I know that most of my regular readers don't give two shakes about baseball. That's why I have other outlets for those endeavors. However, with pitchers and catchers less than six weeks away from reporting to Lakeland the Tigers have landed ten time all-star catcher Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez. Yes, he's 32. Yes, his best years are perhaps behind him. However, it's taken the Tigers a decade as a team to rack up ten appearances in the Midsummer Classic.
It'll be nice to see someone with a household name weaing the Olde English "D." It's been a long time, baby.
Posted by mikewolf at February 02, 2004 10:56 PMWell, at least the AL manager won't have to stretch to find someone to fill that Detroit spot in the All-Star Game anymore... ;-)
Posted by: Frankenstein on February 2, 2004 11:11 PMIs the tie regulation, Pudge? It's ugly too.
Posted by: deano on February 3, 2004 11:05 AMToo bad Brandon Inge can't hit, because he's made some of the best defensive plays I've ever seen from a catcher. BTW, I met Dombrowski once when he was a young assistant to Roland Hemond in Chicago. The future missus and I were guests of then-White Sox hypnotist Harvey Mizell, from whom we often scored some of the sweetest tix, behind home plate. I always wished the Sox had hung on to Dave D. And La Russa. And Leyland. Etc.
Posted by: Vernam on February 3, 2004 05:16 PMWell, that's the last time we'll ever hear Pudge's name again. Scott Boros should get a job placing clients in the Witness Relocation Project.
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on February 4, 2004 11:19 PMOkay how in the name of all that is good and right in the universe did the Tigers get Pudge. I know this will be a good for the old team. So are they going to good players one person at a season?> Will we have to see a price increase to go tothe game. If that is the case they keep the team.
Posted by: Brad on February 9, 2004 10:59 AM