For the first time since the late, great, Ronald Reagan was President the Tigers have secured a spot in the American League Playoffs. For the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Communist Soviet Union the Tigers are in the playoffs. Not since Living on a Prayer (Bon Jovi), mony mony (Billy Idol), and I Think We’re Alone Now (Tiffany), were in heavy rotation on the radio, have the Tigers had a champagne celebration in their club house. What is it that I keep hearing people talk about? ‘Can you believe how bad the Lions stunk it up?’ and ‘Did you see MSU fall apart against Notre Dame on Saturday?’
I am fully aware that the American Pastime is no longer baseball, much to my dismay. I know we live in a football society. But I really thought people would be more fired up about this than they are. Are people here getting used to our teams making it to the post-season? We had a long stretch with the Red Wings making a run every year for the Stanley Cup. The last few years the Pistons have had good seasons resulting in appearances in the playoffs, and a championship. Are people just too used to it? I don’t know. I don’t think I get it.
Even if it’s just me and Mike Ilitch (the owner of the Tigers), and a few others that I have yet to come across, there are people that are delirious in Detroit over the Tigers success this season. Let me formally say; Congratulations to the 2006 Detroit Tigers on securing their first playoff spot in 19 seasons!!!
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Delirious in Detroit. I read your blog and picked up on something you mentioned. 'Baseball is not the national pastime'. I beg to differ. Baseball is in fact the pastime. It passes the time between basketball and football. The fact of the matter is that Detroit is great sports town. Although is hasn't always been that way. Detroit is on the verge of setting yet another all time first ~~ being the first town with three major sports teams that possess the best record at the end of the regular season. The caviot to that is that none of them made it past the playoffs. Anyway, you should enjoy the Tigers great season. Ignore all the others that seem to dwell on the failures of other teams. But we all know that bad news grabs more headlines than good news does.
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