mtutiger Posted May 30 Posted May 30 (edited) 5 hours ago, Motown Bombers said: That's not really true. Chris has owned the Tigers since 2017. As the Lions have proven, children are not the same as their parents. To be clear, Chris' daddy took about 10 seasons to see the light himself.... so maybe they have more in common than most Tiger fans would admit. Edited May 30 by mtutiger Quote
Motown Bombers Posted May 30 Posted May 30 5 minutes ago, mtutiger said: To be clear, Chris' daddy took about 10 seasons to see the light himself.... so maybe they have more in common than most Tiger fans would admit. After 20 years, the Tigers were playing in their second World Series and in the middle of their best era since the 80’s. The Rockies after 20 years are quite possibly the worst team ever. Illitch also took a while to turn around the Red Wings, but they were a near dynasty when he did. I think Mike is overrated as an owner and civic partner, but he was a lot better than the Rockies ownership. Quote
oblong Posted May 30 Posted May 30 His strength was also his weakness. He let people do their jobs, had patience, and wrote big checks. That’s good when you have Jimmy D and Dave Dombrowski and no salary cap. It’s bad when you have Randy Smith. He also got attached to players and I think signed them out of sentiment. Quote
Toddwert Posted May 30 Posted May 30 funny they have a higher average Attendance per game then the Tigers https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-misc.shtml Quote
papalawrence Posted May 31 Posted May 31 5 hours ago, Toddwert said: funny they have a higher average Attendance per game then the Tigers https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-misc.shtml How does Tampa still have a team? Quote
chasfh Posted May 31 Posted May 31 21 hours ago, Motown Bombers said: That's not really true. Chris has owned the Tigers since 2017. As the Lions have proven, children are not the same as their parents. Chris is and Mike was both part of the same Ilitch family that has owned the team since 1992. That’s what I am counting. Quote
chasfh Posted May 31 Posted May 31 21 hours ago, Motown Bombers said: That's not really true. Chris has owned the Tigers since 2017. As the Lions have proven, children are not the same as their parents. The other thing, which I’d noted, was that Chris got religion in 2022 about running the team properly. Chris did lose 114, 96, and 98 twice in his first six seasons. I don’t think we’ll be seeing that for a while now. Quote
Toddwert Posted May 31 Posted May 31 Hopefully Harris stays a good while and doesn’t get bored or wanderlust like other sucessful GM's (DD and Theo) Quote
chasfh Posted May 31 Posted May 31 3 hours ago, Toddwert said: Hopefully Harris stays a good while and doesn’t get bored or wanderlust like other sucessful GM's (DD and Theo) I don’t think e leaves before he gets a ring here, at least within the next, say, seven to ten years. Quote
RedRamage Posted June 20 Author Posted June 20 On 5/29/2025 at 9:19 AM, RedRamage said: The 2025 Colorado Rockies. As of May 28 the Rockies still having broken double digit wins. They are 9 and 47. The '24 White Sox, thru 56 games, were 15-41. The '03 Tigers were 16-40. The Rockies winning percentage right now is .161! More than 70 points LOWER than the worst modern era winning percentage. The Rockies are on pace to win just 26 games. That would be 136 losses. 15 more losses than the White Sox had last year. Just 22 days later and the Rockies season has had a 180 degree turn! Wait... sorry, forgot the decimal point. It's been a 18.0 degree turn! Okay, jokes aside the last three weeks or so since I started this thread have seen the Rockies gain some traction. In games since my post they've gone 8 and 11... a much more respectable .421, including TWO 3-game winning streaks. Now, it certainly helps that two of the teams they faced in this time where the 29-44 Marlins and the 31-44 Nationals. (In fact both of those three game winning streaks happened against those teams.) Regardless of opponents faced, the Rockies have nearly doubled their wins in three weeks and raised their season winning percentage to .227. Now, as detailed in my opening post this is still pretty bad. Both the '24 Sox and the '03 Tigers has WPCT over .250 at the end so this is still epically bad right now. But again both the Sox and the Tigers had those late season boosts (finishing 5-1) that helped them get over the .250 mark. At 75 games into the season, here's how things compare to the other two seasons: Obviously the Rockies are sitting right there with the other two teams so things are not looking nearly as historically awful as they were at the end of May. There's still a lot of season left and I think there is every chance in the world that the Rockies will end up surpassing the '24 Sox in terms of total losses. But at least right now they don't appear to be on pace to shatter that record. 2 Quote
IdahoBert Posted June 20 Posted June 20 On 5/30/2025 at 3:23 PM, Toddwert said: funny they have a higher average Attendance per game then the Tigers https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-misc.shtml It’s interesting that only the Athletics and the Marlins have a lower average age for batters. Those are not good teams, but the Tigers are. Quote
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