On this week’s episode of the Call To The Bullpen MLB Podcast, things get heated this week with Corey and I having a serious debate over which pitcher we would build our respective franchises around: Tim Lincecum or Clayton Kershaw.
Call To The Bullpen MLB Podcast: Tim Lincecum v Clayton Kershaw and The Best/Worst Offseason Moves
February 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Prince Fielder’s 10 Greatest Milwaukee Moments (Before He Returned to Motown)
January 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Prince formally known as a Brewer is no more – Prince Fielder is now a Detroit Tiger – this after the franchise came out of nowhere with a 9-year, $215 million contract offer.
Midwest Sports Fans has done a couple pieces in the past few days regarding the end of the Fielder sweepstakes. If you are a Milwaukee Brewers fan, you have had plenty of time to face the inevitable. [Read more...]
Goodbye, Prince Fielder
January 24, 2012 By 3 Comments
Well, I’m not surprised in the least that Prince Fielder didn’t return to the Brewers, and quite frankly I don’t think any Brewer fan is surprised.
Yet, although I knew it was coming and have had a long time to prepare for it, a part of me is still very sad that it’s official that Prince won’t being wearing a Milwaukee uniform in 2012.
Detroit Tigers Sign Prince Fielder; Will He Hold Up Better Than Cecil?
January 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
The Detroit Tigers are reportedly close to signing Prince Fielder to a 9-year, $214 million contract. Friend of the site Ken Rosenthal has a breakdown of the deal here, which he calls a “classic Boras shocker” on Twitter.
Justin Verlander Named AL MVP
November 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
Reports are breaking out all across Twitter, and confirmed via the Detroit Free Press, that Justin Verlander has been named AL MVP, thus becoming the first pitcher since Dennis Eckersley in 1992 to win both the MVP and Cy Young awards in the same season.
Jim Leyland stinkpalmed Ron Washington before Game 5
October 14, 2011 By 4 Comments
Yesterday, the Detroit Tigers beat the Texas Rangers in Game 5 of the ALCS, sending the series back to Texas for Game 6 on Saturday and, Tigers fans hope, Game 7 after that.
And while many people will credit a fluky bounce of the ball at third base for turning the tide of Game 5, the secret to the Tigers victory actually came much earlier, during the pregame. That is when Tigers skipper Jim Leyland executed his own form of hit-and-run on Rangers manager Ron Washington, as documented by AP photographer Paul Sancya.
8 Things We Learned This Weekend
October 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
It was another intriguing weekend in sports, especially here in The Midwest where baseball is currently king and a changing of the guard is underway in the Big Ten. Here are 8 things we learned this weekend.
Texas Rangers v Detroit Tigers ALCS Preview: Analysis, Prediction, TV Schedule, Pitching Matchups
October 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
Only a mere 12 months ago Texas was in the World Series where they came up sort versus the San Francisco Giants. Over the next eight days, they have a chance to return to the showcase of baseball’s finest. In their way stand the Detroit Tigers, who defeated the New York Yankees in five games following their first division title since 1987.
Both of these teams are easy to get behind. One team advances, the other will have to spend the winter waiting for their next chance.
The MLB postseason is down to its final four and these two teams could be matching up for a classic.
Tigers-Yankees ALDS Game 5 Preview, The Greatness of Cano and Cabrera, and Other MLB Playoff Talk with Amanda Rykoff
October 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday, Ari and I had the distinct pleasure of recording the latest episode of the MLB Trivia Challenge Podcast with ESPNW.com’s Amanda Rykoff. The complete episode, including trivia, is posted here, but for those of you who want to skip right to the MLB Playoff talk, I am posting the “baseball banter” portion of the podcast on its own.
FINAL Update on MLB’s Most Over and Underrated Players
October 3, 2011 By 2 Comments
Way back in February, USA Today’s 2011 MLB Preview Magazine published a lengthy piece by yours truly, whereupon I rendered my thoughts on who the most over and underrated players in the game were as we approached the new campaign.
Throughout 2011, I posted monthly updates on these “predictions,” so as to capriciously praise or condemn myself. Today, on the 1st of October with the playoffs upon us, I offer the final “results.”
Video: “…there isn’t a single film that would not be improved by the inclusion of Tom Selleck’s Moustache.”
September 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
No truer words have ever been spoken (or written, as the case may be, as they are in the description of the video below.)
Behold, the cinematic masterpiece and all-purpose accoutrement that is Tom Selleck’s Mustache.
5 Reasons Why the Detroit Tigers are a World Series Contender
September 15, 2011 By 7 Comments
The Phantastic Phour. The “Greatest Red Sox team ever.” The power-hitting Yankees. The vastly improved Brewers. Throughout the 2011 MLB season, there’s been no shortage of sexy picks to win the World Series.
One team rarely mentioned in the discussion: The Detroit Tigers.
Because they aren’t as flashy as the other top teams, they haven’t received the same fanfare. Only now, when they’ve won 11 straight games, are they starting to get our attention. A closer look, however, suggests we should’ve been heralding the Tigers as a World Series sleeper for a while now.
Here are five reasons why the Detroit Tigers just might win it all this year.
MLB Trivia Challenge Podcast Episode 11 with guest Al Beaton sponsored by the M&A Advisors at Generational Equity
September 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The calendar has turned to September, and while many pennant races have cooled off, we are just starting to heat up here at Midwest Sports Fans with our MLB Trivia Challenge Podcast sponsored by the M&A advisors and consultants at Generational Equity.
In Episode #11, White Sox fan Jerod and Indians fan Ari are joined by Al Beaton of BlessYouBoys.com, the blog of record for the Detroit Tigers at SBNation. Jerod and Ari had hoped that getting Al to discuss the Tigers’ playoff hopes would prove to be a jinx. It didn’t work out so well.
Break up the Mets! Seriously.
June 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
I love the New York Mets.
In fact, I am watching the Mets bash the Detroit Tigers right now…and it is making me sick.
The Mets broke my heart in 2007. They stomped it so bad, I haven’t watched baseball the same way since.
A year prior, Carlos Beltran watched a bending Adam Wainwright curveball nestle into Yadier Molina’s glove and that was that – the Cardinals won the World Series two weeks later and the Mets have spiraled back into a national joke. The epic September collapse, then another collapse, then two seasons of bottoming out in embarrassing fashion.
It has been an ugly few years to be a Mets fan. Maybe not as bad as being a Royals or Pirates fan, but bad nonetheless.
So I made a promise to myself: I would stop caring so much about the Mets, for the sake of my own mental health.
MLB 2011 Predictions: AL Central — White Sox should have what it takes to supplant Twins
March 29, 2011 By 3 Comments
The Minnesota Twins won the Central last season, going 94-68 and finishing seven games ahead of the White Sox, only two games behind the Rays for best record in the American League.
Who will come out on top in what has historically been one of baseball’s most competitive divisions? Can the Twins repeat? Will the reloaded White Sox reclaim the throne? Can the Tigers rebound from last year’s disappointment?
Yesterday we analyzed the AL East. Let’s take look at the AL Central.
