OT: Tigers vs A's 5-13-12 Verlander on the mound

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Hopefully the offense gives Verlander support. Anytime you can tune in and see Fielder, Cabrera and Verlander it's a good thing.

His Dudeness

May 13th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^

My prediction: Our players play like shit, we lose and stupid people blame the HoF manager.

I hope we win though. We're due. 

EDIT: Oh and somebody will bitch about how we cut Inge.

His Dudeness

May 13th, 2012 at 6:53 PM ^

The winningest manager in the history of MLB (by just under A THOUSAND WINS) has more losses than wins. 3,731 - 3,948. What nobody seems to understand about baseball is you win some and you lose some. It's a long season and an even longer season when guys get hurt or go through down years. It happens. You know why the Braves were so good for so long? Consistency. You don't go changing everything because some dumbass radio moron gets the fans in a frenzy after a few losses. It's not Jims fault. He doesn't hit, throw or catch out there.

Aequitas

May 14th, 2012 at 2:33 PM ^

"It's not Jims fault. He doesn't hit, throw or catch out there."

So that takes care of the losses.  Since he can't hit, throw or catch, how then is he credited with the wins?

In all seriousness, I think the role of a manager is more over-rated in baseball than in any other sport, but I do think he's outcoached on a consistent basis.

Notice how I was able to state my opinion and not refer to anyone who thinks otherwise as a "dumbass moron"?

blue95

May 13th, 2012 at 4:34 PM ^

Second Verlander start in a row where I've got to wait for them to switch to the Tigers game because the previous game ran long.  Marlins get a walk-off grand slam off the pride parade float.

$200/season to regularly miss the first inning of a team I don't much like watching this year.

blue95

May 13th, 2012 at 6:40 PM ^

But got tired of connection problems.  I'm sure it's gotten better since then, but it was so frustrating that I'm done with them.

Plus, I've got a big HDTV that I don't run my computer into, so it'd be a waste to watch on laptop vs 52" screen.  Still don't always get hi-def games though, comcast sucks that way.  Same with Red Wings games.  Hockey in lo-def on a hi-def TV is awful.

I do miss Mario and Rod, though.  Haven't gotten them very often this year.  I think every game of this road trip has been the opposing team's announcers.  These guys in Oakland are the worst.

BOX House

May 13th, 2012 at 6:47 PM ^

Not sure if I agree with the decision to sit Verlander down. Let's hope it doesn't come back to haunt us. Benoit walks the first guy, of course.

WMUgoblue

May 13th, 2012 at 7:22 PM ^

Benoit and Valverde with solid outings, thanks in part to a generous strike zone and some weak Oakland hitters.

Wish the offense would get out of this 2-3 run funk they've been in (save the 10 run thursday night), the starting pitching has been great the past 12 games so that's a trend we'd all like to see continued.

All in all a decent win and another great performance from JV, here's to hoping we've seen Peavy enough to get a few trends going into this Tuesday's game.  PS Jacob Turner got promoted to Toledo this week from Lakeland so let's see if his game continues to evolve.

NateVolk

May 13th, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^

Verlander is the one area of importance where Detroit has a clear advantage over Texas and Tampa. He has to be pitching as good or better than his best regular season form in October for this team to do anything. If he is that dominant in games that count, they could surprise some people.