Grilli: Too many Tigers cliques
Posted: Tuesday May 20, 2008 07:06AM ET
Reliever Jason Grilli, released last month after spending the previous three years in the organization, attributes the Tigers' struggles to a lack of cohesion and too many cliques. The Tigers managed to show team unity one game last weekend when they took Edgar Renteria's suggestion and hiked up their socks, even playing music before the game. The Tigers won. Yet instead of repeating the ritual the next day, Ordonez and left fielder Marcus Thames played with their pants low, and the music was off. "It seems like they kind of broke up our team chemistry when they got rid of Sean Casey and good people like that," says Grilli, now with the Rockies. "You wanted guys like that around. You wanted a guy like Inge playing behind you, knowing he would go through a brick wall."
Jim Leyland, AP
Comments (33)
People aren't machines. You need a variety of personalities to build a team running across a wide gamut of styles but all pushing toward the right goal.
This is why guys like Kevin Millar and Trot Nixon find jobs....
ghostofthebabe | 05/20/08, 07:25 AM
Report Offensive Commentanother lame story about the same lame dumbrowskis.hire a dietician and cut the fatties.
imsjry2 | 05/20/08, 07:31 AM
Report Offensive CommentWas Grilli part of the "I'll throw away a good lead in the 7th" clique?
biminator | 05/20/08, 08:15 AM
Report Offensive CommentSame thing I have said since they got rid of the role / team players and paid out the big bucks for big names. The chemistry is gone. Team unity is something you cannot put a dollar amount on. Heart, desire and intensity - priceless.
wlvrine | 05/20/08, 08:17 AM
Report Offensive CommentJFKJR, what's this deal with Page 1. Is it some kind of ritual to be the first in the line in Kindergarten?
biminator | 05/20/08, 08:21 AM
Report Offensive CommentIt's a strange world when Grilli is giving advice on why the tigers are having problems. I think anyone that looks at this team knows they aren't playing like one. If they were they might have not been so easly destroyed by everyone lately...
A Fact | 05/20/08, 08:26 AM
Report Offensive CommentYou might consider that the Tigers' defense is atrocious. Which hampers their already-overrated pitching.
Tell it like it is | 05/20/08, 09:29 AM
Report Offensive CommentJFKJR is mimicking some old schtick originally used by a cat who used to post out here. A Good-looking Man or AGLM, if you will.
Space Ace | 05/20/08, 09:42 AM
Report Offensive CommentWas Grilli part of the "I'll throw away a good lead in the 7th" clique?
biminator | 05/20/08, 08:15 AM
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That's a webgem ****!
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 09:57 AM
Report Offensive CommentAce:
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Me? I just think our esteemed colleague from Mass is just too inebriated to think for himself this morning.
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 09:58 AM
Report Offensive CommentTruth:
I believe he's beating cyclone survivors in the streets of Myanmar.
Space Ace | 05/20/08, 10:26 AM
Report Offensive CommentAce:
Well, at least he's not long in Hyannis. Lets say Teddy K didn't have a seizure and leave it at that ok?
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 10:51 AM
Report Offensive CommentBy the way Ace...what kinda MPG you gettin' in that sumbitch these days?
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 10:52 AM
Report Offensive Commentthe team needs less cliques and more blow up dolls
I Like Turtles | 05/20/08, 11:09 AM
Report Offensive CommentSomething tells me with Leyland's patience level the next "Click" we hear about will be the police report detailing how he snapped that .38 shut and made her whirl!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 11:17 AM
Report Offensive CommentWell Truth, since I dropped a new transmogrifier in it, let's just say I'm paying a helluva gas-guzzler tax.
Space Ace | 05/20/08, 12:37 PM
Report Offensive CommentWith your connections? I'm surprised you have to pay tax. I guess schtooping that Shake's broad was NOT really worth it?
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 12:39 PM
Report Offensive CommentWith your connections? I'm surprised you have to pay tax. I guess schtooping that Shake's broad was NOT really worth it?
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 12:40 PM
Report Offensive CommentI'm not payin' cash.
It's taken out in trade.
Space Ace | 05/20/08, 12:52 PM
Report Offensive CommentI'm sorta afraid to even ask...
THE TRUTH | 05/20/08, 01:05 PM
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