The 2006 Detroit Tigers went 25-32 in their final two months, losing the division in the final week. They went to the World Series that year.
The 2006 Detroit Tigers went 25-32 in their final two months, losing the division in the final week. They went to the World Series that year.
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I’m going to talk about Pudge Rodriguez the same way the Egyptians talked about Moses.
Don’t worry! It’s good we’re losing!!
Not sure any current Tigers would be crying like Jonesy expressing their appreciation for the fans.
People forget they didn’t win the division that year either
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Losing the division this year likely means no playoffs, so it’s not really that similar of a scenario.
We’re 7-14 since the sweep by the A’s. Look further into stats and it worsens.
Notwithstanding we’ve gone most of the year without 2/5 previously planned starting pitchers, and that runway has run out, on top of fledgling relievers.
Just win one more series, tigs. Don’t go out losing 8 / 10 series.
Yea this ain’t the 06 tigers
This is going to end up being a copium post.
They had a pitching staff.
And got dominated by a cardinals team that finished the regular season 83-78 which was the worst record for a World Series winner.
And got their ass beat by the Cardinals.
Put a fork in them. They’re done. 🤮
As long as you make the playoffs, that’s all that matters. Going into the playoffs won a bad run isn’t ideal, but let’s sing players to injuries because you’ve been running everybody into the ground to get meaningless wins that don’t really change anything is worse,
Are the Tigers giving 100% right now wearing out their top talent?
Or are they laying low and coasting, knowing the playoffs are a virtual lock?
Either way I don’t see this roster as a World Series kinda roster, but giving 80% right now to have everybody 100% for the playoff run makes sense to me.
And then what happened?
Baseball’s a game of only quasi-predictable, and often completely unpredictable, runs. Things change on a dime.
We’re still 3.5 games up on the Guardians (although we should really consider it as 3.0), and there’s only nine games left, which is a decent margin. We haven’t even coughed up the #2 seed yet, and we do own the tie-break with the Astros, and the Mariners are at Houston this weekend, not vice-versa. So Houston arguably has a better shot at the division title than the Mariners. *Edit:* those two are 5-5 with each other this year so whoever wins this series owns the divisional tie-breaker, should it be needed.
Try to stay positive. We can bitch all winter if we don’t actually make it but until that point we should try to stay positive. There ain’t a single person who isn’t frustrated with what’s going on.
We should listen to Yogi right now, he was right.
^(Don’t) ^(worry,) ^(OP,) ^(this) ^(is) ^(a) ^(gif) ^(of) ^(me)
The difference with that team is that they still made the playoffs when losing the division, in this year’s case, they will not be in the post season whatsoever if they lose the division
Mike Ilitch was alive
I made this exact same comment the other day. If you get in, anything can happen.