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 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
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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By Matt Pelc
I was talking with a fellow Floridian Tiger fan over the weekend and I told him that I still have not gotten over last month’s swoon.
I told him that game was my biggest bummer sports moment since the Anointed One found Sterling Sharpe for a touchdown to pull a win out of the [...]

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By Matt Pelc
It is quite simple. The Tigers uphold home field and win at least three of the four games with Minnesota at Comerica Park this week, they win the AL Central division for the first time and win a division championship for the first time since they won the 1987 AL East title.
The Tigers [...]

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By KJ
Before I go into a long-winded diatribe about how frustrating the Detroit Tigers are to watch, I should probably introduce myself.
My name is Kyle Jekot and I grew up watching and loving Detroit sports.  I’ve always been a die-hard Pistons and Tigers fan and eventually jumped on the bandwagon of the Red Wings as [...]

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By Matt Pelc
The Tigers just completed another successful home stand. They beat Baltimore three out of four and put some distance between themselves and the third-place Minnesota Twins by taking two of three over the weekend.
But if the Tigers truly want to take a stranglehold on the division, they have GOT TO find a way [...]

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By Matt Pelc
The Tigers made a move on the day of the trading deadline which adds some depth to a rotation that lacked some after the big arms of Justin Verlander and Edwin Jackson when they picked up Jarrod Washburn (8-6, 2.64 this season) from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for Luke French, who had [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Last week all of us Tiger fans, me especially, became increasingly nervous with the fact that the Tigers seemed to be handing the division over to the Chicago White Sox and that Chicago had all the momentum after Mark Buerhle threw a perfect game on Thursday.
The teams came into this past weekend’s series [...]

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By Matt Pelc
The Tigers’ biggest series in a few years kicks off early, at 1 p.m. at Comerica Park for a double-header to make up for a May rainout between the Tigers and White Sox.
The teams will meet for four games in three days including two games, Saturday afternoon on Fox and Sunday night on [...]

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