Jim Leyland is expected to make an announcement later today to officially name Carlos Guillen as DH. Can't say I am surprised by this at all and once the Tigers started courting Damon it was basically a foregone conclusion that we had seen the last of Carlos roaming the field. And I'm kinda sad. Watching Guillen limp around with two bad hammies for the last few years has become a Tiger pastime. But taking on this role should help Guillen get healthy once again and dude still has plenty of pop left in his bat from both sides of the plate. He can also still be used at any position on the field in an emergency situation. Not to mention he has been "My Tiger" before people used to state who their Tiger was and he delivered one of the most memorable moments in recent Tiger's history with his walk off jack at 3:30 in the morning against the Yankees.
Will somebody please cue "Cool & The Gang" cause its time to Celebrate!
This song will forever be synonymous with Detroit sports success for me. I remember tuning the radio to 97.1 the ticket the day after the Lions beat the Skins for their first victory in over a year and they were just rocking out to this all morning. It was like we won the Superbowl. Loved every second of it.
I was at that game. Got to the park at 5:00pm to watch bp. Got back to E.L. at 5am. Long night for this yankee fan.
ReplyDeleteWas probably my favorite memory of 190 Kedzie.
ReplyDelete"it's 2:30 in the morning and we got our shirts off"