Tigers sweep the Cubs!

[LisaM]

Of course, as I understand it, the Cubs are actually more deserving to win because they draw well on the road, or something like that. I guess Leyland didn't get the memo.


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[1gobluedem]

1. This is why you have to love the Tigers

Magglio Ordonez has been going through a slump. On many teams the fans would have been all over his case; how could one of their big guns be doing so poorly? They'd boo him when he struck out or didn't get a hit. But the Detroit fans have backed Maggs solidly all the way, wanting him to do well as much or more than he did. When he hit a homer today, the place went crazy.

Same when Dontrelle Willis, whose huge salary is a major drain considering his issues, finally pitched a solid game. He got a standing ovation and said later that he's never had fan support like that anywhere.

That's why you have to love the Tigers. Or why I do at any rate.

[cboy4]

4. ...

:spray:

[inthebrain]

2. Who's to say it really happened?

That so called East Coast bias and all.

[cboy4]

3. It's about time a "lunch box" city won. The Tigers have so many odds

stacked against them because -- :eyes:

(Fill in the blanks LisaM)

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Incidentally, I know in the past you've bragged about how the fans support the Tigers through thick and thin.

But if you take a look, and their average attendance was helped over the past few days thanks to all of the Cubs fans who made the trip over, its' not particularly impressive considering Detroit's record.

In fact, the Tigers are drawing thousands and thousands fewer than the San Francisco Giants!!! :wow:


YANKEES

PHILLIES

DODGERS

ANGELS

CARDINALS

CUBS

METS

RED SOX

BREWERS

GIANTS (34,604)

TIGERS (29,837)

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[inthebrain]

5. You really have nothing to offer

Why not just post that as your sig.

It's embarassing. You really don't no jeck about what goes on on the field. You're more interested in what goes on in the stands.

People that follow sports and really interested in the game don't give a rats ass about attendance and shit. That's for bandwagon jumpers.

[Forkboy]

6. I'd be so embarrassed to post something like that it's not even funny.

So people have no self respect and are just attention whores though.

[cboy4]

7. Oh come on. LisaM doesn't deserve to hear that coming from you.

[LisaM]

11. Ha ha ha ha ha

I remember when the Tigers went on the road to the Cubs in 2006 and the place was SWARMING with Tigers' fans. It was eerie. I watched it on TV - fantastic.

[Forkboy]

13. The dude just equated his using attendance numbers to fighting torture!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

He's starting to make LoZoccolo's threads look well thought out and reasoned. :rofl:

[cboy4]

18. Oh please Lisa. Of course Wrigley would have been swarming with

Tigers fans in 2006!! LOL

That was the year Detroit finished 95-67, while the Cubs finished a paper sack over the head-like 66-96!

All of the bandwagon jumpers were coming out of the wood work.

There are always wayyyyyy more SF fans at Dodger Stadium when the Giants are playing well and the Dodgers are playing bad, than vice versa.

So your example, with all due respect, doesn't hold up.

[LisaM]

22. Let me get this straight. If a WINNING team draws well on the road

it doesn't count?

:argh:


Are you in some kind of betting pool that tracks baseball attendance?

[Forkboy]

23. It's a pool of two.

Sort of like this one.

[cboy4]

27. Yawn. That joke has already been used, only I believe a photo of a

bathtub was used before.

I guess if you're forced to recycle material, you might as well change around a couple words here and there.

[Forkboy]

28. OK. Carlin, Hicks and Izzard could sire an army of offspring,

...and not one would ever come up with something as funny as equating your bringing up attendance as being on par with speaking out about torture.

"You know, the Democrats constantly point out torture, and are in fact, also

constantly being accused by the torture lovers of being a one note wonder.

Point being, the Democrats are right doing so, no matter what the slime ball Republicans have to say and how often they complain.

Right is right.

Facts are facts.

Nothing wrong with spelling out the truth .. early and often."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[madinmaryland]

29. What the fuck?? Have you been recycling this...

Now I know who stole my fucking cell phone!

Douche!

[cboy4]

33. What a fucking stalker

[madinmaryland]

34. Apparently we'll hear about that on Fox News...

:shrug:

[cboy4]

25. LOL. You were insinuating that the Tigers have the same kind of

following on the road as the Chicago Cubs, when the truth is no teams other than the Yankees and Red Sox compare to the number of Cubs fans who show up on the road.

(The Braves used to when the were on TBS all the time).

"It was eeerie." :rofl:

The reason there were so many Tigers fans that year, was the Tigers were good and Chicago sucked ass.

Come on now Lisa. I know baseball.

[Forkboy]

12. Fight the Power!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[cboy4]

8. Uh-huh.

Remind me again how much the Mets are spending on payroll, yet are tied for second to last in the National League in homers!!?

There's no telling how many more games behind the Wild Card-leading SF Giants you guys would be without Wright and Beltran!!11

[inthebrain]

9. Beltran is out

Their Payroll is nearly cut in half.

Their still in race.

Frisco sucks so you may as well get used to it. Have fun finishing the season in the bottom third of the league once again.

We'll make it 56 years and no WS for the Frisco Small Men.

[cboy4]

10. Why do you keep calling the Giants "Frisco"?

[LisaM]

14. Why not?

Nothing else in this thread makes sense. Why not talk like a 50's beat poet who sidelines as a longshoreman on Cannery Row?

[madinmaryland]

15. Hey Frisco Kid, what's up?

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[hughee99]

30. Second to last?

Who's the last place team?

[madinmaryland]

16. When was the last time the Tigers won a world series???

Was it 55 years ago?

:rofl:

[LisaM]

17. Nice try, but it was 1984

Too long ago in my book!

[madinmaryland]

19. I was pointing that fact out to cboy. But he seems to be a bit hung up on counting

people in the stands.

That was a hell of squad in 84. Black-Jack McDowell if I remember correctly.

[Upton]

21. Hey sports fan

Jack McDowell never pitched for the Tigers...you're thinking of Jack Morris.

[madinmaryland]

26. Thanks! I didn't review my internets. I was over in GD, trying

to tell your racist little friend to stop dancing on the grave of an AA.

STFU, upton.

[Upton]

31. Whatever mad

but I don't have any racist friends.....though I did notice you managed once again to inject your hatred of Barry Bonds into a debate that has nothing to do with him.

[inthebrain]

20. He was poking fun at crazy Cboy

He likes to gander at the people in the stance and check the safe at the end of each game.

[1gobluedem]

35. Include population figures there too, why don't you

I think maybe, just maybe the largest city in the US might have the largest number of fans for their teams. Tigers have traditionally drawn well, win or lose, in a beleauguered city that's lost half its population in the last forty years, and, incidentally, has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Today they won their sixth game in a row, they swept the Cubs, their fans were thrilled to see Maggs break out of his slump and all you can do is spout attendance statistics like they have *anything* to do with it.

I'm starting to wonder if you really get sports at all. :crazy:

[inthebrain]

36. Don't pay em no mind

[Forkboy]

37. Dammit, the man is fighting the injustices of this world, and you mock him?!!1111!

Don't you know getting those attendance numbers to the masses is right up there with fighting torture???!!111!!! :wtf:

[cboy4]

38. Oh here we go again with the everyone should feel sorry for Detroit because

of the unemployment rate, blah blah blah. :eyes:

Are we going to factor in the Silicon Valley dot.com bust?
Are we going to factor in how the Bay Area is far more expensive than Detroit to live?

Come on now

[1gobluedem]

39. Show me where I asked people to feel sorry for Detroit

If you're going to spout attendance statistics you need to know your demographics.

Edited to add that if you can afford to live in San Francisco, you can afford to buy tickets to a baseball game.

[cboy4]

41. Lunch bucket city! We deserve the T=Giving game because Detroit has

been through so much.

Come on now. LOL

[1gobluedem]

42. SHOW ME WHERE I SAID IT [yelling on purpose]

I do not use those words in this thread. I thought we were talking about baseball. Detroit has a good team and a smaller population than all the cities you list with the exception of Milwaukee. And the highest unemployment rate in the country. So, their crowds will not be as big as those in bigger cities. But they're pretty damn good.

What don't you get and why are you putting words in my mouth, or on my computer screen? I never said that. In previous threads I've asked why everyone was so down on the Wings when Detroit is already suffering so much. And nobody who was could answer me except to imply that they've won enough and it's someone else's turn. You claim everything is about winning and attendance figures then blast a team that is a perennial winner. That doesn't make sense.

[Forkboy]

43. Cboy is so desperate for attention he doesn't care if he gets it by being a walking contradiction.

Just sit back and enjoy the show. He's a Sociologist's wet dream. :)

[inthebrain]

44. That dude is like a walking train wreck

You know you shouldn't look.

You don't want to look.

You just can't help yourself and you look anyways.

[madinmaryland]

40. You just lost that argument BIG TIME, LOSER. Whenever someone says..

"blah blah blah", they have lost the argument.

[LisaM]

45. This is my favorite thread EVER

because for two whole days we can remind everyone that the Tigers swept the Cubs!

Not to mention for its various other amusements.

Is it time to switch back to my Lions avatar yet?