More Than We Could Chew?
Maybe that's all right.
I mean, turning around a losing team in one year, getting to the playoffs and beating the storied Yankees in four games...maybe that's enough.
My point is: Were Tigers fans really ready for this anyway? Wouldn't you have burst out laughing if a man claiming to be from November 2006 showed up in your living room a year ago and told you the Tigers had won the World Series?
Don't answer that. Of course you would have.
My point is: There's no precedent for a team turning back from 12 losing seasons to absolute baseball Providence in one season. The Tigers would have been that precedent. Should have been that precedent? Maybe, but who really decides that? I knew Brandon Inge was going to strike out in the situation he was in - bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, 2 on, go-ahead run at the plate. He swung at perhaps one strike, but it was all right. In that situation, I was almost rooting for him to fail. Because if the Baseball Gods put that game-winning home run into his arms right then, they're just toying with us.
Detroit fans, it was inevitable, whether you pitched Kenny Rogers or not (impending Christy Mathewson record in sight or not). Better to lose in St. Louis than in Detroit.
Bit off more than you could chew, young Tigers? I don't think so. I just don't think it was your time to swallow.
I mean, turning around a losing team in one year, getting to the playoffs and beating the storied Yankees in four games...maybe that's enough.
My point is: Were Tigers fans really ready for this anyway? Wouldn't you have burst out laughing if a man claiming to be from November 2006 showed up in your living room a year ago and told you the Tigers had won the World Series?
Don't answer that. Of course you would have.
My point is: There's no precedent for a team turning back from 12 losing seasons to absolute baseball Providence in one season. The Tigers would have been that precedent. Should have been that precedent? Maybe, but who really decides that? I knew Brandon Inge was going to strike out in the situation he was in - bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, 2 on, go-ahead run at the plate. He swung at perhaps one strike, but it was all right. In that situation, I was almost rooting for him to fail. Because if the Baseball Gods put that game-winning home run into his arms right then, they're just toying with us.
Detroit fans, it was inevitable, whether you pitched Kenny Rogers or not (impending Christy Mathewson record in sight or not). Better to lose in St. Louis than in Detroit.
Bit off more than you could chew, young Tigers? I don't think so. I just don't think it was your time to swallow.
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