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So How Was TigerFest, People?
Bless You Boys — ... So did anything juicy or newsworthy slip out of Comerica Park yesterday?  Well, as Billfer already noted, the money quote came from Dave Dombrowski regarding Brandon Inge.  As we've been talking about for the past week or so, even though Inge has lost his starting position at third base, he can ...

Bunt Singles: Interesting happenings
Detroit Tigers blog — ... As you have read everywhere, the TigerFest was Saturday at Comerica Park. One unfortunate problem with being an outstate (or out-of-state) blogger is missing out on going to events like that in person. Fortunately, Bilfer blogged about it, and there were some stories in his comments. ...

TigerFest 2008 featured Grandy Ice Sculpture
The Grandy Report — Like several other Tiger bloggers, I did not have a chance to go to TigerFest (I live in Kansas, remember), but apparently there were three ice sculptures at the event commemorating significant achievements for Tigers players in 2007: Justin Verlander's no-hitter, Placido Polanco's errorless season, and Curtis Granderson's 20-20-20-20 season. If anyone has any photos of Grandy's ice sculpture or of Curtis at TigerFest please send them, I would love to post them.

Curtis Granderson and Brandon Inge
TigerBlog — ... of all people and I don’t catch wind of it until almost a week later.  Anyway, great work and if you’re like me and didn’t find out about this until you’re reading about here, then be sure to catch it out. Also at DTW, Bilfer brings us up to date on the status of Brandon Inge .  Dombrowski is laying some hints that Inge could find a place on the team if he’d go back to catching or at least playing as a utility player.  I’m hoping to get back to a more regular schedule soon.  I’m also hoping to write up another 1968 profile at the ...

Above the Fold - Weekend in review
The Wayne Fontes Experience - A Detroit Lions Blog — Detroit Pistons: The Pistons finished off a rough, 4 games in 5 days, swing through Texas, then to parts east, ending in an ugly loss in New York Sunday night. Detroit Bad Boys puts into words what certain sports talk radio hosts couldn't, that it was just "one of those games." Maybe the team was caught looking past the Knicks, or maybe the dreaded “complacency” bug reared it’s ugly head. Or maybe, and this is the most likely scenario, the team simply entered the game on fumes and ran out of gas early. It was their fourth game in five nights, and for whatever it’s worthy their arrival to NYC on ...