"Don't check the Tiger scores son. Just enjoy yourself."
These were the words of my father, wise sage that he is, before I left for Mexico for five days over the long weekend. I took his advice, ignored the free use of wi-fi in our hotel in exchange for cold beer, sunshine and plenty of sleep. The Tigers were one game out of first place with a relatively easy schedule of two games against Seattle and four at home against the A's whom we just handled soundly in Oakland. Surely, these nerds would not give my beloved franchise trouble would they?
The Tigers now sit 4.5 games behind the Twins who are showing no mercy with a 5-game winning streak, as would be expected from those bastards. In reading up, looks like Ryan Perry blew two saves, Verlander and Porcello got touched and our offense took a week off (make that the front end of our lineup took a week off as 6-9 hitters haven't showed up all year as lamented in previous postings). The only three bright spots I could read about from this week were exceptional starts by Bonderman and Scherzer, the latter which was not blown by the bullpen, and another outrageous week of hitting from Cabrera who had more RBI and home runs this week than sorry-ass Inge has all season. Maybe I will simply look back at this vacation as perfect timing in missing the only cold week of the year for the Tigers or maybe I will be reading about training camp for the Lions much earlier than I want to. The Tigers start a series with the pathetic Indians. Surely, these nerds won't pose a problem . . .
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