Tigers / My weekend, by the numbers
Its Sunday night, and it appears I went to all three Tiger / Athletic baseball games this weekend. For some reason, I felt my hour watching Madmen was time better spent. Saturday’s game was not exciting (until the fireworks later that night in Oakland), and Sunday’s game was not much fun either. In terms of management, I’m still surprised that Leyland went with Ryan Perry over Brandon Lyon in a one run game Sunday.
I’m just going to throw some numbers out there for the weekend series:
- Tiger runs scored (series): 9
- A’s runs scored Sunday: 9
- Raburn home runs (series): 2
- Detroit left fielder errors in the series: 2 (I still think Raburn deserved a second error on his ‘olay’ play on Friday)
- Number of Jason Giambi bobbleheads stolen: 1
- Number of Oakland fans we witnessed being escorted out of the stadium in handcuffs: 1 (surprisingly, on Sunday)
- Number of Oakland fans tasered by Police: 0
- Attendance: Friday (16k), Saturday (25k), Sunday (17k)
- Ticket prices paid for three games: $105 ($35 / ticket)
- Ticket fees paid for three games: $22.50
- Seriously, read the above. They wanted an extra $2.50 for my right to print tickets at home today; to interact with a person (which should cost much much more money to the team) dealing with will call was FREE PICKUP. Anyone not against the Ticketmaster / LiveNation merger should be stoned.
- Number of A’s fans that laughed at my “Do you think Jack Cust will autograph my copy of the Mitchell report?” joke: 0
- Number of A’s fans who know who George Mitchell is: 0
- Sorry, but going to three games in the Oakland Coliseum (including a tailgate and fireworks display) can make you lose all faith in humanity. Raiders games feel more civilized. Much more civilized.
- Number of hits by newcomer Aubrey Huff: 1
- Number of times the letter “F” appears in Huff’s name: 2
- Number of phone calls Huff’s agent has made, mentioning that he’s a free agent and might want to pick up his game: 4,782
- Number of churros ordered by the guy in front of us Friday: 6. Nice Guy. Loved him some churros.
- Number of countries guessed by the woman behind me Sunday, in reference to Fu-Te Ni’s nationality, until I helped her out: 4
- Clete Thomas strikeouts: 7
- Clete Thomas game winning hits: 1
- Number of Detroit victories: 1
I’m frustrated. Hopefully we can all take some solace in this tidbit from John Shea of the SF Chronicle:
The Tigers played the Yankees and Red Sox 13 times. They won the first, lost 11 and won the finale. Justin Verlander got both wins. That shouldn’t bother the Tigers if they reach the playoffs: In 1983, the Phillies lost 11 of 12 to the Dodgers and then beat them in the NLCS.