In news that can only be summarized with “about darned time,” the Detroit Tigers announced this week they will be retiring Lou Whitaker’s jersey number.
But wait, stop me if you’ve heard this one before, because you have. The original announcement of this retirement came in 2019, so why are we still talking about it like it’s news? Because when the Tigers originally planned for the retirement, the ceremony was meant to take place in August of 2020 (in fact we had been planning the annual Bless You Boys meet up around the event). There were some events that took place over 2020 that stopped the ceremony from taking place, and a lot of people seemed to forget it was ever planned.