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A KC Royals Special: The Anti-Detroit Breakdown

The KC Royals and Detroit Tigers are enjoying (not the right word) very similar franchise trajectories at the moment—trying to decide whether to hang on to the same players who brought about recent success or blow it up and start over again.

Top Five Reasons to (Choose Your Own Adjective, it could be positive or negative, don’t let me influence you) Detroit and the Tigers

  1. Gran Torino is overrated. Don’t @ me.
  2. The Pistons taking Darko Milicic over Carmelo Anthony.
  3. The late Mike Ilitch, who oversaw years of Tigers mediocrity before moving them into Comerica, fielding a perennial contender and leading a revitalization (of sorts) in downtown Detroit.