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Ever since the Tigers lineup stumbled out of the gate, a small trickle of a theme has turned into a full-blown meme: Detroit needs Barry Bonds. Rob Parker in the Detroit News is only the most recent writer to trumpet that claim . It’s even shown up on USA Today . A Google News search Detroit Tigers + Barry Bonds reveals 89 entries , though not all are an exact fit. I’m here to ... [link]

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Columnists say the darnedest things: Ozzie is the flavor of the day
Published 5/8/2008 by Big Al (noreply@blogger.com) at The Wayne Fontes Experience
If you read today's Detroit fish wraps, notice something eerily similar in their sports pages? The lead sports columnists for the Freep and News, Mitch Albom and Bob Wojinowski, essentially wrote the same column! Both decided to wax philosophic over the re-emergence of the Downriver puck bunnies favorite player ever, Chris Osgood. From reading the columns over, it appears they shared notes. (and forgotten the beat writers have covered this territory quite well, especially when Osgood signed his contract extension. This is just the carpetbagging columnists jumping on the Wings bandwagon when more readers are paying attention ...

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