OPEN MIKE!

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This is the day for you to be heard. Today is the one day during the month (normally) 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!  What’s on your minds?

Now that MLB is on hold, we are mixing it up a little bit.  Three new interactive blogs that allow you, dear readers, to have more input.  Which means, we need your ideas and questions for several of them.

1. Send us your questions that you’d like to see addressed about baseball and we’ll pick at least 2 each week to answer.

2. What questions do you have specifically for Kurt and Holly?  They can be on anything (nothing political or religious though) so you can get a more complete picture about baseball’s infamous (mostly) odd couple.

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12 thoughts on “OPEN MIKE!”

  1. Love your blogs! It is not looking very likely that we even have a 2020 baseball season. What are they going to do about the draft in this case? We have to have one right? In which case the Tigers get #1 pick? right? Not that Avila knows what to do with it. Go Tigers!

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  2. If indeed there won`t be any baseball this year then this will affect players` milestone stats years down the line. For example, Albert Pujols may not get to 700 home runs. Justin Verlander may not get to 4,000 K`s. Robinson Cano may not get to 3,000 hits. Miguel Cabrera will collect his 3,000th hit but getting into the 500 homer club will get that much harder.

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  3. Life will go on without it, but I do hope there is some form of a baseball season this year. It always a nice distraction from the everyday pressures of life, and I think it will send a nice message that things are returning back to some sense of normalcy. Of course, I say that only if it’s not considered a major threat to anyone’s health. I think the challenge with this situation is going to determine when exactly we reach that point. If there is a silver lining, no MLB would mean not suffering through another disastrous season for the Tigers!

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  4. For the readers amongst you let me recommend the recently published “The Big Fella – Babe Ruth and the World He Created” by Jane Leavy. She acknowledges up front the powers of the internet which allowed her to track down relatives of the Babe and various documents such as excerpts of the actual depositions from the divorce trial of the Babe’s parents which haven’t appeared in prior books. Also “Moneyball” is a great read. Mix those in with MLBTV and it will lessen the baseball pain. Amazon is still delivering books I believe. I am thinking that even when the people start going back to work it may be wise to put the kibosh on large crowd gatherings such as sporting events until next year. I have read somewhere that MLB may play games without fans in the stands. I could go with that.

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    • I second the endorsement of “Moneyball”, and while I have not read Jane Leavy’s book, it is on my list; Lord knows I have time to read it now. I highly recommend “Summer of 68” by Tim Wendel for Tiger fans, which goes into that season in almost granular detail and does a very good job of putting it into the context of the upheavals that our society as a whole was experiencing. If you never got around to them, I recommend two old classics, one fiction and one non fiction. My all time favorite baseball novel is “Bang the Drum Slowly” by Mark Harris, which was made into a pretty decent movie in the 70s starring Michael Moriarty and a young Robert De Niro. My favorite (mostly) non fiction baseball book, which I cited on this board recently, is Bill Veeck’s wonderful autobiography “Veeck as in Wreck”. Veeck was the absolute antithesis of the psychopathic corporate avarice that defines current MLB ownership; I miss him more every day.

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  5. Although it gets a little heavy at times, Jeff Passan’s book “The Arm” is an exhaustive look at Tommy John surgery, as seen in the careers of two current Major Leaguers. Also, Roger Kahn’s “Good Enough to Dream” is an insightful (and sometimes funny) account of his year as the part-owner of a minor league team in Upstate New York. Kahn is the guy who wrote “Boys of Summer, which also is a good read.
    All three are available through Amazon, which is still delivering.I like some of the books mentioned above and will read or re-read them during this down time.

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  6. I also recommend The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age by Sridhar Pappu, and Ty Cobb:A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen. Leerhsen sheds a lot of light on the truth about that so very complex man. Both are excellent reads. You folks also might find Strat-o-matic’s 2020 season simulation games amusing – the Tigers are 1-1 with Boyd losing the opener and Zimmerman squeaking out a win.

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  7. I am grateful to be healthy enough to enjoy another great mid south spring and the company of my TT friends who mutually share their love and experiences of the game and grand old dame figuratively speaking that we all love a love that renews itself every spring like an old movie

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  8. I’ve been watching FSD’s replay of some of the early games last year. I recalled how good JZ looked in his first two starts. I would not eat his contract. I firmly believe there will be a season in one form or another, guaranteed income vs no income. I might bring up one of the youngsters for perhaps a DH start, but let them work on theirs skills in AAA. JZ could have a decent start or two and maybe bring a ball boy or something in a trade. Eating his salary gets us nothing.

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  9. To whomever asked about the question about the draft, on Friday MLB & the Player’s union agreed on a shortened draft (I think 5 rounds instead of the usual) so the Tiger’s still get the 1st pick. Someone also mentioned some good reads but instead I was going to mention a couple of CD’s one was called “The Year of the Tiger 68” which was pretty much Ernie and Ray Lane with various live clips & highlights from the season and the WS. Also a 2 CD that’s all Ernie talking about his life & lots of interesting Tigers stuff in it.Denny McLain wrote a book 4-5 years ago and was selling it in person at the local Meijer’s, can’t remember the name of it at that moment. Another good read that’s about 4-5 years old is “100 Things every Tiger fan should know and do before they die” which was written by Terry Foster

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