Tiger Geist

I’m a bit behind on everything as I’m travelling in India, visiting my sister for the next few weeks.  I snapped some photos of the local little league team practicing at the America Embassy in New Delhi.  I’m very excited about the Detroit Independent Baseball Scribes’ awards that were released last week, and I want to thank Kurt at MackAvenue Tigers for re-spearheading the effort on that.  Please go here for more info.

Detroit released their spring training schedule this week.  Now’s the time to look through it to see if there are any stadiums / areas you want to check out.  One of my off-season goals is to setup some sort of Tiger spring training travel section on this site.  Doubtful it’ll happen, but its a goal.

The schedule is pretty straight forward, but here’s some areas of interest:

• No games against Boston, Minnesota, Florida, or St Louis.
• Out of 33 Grapefruit league games (not including Milwaukee), only two are on the east side of Florida.
• Four split squad games.
• 16 games are in Lakeland
• All the games in Lakeland and 11 of the 17 road games (44 games total) are within 70 miles of Tampa.  Its a good mid-point for a spring trip.

My big goal this spring was to hit the east side of Florida;  the schedule doesn’t look too promising.