You know, I love it when we play Boston.

Sure, we get our asses handed to us with alarming frequency. Always good game, though, because sometimes they bring out the best in the Tigers. Losing to the BoSox never feels like shame, and winning against them is pretty frickin' grand.

Celebratory TigerSpam, featuring Plácido! Because that I-mean-BUSINESS grimace of righteous determination blazing away never gets old. Pretty sure you can see it from space.

( Polanco, swinging from the back molars )

( Scoring from second, TYVM Carlos )

( Teh Sheff swing - Accept no substitutions )

( Granderson snagging that out )

( Additional Grandy, because how much do I love this one )

Photobucket is being disagreeable, or I'd be spamming harder. Why so mean?

Because... it's Tuesday? Yeah, I don't know either. I'm 2 episodes behind on Doctor Who and also missed BSG. So - links with no noticible connection. Yay?

- Woman Charged With Killing Pedestrian After Sox-Yankees Dispute - (WMUR)

There's trading trash-talk with other fans, there's scrapping over an ancient baseball rivalry. And then there's running someone down with your car. Oh MY, RL fanpeople! You're making online fandom look like a bastion of sanity.


- Skel-a-mingos Best Mother's Day Present ever, Y/Y?

At least I'm hoping. Poor Mom. I'm sending flowers too! Points for that? Half a point?


- Keith Olbermann, racking up the NewsguyBoyfriend points - (DKos)

And still laughing. Oh, KeithO! Love it so when you're all dead-on funny rant guy.


- Inter-Con Security employees staging a three day strike, aiming to get the National Labor Relations Board to enforce its own laws. - (HuffPo)

- SEIU's coverage at Stand for Security

Union busting, still illegal. It's kinda your JOB to stop it, NLRB.


- Denial Truck - Current fav photo by Sweet Juniper!. Had to share some hometown weirdness.

So that was our last ever regular season game at Yankee Stadium.

The last time the Detroit Tigers left Yankee Stadium with a three-game sweep, Al Kaline was playing the outfield and Denny McLain was on the mound.

TigerSpam is, of course, inevitable.

( If I was a better person, I would leave this shot out )

( But not this one of course )

( &Sheff; - Detroit Tiger )

( michigangirl30, clearly psychic )

( Marcus Thames, Home after knocking in a 2RHR )

( Magglio, Tyra Banks says you worked it )

( I like you more every game, Jacque Jones )

Goodbye to old Yankee Stadium, you historic and irreplaceable park.

The House That Ruth Built

VOTE! Curtis Granderson.

He's finally on the ballot! Third time's a charm after all.

michigangirl30? Is 'everything' a position? IDK which one to pick in the write-in.

The sixty-first anniversary of Jackie Robinson's Civil Rights milestone.

An American major league sport saw its first integration seven years before legal segregation was overturned in American public schools.



Rachel Robinson's interview on education and The Jackie Robinson Foundation.

Guest speaker Prof. Pellom McDaniels' speech at the Negro League Museum's celebration.

Mike Bauman calls for a national Holiday.

MLB's coverage and page o'links.


It's great that MLB is making JRD an annual observation. It would be even better if the date was given its proper due in mainstream American history.

Really beats bitching about income taxes.

Since I hear IJ did away with the RSS point system - Thanks, snakeling! - I made a feed for Curtis Granderson's blog.

granderson_espn

So now I have up to date flist info on how he feels about being compared to Willie Mays, why he wears the old-school tall socks, and what he had for Easter Dinner.

Also made feeds for two of my favorite Tigers blogs -

tigers_bilfer
tigers_mackave

OPENING DAY=TOMORROW!

Opening Day glee is dampened a little bit, what with Curtis Granderson on the DL for at least 3 weeks with a broken finger. Thankfully, the injury isn't more serious than it could have been.

It's just not the same when your Tiger can't play.

Heal up quick & thoroughly, Grandy. Nobody gets on base quite like you do. And you have all those marriage proposals to deal with.

(And WTF bleacher seats going for $50? So happy they were $7 back when - never would have seen a game played live otherwise. Does Comerica have 24k bleachers, or something?)

Witness my complete failure to update in a regular fashion. Wow - a month? D-, self.

I'll just bring the random, then.

- brownbetty has a great post here about the latest on the Jena Six. It should be read and spread far and wide.

- Loved Blink so much. Creepy and twisty and clever. Joining the Moffat fangirling now.

- Happy to see BBC-AM isn't gutting the Gay out of Torchwood. Still love my cheesy, cracky, pterodactyl in the office show.

- I have my first new pair of Converse in a decade. They have flames. Shoes met with a mixture of headshaking and snickering. All ya all can bite me. Chucks are classic! And it's not like you weren't well aware of my inability to dress myself. I've been wearing nothing but 501s since God invented the button-fly.

- My dog seems to have developed an interest in the new lady dog in the neighborhood. She's a pretty, young rottweiler. He's... a chihuahua. I don't see it working out the way he hopes.

- Rewatching my old World Series dvd, and the '68 chapter still gets me teary. I want it to be required viewing for all the newer Tigers' fans. See? This is how we do it - pull something fantastic outta nowhere when you've abandoned all hope. No, we're not going to the WS this October - Detroit only does that every two decades. Our ballclub is 106 years old and this is how we roll. Kick back, enjoy the *whole* season, and wait for 2026.

And be happy we're not still sporting the circa 1980 Away uniforms.

- Stevie Wonder has a new album in the works, hopefully released on his Mother's birthday in January, including covers of some of her favorites. What could be better than that?

He's always been able to hit my tiny bulletproof Romantic target dead on.

So I'll leave you with 'Uptight' mixed with the Clash.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8sohsi

- First day back at work after vacation was a series of small tortures and large annoyances. Worst Day awarded to the coworker who left his toolbox unlocked on a job site. Someone mistook it for a urinal.

- Got hurricaned three years ago today. Friday the Thirteenth - Not afraid to live up to the bad press. Had cold Spaghettios out of a can to commemorate.

- I actually hit my caffeine limit today. Didn't know I had one.

- Ordonez hit two home runs yesterday. In the same inning. Two! He's so quietly flashy when he does this stuff. Tigers - pay him more. Maggs - don't cut your hair again.

- Have been invited to go lobstering. We don't... lobster much where I'm from. In fact, I had no idea it was a verb.

- I would trade a body part for moussaka right now.

Last day to vote for the two remaining All Star players, people.

Ballot here at MLB.com

Vote Saxon [X] Bonderman - He throws good ball, and isn't an Evil Overlord.


eta whups - Voting open until 6 pm Thursday - Dad wuz rong.