The Detroit Tigers are appearing in the MLB playoffs for the first time since 1987 (I was 5 years old). Since winning the division title in '87, the team had a sucessful year in '88 leading the AL East for most of the season before entering a late season slump. In '89, the Tigers held the worst record in baseball with a 59-103 record. In '90 - '93, the team began to improve thanks to Fielder's bat, but the team lacked pitching and the players were beginning to age. From '94-'05, the Tigers did not post a winning record.
However, this year, 2006, the Tigers have made it at least to the American League Championship Series.
The '06 Tigers are a young team. With the likes of Granderson (MLB debut in '04), Monroe (MLB debut '01), Thames (MLB debut '02), Verlander (rookie), Zumaya (rookie), Bonderman (MLB debut '03), Robertson (MLB debut '02), Maroth (MLB debut '02), and Miner (rookie) among others, the Tigers are a team that may be less experienced than other teams, but "every newcomer possesses the capacity of beginning something anew."
This reminds me of Hannah Arendt's notion of natality (contra Heidegger's notion of mortality). Arendt writes of the "human condition of natality" is "the new beginning inherent in birth [that] can make itself felt in the world only because the newcomer possesses the capacity of beginning something anew".
"The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, 'natural' ruin is ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ontologically rooted. It is, in other words, the birth of new men and the new beginning, the action they are capable of by virtue of being born. Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope...It is this faith in and hope for the world that found perhaps its most glorious and most succinct expression in the few words with which the Gospels announced their 'glad tidings': 'A child has been born unto us.'"
These newcomers on the Tigers give me faith and hope and they have brought and are capable of bringing new beginnings to my favorite baseball team. Let's go Tigers!
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I originally intended to post this blog yesterday, October 9th, but it didn't post. I thought it was lost in the annals of cyberspace. Today, October 10th, I was sitting in my apartment listening listening to the Tigers game on my alarmclock radio. In the 3rd inning, Brandon Inge (MLB debut '01) hit a homerun. I checked my blog right after the homerun was hit, and this post was there! This was a moment that the miraculous broke into the mundane. Tigers '06!
PS. When I was about to push the "Login and Publish" button, Pudge hit a homerun.
I could NOT be happier!
To think they SWEPT the A's.
The last time a Haskill male was born, they won the World Series.
It all rests on Baby Boy this year!
Twenty-three years, and it is time.
Will miss you at the October Birthday's party tomorrow. I'll be sure to eat a piece of cake for you.
www.judyh58.blogspot.com
(blogger has been extremely strange lately)
wow chris good stuff. i like the tigers too!
Great read thankyouu
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