By Matt Pelc
It’s Opening Day in Kansas City.
Justin Verlander is getting squeezed with balls and strikes and he is not liking it. He immediately starts jawing with the umpire.
Now as a baseball fan since before I can remember, I know baseball, like in life, is patently unfair at times. Hitters can stare at the umpire, [...]

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By Brian Rexroth
As much as the signs of spring are beginning to show their face, we here at least in the north are not feeling much spring in our step instead having to un-bury ourselves from a mountain of snow.
Here are a few things I am looking forward to in the upcoming weeks and months [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Well it took a long time to do it, but it appears that Johnny Damon and the Detroit Tigers have FINALLY agreed on a contract for his services for probably just this upcoming season. The Tigers will have a press conference at 2 p.m. to officially announce the expected and Damon will arrive [...]

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By Matt Pelc
The Detroit Tigers got a bit of good news late last week when it was announced that ace Justin Verlander signed a five-year, $80 million deal to stay with the team through at least the 2014 season.
The Tigers started the off-season by choking down the stretch to fail to make the postseason and [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Last week, we talked about the possibilities of the Red Wings and Pistons sharing an arena in Detroit and the fact that the Red Wings may be playing their games at the Palace while things sort themselves out for a new arena in the city.
We covered the possibilities in that last article, but [...]

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By Matt Pelc
The Detroit Tigers have been making news this past week with their annual winter caravan to sites in and around Michigan to rev up fan interest for the upcoming baseball season, including Saturday’s Fan Fest at Comerica Park.
The biggest story of the week which also made national headlines was the admission of Tigers’ [...]

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By Matt Pelc
I can always gauge my interest in a sport with the frequency I watch the postseason when my team is eliminated.
For the past decade, my football team, the Detroit Lions, have been eliminated from the postseason usually by the end of September, yet despite their presence in the postseason more infrequent than a [...]

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By Brian Rexroth
With the clock ticking down on 2009 and the end of a year and a decade in sports, one is left to reflect what does sport mean in your life?  To me, either playing or watching sports (or a great sports movie–my personal favorites both golf movies Caddyshack or Tin Cup) is a [...]

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By Matt Pelc
The other day I helped my three-year old daughter Kelsey write her letter to Santa and of course she told the jolly old fat man that she wanted the moon and the stars.
For a kid, once Christmas morning comes and there are scores of gleaming and neatly wrapped (as long as the wife, [...]

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By Matt Pelc
It is getting to be a daily event here on JLABANNERS.com: saying goodbye to a popular Tiger.
While I could understand the Tigers parting ways with Placido Polanco due to age, economics and declined productivity, the Curtis Granderson and Edwin Jackson fire-sale, sorry Dave Dombrowki, I am calling a spade a spade, is mind-boggling.
Both [...]

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