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Why, of course he is: he's a blogger!

Perhaps set to become baseball's Gilbert Arenas (minus the swag), Tigers CF Granderson has a personal blog set up at MLB Blogs.

A sample:

We are at about the halfway point of Spring Training games now and a little bit of the talk around the clubhouse is about opening day in Detroit. The main talk now dealing with that is how many tickets each person will need and get. If you don't know me, I always leave a lot of tickets for friends and family throughout the season, and sure enough opening day is just like a majority of the season for me with a lot of requests. So I have to check and make sure with the Tigers that there will be enough tickets for my family and friends.

Now hearing that the opening day starter will be Jeremy Bonderman, a lot of talk is based on how important our pitching staff is to the success of our up coming season. I think it is very important especially with the guys we have and the type of guys we have. We have veterans with Kenny Rogers and Todd Jones. We have future veterans with Bonderman, Mike Maroth, and Nate Robertson. We also have young and exciting youth with Joel Zumaya and Justin Verlander. I think we have a very exciting mix and guys that at any given time can be the standout guy and pitch great for us. If they can be anywhere close to how good they were last year, our season should be pretty good.

It's not the most riveting stuff, sure, but it's a smidgen of a look at Granderson's thought process and personal life. Can't beat that. (Unless, of course, the blogger is Tommy Lasorda.)

(Handshake half-hug: The Big Lead.)

I'm lucky that I don't have vocally record these blogs because I just don't have a voice. I screamed, yelled, and swore for ten minutes after the refs overturned that safety. I threw a chair too. That was a horrible call. I'm a fair fan who will admit when a call is OK against my team. That wasn't. That call could have cost Maryland the game. Terps fans should thank Sam Hollenbach that it didn't.

Sam Hollenbach looked the best I've ever seen him. On that last drive, he was threading a needle with some of the balls he threw. The last one to Joey Haynos (my homeboy) was beautiful. He had one interception on a misread late in the first half, but otherwise, he played beautifully. The pressure was on and he didn't falter in that last drive. Dan Ennis was cool as could be when he hit the game winning 31 yarder.

If we're going to talk about Hollenbach, we have to talk about the offensive line that protected him. He was sacked a few times, but the Clemson defensive line is pretty sick. Adams was going to get his sacks. Except for the one time in the second half when the Terps settled on a field goal after Hollenbach was sacked within the Clemson 10, they protected him well all game. Weren't you just expecting him to take a nasty sack on that final drive, like against Georgia Tech? Well, this is a different team than it was against Georgia Tech. It's a good team. On a day when the running game that Ralph Friedgen loves so couldn't get started, Sam Hollenbach took it upon himself and his receiving core to do enough to beat the Tigers.