America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans across the ideological spectrum are of that. Much of the left rejects we’ve ever been good for the world, much of the right wants to stop being good for the world. Shame on all of them.
The Detroit Tigers are not a small market team.
According to Baseball Almanac, they rank just behind the Red Sox and slightly ahead of the Rangers as one of the larger markets in the sport.
The Ilitch family is also tied for the 8th largest net worth amongst MLB owners.