September 4, 2008

  • Quick Bits

    I want to start off with a couple more observations concerning Monday’s debacle against the Yankees. First off, I wish to discuss Justin Verlander a bit (I’ve got a more lengthy feature on him in the works, but I’m gonna hold off on that for a couple more weeks). Suffice it to say he struggled at the beginning of the year and he’s struggling now. But there is a difference. When the season started, he wasn’t pitching spectacularly for the most part, but there were several instances where he ran into a lot of bad luck and he actually pitched better than his line indicated. That’s not really true this time around. He’s getting hit hard. I’m not sure what he can do about that. Second, our newspaper had a really nice picture of Pudge on the front of the sports page. That’s not THAT noteworthy except for the fact that good pictures of him are few and far between. But I liked this one (well, except for the fact that he was wearing the “wrong” uniform). And maybe this is a step, in that I can look at the picture without…I don’t know, feeling sick or something. And the next big step will probably come whenever the Tigers start to lose more of their “2006 players.” And I’m not talking about the supporting cast like Sean Casey or Todd Jones. I’m talking about guys like Kenny Rogers, Polanco, and Magglio.

     

    Speaking of which, over the last two days or so, I’ve found myself being very nostalgic about 2006. Not necessarily in terms of “Gee, I wish we played this year like we did in 2006,” although that’s definitely true. It’s more in terms of wishing I could relive it (or, to be more accurate, live through it, since admittedly I did not see that many games from the 2006 season until after the fact).

     

    In Other News: There is a girl in my class who is the spitting image of Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter movies, except her hair is brown instead of blonde. It's kinda creepy.