Could Tiger fans be witnessing the biggest heist in Detroit since the Mayor’s secret deal to keep his text messages hidden?
All winter long Tiger fans heard how amazing this years Tigers lineup was going to be. This was supposed to be the biggest run producing lineup in the history of baseball, in the history of athletic competition, nay in all of recorded history! Sure, they warned us the bullpen might be a bit short, but we’ll score enough runs to have an automatic bid to the World Series! Then after that we’re going to load them all onto the bus and take the whole team to Cooperstown!
This collection of sure-fire Hall of Famer’s started the season 0-7, getting swept by Kansas City and the White Sox, and is now 2-9. As of the writing of this we have now been shutout 3 times, the same number as all of the 2007 season. This team has managed to score 5 or more runs in 4 of their 11 games, of which they have won 2. Today they really tried hard to hand the White Sox starter Gavin Floyd a no-hitter, which lasted into the 7th. They set a season low today by only managing 2 hits. Their prior low was 3 in loss number 2 to the Royals.
These guys look terrible. So many times they are swinging weakly at the first pitch they see. To many times they are hitting lazy pop ups, or soft grounders to the infielders. The first couple weeks of the season has been harder to watch then the 2003 season. At least we all knew that team was bad.
I really hope this team proves me wrong, but at this point it seems that we are becoming the Baltimore Orioles of the late 90’s who threw a ton of money at ‘name’ players who ended up doing little more than finishing under .500 year after year. This could also end up being the highest paid Triple A quality club ever. I admit I bought into the hype. I was excited about this season. I thought for sure this club was going to award the longtime fans in the city with another championship caliber season. Boy was I stupid. I fell for the con.
