It is the players who play and should receive most of the accolades or in this case the opposite, but I think it is odd(abnormal stat) that this happens every year.

Haven’t looked it up, but to me it is odd enough to warrant looking it up when I have some excess time.

The right move would have been to suspend him for Saturday’s game with a simple announcement to the effect that he had violated team rules.

“I don’t think being a professional athlete is enough cause to forfeit your privacy.”

Well the word “think” in this case is your value judgment and it doesn’t matter what you think, the fact is it is enough to forfeit your privacy.

And my value judgment is the following

I shouldn’t physically FORCE anyone to do anything and likewise towards me but, I can hold my own views based upon their actions and conduct myself towards them accordingly.

I have a simple problem that I want input on….

I bought a lot of playoff tickets. I am a season ticket holder. When I bought extra tickets I got stunk with tons of fees. $12 per ticket. I don’t get that money back even if the game doesn’t happen.

If they lose and don’t make the playoffs that was my problem for buying the tickets. However, if Dave D., as president allowed a drunk man to play the game of baseball then I have a problem losing that money.

Anyone in for a boycott of buying season tickets again if they don’t refund fees?

Besides I’m not imposing my personal values on anyone. I’m merely calling a spade a spade. I have no authority over the Tigers front office, or Miguel, they don’t give two bleeps what I think, and that’s fine.

Miggy can do whatever he wants, Bravo! so can I, I can boo him and root for him to fail until he comes to grips with reality.

Truth be told, 95% of the time there are minor incidents that precede extreme ones such as this. The Tigers probably didn’t hold him accountable then, thus encouraged/enabled his irresponsibility. They are merely reaping what they sowed then(yes this is speculation, but it’s based on wisdom and experience).

Point is, if the Tigers, as an organization, have certain standards, then you minimize or even completely eliminate things such as this, however if you throw away your standards, then you’ll reap the fruits, sooner or later. In other words, there’s a 90% chance the Tigers, down the road, will have to deal with FAR worse than just a superstar missing one game if they just blow this off, and by doing so put their stamp of approval on such behavior.

Besides, Miggy is just one player. The idea that the Tigers automatically lose because he’s not in the lineup is ludicrous. In fact, If the Tigers had done the correct thing and benched him on Saturday, when he was hungover and clearly not ready to play, there’s a good chance the Tigers would be getting ready for the Yankees right now(someone said he went 0-4 and left 6 men on base…yeah, we can’t win without that kind of performance). I don’t accept the notion that sitting Miggy = automatic loss.

I too feel that through the course of any given year, we recreate by watching the game, and understand that a baseball season is an ultimate “project” or undertaking. It’s the culmination of 10’s of thousands of hours of practice and experience that we mostly only hope can be duplicated by our children as they grow up, most never make it. To have the arrogance to perform this way is inexcusable considering the “investment” of all parties involved. If we miss the AL central Clinch for 2009 this will surely go down as the red flag event of the season.
The frustration of the Royals, Twins, and Sox series are having new light shed on them, if this type of behavior is tollerated it certainly has to contribute to at least some of the dead bats of these series, certainly his own. Is Cabrera this the new Dmitri Young?? The guy who tripped and fell on his face on his way to 1st base in 2006? When there are men on 2nd and 3rd with 0 or 1 out, and we cannot muster a single, over and over, as a fan watching, it’s like being gutted alive.