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
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
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
This summer when Curt Schilling retired, he was immediately canonized as a sure fire baseball Hall of Famer. The various ESPN analysts were tripping all over each other to be the first to sing the pitcher’s praises–well except for Steve Phillips who was getting biz-aye with a network production assistant.
Schilling’s career stats are [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Back in the 1980s and 90s, many of the top shows on television featured the word Blue or Blues in the title.
Hill Street Blues was a hit in the 80s and the same people responsible for that show took it up a notch in the grittiness and naked, middle-aged, fat guys butt territory [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Not too much happened this weekend yet a whole lot happened.
What I mean by that Yogi Berra-esque statement is that while no key event from the weekend’s activities could trigger a full article devoted to one topics, several notable events transpired that made me want to make a short comment on each.
So without [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Well I was wrong about one thing with the Tigers in my articles from the last few days. They did want to win this thing, they just did not have the skills to do it or the manager who has the know-how to win close games.
This was evident in last night’s game when [...]

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By Matt Pelc
When I was a kid and the Tigers could do no wrong in my eyes, my dad and I would watch the games and he would say things like, “they don’t want it, the other team wants it more.”
I used to think, “yea right pops, its not like these guys are going to [...]

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By Matt Pelc
As I write this, the Minnesota Twins are blasting the Kansas City Royals so it looks like a forgone conclusion that the Tigers will be heading to the Metrodome to face the Twins in a one-game playoff sometime on Tuesday.
Of course the Tigers have no one to blame but themselves. For three games, [...]

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By Matt Pelc
It’s a big weekend for Michigan sports.
Brian already previewed the annual Michigan-Michigan State grudge match in East Lansing and I will briefly touch on what each of the rest of the teams, aside from the Pistons who are currently playing practice games, having going on.
TIGERS
Fear not Tiger fans, the team still controls their [...]

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