Comments on: Decision to pull Verlander pays off for Jim Leyland

By: rexbeatsoff2feet

rexbeatsoff2feet — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:44:56 +0000

Verlander = The Balls

By: dracko19

dracko19 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:40:05 +0000

“….Now (IT) all goes well from here, Verlander will make his next start on seven days’ rest in Game 1 of the World Series.”

Did you mean “IF”? Or are you making a prediction?

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:12:06 +0000

Don’t know about that! I didn’t hear any ropes or live oak trees mentioned.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:17:47 +0000

Texas justice.

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:28:20 +0000

Leyland wasn’t brilliant. Girardi wasn’t a fool. The Tigers’ hitters delivered. The Yankees didn’t. Case closed.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:38:04 +0000

It makes me nervous that Coke is doing well and making so many appearances. People are jumping on the bandwagon about him, but that must mean they have short memories. Leyland has to keep him on a short leash — and for good reason. If he’s your path to glory, you are on a rope bridge. I’d feel better with some of our other guys out there (but there’s that lefty-righty thing).

By: edpliu

edpliu — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:38:19 +0000

Pinch hit swisher for Ibanez given how many clutch 9th inning homers Ibanez has had lately? Are you kidding me? Despite the final result, Ibanez was the right call (if maybe only this year).

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:02:32 +0000

Coke made things interesting, and it wasn’t even a frat party. I know that was Verlander but I am having real conceptual difficulties closing in on how enfeebled the Borg look at the plate. The occasional shots of A-Rod sitting there in the dugout looking and feeling useless – probably even wondering if the phone numbers those two cuties back of the dugout gave him were their real ones – made me feel even older and more decrepit than I already am.

Only baseball can do that, and that’s why it’s the great American sport.

By: polegojim

polegojim — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:48:30 +0000

Well done Coach. Coke delivered.

Leaving Benoit and Valverde parked is an excellent choice.

Awesome pitching from Tiger starters is the difference in this series.