Dear Tigers, I’m Done with You till Something Changes

UPDATE:  To clarify for certain readers the term “i’m Done with you” refers to me not investing myself emotionally in the Tigers for the rest of the year until something changes.

The Tigers continued to rip at the heart strings of fans everywhere, when they tallied a 4th terrible walkoff loss in there away stand against Seattle.

I’ll summarize for those of you lucky enough to not watch this game…

- Willis had 5 walks, in 5 innings, gave up no runs.

- Gallaraga relieved and gave up 3 runs in one inning, then pitched pretty solid 2 innings after his 5 inning debacle.

-  Hitting was not there… a bunch of runners left on base in a poorly pitched game that totaled 22 walks…. and no thats not a typo.

-In the 11th, the A’s load the bases, get a bloop INFIELD single to win the game.

After staying up (again) to watch the Tigers lose a heart breaker I’ve decided to go drastic.  I’m not going to be writing about the Tigers until I see a significant change.  Be it the retirement of the Marlboro man, or seeing Verlander come out of his slump, or how about when our hitting can string together a couple of consecutive good games.

Remember when Tigs slappies were claiming the Tigers had turned a corner after the series against the Mariners?  Yeah, I told everyone hold up, lets look at the next 12 games…

Since I’ve said that, the Tigs have went 4-7…

These Tigers are officially getting called a bust in my book for the season. They won’t make the playoffs and even worse THEY LOOK LIKE THEY DON’T CARE *cough* Cabrera *cough*!!!

This all has led me to just give up until something changes… I’m tired of beating myself up, convincing myself that this team is better then its played… but when you’ve played 58 games a fan has gotta start to think rationally.

My thoughts:

- Fire Jim Leyland, I’ve called him out before, but he needs to go.  And he needs to quit because Dombrowski won’t touch him.  He inserts no passion into this team anymore, and something is clearly not working, I start with the head coach (manager).

-  He can take his hitting and pitching coaches with him.

-  Verlander needs to step up…. I know hes pitched decent of late, but decent won’t cut it with this team.  He needs to go above and beyond and earn his contract.

-Speaking of earning contracts, anybody see Cabrera lately? Does he ever get clutch hits? how about hits in general? Isn’t this what we brought this fat man who supposedly had a fat bat in here for?

-  Bullpen needs to not ALWAYS give up a run every time they come in with men on base.

-  Does anyone else think that we have a team of DH’s ? (Guillen, Cabrera, Thames, Magglio)

I want changes Tigers. I don’t want the “well this team is better then its playing “ bullshit we’ve been getting fed from Leyland.