illustrations by Samara Pearlstein
As I first saw on No Run Support, this happened:
BUT THERE WERE NO PHOTOS OF THIS. None. I mean… look. You can’t throw that out there, media, and then not give us an image to go with it. You just can’t. It’s cruel.
So there you go. I inferred the socks.
Then there was this:
Newest candidate for cutest dog in camp: Victor Martinez’s little furry whatever.
My guess is a Shih Tzu.
Tom Gage/Detroit News
and there haven’t been any photos of this either! SHOW US THE DOG. Ugh. For lack of an actual photograph, here’s a Terrible Cartoon guess.
Just a random Brad Penny:
And also this:
Roar of the Tigers 
These are all amazing
but the fur bush takes the cake
I’m glad you chose the kid-friendly Charlie image, too. He could give Rogo some real ammunition this year!
I will admit that was not my first thought, but I can’t really post my first thought on here. I figure everyone else on the internet will be making those jokes if he makes it up to Detroit this season, I’ve gotta take a different angle. :)
No picture of VMart’s dog, but the Freep has a pic of Justin Verlander cuddling Inge’s puppy :) http://bit.ly/dTkRet
Oh. My. JV all cuddly and fuzzy, not staring the death stare??? Love, love it.
hahaha!! I never even thought to suggest a cartoon of that tweet. awesome. thanks for the link.
What the… Inge even wears his socks up WHEN HE’S WALKING THE DAMN DOG!!! (Also, I could be wrong, but isn’t that the St. Bernard puppy we saw earlier with Brad Penny?)
According to The Detroit News:
Why am I having so many problems with HTML these days? I meant to link this article:
http://detnews.com/article/20110121/SPORTS0104/101210398/Brandon-Inge-will-hit-better-in-2011–Tigers-coach-predicts
Yes, if you look at the Verlander-snuggler, and then at photos of Pickens’ Diego, you can see that they have different muzzle patterns. Different dogs. But this makes FOUR St. Bernards in the Tigers family, so I don’t know what the heck is going on.
I <3 Charlie Furbush. Total justice right there.
Thank you Sam, for giving us a must-have visual for Leyland in bike shorts and shaving cream. Thank you to Alli for sharing the news, I read it there too, and immediately felt the same need to SEE IT. Luckily for us, we have Cartoon version, because I think the real deal might make me a bit queasy.
You don’t know… if you saw it, you might like it! ~insert creepy eyebrow wiggle here~
oh I want more pictures of players and dogs or at least cartoons of players and dogs. Like Avila’s will be like a bulldog with a dark muzzle…okay Sam – draw!
I literally almost choked on a soda when this page loaded. Wow. I guess I should be doubly glad there are no photos… because a) there are no photos, and b) it means we got that cartoon.
Ya’know, I think I prefer Cartoon Shirtless Leyland over Photo Shirtless Leyland…
As far as the puppies go, I am equally floored by the cuteness of cartoons and photos.