By The Heckler
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Well, well. Looks as though that World Series parade can wait, eh? The Detroit Tigers — the same Detroit Tigers who had plenty of positive ink spilled in their direction in lieu of off-season acquisitions Miguel Cabrera, Dontrelle Willis and Edgar Renteria — sit tonight at a very unremarkable 0-5 on the year. They remain the only MLB team without a win thus far, and frankly, they’ve accumulated every loss thus far the old fashioned way — they’ve eeeeeeeeeeeearned it.

Whether it be through lack of hitting (manager Jim Leyland has called out the team for “lazy at-bats”) a bullpen already showing its many cracks (please, for the love of Ty Cobb, no more Jason Grilli on this home stand at least, okay God?) or some overall lackadaisical play (Renteria getting doubled-off first on a fly ball to LEFT field) the Tigers have apparently been reading too many of their own headlines. Little do they understand that baseball has filled with teams that were “supposed-to” or were labelled “can’t miss” that didn’t go on to amount to anything more than a lot of talk and badge. Without more consistent effort, not to mention some warmer weather for their Latino-heavy lineup, these Motowners will continue to drop down the charts of early season favorites.

In other news, full marks to the newest Japanese sensation to hit MLB, the Chicago Cubs Kosuke Fukudome. Nothing better than hitting a clutch three-run bomb on opening day to get the Wrigley faithful on one’s side, not to mention equally clutch hitting and overall play since then. Yet another nice story emerging in baseball from the land of rising sun.

Finally, in another quick hit, what’s up with Oakland A’s stopper Huston Street? Yikes. A 12.27 ERA to start the year complete with three taters given up in only 3.1 innings is no way to keep a job, especially with further rumblings that the A’s are looking to unload Rich Harden and begin their rebuilding in full. Can Street be far behind, that is, if anyone will take him?

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