TIGER Stadium Bleacher Creatures

Billy Co***lo Congratulating Chet Lemon, Detroit Tigers, 1984

DODGERS PICK UP ANOTHER BIG BAT AT TRADE DEADLINE.

TIGER FANS, YOUR SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OVER, AND THE PIZZA FAMILY, GOT YOU AGAIN! THE GOLDEN GOOSE, FLIES TO LA!

Like LUCY HOLDING THE FOOTBALL FOR CHARLIE BROWN, the CHEAP CHRIS ILLITCH RUN, TIGER ORGANIZATION, waited, for this team, to FINALLY CLEAR IT'S COMING OUT SPRING TRAINING COBWEBS AWAY, get back close to the top of the division, and possible playoffs, TO TRADE TARIK SKBUL, TO THE NOW, EVIL EMPIRE OF THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS!

So you long suffering fans, FINALLY HAD ANOTHER GOLDEN GOOSE, A HERO, A ICONIC TIGER, another VIERLANDER, OR MIGGY, and you ran up to kick that football, and BOOM, YOU'RE BACK ON YOUR ASS, FLAT ON YOUR BACK, looking at another 7 to 10 year REBUILD! And if some of you don't have CHRIS ILLITCH, INSTANT AMENSIA, this was basically the same deal offered to the DODGERS LAST YEAR, but AJ. HINCH, AND THOSE DAMN, DIDN'T WANNA QUIT TIGERS, got their PAWS together, made a run, after a big COLLASPE, got to the playoffs, and were one, NOT TAKING SKUBAL OUT IN A GAME 7 MOVE, from getting to, maybe a WORLD SERIES!

But as we know, THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE GAME, OR THE FANS, THIS IS ABOUT MONEY! And your TIGERS, who at one point in their very early history of COMERICA PARK, almost got sold to EDSEL FORD, AND OTHERS, because COMERICA PARK, was the not the cash cow it was promised to be. But Skubal was, and he was a guy you could count on, and be entertained too!

BUT SORRY FOLKS, THE PIZZAMAN IS GONE, and Mike would've never allowed this to happen to his GOLDEN GOOSE. He didn't with VERLANDER AND MIGGY, and many got mad at him for protecting his star players, and only marketable assets at the time! BUT IN THAT TIME COMING OUT OF THE TRANSITION FROM TIGER STADIUM, THE ILLITCH'S CREATED CUSTOMERS, who are loyal, won't complain, and will cough up their money for OPENING DAY, OR WHATEVER, despite this franchise sucking in it's total time, since 2000. BUT THESE CUSTOMERS, will be the same ones, CALLING ME NAMES, BEING ANGRY AT ME, FOR TELLING THEM THE TRUTH, AND FOR TAKING ANOTHER KICK AT LUCY'S FOOTBALL! Your the one, laying down on your ass, not me!

You know in 1987, the TIGERS WENT FOR THE PLAYOFFS, and made a trade kinda of like this, for proven vet, DOYLE ALEXANDER, for some unknown prospect, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE HALL OF FAMER, JOHN SMOLTZ! Nobody knew that would happen, but who are these THREE DODGER STIFFS, who don't have that kind of talent, that is supposed to make you forget about that SKUBAL GOOSE, patch holes like FLEX TAPE, when all you got back, was an CRACKED BATS, AND AN EMPTY BAG OF BASEBBALLS! Only time will tell.

BUT WITH SUPPOSEDLY A MLB OWNERS LOCKOUT COMING, BECAUSE THESE MADMEN, CAN'T STOP THEMSELVES FROM SPENDING, and now want the players to HAVE A SALARY CAP, THERE COULD BE A TWICE AS LONG PERIOD, BETWEEN THIS TIGER FRANCHISE, EVER COMING OUT OF LOSRSVILLLE, AND EVEN HAVING A CHANCE TO MAKE PLAYOFFS, OR A WORLD SERIES. Because we all know MANAGEMENT WILL GET TIRED OF AJ HINCH, AND MOVE ON, they will trade whatever prospects they have in the minors away, or rush them ahead of their time, to the majors, AND ruin them. AND THAT'S WHEN YOUR 7 TO 10 YEAR REBULD KICKS IN AGAIN, and we just came out of that nightmare, and have enjoyed some pretty good baseball. BUT RIGHT NOW, YOUR DETROIT TIGERS, are getting in position to be like the old ST. LOUIS BROWNS, OR CLEVELAND INDIANS, were you become a BIG FARM TEAM FOR THE BIGGER TEAMS Everytime, you produce a good solid player, a superstar, THEY GET GOBBLED UP TO THE DODGERS, YANKEES, OR USED TO BE, RED SOXS!

SOME OF YOU WILL GET WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY, maybe not today, or a year from now, but years from now. BUT I'VE BEEN UP TO THE PLATE A FEW TIMES, AND HAVE SEEN THIS NASTY SLIDER A FEW TIMES BEFORE! But just about everything I have said, since I started this site, HAS COME TRUE. NOT EVERYTHING, but a lot! YOU CAN'T BE PERFECT YOU KNOW! But TIGER FANS, CUSTOMERS, the PIZZAMEN, don't expect you to be mad about this trade, because they know what their 26 year trained CUSTOMERS, will say and do, JUST TAKE IT, EXCEPT, AND GET DISTRACTED BY EVERYTHING ELSE! But damn, I'd rather have SKUBAL ON MY TEAM, KICKING THE DODGERS RICH ASSESS, than have the TIGER FRANCHISE, and broken hearted fans, POSTING ALREADY, when the Dodgers, THE EVIL EMPIRE, come to the D, and run this now, BEAT UP, NEAR MINOR LEAGUE TEAM, all around COMERICA PARK, August 28-30th!

WHEN YOUR OWNERS, BUILD ARENAS AND STADIUMS FOR THEMSELVES, JUST TO MAKE MONEY, things like this tend to happen, OVER AND OVER! But when the DETROIT PISTONS, built the PALACE not only for it's fans, but also to make money, HOW MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS, did they get rewarded with altogether, 3, not including the VIPERS AND SHOCK!

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, That sound you hear, are the TIGERS TRUCKS, already backing up at the loading docks of the COPA, to take the TIGERS EQUIPMENT, BACK DOWN TO LAKELAND!!

TIGERS, PROVE ME WRONG!