Tigers

[donmac1203]

Tigers are going to the playoffs this year!

[gyb13]

hi don and welcome to NetShrine. when you have a chance, head on over to the icebreakers forum and tell us more about yourself.

also, please read the posting protocols for each forum. this thread should be in Seventh Inning Stretch, not in Active Player News, Analysis, & Commentary

happy posting!

[Skip]

Welcome from me too, donmac. Would you like to present any evidence to support your claim?

[KCBOOMER]

You are talking about the Tigers of the Japanese League right??

[Jim Rice]

Tigers are going to the playoffs this year!

Absolutely...assuming you mean the LSU Tigers. Should be a great bowl game.

Didn't there used to be a major league team named the Tigers too? I wonder whatever happened to them...

[WiredTiger]

The one thing the Tigers have going for them is that the AL Central is the weakest of divisions. They won't challenge next year or even the year after but they could challenge in 2006. After next year they will be rid of a lot of salaries that have been killing them.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

Absolutely...assuming you mean the LSU Tigers. Should be a great bowl game.

Didn't there used to be a major league team named the Tigers too? I wonder whatever happened to them...


Which manager was it who asked, "Brooklyn? Are they still in the National League?", right before the Dodgers won the pennant?

Not only the Tigers, but the D-Rays too are still in the American League -- with a ballpark and uniforms and everything!

[sweaver]

That was 1938, I believe, and the Dodgers didn't win the pennant, but beat the Giants in a key series to cost them the pennant.

[jvonbokel]

The one thing the Tigers have going for them is that the AL Central is the weakest of divisions.

I hate to have to bring this up, but the Tigers are a big part of the reason the AL Central is so weak. Take a look at this thread (http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/showthread.php?t=13076) about divisional strength. FWIW, Cleveland and KC are bringing them down too.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

Found it -- it was Bill Terry, managing the Giants in '34. According to James' Guide to Baseball Managers:

The Giants had won the pennant in 1933, and Bill Terry was confident they would repeat. In a meeting with several members of the press, Terry picked Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Chicago as the teams to beat in '34. "What about Brooklyn?" asked a reporter.

"Brooklyn?" said Terry. "Is Brooklyn still in the league?"

The Giants played well and had a 5 game lead with three weeks to play. With 4 games left to play. they still led by 2 1/2.

They lost the last two games, at home, to Brooklyn, giving St. Louis the pennant.

What does this have to do with the Tigers? Not much. But the fact remains that, since 1995, the team with the best record in baseball has won the World Series exactly once, that being the '98 Yanks.

And of the top 16 teams in those 9 seasons (based on W-L%), only two have won it all, and only 5 have won their league pennants, while 11 of those 16 top teams have failed to make it to the World Series at all.

There are no teams in baseball that are locks to make the playoffs, and that includes the Yanks, Red Sox, A's, Braves and Giants. And there are no teams in baseball that are locks NOT to make the playoffs, including the D-Rays, Indians, Brewers and Tigers.

[Craig S.]

And there are no teams in baseball that are locks NOT to make the playoffs, including the D-Rays, Indians, Brewers and Tigers.

True, but I'd still give heavy betting odds on any of them. I think that for the Tigers, hope only springs until mid-April, not eternally.