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Detroit Tigers did stink in 2018, but here's how they were successful

Community leaders are saying Dan Gilbert is interested in buying the Detroit Tigers. Detroit Free Press

The day I knew everything had changed, I walked into the Detroit Tigers clubhouse on a mid-February morning in Lakeland, Fla., to side eyes, a sense that some of the players were sizing me up with suspicion. When the time was right, I walked to Miguel Cabrera’s locker.

Cabrera was in a good mood that day; he was healthy and baseball was back. But before I could get to the reason why I had approached him, he pulled out a piece of white paper, folded in fours, and asked if I wrote this:

On the paper, in big, bold, black letters: “Detroit Tigers will stink in 2018.