Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Passing thoughts from the day

Here is quick round up of stuff from March 16

Samara listened to a game and enjoyed Jim and Dan's commentary.  Money quote: “Nothing the trainer can do except come out and offer moral support.” After Max St. Pierre got hit in the replicators.

This is from a couple of days ago, but is worth going back to.  Kurt at Bless You Boys interviews Dan Dickerson (radio voice of the Tigers).  Part 1 is here.  Hopefully part 2 will be posted soon!

In moves that surprised no one.  Beck reported that Guillen and Zumaya will be on the DL when the Tigers head north.

I miss Johnny Damon.  I loved seeing him in the Old English D and I thought we would see him in Left for 2011.  Apparently he thought we would too.  MLBTradeRumors.com linked to a Twitter feed where Damon says he thought being back in Detroit was a "slam dunk".  I wish it were true.

Dave Pinto at BaseballMusings.com has done his prognostications about how often the Tigers will score.  He sees quite a few runs (5.10 runs per game).  I like that number and I hope that he is right.

I am sure that this was keeping you up at night, so I'll help put the controversy to rest.  The Tigers have the the 5th best hats in the MLB.  MLive linked to the list todaySuck it Justin Bieber!  Take your purple Yankees hat and go back to the dugout.  BTW, the Indians have the worst hats.

Off of baseball...

Netflix has decided to run with the big dogs!  They are going to publish their own content, a TV show called House of Cards.  Last fall we cut off the satellite and have gone strictly with Netflix and Hulu for mind-numbing entertainment.  It has been no problem for anyone!  I'm excited to see Netflix survive and thrive.

Can you compare an airplane to a continent?  Dominic Tierney does just that as he tries to bring the costs of the F35 jet fighter into perspective.  A thought provoking article.

Finally, a Quote for the Day from Rand Paul.  I'm not a big fan of his, but truth is truth no matter where you see it.
"Would Republicans have given Obama and his party a free pass in carrying out the exact same agenda as Bush? It's hard to imagine this being the case, given the grief Bill Clinton got from Republicans, even though his big government agenda was less ambitious than Bush's. Yet, the last Republican president got very little criticism from his own party for most of his tenure. For conservatives, there was no excuse for this,"

Sweet dreams!

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