(Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)
There’s just one problem with Al Avila casting himself as baseball’s version of Winston Churchill, which is something the Tigers’ general manager inadvertently did the other day while defending his own battle plan here in Detroit.
If this is, in fact, the Tigers’ “darkest hour,” as Avila suggested last Friday while effectively announcing his own contract extension, do you trust him to turn the lights back on? And beyond that, do you really believe his boss, Chris Ilitch, is serious about paying the electric bill?
If you do, fine. Go ahead and ignore the shade the Tigers threw at their fans this weekend as the major-league ballclub limped into the All-Star break with the second-worst record in baseball, losers of 37 of their last 47 games and 24 of their last 27 at Comerica Park.