Those TV fans who remember The West Wing might recall the headline above (well, ok, not the payroll part). It was the phrase that the President’s staff debated putting into or taking out of his State of the Union speech. Eventually, they changed course and took the phrase out of the speech.
As Tigers general manager Al Avila searched Tuesday for a term to describe the plan upon which the team is embarking, he didn’t come up with that phrase. But other terms came to mind.
“I can’t call it a rebuild, because we haven’t broken anything down,” Avila said.