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The Wayne Fontes Experience found this 5/8/2008 on www.mackavenuetigers.com [flag]
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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Like him or not, Tigers need Bonds

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 5/8/2008 on www.detnews.com

Rob Parker Like him or not, Tigers need Bonds The Major League Baseball Players Association has opened an investigation into the free-agent market. It wants to look into why free agents Barry Bonds, Kenny Lofton and other players are still unsigned ...
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Starr: Why Won’t Anyone Sign Barry Bonds? | Newsweek Voices - Mark Starr

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I was hard-wired to stand with the union men; once even served on the national board of my newspaper guild. And while there are few unions harder to embrace than the baseball players', a union that views its members' welfare strictly in dollar signs, ...
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