Step back from the ledge.
As of 6pm, EST on April 8, 2009, the number of days of time since each of the major Detroit sports team’s last victory was:
- Red Wings: 2 days (last victory on April 6, 2009)
- Pistons: 3 days (last victory on April 5, 2009)
- Tigers: 193 days (last victory on Sept 27, 2008)
- Lions: Um… 472 days (last victory on Dec 23, 2007)… and counting.
The Tigers ended their streak with a solid 5-1 victory over the blue jays tonight. So we can all step back from the ledge. The Tigers will not go 0-16, 0-7, nor even 0-3. We can wait another day to talk about firing Jim Leyland, Dave Dombrowski, or Gene Lamont. We can hold off the dissection of the bullpen situation. We can listen to (insert classic rock radio station name here) instead of (insert sports talk radio station here) tomorrow. We can take a break from registering FIRE(insert name of Tiger official).com, or (insert bullpen pitcher or Brandon Inge)SUCKS.com. Now, as fans, we can live for today. As today, the Tigers are winners in 2009.
I mean, they’ll have to do better then win 1 out of every 3 games or this season will be a giant disaster… but now we can watch the team without worrying about the sky(dome) falling down on us.