AM I SICK TO MY STOMACH, OR IS IT DISAPPOINTMENT???
ROB SANFORD
Like many Tiger fans, I feel a combination of anger, disappointment, and hope. I’m angry obviously because of how the season turned out, of all the runners left in scoring position this year….of seeing the offense explode, only to see it go back into its hole. I’m disappointed because of how the season turned out…and lack of a killer instinct in September, especially that final week when they could have left the Twins in the dust. I’m hopeful because of players like Rick Porcello….who at age 20 was amazing. His start in game #163 was incredable…his poise, his calm, his stuff. At age 20….I spent a lot of week ends hunched over someone’s toilet bowl…or skipping Friday classes.
As for Miguel Cabrera…..it looks like a bit of too much, too soon. At age 26 with more money than even he could have imagined, after living in poverty. He has skills that could put him into the Hall of Fame someday…but this most recent incident shows he lacks maturity and quite possibly a problem with alcohol. The Tigers should forget for one minute that he is a player with enormous potential and do something for the boy/man who needs some help.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Wow. Are we now the moral police. We can judge another persons lifestyle and say that it is the cause of the losses the tigers had at the end. The games stand alone as singular events and were lost one at a time by many circumstances. You can not point to any individual player. If you have played the game you would know this.