Hey all,

Sorry to invade your board but I thought some of you may be interested in some videos I was able to take on the 4th of July of your golden arm in the minors, Rick Porcello.

As a huge Rays fan and regular on DRaysBay, I wanted to share.  A little break down is also available to go along with the videos.  The site that its on is a new site that yes I am pimping but hopefully you’ll find some good stuff there as its all free.  We are a new fantasy site that is giving away a ton of new info for football and in regards to baseball we work hard to keep you up-to-date on guys in the minor leagues.

Rick Porcello Analysis and Video

As a new site we would love any feedback both positive and negative should you have any.

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Anybody notice that Thames' 6th inning homer was  initially called a foul ball by the same umpire that called out the Tiger in the extra inning Tiger loss at home plate against the Birds.  We may want to have the umpires' schedules along with our teams' schedules just so we can add more factors to the statistic-laden sport of baseball.  This may be another reason to bring in the instant replay for the close calls (and not so close calls) made by the game watchdogs.

OK, let’s look at this situation: first and second, no outs, Guillen up to bat. Looks like a big inning could be brewing with the heart of the order coming up. Guillen has a 3-1 count and this pitcher can't hit the strike zone. He's throwing wild and his breaking pitch either hangs or misses. So with a 3-1 count, Guillen swings at a ball, and grounds out to the shortstop, opposed to loading the bases with a walk and no outs. Cabrera scores the run with an RBI groundout, Guillen advanced to third on a wild pitch (ironic), and Joyce flies out to end the inning. So with two men on, and no outs, we only score one. With a hitter's count you HAVE TO BE LOOKING TO WALK. Instead, our all-star swings irresponsibly, and may cost us a game. This is why the Tigers are a .500 team. Leyland has no problem having guys swing away on 3-1 counts with two on and no outs, but refuses to ever give the go ahead to one of the most natural base stealers in the game, who happens to be a leadoff hitter? I'm confused. Maybe it isn't a lack of player performance, but mismanagement that's killing this team.

So here we are at the mid-point of the season, one game over .500, 41-40.  Not only that, but they've won 17 of their last 21!  Very impressive.  I'm not going to lie to you, I have been watching, waiting, and hoping to get back up to .500 this year.  It's pretty much been what we've been hoping for since about oh, I don't know, mid-April?  And here we are.

Sure, it's a tremendous accomplishment for the way this team started.  But let's not buy our World Series tickets just yet.  First let's take a closer look at that winning streak.  2 of those wins were against Cleveland (currently playing at a .451 pace.)  3 from the Dodgers (.469) 2 from SF (.439) 2 from San Diego (.386) and 3 from the Rockies (.390)

Granted, they did manage to wrest 2 out of 3 from the Cardinals (.566) and a sweep of the Pale Hose (.568) but Chicago really wasn't playing well during that stretch.

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Short but sweet post about tonights game.

I don't get too detailed with this one, just more reiterations of what I feel is one of the key's to the Tigs problems.  I'll give you a hint... his name rhymes with a commonly used 4-letter swear word that I used after the end of this game.

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Comments always welcome and as always encouraged to say the least  :)

OK i can understand why theyd would want to move thomas back up, but why do they have to send down clevland, why not larish, the only time i watched larish get a hit was his home run, which i think was his only hit. We need a cannon in the outfeild like clevlands, larish doesnt do anything besides strike out, and make the routine catch. its not so much watching him in the outfeild that makes me mad, but when hes up to bat, its pretty much a gaurensheed out.

The tigers early on were struggling as we all well know, so somebody came up with the idea to roll up the socks negro league style. The isn't a knock on that great tradition of the negro leagues but the lack of fashion in that style caused most of the tigers to slowly roll them down, but even now our solid shortstop Edgar Renteria still has them rolled up. It's obvious he isn't the hottest right now but why edgar? Why? Hitting around .270 with 32 RBI's isn't Renteria type play but the socks aren't quite helping so Roll Em' down!

Howdy Y'all

Back again with a mid-game post.  I probably should've waited, but oh well.

I look at Marcus Thames, and the importance of the long-ball (obviously), See above.

I feel that the long-ball has been greatly undervalued this season, and I addressed my opinions on this in the post. 

You can find the post here

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As always I love comments, suggestions, opinions, etc...

Hope y'all enjoy!

Just perusing the schedule to date, and noting a couple of things, about where this Tigers team roller coaster has taken the squad and its fans this season so far. There have been a couple of definite valleys, along with a moment or two where a glimmer of hope has shone through the gloom, thought I'd point those out before the next turn of the wheel takes the kitties up further towards the promised land of .500 baseball (hey, when all else fails, set the bar low and go from there, right?), or deeper into the depths of baseball purgatory.

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Hello Y'all,

Back again with another post... This time I decided to get poetic.  As most of you know i've been a cynic of late on my posts, but this time I tried to lighten up by gettin down with my poetic self and spittin out some jive words for the Tigs of the D. 

I wanna be wrong about this season Tigs, I want to be wrong so bad. 

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Hope y'all enjoy ;)

Leave some groovy comments ;) As always cynics like myself or not, opinions are appreciated.