We watched all season with anticipation. They had been the worst team a few years ago with the worst record of any team ever in the history of baseball, but now they were at the World Series. The television was on and we were watching it because we lived across the country but we still had high hopes that the Detroit Tigers were going to win the World Series. They had twelve straight losing seasons but finally some young talent was filling the Tigers with enthusiasm.
They lost the first game to the Yankees and came back to win the rest and moved onto Oakland and swept them away but now they were fighting against the St. Louis Cardinals. They made it into 5 games against the Cardinals but then they folded like a stack of cards. The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series.
While we didn’t walk away from the television that day jumping up and down for joy and high-fiving our friends and neighbors we also didn’t walk away with our heads hung low or our lips pouting in sadness. The Detroit Tigers had made it to the World Series against all odds and we were proud of them. And as all baseball and all sport fans know, there is always next year. When the Tigers make the World Series in 2007, I will be sitting either in front of the television watching the game or just maybe at Comerica Park rooting in my Tigers.
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