Voices in this collection include Jim Leyland, Sam Riddle, Tim Skubic and a Kalamazoo beer fan. First up: a celebrity Tigers fan.     

"Justin Verlander's a Tiger. Forever and ever. Amen."
-- Jeff Daniels, actor, in tweet

"This was it. The moment. Win or lose. Right here."
-- Jeff Seidel, Freep columnist, on Naadir Tharpe's three-pointer that put the Wolverines in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA basketball tournament

"One of seven [relief pitchers] could close the game. . . . Any one of 'em might get the ball in the ninth. . .  . It'll be a second-guesser's heaven."
-- Jim Leyland, Tigers manager, quoted in The Detroit News

"The Tigers are going to start the season trying 'closer by committee.' Does that mean they will have long, unproductive meetings in the bullpen where cliches will fly along with sunflower seeds?"
-- Matt Friedman, Farmington Hills PR exec, in Facebook post

"This is a holiday and makes me feel like summer in coming.”
-- Brenda Mulder of Kalamazoo, marking Oberon Day with a 9 a.m. beer at Bell's Brewery, quoted by Mlive

" 'Low Winter Sun' might erase all memory of '1-8-7.' "
-- Aaron Foley, commenting at Detroit.Jalopnik on AMC's upcoming cop series 

"Send that Kevyn Orr guy home! Detroit's getting a Papa Joe's! Moosejaw extended its lease! And ice cream! "
-- Paul Beshouri, editor of Curbed Detroit, posting on the Opportunity Detroit plan

“We want to create a city where you don’t drive through the center, you drive to it.”
-- Fred Kent, president of Project for Public Spaces, in presentation on downtown Detroit plan

"All I can say is WOW."
-- Marge Sorge, executive director of the Detroit Regional News Hub, in Detroit Unspun post on downtown plan

"Some of the buildings are so much nicer than I expected, then there's a bunch that are so much worse than I expected."
-- Chris Mundy, "Low Winter Sun" producer, quoted in Metro Times

"Now that the governor has imposed an EM on Detroit, he needs another one for the state legislature."
-- Tim Skubick, Lansing talk show host, in MLive column

"So far, things seem to be going well. Tugboats haven’t arrived to pull Belle Isle away, and moving vans aren’t taking the treasures in the Detroit Institute of Arts  away to be sold."
-- Jack Lessenbery in Michigan radio commentary on Detroit's emergency manager

"A bloodless coup of the largest democratically elected government in our state has occurred. . . . As Americans, we should be ashamed."
-- Greg Bowens, ex-Detroit mayoral press secretary, in Freep guest column

"This white riot will be nothing but a slick looting of Detroit led by pinstripe suit-wearing Jones Day gangbangers."
-- Sam Riddle, blogging at The Michigan Citizen

"What we have seen in the past year is really a 'by any means necessary' approach employed by Gov. Rick Snyder and the Republican-controlled Legislature to gain control of Detroit."
-- Curt Guyette, news editor of Metro Times

"We must move to exorcise from our laws anything that protects unions -- the shock troops of the left -- from those things they fear the most: free markets and reason-driven public policy."
-- Matthew Davis, Lansing attorney and ex-Freep reporter, in column at  MLive