Triggers
The Tigers are in the playoffs. First time since 1987. They last won the world series in 1984. Haven't really even been close since then. I used to LOVE baseball..absolutely loved it. I would bring up a 10 inch black and white rabbit eared tv to catch the tigers SPRING TRAINING GAMES for crying out loud..i couldnt' get enuff of em'. I can remember all 4 games i went to as a child at the old tiger stadium. One with my grandparents that we suffered through a rain delay before we could see the end of it...one with my uncle and his ex-detroit cop buddy (who showed me all the bullet wounds on him..he had 11..it was AWESOME..guy was just sheer muscle)...also note of that game Jose Canseco was playing for the other team and he put a homerun that game over our heads in the upper deck in straight away centerfield..monster shot..can't believe nobody suspected steroids back then....one with my neighbor Bill..and one with my mom and dad and brother.
The last one was probably the most memorable as i made everyone get there early so I could try to go down to the field and get autographs from the players...i was probably about 10. I got snubbed, by all of em'. i was crushed. But when i got back to my seat my mom had taken a notebook and signed her name and some phony tigers names down for me.. so i would have some autographs. At the time i was like "mom...this is you..." and just shrugged it away. Never thought about it again for years and years....
Short time after that game my mom got sick with cancer...she never was herself afterward and died 6 years ago on this October 10th. That phony autograph book is one of the few things I really remember about her and what kind of person she was. Don't get me wrong, i have lots of memories of her from behind the eyes of a little boy...but that one is one where I can look back on it and realize how good of a parent she was and how good of a grandparent she would have been for my daughter's now.
Hadn't thought about that till just recently again...with the Tigers making the playoffs my thoughts went back to my life when they last were a really good team. Being a little boy, watching the world series in our newly finished basement when they clinched it against the padres...the old tiger stadium and how it smelled when i would walk inside..how mesmerized i was by the first time i walked down the tunnel and thought how beautiful the field looked ...and the memories of my mom.
So, no matter what happens to the tigers in the playoffs, and frankly, i think they will lose to the Yankees, i'm glad for the season they had, without it, some cherished thoughts would have faded more into the distance. Thank you Tigers.
The last one was probably the most memorable as i made everyone get there early so I could try to go down to the field and get autographs from the players...i was probably about 10. I got snubbed, by all of em'. i was crushed. But when i got back to my seat my mom had taken a notebook and signed her name and some phony tigers names down for me.. so i would have some autographs. At the time i was like "mom...this is you..." and just shrugged it away. Never thought about it again for years and years....
Short time after that game my mom got sick with cancer...she never was herself afterward and died 6 years ago on this October 10th. That phony autograph book is one of the few things I really remember about her and what kind of person she was. Don't get me wrong, i have lots of memories of her from behind the eyes of a little boy...but that one is one where I can look back on it and realize how good of a parent she was and how good of a grandparent she would have been for my daughter's now.
Hadn't thought about that till just recently again...with the Tigers making the playoffs my thoughts went back to my life when they last were a really good team. Being a little boy, watching the world series in our newly finished basement when they clinched it against the padres...the old tiger stadium and how it smelled when i would walk inside..how mesmerized i was by the first time i walked down the tunnel and thought how beautiful the field looked ...and the memories of my mom.
So, no matter what happens to the tigers in the playoffs, and frankly, i think they will lose to the Yankees, i'm glad for the season they had, without it, some cherished thoughts would have faded more into the distance. Thank you Tigers.
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