outincenterfield.com - 12/27/2007
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Dontrelle Willis, newly signed to the Detroit Tigers (gulp! the '08 Tigers scare me more than a little bit) appeared on WDFN last week to talk about all kinds of stuff - and portions of the interview were reprinted in the Detroit Free Press. I love me some D-Train, crazy antics and all (how could you not heart a pitcher with that insane throwing motion?)- but there was one little throwaway
Dontrelle Willis get’s Tigers 21
sports.kcudah.com 12/26/2007 — Willis will wear No. 21, and he said the reason is that was Deion Sanders’ number. “I knew I couldn’t get 35,” Willis said, referring to the number he wore in Florida. “That’s the no-hitter man, Verlander. I respect that. When they started reading off numbers, they mentioned 21, and I said, `That’s it.’ ”
Inside in the numbers: Detroit Tigers
sports.kcudah.com 12/26/2007 — Tigers: Miguel Cabrera will be wearing uniform number 24, just as he did in Florida. Edgar Renteria will be #8, and Jacque Jones will be #19 (wonder if he knows that was the cursed Juan Gonzalez number?).
Mike Moore’s Revenge
completist.wordpress.com 12/27/2007 — Mike Moore is on a mission to kill Kevin Mitchell. Will he succeed?
Marlins Preseason Sales Up?
fishstripes.com 12/27/2007 — Murray Chass of The New York Times, as reported by the Sun-Sentinel, had this to say . According to MLB figures, every team currently shows an increase in ticket sales compared with the corresponding time the previous offseason. (emphasis is mine) ...
Trammell's not sweating it —
Major League Baseball News 12/30/2007
Alan Trammell was a great shortstop on the 1984 Tigers, but he's not recognized as a Hall of Fame player on his own merits. If that's where his case for Cooperstown ends, Trammell, who takes pride in being a member of that and other Tigers teams ...
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