Today’s (Sunday) game is a great example of how lack of patience can kill your ball club. Brandon Duckworth has thrown 78 pitches in 6 innings, just 44 for strikes, so it’s not as though he’s relentlessly pounding the strike zone, so our lineup has demonstrated that they have no interest in getting into Kansas City’s crappy bullpen. Pathetic. Pretty much no one realizes how much the Tigers overachieved last year, and if our problems continue to go unaddressed, you’ll see more of what we showed in the 2nd half of last year. Inability to generate runs in bunches.

All they are doing is repeatedly grounding out to shortstop. Our club is built on home run power, which is fine, but if you don’t work counts and yoi don’t get anyone on base, the approach doesn’t work. We cannot expect our pitching staff to have another year like last year, and the team is going to go down with it. Sheffield is an improvement, but he’s an old player who is highly unlikely to get a full season on at bats.

This is a .500 team right now, and no better. Our problems (on-base %, a first baseman who can’t hit, etc.) wew not adequately addressed, and, as the AL Championship honeymoon continues, you’ll have to pardon me if I feel like the only one who sees the iceberg dead ahead.

Please Dan…We are so tired of all your Venom!!! Just blindly support our team! what kind of fan are you? we are the defensing champs! Leyland is the smartest manager out there! I think Mesa is great! I love Nefi Perez and so should you! He is a Tiger! I love the Tigers! Go Tigs!…

Why is Casey hitting against a lefty with two men on and one out in the 7th? He has no power and no speed, and there is too great a chance for a DP and not enough chance for an extra-base hit?

What is the point of having those players on the bench if you’re not going to use them?

Thames walks again! What do you know! Two walks today. Gee, I sure hope our buddy Monroe is back soon.

I doesn’t matter because the automatic out Inge is up at the plate.

Booyah!!!