Living On the Diagonal

LIFE IN DETROIT YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE HEART! Have you forgot?   "THOSE DAMN YANKEES "   These days the Tigers are battling the Red Sox, Orioles, Blue Jays and resurgent damn Yankee team for a playoff spot. Detroit is confident of a Championship series in the D!  IAN KINSLER, ONE OF THREE TIGER BATTERS HIT BY ORIOLE PITCHER. KINSLER SUFFERED A CONCUSSION CAUSING HIM TO MISS THREE GAMES. ORIOLES: UNINTENTIONAL (?)   THOSE DAMN YANKEES - 1958 You know Ernie never did! Don't be "a house beside the road" And watch strike three 'Cause now we got the Indians, all the Birds in flight And Sox of every color including Red We can beat 'em in any fight By hitting where they're not 'Cause we got heart!    Link to "Those Damn Yankees" https://youtu.be/Ry8CpIg2fvU  Let's update Detroit  lyrics before we hit a foul YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE HEART You gotta have heart Miles and miles o...

DRAFT - subject to Edit THE DECLINE OF OUR BELOVED DETROIT TIGERS - AUSMUS IS CHIEF CULPRIT September 18, 2016 Detroit Tigers headed into the final two months of the season vying for the Central Division lead trailing the Cleveland Indians by 7 games closing to a mere 2 games behind in recent weeks. With the schedule in their favor, J.D, Martinez and Justin Upton on a slugging terror, a bullpen now competing with the best since the All Star game and the ace Justin Verlander  resurging with the dominance of a Cy Young winner, the Tigers began to play a brand of baseball Seinfeld would only describe as nothing but "bizarro world."   At some point, the crippling element of kryptonite was smuggled into the clubhouse.  The prime suspects with motive and malice would undoubtedly point to  Prince Fielder and Avasail Garcia have seen banishment. This leads to Tiger "super-fans" to deduce that  Brad Ausmus as a ...

"Life is an accumulation of memories. In the end that is all there really is."                                - Mr. Carson of "Downton Abbey" (by Julian Fellows) September 9, 2016 The End of Summer is the Beginning of the Fall  DETROIT - The PARIS of the Midwest What seems like more than a half century in my past, perhaps it was indeed that long ago (after doing the math) I recall how these last days of summer languished into the first days of fall and the dread of returning to school. If you are of a similar age and grew up in a large urban area such as the City of Detroit, you may relate to these critical stages of childhood development in the model of a less complicated world. What I find most prevalent among my memories are the scent, sounds and touch of those hot sunny days  shortened by each rise of the m...