Jim Cowan

I'm OK with that. Coolbaugh won't be at spring training next year.

Ha ha, Tommy Flanagan, who consistently mentioned Morgan Fairchild as his spouse/mistress.

The starting pitching was not horrible this weekend.

Pretty gutsy performance by Alexander to go 5 full innings.

Yes, 7 pitches, 6 strikes.

I barely remember him. Looking back at his West Michigan stats I probably would have thought that he was promising although Old For The Level.

Hinch is part of the selection process?

Seeing Morgan there made me think of McCarver, so I typed in shutupmccarver.com. it's long gone.

Bert is a lot older than I am, 10 days I think. I started following the team in 1962 because that was the first of 3 years that I played for the Tigers. Kaline, Cash and Colavito. I was the only Tigers fan at school, everybody was Yankees, with a smattering of other teams. In 1963 we went to a game at War Memorial Stadium, the Rockpile, in Buffalo to see the Bisons play the Syracuse Chiefs who were the Tigers' AAA farm team. So yes, I saw Purnal Goldy play. In 1968 we were playing a high school football game and someone had a radio - a transistor radio - on the sidelines for one of those afternoon World Series games. My 2 best TV memories were both in hotel rooms. In 1976 we had just moved to Winnipeg and didn't have an apartment yet, so I was in a hotel for Fidrych's curtain call after the Yankees game. In 1984 I was in Edmonton for work, and I turned down going out for drinks in the evening so that I could go back to my hotel and watch Gibby drill one into the upper deck against Gossage. I loved those early 90's teams, but it all fell apart by 1996. I still enjoy it, but as others have said I wouldn't follow it as much without being able to hang out with this group of people.

Yeah can we get back some of those Grossman AB's?

Yes and as noted before it was dumb to bring up Baddoo and make him sit on the bench.

Still worthwhile to bring him up and take a look.

I was hoping for Clemente.

Will Chris Ilitch eat 3 years of Hinch's contract? I don't think so. So, the new GM doesn't get to pick his own manager. That's an obstacle. Ilitch must be fuming about letting Avila offer a 5 year contract to a guy that would otherwise have been unemployed, but it's his own fault.

There's Willie, my all time fave.

Randy Smith liked Speedy Little Outfielders and drafted them frequently. He also tucked his shirt into his underpants.

Rally...

The Rolling Stones "Under My Thumb"

It's interesting that the word "hoser" never existed. Bob and Doug wanted to call each other "hosebag" i.e. used condom, but were not allowed to, so they invented "hoser".

Maybe Indiana is like Ontario where it takes about 7 years to fire a cop, and they are suspended on full pay for the entire interval.

Will Vest is coming back to earth hard. The Tigers need to give him a couple of days off, in a luxury hotel suite full of scotch and hookers.

I'm interested to see him. Could he be the second coming of JD...a non-prospect who reinvented his swing and changed his life?

Ha ha ha, Documentary about Dumbass.

Did Micro have bat path data?

I remember Stewart being on his way to challenging the Eastern League home run record, and me being excited about him, and then Micro said "can't get around on a good fastball" and I thought wow, really? That's why I still think scouting is more important than all the analytical methods that the Tigers are alleged to be weak at. I think that they are weak at good old-fashioned scouting.