Detroit Tigers

From Wiki Gonzalez

There was a Detroit franchise in the National League in the 1880s; they even won the 1887 pennant, then beat the old St. Louis Browns in an early "World Series." For most of the 1890s, though, Detroit's top club was a Western League franchise known as the Detroit Tigers. This club was a charter American League team in 1901 and has been there ever since.

The Tigers have won pennants with comforting regularity over the decades, ensuring that no generation of Detroit fans since the 1930s has grown up without the formative experience of at least a World Series appearance.

True, winning only three pennants since World War II doesn't exactly make them a historic powerhouse, but at least they're not the White Sox.

After a disastrous 2003 campaign in which they lost approximately seventeen thousand games, RMc claimed he was the only living Tigers fan. After Detroit honed in on sub-mediocrity in 2004, though, this no longer seems to be the case. After Detroit advanced to the 2006 World Series in impressive fashion, this is definitely no longer the case.

Other Primates who are Tiger fans (see Fans of my team for others):

• Buddha
• Vaux
• chemdoc
• fra paolo
• WalkOffIBB
• J. Michael Neal
• EveryIngeCounts
• Walewander
• Everybody else, when Detroit sweeps the Las Vegas Hitmen in the 2007 World Series. (This particular entry was added to the wiki on December 2004. We are on notice.)

As chemdoc notes, "There are 3 kinds of Tiger fans: the “glass half-full” kind like me, the “glass half-empty” kind like Walewander, and the “I know that somehow this glass will shatter, severing a major artery and causing me to bleed to death unless the tetanus kills me first” kind like Vaux."

Also see: Fans of my team