TFW the shell of James Shields is your opening day starter
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A few years ago my girlfriend asked me "Who's Jordan Zimmermann?"
I had a brain fart and responded something like "Are you serious? You don't know who Jordan Zimmermann is?! He's that shithead who got away with mudering Trayvon Martin. Fuck that guy. Why, what'd he do now?"
Her: "Umm...Are you sure? I'm reading here that the Tigers just signed him"
Me: "Holy shit! OOOPS. Jordan Zimmermann, not George Zimmermann! My bad! Fuck YEAH!"
This was after the 2015 season where the Tigers stunk but made a few trades to get excited for in dealing Cespedes and Price at the deadline to get some pretty good prospects like Matt Boyd, Daniel Norris, and Michael Fulmer.
Verlander was coming back to form, Sanchez was still possibly a good pitcher battling injury, and the rest of our team sans bullpen was solid. Then we signed Justin Upton soon after and it felt like the Tigers were in a transition period where they could still contend in the "now" but that the future would also be bright without having to go through a teardown.
Now that's all gone to shit.
Oh, and Jordan Zimmermann is our opening day starter.
I meant to get in on a fantasy baseball league but totally lost track. That was about the only way I could get excited for this season. Now, as a Tigers fan, it's nothing but suck.
If Fulmer's great then he'll get traded at the deadline.
If Cabrera is great it'll just mean we won't be quite as bad as the Marlins or Royals so we lose a few spots in the draft order.
I didn't watch or listen to a single spring training game. I should have remembered to cancel the auto-renew on my MLB.TV thing. $140 down the drain.
I just hope Verlander and the Astros win it again and that Max Scherzer throws a perfect game. Not much else excites me right now. Didn't even pick up MLB The Show this year.
:'(