Detroit Loses 101 games!!! We are on our way to the record!!!

Detroit News ^ | Tom Gage

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Michigan ping

[GreenLanternCorps]

Let's see, the Mets were an expansion team and the Spiders were contracted the next year when the NL dropped from 12 teams down to eight.

Yeah, go tigers.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

I like to remember the myth of the phoenix....

but it's still hard to see the Tigs make total ashes of themselves.

Maybe if they moved the team back to Tiger Stadium....

[StatesEnemy]

Interestingly... Cy Young started with the Spiders from 1890-1898

[Thebaddog]

Will Trammell last beyond this season?

[StatesEnemy]

Will Trammell last beyond this season?

I'll trade Little for Trammell.

[chimera]

Losing that much is certainly discouraging but I saw an article today in the local paper (outside of MI) wherein it was noted that the Tigers have made the decision to go with many younger players and build from within. There's something appealing about that. All you can do is keep playing and swinging the bat and get those guys in the games to build them up. Hopefully, it will pay off.

In the meantime, hang in there. As a fan of the original Mets, I can tell you that things there were so bad at times it was comical in a sad kind of way. We had clowns like Marvelous Marv and Choo Choo Coleman and "Fat Jack" Fisher, but they were also bringing along quality players like Tom Seaver and Cleon Jones and Bud Harrelson, and within a few years they were at the top of the game.

[FlyVet]

It ain't exactly Horton, Freehan, Kaline, Cash, and Lolich, is it? They need to get sold to an owner who wants to win. They must have one lousy farm system. They ought to find out how the Diamondbacks do it. They've got tons of good rookies.

[Boxsford]

Oh the good 'ol days hearing those names again. At least the streets are safer this way.

[A CA Guy]

Congratulations on this near record!

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

The guy who needs to be traded, fired, and banned forever from Comerica Park is the owner, Mike Illych. All the SOB cares about is hockey. Let him sell the team to a consortium of Tigers fans. Hell, let him sell the team to a randomly chosen resident of Macomb County. Said resident couldn't possibly do a WORSE job, and he won't be distracted by delusions of hockeygodhood.

[A CA Guy]

There will be changes, there always is after a season like that.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Thank you, thank you. I have the champagne chilled for our World Record!!!

BTW, what's up with the crust on the new Little Ceasar's Pizza? It might as well be frozen. Uck.

[freedumb2003]

The guy who needs to be traded, fired, and banned forever from Comerica Park is the owner, Mike Illych.

Trade you for Donald Sterling.

[Ax]

I grew up in Detroit. I remember listening to Virgil Trucks throw his pair of no-hitters on the radio in 1952. I listened to the Tigers beat the Cards in 1968 on the Far East Network. I remember when the Tigers beat the Padres (?) in 1984. And then it began. In the last 20 years, the rest of America celebrated Easter as the Resurrection of our Savior. For Detroiters, Easter since then has meant that the Tigers have been mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. And the Lions haven't had a championship team since Ike's second term. Thank God for the Red Wings.

[freedumb2003]

Ahh. the deep philisophical question: Is it better to be a has-been or a never was?

Hey, I don't care for the Clippers, but they are foisted upon is here. And don't get me started about the Dodgers, who are the Tigers with a big payroll. Talk about the gang that can't hit straight.

But I have had the Lakers through the West/Wilt, Magic/Kareem and now the Shaq/Kobe (we'll have to see if the latter continues) eras. So when it comes to Basketball, I think I have been fortunate to have a franchise that has never really faded for any length of time.

My condolences.

[MikeD]

Heh, pretty sad when the Pistons are the second best team in town by default. I watched some pretty sorry Braves teams in the '80s, but at least they had Dale Murphy.

The reason for the sorry record -- the Juan Gonzalez debacle. Seven players traded and the Rangers still have him back in two years...

MD

[FlyVet]

Oh the good 'ol days hearing those names again.

Yup. Willie was my baseball hero. My childhood fantasy was taking his place in left field when I grew up. Needless to say, that didn't work out. I was so lucky to grow up listening to the great Ernie Harwell on all the radio game broadcasts. A voice that came out of a junky old table radio seemingly in stereo.

[FlyVet]

I remember when the Tigers beat the Padres (?) in 1984.

That series was boring, the Tigers wiped up the floor with them so badly. What a year they had. Sparky Anderson said that was his toughest year as a manager. Tigers started out the season something like 35 and 6, and if they hadn't gone all the way, he felt he'd be skewered. Not a bad team. Better than the 68 Tigers, I'd say. Lemmon, Trammell, Whitaker, Gibson, Morris, Parrish. A lot of career years, no holes in the lineup. Only two borderline hall-of-famers out of that team. Morris and Trammel may squeak in there some day.