer, this one might have been another shutout.  Guillen was three for four and he was a triple short of the cycle.  Gary Sheffield had a pair of hits and that put him further above the Mendoza line.

I’m not sure who I feel more for.  The Tigers have to hit the road and fly to Anaheim for a game with the Angels tomorrow night.  On the other hand, while the Angels will be flying home, they’ll be doing it in the middle of the night because they’re playing a night game as we speak (it’s 2-2, extra innings would be nice).  We’ll be missing John Lackey, which is nice because he’s looked sharp since coming back from the disabled list.  Tomorrow, it’ll be Kenny Rogers going up against Jon Garland.  The Tigers know Garland well and he’s 13-6 against Detroit. 

Memorial Day at one point in time was a huge baseball day.  When the season started in mid-April, Memorial Day usually signified the quarter point of the season and you usually had doubleheaders across the league.  Now, you have a bunch of teams not even playing on the holiday.  ESPN used to have games all day as well, but it looks like this year, you’ve got high profile sports like college Lacrosse and the Best of Mike and Mike in the Morning instead.  It’s just as well because I’ll be out in the yard most of the day.  The Tigers don’t start until 9 pm.

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