freep.com - 9/3/2008
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The Tigers are not going to the playoffs. They may not even finish with a winning record. But manager Jim Leyland has resolved to achieve some objectives before the season is over. Perhaps more than anything else, it appears that Leyland wants to eliminate the rationalizations and excuses that have followed some losses this year. The latest indication of that came Tuesday, when Leyland was not ...
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Leyland to Verlander: Grow Up
The Daily Fungo – Detroit Tigers Baseball: Yesterday and Today —
... Apparently he’d had enough of it and called out — sorta — Justin Verlander for not taking his lashings after another inexplicable performance on Monday: ...
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Detroit Tigers —
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“You need to have the ability every once in a while to say, ‘I stunk’ — not that the strike zone was tight,” Leyland said. “You have to say, ‘You know what? I was horse (manure).’ It’s OK, because we’re all horse (manure) from time to time. It’s good to admit that you’re horse (manure) sometimes.
“You turn the page and try to move on. Diversionary tactics are not good.”
Jon Paul Morosi/Detroit Free Press article
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... HERE AND THERE: It's refreshing to hear a manager tell a player to look in the mirror, as Jim Leyland did to the whining Justin Verlander. (Detroit Free Press) . . . Evan Longoria ...
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