Apr 1st, 2008
Reliever Grilli hopes to avoid being grilled by Tigers fans this …
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Detroit Tigers reliever Jason Grilli has every confidence he will continue to do a good job this season. He just hopes Tigers fans will acknowledge the same thing.
Grilli got off to a rough start last season — he had an ERA of 7.59 in his first 16 outings — and the fans let him hear about it. Even though Grilli turned it around in the second half of the year — he had an ERA of 3.70 in his last 41 appearances — he had a tough time shaking his shaky reputation.
“They have the right, they buy a ticket and they can boo me or cheer me,” Grilli said. “But I obviously wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t doing my job.”
“I think I’ve been pretty consistent, and, hopefully, I can change their tune a little bit as well.”
Manager Jim Leyland said the Tigers need Grilli to have a strong season.
• Friday’s news: The game against the Houston Astros was rained out after one full inning. Magglio Ordonez hit a two-run homer in the top of the inning to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead, but then a steady rain came down and it was called after a 32-minute delay.
• Inge at shortstop: Brandon Inge got his first work at shortstop — even if it was for just one inning — and he could see more action there before the spring is over. “I just want to see what he looks like out there. I know he played it in college,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. “I’ll give the people up there something to talk about and you (reporters) something to write about. You’ll have him the starting shortstop by next week.”
When asked about Inge’s overall athleticism, Leyland said: “Probably the best. For his ability to play as many positions as he can play, he could be the best in the big leagues, I would think.”
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15 Responses to “Reliever Grilli hopes to avoid being grilled by Tigers fans this …”
Fake,The front page of the current BBC website has an article about a woman presenter “getting a fit of the giggles” with regards to an article that is not even funny.If the “C-Bomb” had of been dropped on the Beeb - this would have been reported.
excellent point
Ahaha, you can almost hear the moment when it hits him personally and he looses the nice-boy accent.
Propaganda mouthpiece news site accuses Propaganda mouthpiece radio station of perpetuating propaganda for the Pentagon.Move along, folks.
I don’t know, I think NPR is pretty good about going beyond the sound byte stories we see on syndicated news. I agree that they have been putting out a lot more pop culture crap lately, but it’s still far superior to cable news.That aside, the article takes issue with calling our opponents in Iraq “the enemy”, but I think that’s a far better descriptor than “Al-Qaida” or “terrorists”. From the point of view of a warfighter, anyone who shoots at you is “the enemy”. Those other monikers are more political and less objective.
And the best way to get people to agree with you is to repeatedly insult them.
You know, one more stunt and he might win the Darwin Award.
Helloooo Charlotte Green
he’s just a bad boy and he will be a bad man til he gets killed in prison. what a horrid choice he has made.
You’d think that a brush with death like that might make a person really appreciate life, and want to make something good out of what remains. But in this case, apparently, no.
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If I gave a rat’s ass about sports, I would listen to this guy’s show. That piece was awesome.I think what I like best is that it was about the game, not the players. Kinda seems to me as if he did his advisers proud, elegantly crossing sports and politics. Heck, I’d be proud just to say I knew him, let alone assisted in his education.
They should have tried him for murder in the death of the tiger and the guy who was killed.
If you listen to NPR for anything besides quirky stories about dead instruments… you’re probably misinformed. I heard it used to be good–but it sure sounds like syndicated news these days.