Ilitch pleased with Tigers turnaround
Yesterday at a team photo, Red Wings and Tigers owner Mike Ilitch posed with his baseball team and then answered questions afterwards. After owning a successful hockey team for so long, it has to feel great to have your baseball team start to turn around with games selling out for the most part.
On how this season will be the first in which the team draws three million fans: “Isn’t that something? I used to look at the Red Sox (who sell out every game) and say, ‘I’d love to be like that one day.’ “
On how the Tigers remain in the wild-card race despite many injuries: “It’s incredible … and we didn’t get the pitching and hitting coinciding. You feel you should be 15 games out, or 12.” …
On whether drawing 3 million instead of 2.5 million increases the club’s spending power for next year’s roster: “Yes, but not that much to make a difference if you want to sign a real big player. … If a player comes along and we need him, somehow you always try to figure out how you can get him.”
I’d love to attend one more Tigers game this season, but it’s hard to get decent seats for face value and the Wings first home preseason game is next Thursday so I’m going to get pretty busy with work (I have this week off because they’re all up in Traverse City for training camp).
The Tigers have won 7 of the last 10 games, but are pretty much out of reach in their division race. In the wild card race, they’re four games back from the NY Yankees. They have 15 games left in the season so it’s going to be a very tight race to the finish and it’ll definitely keep us Tigers fans on the edge of our seats.
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