I’ve been obsessed with my hometown Royals since 1969. But still I take no great joy in reporting on the precipitous slide of the once-mighty Detroit Tigers (who are loved by family as I love KC) baseball franchise – even though they’re a key rival. Yet events on and off the field Tuesday evening in Motown — a likewise once-mighty gem of a city that used to be the wealthiest in the nation — make that fact painfully obvious to even a casual observer.
The news for Tigers fans before the game? GM Dave Dombrowski, the architect of many dominant major league baseball teams (remember what a meat-grinder that place used to be?