View Full Version : Why am i Still Depressed?
Flame 103
10-02-2006, 09:57 AM
All day i have been so sad. :depress:
I keep trying to tell myself i dont care about the redwings and pistons division titles so why do i care about this division title so much. I don't go around saying the pistons and redwings won the division woohoo. Maybe it's because they have won a lot of division titles lately and i could care less.
The Tigers still have 9 Pennants and 4 World Series Titles for crying out loud. They may not have won their First Al Central Title but they won Their first ever AL Wild Card. That's something we can cross off the list i guess and i know Nothings ever a guarntee but i would be shocked if in a few years the tigers don't win the AL Central for the first time.
Ingefanclub
10-02-2006, 09:59 AM
The Twins have won 4 of the last 5 division crowns and haven't made it to the World Series yet. Hope this makes the Tigers hungry next year....
Flame 103
10-02-2006, 10:02 AM
I know i just think well we crossed one thing off the list the "Wild Card". We will win the AL central soon. I hope we trade Bondo for Tex. Sign Soriano and Zito. Maybe thats a pipe dream.
tigersfandm
10-02-2006, 10:06 AM
You're sadness will be gone once the first pitch of tomorrow night's game gets thrown at New York. I'm not sad anymore. Today is a new day and another game to look forward to tomorrow! And it is not just a game, it is a PLAYOFF game. :)
Flame 103
10-02-2006, 10:11 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Tigers
We will just have to add a division title next year after a world series title this year.
Nobody gave the white sox a chance last year...
Domino
10-02-2006, 10:41 AM
Read this and feel a little better.
http://www.motownsports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42503
tigersfandm
10-02-2006, 10:46 AM
I don't know about all of you, but as a fan, today I am totally relieved of pressure, which may sound silly. The last week I actually felt pressure as a fan thinking no way they could give up the divison and when it started to show that they just might, the pressure got worse and the nerves took over, but today, I feel happy, no pressure and excited that the Tigers will be in the playoffs, and I have no expectations for the playoffs, as I will just watch and enjoy. I hope it is a series where it is competitive.
detroitdan
10-02-2006, 11:16 AM
I'm feeling a lot better today too...I have dreamed about watching the Tigers play playoff baseball for a long time...after having to watch Boston and New York and all the other teams that have made it to the post season for so long, it is incredible to think that tomorrow night I am going to get to watch MY favourite team in the playoffs...that's pretty cool...I feel a lot better than I did yesterday...tomorrow night is going to be one of the best ones in a long time...stay positive guys!
Tyrus
10-02-2006, 11:23 AM
I'm sad today, too...but I think it will all melt away come 8 tomorrow night.
And, if we can somehow win that game, we'll all forget about how sad we were today.
You are still depressed because of how it ended. Losing a 10-game lead. Losing 31 of the last 50 games. Losing the last 5 in a row at home. Getting swept by the Royals while blowing 5-0 and 6-0 leads.
Had the season gone differently, and the Tigers not played so well early, but came on strong at the end (ala the Twins) to finish 95-67 and win the wildcard, I don't think you'd be feeling depressed today. We were tantalized for four months into having greater expectations and for them not to materialize was depressing. I don't know how any Tiger fan can honestly feel good about how the season ended.
Since yesterday I've been recalling a line from the song Louise by Paul Siebel:
Louise rode home on the mailtrain,
Somewhere to the South I heard them say.
Too bad it ended so ugly,
Too bad she had to go that way.
A nice playoff run could go a long ways towards helping us forget a truly ugly ending.
Simple answer: you're probably young enough that you don't have import things to worry about. In relationship to jobs, bills, cars, houses, kids, hopital bills, etc., if all you have to worry about is the Tigers losing a damn game then you should be glad. One day youll realize that it's just a game and there are more important things in life to worry about. Hopefully by then you'll be a strong enough person to deal with things not going how you'd like and you won't sit around being depressed about it.
In short, get over it. It's October and they're still playing.
Ingefanclub
10-02-2006, 12:58 PM
Good answer Yoda.
If the Tigers can't win 1 of 3 against the 62-100 Royals then they don't deserve to win the division.
And quite frankly if they would have won in 11 innings (tying them for 1st place with the Twins but winning the tiebreaker)...do they deserve to win the division because they squeaked 1 of 3 from the Royals?
They are playing bad now and have been for awhile...whether they play the A's or Yanks they will lose if they play bad....they will win if they play good. The Yanks aren't that much better than the A's. Tiger bats are coming around and should be able to score on the Yanks 3 & 4 pitchers.
cruzer1
10-02-2006, 01:10 PM
Like Clint said, "Deserves got nothing to do with it..."
thewave84
10-02-2006, 01:15 PM
I am still depressed (and I am a heck of a lot older than Yoda). I think I am depressed because, as much as I don't like it, I realized that the Tigers really aren't a very good team, they just fooled us for 2/3 of the year. I don't know how they did it, and it was magnificent, but it didn't last.
For awhile I was telling myself that it was just a cold streak that was bound to happen at some point, but yesterday I stopped believing that. This is not a matter of being "hot" or "cold". A very good team doesn't have a 50-game stretch (2 full months) where they play like a last place team.
I am still rooting for the Tigers (of course, I always have and always will) but I don't have very high expectations for the playoffs. It is much more likely that they will continue playing like the last 50 games than to suddenly revert back to the superior team that we saw for the first 4 months.
tigersfandm
10-02-2006, 01:18 PM
I'm very excited seeing all this coverage of the playoffs showing that the Tigers are part of the coverage for the first year since 87. THAT is pretty darn exciting to me.
DTroppens
10-02-2006, 01:20 PM
Yoda,
You are right. I don't take these things nearly as good or bad as I did just 10 years ago.
Still I am a bit bummed not that we are the WC but how we got it. Just win one of three games against the Royals and we had that huge lead on Sunday! I taped the last two games on radio and I'm sure I'll never listen to them.
All that said we made the playoffs. I really didn't care if we were the division champs or the WC team. We are in and we just have to win three out of five to advance. That didn't change no matter what happened.
dt35456884
10-02-2006, 01:23 PM
I'm with IFC. As a Tigers fan, I'm still very disappointed today. As a baseball fan, there's a sense of sweet justice that a team which put forth such a rotten performance down the stretch -- even as the division was practically gift-wrapped for them -- finally reaped what they sowed. We can now move on to the postseason, safe in the knowledge that we weren't cheated out of the division title but blew it fair and square.
Now let's go get the Yankees.
cruzer1
10-02-2006, 01:30 PM
We need Tanner right about now.
http://www.soakingwetchild.net/thebadnewsbears/tannerkick.jpg
Tyrus
10-02-2006, 01:47 PM
You know, I was thinking: If Tiger fans are depressed about backing into the LPAYOFFS, how do Cardinal fans feel?
IdahoBert
10-02-2006, 01:48 PM
I am still depressed (and I am a heck of a lot older than Yoda). I think I am depressed because, as much as I don't like it, I realized that the Tigers really aren't a very good team, they just fooled us for 2/3 of the year. I don't know how they did it, and it was magnificent, but it didn't last.
For awhile I was telling myself that it was just a cold streak that was bound to happen at some point, but yesterday I stopped believing that. This is not a matter of being "hot" or "cold". A very good team doesn't have a 50-game stretch (2 full months) where they play like a last place team.
I am still rooting for the Tigers (of course, I always have and always will) but I don't have very high expectations for the playoffs. It is much more likely that they will continue playing like the last 50 games than to suddenly revert back to the superior team that we saw for the first 4 months.This is everyone's deepest fear and I commend you for expressing it. It's sheer honesty, unvarnished.To elaborate, our deepest fear is that they are the same old Tigers that just got lucky somehow for the for first 112 games and that they have returned to what they have always been--losers. Those first 112 games though were won every bit as much as 31 of the last fifty were lost. We have to admit that for over 2/3's of the season they played better than just a lucky team can play.
Hey, I'm not overly optimistic, but try as I can I can't dismiss that 76-36 record. I'm not sure what happened to make them take a dive but they are not the same old Tigers we've known for years or we wouldn't be going to the playoffs.
This falls short of a ringing endorsement of our future but at least we have one. This is good!
cruzer1
10-02-2006, 01:56 PM
The Tigers were 19-31 to start the 1987 season. They're 19-31 to end this season. Hopefully they have more left in the tank this year.
The Tigers were 19-31 to start the 1987 season. They're 19-31 to end this season. Hopefully they have more left in the tank this year.
I think the worst result of this slump is yet to come. Now next season, every time they lose a game, we'll hear "OMG they're choking again!!!!"
FloridaTigers
10-02-2006, 02:01 PM
The Tigers were 19-31 to start the 1987 season. They're 19-31 to end this season. Hopefully they have more left in the tank this year.
Tigers lost the final three games of the 2006 season, while won the final three games in 1987. Perhaps the season of opposites? Which means...we'll finally overcome the Twins in the ALCS?
tigersfandm
10-02-2006, 02:03 PM
You know, I was thinking: If Tiger fans are depressed about backing into the LPAYOFFS, how do Cardinal fans feel?
My wife is a die hard cards fan and said she is very happy that the Astros didn't get in, but isn't too excited about this year for the Cards in the playoffs as she realizes the pitching is horrible and they overuse Carpenter because Larussa doesn't trust the bullpen for anything. She says that currently, just making the playoffs for the Cardinals is becoming old hat and now it is time to WIN the World Series. I said gee, I wish the Tigers were in that mindset thinking making the playoffs is old hat and not that big of deal of just getting into them. She of course credits all the Tigers success this year because the Cards were gracious enough to let Leyland go as their scouting person so the Tigers know how to manage a ballclub.. lol..
she also said that the Cards backed into their divison champsionship, but years from now, broadcasters and stat books will still say they won the divison, no matter how they did it, they still won it. and it will be part of a saying that announcers can boast to say for example "Your 5 time NL Central Divison champions St Louis Cardinals" to make it sound good for the public. which she has a point there.
Tigers lost the final three games of the 2006 season, while won the final three games in 1987. Perhaps the season of opposites? Which means...we'll finally overcome the Twins in the ALCS?
Yup. We all saw the effects of "momentum" that year. It means very little once you get into the playoffs. It's a new season and nothing else up to that point matters.
Anthony
10-02-2006, 02:15 PM
To make my self feel better, I watched a documentry on the cubs last night. Ohhhh boy do I feel great.
Sorta creepy when they started talking about that 69 team and how they blew a big lead they had in August.
Thank god for a wild card
dt35456884
10-02-2006, 02:19 PM
Apart from the disappointment of blowing the division title, the more I think of it the happier I am that we are heading straight into Yankee Stadium to start the playoffs. Hell, why not? Our team is being thrown straight into the furnace. No comfy home games to start, no mental safety net of facing a team we've been successful against this year. Straight into the pressure cooker against the best team in 2006 and the best franchise in baseball history. It'll either be a swift killing or one of the great chapters in Detroit Tigers history. I'm all for it.
That's a damn good point. It should be interesting.
catswithbats
10-02-2006, 02:25 PM
I'm just happy we got into the playoffs. I never would've expected this season, so I'm enjoying it as much as I can and trying not to dwell too long on the negatives.
Anthony
10-02-2006, 02:25 PM
Apart from the disappointment of blowing the division title, the more I think of it the happier I am that we are heading straight into Yankee Stadium to start the playoffs. Hell, why not? Our team is being thrown straight into the furnace. No comfy home games to start, no mental safety net of facing a team we've been successful against this year. Straight into the pressure cooker against the best team in 2006 and the best franchise in baseball history. It'll either be a swift killing or one of the great chapters in Detroit Tigers history. I'm all for it.
I like your thinking.
I'll adopt that attitude.
Tyrus
10-02-2006, 02:30 PM
Apart from the disappointment of blowing the division title, the more I think of it the happier I am that we are heading straight into Yankee Stadium to start the playoffs. Hell, why not? Our team is being thrown straight into the furnace. No comfy home games to start, no mental safety net of facing a team we've been successful against this year. Straight into the pressure cooker against the best team in 2006 and the best franchise in baseball history. It'll either be a swift killing or one of the great chapters in Detroit Tigers history. I'm all for it.
Dig it. I feel exactly the same way. No Tiger fan likes what happened during the past week. But I'm not one of those people who are wringing their hands and worrying about going to New York.
Win or lose, going into New York and dealing with that playoff pressure can only help our youngsters in the long run.
If we play like crap, we wouldn't have beaten the A's, either. I don't know why so many people are acting like the A's would have been a bargain in the first round, because they ain't. They may be tougher than the Yankees, in fact.
Either way...bring 'em on!
Ingefanclub
10-02-2006, 02:30 PM
Yup. We all saw the effects of "momentum" that year. It means very little once you get into the playoffs. It's a new season and nothing else up to that point matters.
The 1987 Twins lost their last 5 games to finish at 85-77. And promptly beat the TIgers 4-1 in the ALCS....then beat St. Louis 4-3 in the World Series.
monkeynuts
10-02-2006, 03:05 PM
Probably because you touch yourself at night.
IdahoBert
10-02-2006, 05:31 PM
Apart from the disappointment of blowing the division title, the more I think of it the happier I am that we are heading straight into Yankee Stadium to start the playoffs. Hell, why not? Our team is being thrown straight into the furnace. No comfy home games to start, no mental safety net of facing a team we've been successful against this year. Straight into the pressure cooker against the best team in 2006 and the best franchise in baseball history. It'll either be a swift killing or one of the great chapters in Detroit Tigers history. I'm all for it.Good post. This is a good way of looking at it.
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