Yeah I'm suffering through it. I've been a die hard Tiger fan my whole life so I've suffered through worse (2003 season comes to mind
) Every once in awhile a team will have a game such as this one where nothing they do works and everything goes the other teams way. That's how this first game has went all night. Verlander's talent is by far the best in the entire MLB in my opinion. BUT he does have one weakness and that is he tends to have a bad outing when he is under huge pressure at the beginning of a big series like this (or like the All Star game). The only good thing to come out of this game is that they get all this bad playing out of their system now and focus on winning tomorrow night.
I never have liked Valverde and I think the team covered his saves more than anything in last seasons big "perfect season" for him. But I understand why they put him in tonight. Basically the game was already lost so bring him in to see if the "work" Jones and he did had any effect over the last week or two on his pitching. And I think it did have an effect....he got worse!
Never fear though....Of the four World Series titles the Tiger have won, three of them started off with losing game 1.
