Each winter a brown leather Carhartt coat big enough to keep a 747 jet warm is draped over the giant tiger that guards Comerica Park’s front.
It’s a cute promotion.
It also might be the right garment to wear for Friday’s Comerica Park season-opener between the Tigers and Red Sox.
Temperature at game time (1:10 p.m.) is projected to be 42 degrees. That’s fine for keeping your box-seat beer cold, but not so great for men swinging bats and throwing pitches, much less for 44,000 or so who will attempt to avoid freezing their keisters as they convene to inspect the 2017 Tigers and enjoy a day of downtown merriment, perhaps not in that order.