detsports.net revival

Maybe I will revive this site?

The Lions need to hire an experienced head coach, NOT an up and coming coordinator. And Mike Shanahan from the Broncos just got canned.

Pistons are finally rolling, but it’s time for Rip to come off the bench.

I think I may be starting to get into the Wings a bit now, but just a bit.

What on God’s green earth are the Tigers doing this off-season? It makes no sense, at all. Dombrowski had a few good years with lucky moves, gets slapped with a genius label and a can-do-no-wronger and now he’s making a fool out of himself with the moves he’s made the past two years. I’ll break it down later.

Even though they lost the Big Ten opener, I’m totally pumped about Michigan basketball this year. And the Spartans are looking great too. How sweet of a matchup will those two be this year, and they only meet once in the regular season.

Why the hell don’t the Lions go after Brett Farve?

What would it hurt to get Brett Farve? Reports say that the Jet’s are willing to trade a 4th round pick for the HOF’er. Just a fourth rounder?

Why don’t the Lions take a stab at it? Offer a 3rd rounder, or hey, even their number one pick for him. Farve would sell tickets for the Fords and we’d all love him like Barry. Millen would blow the pick anyway.

Pistons possible starting lineups

Writing my posts tonight from the blackberry, in the lazy boy, watching the Tigers down in the basement. Sweet!

Possible Pistons starting lineups? You know Michael Curry’s going with a new starting lineup right? You know Joe D is the head assistant coach this year, right? I’m telling you there will be a new starting lineup this year.

I’ve been making lineups in my head lately – here are some I’ve come up with:

1 – Stuckey
2 – Billups
3 – Hamilton
4 – Prince
5 – Wallace

1 – Stuckey
2 – Billups
3 – Hamilton
4 – Maxiell
5 – Brown
(Prince 6th man)

1 – Billups
2 – Afflalo
3 – Prince
4 – Maxiell
5 – Wallace
(Stuckey/Hamilton super backcourt subs)

I’ll add more later, you make up your own!

RIP 2008 Tigers

You know, it’s alright! I can now watch the games for fun, without stressing over the playoffs. You know, like what we’re all used to, like the good old days of sucking every year.

Still love you Tigers! At least put on a great home run fireworks show for the end of the summer. Powertrain, you got it in you for another hot streak?

Pudge Traded For Farnsworth? Are You F-ing Kidding Me?

I just can’t believe this trade.  I’m so pissed right now.  Pudge was having an awesome year, batting .295 and catching a great game as usual. He’s a hall-of-famer still  in the back-end of his prime. And to trade him for Kyle Farnsworth? Dombroski said that Inge is the new #1 everyday catcher and will be next year. Why? An absolutely horrible, stupid move that seriously pisses me off.

Big Ten Network – Comcast Near Deal

I’m kind of disappointed. I liked being the only one I knew who had BTN. I could have charged an entrance fee to my basement last year for Michigan football games. Now, I just won’t feel as special.

Blown away by Tiger Woods

Short post tonight as I’m out by the campfire, but I’ll exand on this tomorrow.

Tiger’s victory today was one of the greatest golf championships in the history of the PGA.

Tiger says his knee may be worse. Tiger was quoted as saying he is going to rest indefintely and he also said that he was glad the US Open was over because he didn’t feel like playing anymore.

What else can Tiger do? Obviously go after Jack’s majors career wins record. But what about his knee? Does it matter? What’s the next tournament?

The thing is, Tiger is now cemented as one of top three greatest athletes in the histpry of the modern sports era, and you could make a case for him being number one.

But is this a case of a dominant athlete playing a sport with lesser competition? What if Tiger had tried baseball or basketball or football? How does Tiger match up compared to those athletes in “tougher” or more athletic sports? What if Michael Jordan or Ted Williams or Joe Montana had concentrated on golf from an early age?

As it stands though, Tiger is the most dominating athlete ever in his sport. It feels like I’m watching history that will be talked about for years with each major he wins. This one was the most dramatic and may be the most talked about since his breakout huge Masters win in his early few years on the tour.

Hey Tigers, Now’s The Time For a Win Streak!

Tigers, listen up.  You’ve got a serious chance to save your season.  You gotta go on a little 6 game winning streak, starting Friday night against the Tribe.  That’s not too much to ask, is it?  I bet over the course of history, every team that has made the playoffs has at least one 6 game win streak over the course of the 162 game season.

Here’s why you need to go on this 6 game streak NOW.  As of tonight, June 5th, on your day off, you’re sitting at 8.5 games back of the White Sox for first place in the Central.  You’re 24-35, Chicago is 32-26.  Also ahead of you is Cleveland, at 27-32.  Your next opponents?  Indians and Sox.

Let’s say you sweep the Tribe to open the 6 game win streak.  That puts you at 27-35, tied with Cleveland.  You carry the momentum and sweep the White Sox, and now you’re 30-35, and probably about 4-6 games out of first, depending on how Minnesota plays this next week.  You’d be right back in it, and feeling good about making a run.

How ’bout it Tigers?  I’ll be watching, and I’ll be drinking beer out of my lucky blue Tigers glass.  I rode that glass all the way to the World Series in 2006, when I didn’t drink out of it and you lost.  I haven’t used it this year, but maybe it’s time.

Let’s go Tigers!  We still believe!  Let’s do it now!

The Decrease In Support of The New Generation Of Red Wings

Congrats Red Wings on winning the Cup!  They completely dominated the regular season and playoffs in beating Pittsburgh in 6.  With the previous Wings titles, though, it was true Hockey Town pandemonium.  It’s all anyone cared about or talked about around this time.  The Pistons were just starting to get good again back then, and the Tigers were suffering through their annual bout of awfulness. 

I remember going to a B-Dubs in 2001 when the Pistons had Chucky Atkins and Jerry Stackhouse, and Ben Wallace was playing his first season there, and they had won 50 games.  It was the final Game 5 of the first round for the Pistons (this was before the league extended first round games to 7), I think against the Celtics (ironically).  And it was Game 2 of the opening round playoffs for the Red Wings. 

I was pumped to watch the Pistons because it would have been their first playoff series win in a long time.  But at the bar, they only had the Pistons game going on a small TV in a corner; all the big screens, and even all the rest of the smaller TVs had the Wings.  It ended up being a hell of a game for the Pistons, as they came up with the victory, although I would’ve enjoyed it much better if they would have put it up in front.

This year, the Red Wings had trouble filling the Joe during the regular season, and even for the playoffs, while the Pistons sold out every game and captured most people’s attention.  I was really hoping the Wings would hold off the Penguins in Game 5 so they could win it in front of the home crowd and generate more excitement around here.  But what is it about the new generation of Red Wings?  Is it just not the same without The Captain, Stevie Y?  Do we not relate as much to this high-finesse team as we did the old rough and tumble, knock-your-teeth-out-to-beat-you teams of the past?  I have to say, it was great seeing Darren McCarty flash that toothless grin as he talked about how it felt to win his fourth cup.

Response To Potential Nuggets-Pistons Trade

There was an interesting article in hoopsworld.com about the Pistons and Nuggets possibly working together for a trade.  The author suggested that the Pistons would trade Billups, Wallace, and Antonio McDyess for AI, Marcus Camby and Kleiza.  He even went so far as to suggest that the Pistons would even trade Billups for a package involving Marcus Camby (oh - Billups is a hometown Denver guy – what a great fit!).  My response: you must be crazy.

First of all, we’re talking about players on the Pistons who have won a title and made the Eastern Conference finals for 6 straight seasons.  We’re talking about multi-year All-Stars here.  Joe D isn’t stupid.  You’re not going to get pennies on the dollar here.  Yes, everybody’s on the block but Joe won’t trade just to trade.

Let’s break this proposal down for a second.  Alright – AI for Billups.  Possibly.  But Joe has already come close to trading for Iverson but hasn’t pulled the trigger.  AI is 33, dribbles too much to be paired with Rip in the backcourt and would take minutes away from Stuckey.  Next – Wallace for Camby: are you kidding me?  Please, you’re wasting our time here.  Wallace is as good as Camby defensively and he’s younger and way better of a scorer.  If you’re a Nuggets fan I could see why this trade proposal would excite you, but from our end, there’s no way.  We’d just as soon keep him and have that $13mil+ salary come off the books next year.  And finally, McDyess for Kleiza.  Again, this is silly.  McDyess is the perfect teammate, has a very reasonable salary and was often the hardest working and best player the Pistons had this postseason.  He’s the perfect veteren big man to come off the bench, so he’s actually far down the list of players we want to deal.  Kleiza?

The only way that Joe would pull the trigger on something involving the Nuggets is to get Carmello Anthony in the package.  Either with AI or without him.  Then we’d talk.  But until then, that’s just a pipedream.