Comments on: Frank Tanana

By: nunyer

nunyer — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:08:35 +0000

I wasn’t old enough to have seen Tanana play during his fireballer days… But I have fond memories of his soft tossing lefty junk throwing antics during his days at a hometown Tiger. Along with Walt Terrell, a relative soft tosser as well as far as right handers are concerned… The mid-80s Tigers had two starters that completely embodied the baseball colloquialism of “serviceable”. They both always managed to eat innings and keep the Tigers in games… never pitching brilliantly but never seeming to get blown out… and both were pretty much guarenteed to hang one breaking ball per start that would lead to a mammoth opposition home run.

By: bobabooie

bobabooie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:28:10 +0000

To all who remember……Tanana and Ryan then two days of cryin’.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:07:30 +0000

20. 19: Thanks for jumping through the hoops of registering to tell me that, Rndng3rd. Much appreciated!

By: Rndng3rd

Rndng3rd — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:25:43 +0000

19. I went through all of the relative nuisance of registering just so I could say this: That was brilliant. And thank you for turning me on to the fact that there is a fourth Henry Wiggen story; I hadn't known! But your Wiggen was dead on. Bravo!

By: sly jones

sly jones — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:25:59 +0000

18. That was beautiful. No matter what Bake McBride says, you have not lost the heat.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:50:59 +0000

17. 1. Posted by Josh Wilker
Thanks a lot for the praise, Catfish and Linkmeister. It means a lot.

I just wanted to also say that criticism, such as what scareduck offered (unless, as Linkmeister suggested, scareduck’s comment was sarcastic), is welcome here, and I’m hoping that if such criticism is disagreed with the disagreement can be voiced without showing disrespect to the critic. In other words, no voodoo curses allowed! : )

As Henry Wiggen said (in The Southpaw, page 37), “Just to see 2 guys fighting makes me weak.”

(Exception to the no curses allowed rule: Curses are allowed if they involve the targeting of Bucky Dent.)

By: Catfish326

Catfish326 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:05:35 +0000

16. Hats off to a creative soul, who writes because he must, for the sake of writing. No dollars necessary. Just art. For its own sake. Keep up the great work Wilker . . . you rock.

By: Catfish326

Catfish326 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:02:17 +0000

15. Dear Scareduck,

May your bill become infected from polluted water, and your feathers fallout worse than Dr. Phil’s hair. You may now return to your predictable and colorless readings of the pun-pushing scribes that fill the pages at http://www.espn.com.

Sincerely,
Catfish326,

By: Linkmeister

Linkmeister — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:56:26 +0000

14. I think (hope?) our friend scareduck is being sarcastic. This has the idiom down really really well; it's a lovely tribute.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:31:44 +0000

13. 12: Didn’t mean to make anybody feel cheated, just trying to spread some love for the man who gave the world The Southpaw and Bang the Drum Slowly. That said, I probably should have included an intro to Mr. Wiggen’s piece warning that it might only appeal (if to anyone) to those already familiar with his books–and with what his tireless aide Mark Harris referred to as Wiggen’s “ungrammar” (for more on that and other Harris thoughts see http://tinyurl.com/2mvups). I figured that such would be the case but decided to let it slide without comment so as to quickly make way for the Southpaw (Wiggen that is, if not Tanana).