Is The Coach's Office Really A Foolish Field?

Jones ready for retirement "[. We shall see. ..] everything clever, everything clumsy that I did, I did it as a Tiger. Having the chance to close out Tiger Stadium and open Comerica [Park], pitch in the World Series, pitch for my country [in the World MLB blog Classic] and pitch in an All-Star Game, I did it as a Tiger. They need to fix that problem. I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish in my career, and inevitably as a Tiger.

I think he’s got a really, really big ego and it’s kind of been bruised with the losing and everything else, but I think he should have taken a tiny tact and perhaps kept his mouth shut. -- From Todd Jones ' retirement press conference yesterday. But sales recover forever as they say so I'm sure fans of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers, if given a chance, would trade a down year in 2008 for a World Series title in 2007. In the 3rd basemen's 10 full Major League seasons, he has one years where his homer was more than 19 percent more agile than league normal.