The stalwarts still showed up Sunday afternoon as the Tigers mercifully closed the book on the home chapter of a nightmarish season.
Perfect weather clashed with the imperfect year.
But that didn't stop the loyalists from one last trip to Comerica Park and thus one last chance at seeing the structural frailties that crashed and burned the 2015 campaign.
Perhaps desensitized by chronically faulty pitching, the crowd of 33,000-plus barely murmured their discontent when the Tigers pulled transient starter Randy Wolf in Minnesota's six-run second inning.
Everyone's comfortably numb by now.
That's why the stunning news of Brad Ausmus returning in 2016 didn't exactly set Detroit afire in furious rage Saturday.