Todd Jones

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:22 am

Oh. I see.
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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:23 am

yeah. its ok i guess.
its quite fun cuz my best friend be in this class.
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Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:26 am

Thats cool.

I am freaking out about going back to school right now...
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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:27 am

Psht. You dont even know. Im in it, its fun!
Seriously though Holl, you need to go to school and get on this when i have a computer accessible in school.
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Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:29 am

haha, yah but you have friends. All my friends have been back to school for ever.
And if I have a computer accessible while I'm in school I will Smile

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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:31 am

Whoo!
And gs should really get on so I can talk to him while im in school.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:32 am

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:33 am

haha. He's at work.... or something, I think.
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Guess what?!? I just learned that next June I get a car Big Smile

When my sister goes to Africa she is giving it to me, until she gets back 2 years later that is.
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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:34 am

Lol.
Well im only one for this time until first sem ends. So after that I dont know what I would do.
In other news: I may be in an internship for a local newspaper for my journalism class. Yay2

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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:35 am

I have no idea what my schedule is for school because I don't get it until like... the first day. That causes problems because I don't know where to go.

Thats cool Big Smile

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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:36 am

Well Im off to history, watching a documentation on 9/11. Its cool.
Ill be on later if I can.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:37 am

Okay. byyye
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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:58 pm

If his career really is done. I have 2 things to say:

He should be inducted to the HOF.

And it was one hell of a rollercoaster ride. I loved every moment of it. It was a great career and any way you look at it, he is one of the greatest closers in the history of baseball. Bottom line.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:39 am

So yeah hes still my favorite Tiger by far, and will be for basically the rest of my life.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:40 am

Oh yeah,

lol

Seriously though, I think they should retire his number, hes done so much for the orginization.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:13 am

Yah well they should retire Matt's number too....
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~ George F. Will

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:13 pm

Watch em trade him.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:08 pm

So yeah, I found his home address, and Im writing a letter and I think Im sending it there this time.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:35 pm

Wow! How'd you do that?
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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:30 am

Just some random thing I found. I could do it for Magglio if you totally wanted...
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:32 am

That would be great,--I just have to write it as though 12 people are also going to read it....because they will be! Frown

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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:33 am

Found it. Ill PM you.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:04 am

CAN YOU GET MATT'S?!?
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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:27 am

Erm. I can try.
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"Contrary to what everybody else thinks, I still think I can come back and help this team."

Todd Jones on shoulder injury.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:45 pm

JAMIE SAMUELSEN'S BLOG
Todd Jones is out, but he should be remembered fondly

September 17, 2008

Jamie Samuelsen, who soon will join the morning show on WRIF-FM (101.1), blogs for freep.com. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers. You can reach him at jamsam22@gmail.com and read more of his opinions at freep.com/jamie.

Do you see any scenario in which Todd Jones and Kenny Rogers return to the Tigers in 2009?

Jones is gone. I don’t see any way that they can bring him back. He was stripped of his job and was awful when he tried to come back. I expect Dave Dombrowski to go after a closer either through free agency or promoting someone from the minors.

Jones leaves as one of the more mistreated Tigers in history. He is the franchise saves leader, which you’d think would deserve some praise or maybe even a “Todd Jones Night” when he retires. But because he gave up some big leads, a lot of fans think he’s the bad guy. Bad call. He cared a ton about the team, the town and winning. He faced the music whenever he messed up, which really wasn’t all that often. And he was a huge (read that word again – HUGE) factor in the 2006 season. He had four saves in four save opportunities in the playoffs and didn’t allow an earned run.

I still think that there’s an outside chance for Rogers to return. Outside of Justin Verlander and Armando Galarraga, it’s not as if the Tigers know who will be in their five-man rotation. If they can determine during the off-season that Rogers was injured in some way, causing him to fall off so dramatically in the second half, maybe he can get a minor league invitation to Lakeland next spring. I doubt if he’ll be a hot commodity on the free-agent market, but then again, you never can have too many left-handers in your rotation.

Both were huge additions here and should be treated as such. Rogers will. Jones won’t. And that’s a crime.

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:08 am

Tigers' Todd Jones to announce retirement

After 16 seasons, 319 saves and approximately 250 columns for Sporting News, Todd Jones is retiring from baseball.

Jones, who writes about his decision to call it quits in the latest issue of Sporting News magazine, is expected to make the announcement Thursday at a news conference in Detroit.

Jones retires as the Tigers' career leader in saves (235) after eight seasons (two separate stints) in Detroit. A first-round pick of the Astros in 1989, Jones spent four seasons in Houston before being traded to the Tigers in December of 1996. He also pitched for the Twins, Rockies, Red Sox, Reds, Phillies and Marlins in his career.

He has been one of the game's most durable pitchers during his career, and he ranks 14th all-time in saves (319) and 15th in appearances (982). Jones pitched more than 60 games in a season 11 times and had six seasons with at least 30 saves. Jones pitched for Team USA in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and for the A.L. All-Star team in 2000.

In Detroit, Jones has been known as a "roller coaster" closer because of his penchant for turning ninth innings into nail-biters for manager Jim Leyland and Tigers fans. In his eight seasons of writing for Sporting News, Jones has been even more reliable, never missing a deadline and putting a waiting editor on a "roller coaster" only a couple of times.

Jones, 40, has spent much of the second half of the 2008 season on the disabled list with a sore shoulder. He told Sporting News he had been pitching with a frayed labrum for some time, but he managed to stay off of the disabled list until July 31. It was just his third trip to the D.L. in his career, the first for an arm injury since 1996.

Jones is retiring from pitching, but not from writing. He plans to continue in his role as a columnist for Sporting News, bringing a player's perspective to issues ranging from clubhouse food spreads to bench-clearing brawls. "I have tried to give fans a look at what it's like from a guy who's passing through the game," Jones said.
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Subject: Re: Todd Jones Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:39 am

Will miss ya, Jonesy.
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There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971

Subject: Re: Todd Jones Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:41 am