We thought we’d escaped it, we really did.
Back at the end of April, an act of god — or nature, or both, depending on your viewpoint — washed away the Detroit Tigers’ theme-night attempt to celebrate the ’90s .
Done and dusted, we thought. No need to relive that decade, when yours truly was going through puberty and other painful times and the Tigers, well, they were just painful: eight losing seasons, 150 games under .500, an average of 85 losses per year (and that was only because the 1994 players strike and 1995 owners lockout wiped out nearly 70 games) and just one finish higher than third place in the AL East and/or Central.