Goodbye Detroit Tigers

I am 55 years old. Followed the Tigers all my life. In 1968, when I was 8 turning 9 I rejoiced to see Mickey Lolich win three games in the World Series and hit a Home Run to boot. In 1972 I groaned when the Tigers lost in 5 games to the A’s for the AL Pennant. Through the down seasons of the 70’s I took a little transistor radio with me as I delivered papers and listened intently to the likes of Woody Fryman, Joe Coleman and Al Kaline try to win. In 1976 I never missed a game that “the Bird” started in his “Rookie of the Year” season. In 1984 I was in my first year of Graduate School but in October I was watching the Series as opposed to hitting the books. In 1987 I could’t peel myself away from the games in the incredible pennant run to catch the Blue Jays. In the Leyland era I was overjoyed with the unexpected run in 2006. I was on Holiday in Maine in 2009, without a television, when the Tigers lost in the one game playoff to the Twins giving the start to Eddie Bonine. I managed to find a bar in order to view the game. In 2011 through 2015 I have been there every step of the way, usually following along with Jim Price and Dan Dikerson. I manage to go to the park at least once a season with my family. That tradition started when my children were toddlers. I would fly up from South Carolina and meet friends and take a game in and fly home the next day.

Before my first child was born I had bought the unborn child a Tigers baby outfit and ball glove.

Now that the Tigers have come out in support of the LGBT agenda all that is over.

Goodbye old friend. I will miss you and the soothing rhythms of “the boys of Summer” but some priorities are more important then the American tradition of Baseball.

I hate that you did this. I hate that I have to go.

Bret L. McAtee

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

5 thoughts on “Goodbye Detroit Tigers”

  1. Do you have a link to the story? Too bad indeed. I was just thinking tonight while looking at ESPN that it won’t be long before I will need to give up watching sports entirely because of how much it idolizes abomination and depravity.

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      1. It is good to be around, brother! I didn’t realize the Cubs had been doing the LGBT thing since 2001. I’ll be about 14 years late in dumping them (not that I was following them closely).

        Are you burning any memorabilia?

      2. Joshua,

        I’ve never been a memorabilia kind of guy so I don’t have any to burn. If I did though, I’d make a big deal out of it.

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