Detroit Tigers – Page 22

Getting lost in conversation
Shouldn’t make you feel your worst,
Unless you are Ian Kinsler,
and it got you picked off first.

While idly chatting with Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer on Saturday, the basepath-impaired Tigers second baseman was easily picked off by a snap throw from pitcher Danny Duffy.

American League Central 2014 Spring Training Haiku

WHITE SOX
Can the Sox play tough?
White indicates purity…
Are dirty suits allowed?

INDIANS
If only Swisher
Struck out more often…but then,
Truth ain’t poetry.

TIGERS
The old roar is gone…
No more sneaking cigarettes.
It’s a young man’s turn.

ROYALS
It is difficult
To keep from strangling youth with
High expectations.

TWINS
Mauer ain’t sour,
He’s heretofore banished from
Those bad Twins hurlers.

Dear boys of summer, cheeks of tan,
We’re listed now “they also ran”.

Who would’ve, could’ve thought last spring
The pennant home they would not bring?

But pitch relief and you will find
Hitters of another kind.

Our big pay bats could not produce
And as result, too bad, we “loose”.

But thanks for summer’s fun and wins.
The fourteen season soon begins!

For baseball we’ve become as slaves
And hope the next opponents shave!

Only a cad would say exactly how many years Millie has been a Tigers fan, but we’re betting it’s longer than any of you.

At eighteen he committed himself
to baseball . . . for fifty years.

Detroit should be grateful.
He didn’t fail stadium fans —
their team’s porous bats did
like unidentified blips
on baseball’s radar screen.

Mr. Leyland deserved better.