Comments on: Top 20 Outfielders, 2012 Fantasy Baseball

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:05:45 +0000

Ha… Would’ve liked to see one of those champagne glass towers balanced on his head…

By: Wake Up

Wake Up — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:01:45 +0000

Who knew Miggy’s triple crown came with three funnels on top to catch and chug all the champagne flying around in there…

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:55:08 +0000

Ha! It’s like you’re beating the Yankees Ferrari with a Detroit-made Fairlane…

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:18:20 +0000

@Grey, To those of us long-time Tigers fans, “Go Get ‘Em Tigers!!” is a fond throw-back song, circa 1968. The fact that it’s irritatating and sounds like it should be played on an ol’ Victorola is even sweeter!!! Sort of like our answer to “New York, New York” to rub in a four-game sweep.

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:44:54 +0000

Nah, I’m with you… Bring out Gordy’s rolodex!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:35:20 +0000

@Grey, I may be doing ol’ Artie a disservice, but it’s Detroit for crying out loud!

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:29:45 +0000

Ha! I could use it as a bed spread…

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:29:16 +0000

But Reggie did it in an All-Star Game!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:28:30 +0000

@Grey, In the story I got that version of the photo from, it says that Prince hit a ball into the upper deck of old Tiger Stadium when he was 12…

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:28:27 +0000

Get me the Tidy-Bowl man, stat!

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:28:07 +0000

“Old time feel”… Ha! You don’t say? I wonder if the Great Artie Fields was the even better Bert Fields’ brother…

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:27:14 +0000

@Grey, I could fit in one leg, I reckon.

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:27:00 +0000

Oh, wow… Sounds like it should be played on the ol’ Victorola, but yeah looks to be appropriate (sorta).

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:26:09 +0000

Those Zubaz pants would fit me…

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:24:29 +0000

@royce!, Righto then.

Like Grey said, you have a musical history like Detroit has, of course you go to a jingle writer…

By: royce!

royce! — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:18:03 +0000

@Steve, Huh, weird. The song is called “Go Get ‘Em Tigers”. Here’s an excerpt of the article, which was published last time the Tigers made the WS:

Artie Fields, now 85, was creating advertising music in Detroit for many clients back in 1967 when an ad exec approached him about writing a catchy tune for a local bank promotion. The city was giddy then over a team that wound up falling one game shy of a World Series appearance and wound up winning it all the next year.

“Go Get ‘Em Tigers” has survived the test of time, now in a brand-new medium. Fields himself authorized the popular ditty to be made available as a ringtone in this way, staying at the vanguard of Tigers rally music.

“I used the line ‘Go Get ‘Em Tigers’ — that’s all they gave me,” Fields explained in a recent interview with a Rochester, Mich., audio-production company called LifeTalk that records personal histories. “In two hours, I wrote the lyrics and the song and produced a spot for them. The bank gave away thousands of records.

“I had no idea that it would catch on like it did. Every radio station in town was playing it when they neared the pennant.”

The song became a hot radio play when the Tigers last appeared in the postseason in 1987, and now here it comes again. As ringtones go, it’s not exactly 50 Cent or Jibbs. But that’s what so many Tigers fans love about it. It has that old-time feel, and Fields — who wrote some 9,000 pieces of music (many of which were syndicated nationally) during his career at Artie Fields Productions — always has an answer for those who ask why he hasn’t arranged a contemporary version.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:11:30 +0000

@royce!, What is the song? I get a “you’ve reached this page in error”, uh, error when I hit your link…

By: royce!

royce! — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:09:59 +0000

@Grey, Ha! But apparently that tune is from the late 60s. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061020&content_id=1718667&vkey=ps2006news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Just sounds like it’d only be available on 78.

By: royce!

royce! — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:05:53 +0000

@Steve, That’s the exact image it called to mind. Well played

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:56:26 +0000

@royce!, Seems appropriate to re-post this:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2012/writers/joe_lemire/01/26/cecil.fielder.prince.tigers/prince-dale-g-young-si2.jpg

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:56:12 +0000

I gotta say my favorite part to that video is the background music that was playing at the stadium… You’re Motown, Detroit, and that’s what you play? Did they only have the rights to music from pre-1930?

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:54:16 +0000

If only he would’ve had a proper father figure in his life…

By: royce!

royce! — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:25:19 +0000

@Grey, Here ya go: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c_id=det&content_id=25426019&topic_id=38719830

(Prince catch, not repealing whatever law..)

By: royce!

royce! — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:21:56 +0000

@Grey, Damns, $350? I’m in the wrong business…

Anyhoo, Prince was jumping and violently swinging his arms, but very much like an excited child. Which is kind of like everything he does.

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:52:39 +0000

Yeah, that’s egregious… I will say that there were probably more weeks of Grandy and A-Rod stats like that than one would be left to believe… Cano has no excuse though… Except in April when he looks lost every year…

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:51:36 +0000

They just need to trust Valverde one time and it will leave a wedge for the Giants or Cards to get through…

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:51:05 +0000

What happened with Prince? I missed it, was at the eye doctor… California is such a BS state with needing an eye exam every year if you want contacts… This is what they’re concerned with? You’re an attorney, can’t you repeal this or something? Shizz just cost me $350…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:44:10 +0000

@Steve, From someone on Twitter:

Postseason numbers: Cano 3-for-40 (.075); Granderson 3-for-30 (.100); Swisher 5-for-30 (.166); A-Rod 3-for-25 (.120).

I’m not saying I could do any better, but that’s not very good.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:38:10 +0000

@Grey, Man, what a rogering. The Giants/Cards will be tough to beat, no doubt, but if that ‘pen keeps doing it’s thing the Tigers look awfully well balanced.

By: royce!

royce! — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:36:40 +0000

The way Prince called that last out was adorable.

Also, poor Ichiro. Sorta.