tigers-fan.blogspot.com - 12/7/2007
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Few things were capable of disrupting my weeks in the making meticulous plan to creepily stalk about the Hannah Montana concert at the Palace this evening. In fact the only two things I could think of that would deter my plan would be 1: Being contacted by the FBI or 2: The Tigers pulling off the biggest trade in my lifetime for a 24 year old third baseman with Hall of Fame potential who ...
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Going Ape
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... December 06, 2007 Going Ape Anyone who can work a Planet of the Apes reference into a Tigers trade post deserves a link: Had I slipped into a coma 4 years ago and woke up today to find the Tigers had joined the Red Sox and Yankees as baseball's superpowers I would have immediately assumed that society had crumbled and the world was being run by apes. I'm sure some other teams are thinking, "Damn you all to hell!" Posted by David Pinto at ...
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