Sailing on a Sea of Negativity...

And so it begins. The Tigers lose one game (Opening Freakin' Day, no less) and every starts acting like it's game 6 of the World Series. One blogger even started a countdown of losses before the Tigers pass their losing streak of seven games at the beginning of last season. That's bad sportsmanship and poor fandom. It was ONE GAME, people. There's always tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and then 158 days after that. Given that only ONE AL Central will have recorded a win come tomorrow, I don't think that the loss tonight automatically disqualifies us from the playoffs.

Now, I don't enjoy watching my team get beat 12-5, but let's be honest here, did anyone really think that they were going to win tonight? Verlander was more wound up from all the hype of a fast start that you could probably spin him like a top. Roy Halladay has dominated the Tigers for his entire career. The fact that they even got the five runs off of him was pretty remarkable.

What I also don't enjoy seeing is things being thrown at my players. That is totally unacceptable. I'm not going to blame Blue Jay fans, because for all I know, it was a Tigers fan. Still, totally juvenile and a display of the worst sportsmanship possible.

Here's a fun fact for all the negative nancies: the only time the Tigers have given up more runs on Opening Day was in 1908, when they gave up 14 to the White Sox.

The Tigers went to the World Series that year.

So, maybe it's not such a bad thing, huh?

Lighten up, people. It's gonna be a long summer.