![]() ![]() Miller threw 70.5% fastballs in his first two starts, but facing the Tigers, he abandoned his previous approach and dominated. Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller, making the third start of his MLB career, delivered seven scoreless innings on three hits, zero walks and three strikeouts. PRES TALKS: Tigers' Scott Harris praises recent performance as players ride momentumĬHANGING COURSE: Why Tigers rescinded Spencer Turnbull's option and placed him on injured list The Tigers (17-21) have lost back-to-back games for the first time in May. Not good enough to get the win, but more often than not, I'll take that keeping us in the game. "I thought I threw the ball pretty good and threw a lot of strikes. "First time getting six innings this year," Faedo said. The Tigers didn't help him, though, as the offense posted three hits - without a walk - in Saturday's 5-0 loss at Comerica Park. The two homers, both with two strikes and two outs, spoiled an otherwise impressive outing from Faedo. As a result, the Seattle Mariners scored three runs on home runs in the third and fourth innings. Seattle Mariners: Best photos from Comerica Parkĭetroit Tigers right-hander Alex Faedo executed his pitches for nearly his entire start, but two hitters beat him in crucial situations. A great tune and an even greater tribute.View Gallery: Detroit Tigers vs. Whether you’ve known the background story for years, or you’re learning about it for the first time now, this song definitely deserves another listen. The song was voted as one of VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of the 90s,” and the album All the Pain Money Can Buy went platinum in 1998. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1998, while claiming the top spot on Billboard‘s Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks. I liked the song (a lot).” He later added, “My cousin said (Lela) left a star. Lela’s son, Hal Ray Copeland, said, “I liked it, really. “I just couldn’t believe somebody would do something like that for my grandma.” “I was just blown away,” said Rhonda Alford, Lela’s granddaughter. In an interview with WUSA9 in 2017, I finally got my answer. Were they happy their parents’ story was immortalized in one of the decade’s biggest hits, or were they angry it was even being focused on? Did they immediately turn off the radio once it came on, or did they listen to it in full, thinking back on happier family memories? I’d always wondered what their family thought of Fastball’s song once they heard it plastered all over the radio a year later. The chorus continues, saying they’re happier where they are now, than they were here on earth. The song envisions the couple in Heaven now, indicated by the streets of gold. Instead of focusing on devastation and loss, Scalzo focused on a happier ending.Īnyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold Still, Scalzo managed to romanticize their deaths, to the point of maybe even bringing peace to the situation. It’s a sad story to write a song about, especially considering the characters in this story were real. It wasn’t until after the band had settled on recording the song that the Howards’ vehicle was found at the bottom of a canyon near Hot Springs, Arkansas– hundreds of miles from their original destination. Scalzo was captivated by the headlines and decided to write up what would soon become Fastball’s greatest hit. A news report from the time states the disappearance continued to “mystify relatives and law officers from Texas to the East Coast.” Their family and law enforcement began searching. ![]() They left before the sun came up that day.” Even so, as the song goes, “they made up their minds, and they started packing. Raymond had recently suffered a stroke, while Lela was showing signs of dementia. But they never did make it to that festival. Lela and Raymond Howard left their Salado, Texas home in June 1997 to embark on their journey to the Pioneer Day Festival in Temple, Texas– just 15 miles away. Released as the first single off 1998’s All the Pain Money Can Buy, “The Way” catapulted Fastball from a no-name band to international stardom.įastball member Tony Scalzo penned the lyrics after gaining inspiration from a newspaper article about the tragic story of a missing elderly couple. It was the perfect decade for lesser-known bands to strike gold and become overnight sensations. It was the time of punk rock, britpop, grunge, and more importantly, alternative rock (we are named Alternative Echo, after all). Our recent posts on Matchbox Twenty and The Wallflowers got me thinking about the good ol’ days. ![]()
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