Kurt?s Reflections on the Tigers Off Season

With the difficult economic situation in Detroit, we (recognize) that people will turn to our team for three hours of daily relief from the stress of everyday life. The Detroit Tigers have filled that role through World Wars, depressions and riots. With the bedrock industry of the city struggling to survive, our fans want to know that some things will not change–that is where we come in. The theme of our new campaign will be “Always A Tiger. – A Detroit Tigers press release Frankie Rodriguez was not coming to Tigertown. I knew deep down that nothing too exciting would happen for the Detroit baseball club this off-season. When Michigan’s personal recession spread throughout the United States and beyond, crippling auto sales and strangling our state’s economy even more, the Tigers had no choice but to take the payroll down from a lavishly high $140 million to something a bit more ? reasonable. Maybe that was going to be the plan, anyway. The Tigers are ...