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A Summer Redoux: Michigan Sports Blog of the Week

by IwoCPO on 07/14/07 at 12:10 PM ET
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How about that Dive fans?  A little French in the post title for you.  Like that don’t you? 

So last year, when the summer got long and the heat was so oppressive that we begged Ken Holland (we? I meant “I") to sign Gerber, Carter and Peca; we started a little diddy here that we like to call the Michigan Sports Blog of the Week.  Unfortunately, I initiated that endeavor just before I fell off the face of the earth and eventually re-surfaced under the flag of the The Emperor. 

But we’re bringing it back with a vengeance brother.  And this week we re-introduce that feature with Mack Avenue Tigers.

Now all you bandwagon Tiger fans out there, you should still feel ashamed for pointing and laughing at them for twenty years before you jumped back aboard last summer.  I know that I kept the faith every year, never losing hope and consistently checking the box scores every day even when 25 games below .500 or worse.

Really?  No. I’m the worst Tiger BW’er out there and I readily admit it.  And since I climbed back on last year, I’ve been perusing the Tiger blogs and found Mack Avenue to be one of the better ones.  Why?  Same criteria:  sarcasm.

Visit Mack Avenue and you’ll find something like this.

Uncle Nando, Zoomer, throw

Joel Zumaya and Fernando Rodney played a short game of catch Thursday. (Strange term when you think about it. Who wins catch?)

Real quote (in Det News):

Zumaya: “I’m a little pumped. I can’t get too excited. But I’m actually really excited. I slept with my glove last night. I knew I was throwing. But I didn’t really sleep at all. The glove was with me all day in the plane and all last night in the bed.”

My imagination:
Zumaya: yay catch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! will you play catch with me, ‘Nando?
Fernando Rodney: I dunno kid, my arm kinda hurts
Zoomer: Pweeeeeeeeas Uncle ‘Nando?
Rodney: Well, OK, but only briefly.
Zoomer: YAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Nicknames, fictional dialogue, sarcasm...all up my alley.  Aside from the humor, Mack Avenue has plenty of content and analysis.  Head to their About Me page and you’ll see the author works out of Marquette.  Oddly enough, that happens to be the last city I called home in Michigan before the stringent academic standards at Northern forced me into The World’s Strongest Navy.

Good site.  Good stuff.  Go Tigers.  Really.

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Northern. Where the “N” stands for ‘nowledge!

Thanks for noticing the blog!

-Kurt

Posted by Kurt from Marquette on 07/14/07 at 01:37 PM ET

Thanks for the heads up. Been looking for a good Tigers blog to keep up with things until I get back to Detroit. I miss being able to see them everyday.

Still kills me to know that they play in that ridiculous pile of trash stadium instead of that beautiful park they deserted.

Posted by Thomas on 07/15/07 at 01:40 AM ET

You should have watched them.  The 2003 season alone serves as a vaccination against all other displays of bad, bad sports teams.

(Although it kills me to thank Minnesota for letting the Tigers take enough games at the end of the season to avoid the loss record, since I have been holding a minor grudge against the Twinkies since 1987.)

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/15/07 at 10:24 AM ET

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