OPEN MIKE!

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microphoneIt’s Friday folks, which means it’s your day! This is the day for you to be heard. Today is the one day during the month where you get the opportunity to comment on the Tiger topic of your choosing.

This is the one day of the week where we open up the comment parameters for you, so you can really get those juices flowing. Comments on THIS DAY ONLY can be expanded to a maximum of 8 sentences.  So, pick a topic and let us hear from you. We know there’s a lot on your minds…

 

 

 

 

13 thoughts on “OPEN MIKE!”

  1. Once again, our closer blows one. It’s becoming so obvious that K-Rod just doesn’t have it anymore. When will management realize this, and look for a replacement. It’s time to package him up with Rondon, and see what relief we can get.

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  2. Tigers sloppy play,and the lack of basic defensive techniques is glaringly obvious already. Several OF collisions, numerous drop ball errors, sacrifice bunting, for the most part still a foul concept and thus not signaled by the coaching staff but once a month, still swinging for the fences, and numerous injuries root cause being lack of of pre season conditioning drill, all have the Tigers a vey precarious outlook for the remainder of the season. Will Ausmus steer the ship into camer water – highly unlikely.

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  3. Tuesday night, I was able to get a free season ticket which allowed me to get in a half hour earlier. The thing is, your’re confined to the outfield seating area from 5 to 5:30 for batting practice. To go down to the dugout or wander around the park, you got to wait around till all gates open at 5:30. Who thought of this nonsense?! Furthermore, now during BP they have temporary netting along the left-right field line? Why? Is it because mgmt. thinks it’s for the fans’ safety during BP or (what I believe) is to discourage players from tossing baseballs to fans and signing autographs? Feel free to disagree however I see this as an attempt at disconnect by front offices at the ML level that doesn’t exist at Spring Training, where players are more excessible. It won’t stop me and it didn’t. I got two baseballs to add to my collection and a Mariners coach to sign one of them. But still, all these decades without the temp. netting, why put it up now?

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  4. I don’t know, I guess I feel that certain Ausmus-era funk beginning to set back in. I really felt it last night when Justin Wilson mowed them down in the 8th only to be replaced by K-Rod in the 9th, simply because of Brad’s adherence to formulaic baseball. I would really like to be a fly on the wall in the clubhouse when Brad’s not around to know what the players think about his management style. Why not try to win today’s game today and worry about tomorrow’s game tomorrow? If J. Wilson is on a roll and its a tie score, why not leave him in there? I know, a bunch of you feel that way and I feel like I am beating a dead horse.

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  5. We need a total cultural rebuild – just like the Cubs did. The Tiger culture is not a winning one, doesn’t emphasize the little things a team needs to do to win, and then circles the wagons defending the undefendable. Let’s hope we get a full housecleaning at the end of the season, cause this one is shot.

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    • I agree with the cultural rebuild, I don’t agree that this season is shot. Les Moss was doing OK as a manager when he was surprisingly replaced by Sparky. There is no reason why Brad can’t be replaced today, tomorrow, or the next day. For those people who will say: “replaced by whom?”, I say, go find somebody. There are a lot of bench coaches and other coaches at all levels out there who are chomping at the bit to get a big-league manager’s job.

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      • Tim Bogar, current bench coach on the Mariners would be an excellent hire. He’s coached at the big league level in Tampa, in their pennant-winning season and also in Boston for a number of years after that. He’s a future manager.

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  6. What Sprocket said … the funk is back. The return of J.D. & Miggy won’t improve the bullpen. Iglesias returning didn’t help the pen. Better defense & more offense won’t change the pen. J.V. righting the ship, starters going deeper into games, 19 runs on the board … none of it matters with this bullpen. It’s true Brad is stuck with the guys he has. It’s also true that his set roles get in the way of using the right guy, in the right spot, in the game they’re playing on the field at that moment. I join Sprocket in beating the dead horse.

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  7. I worked for both Domino’s and little ceasers. Worked for Dom first for a few years. Left to work at a paper. Then delivered pizzas and made dough at ceasers. Ceasers store manager complained I worked too hard. We don’t have to push it so…Other store employees complained I made the dough too fast. Corporate culture.

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