Are Detroit Tigers Fans Spoiled?

Aug 28, 2014; Detroit, MI, USA; Fan wait for autographs before the game between the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees at Comerica Park. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports

While Max Scherzer was signing a contract with the Washington Nationals last night the twitter verse was blowing up. Yet looking through mixed tweets of wishing the leaving pitcher good luck, there was this wave of hate by Detroit Tigers fans. There was a mix of about even love and understanding and hate.

Then I saw an interesting tweet by someone who shall remain anonymous that said, Detroit Tiger fans have become spoiled, they should be thankful for the players they have.

While in the past I myself have called Detroit Tiger fans spoiled, it was for a different reason. It was for not cheering on the team throughout the playoffs. In the last few games of the playoffs Comerica Park was silent after the team got into a hole and the fans seemed to stop caring.

After the season, fans called for Brad Ausmus to be fired, and that General Manager Dave Dombrowski should follow him. They seemed to think that the team needed a whole rebuild even though the team wasn’t that bad… They did make the postseason after all. In fact they have been really good the past five seasons, since 2006 they have been a contender minus like one season when things just didn’t click and that is fine because it was one season not any more than that.

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So when the “I hate this team” and “They need to fire Ausmus” post started to pop up on Facebook and Twitter and I noticed something among the trend of the people posting them. They were mostly fans around my age, so in their early 20’s to people still in high school. This is my generation of Tigers fans and they most likely didn’t really get into Tigers baseball until after the 2006 season, maybe before but for the most part we haven’t had many bad season of baseball from the Tigers.

I wrote an open letter to Tigers fans after the end of the season out of frustration for them and all the fans who sat in the seats at Comerica and showed no life. It basically told them to shape up or ship out because the team doesn’t need fans that give up so easily on them. The response… Yeah I got told I didn’t know what I was talking about, I was being too harsh and that fans shouldn’t always have to cheer for their team when they are losing.

To which I ask why do you watch sports? You watch them to root for a team and stick by them through winning and losing, it is called loyalty. I understand that people were upset when I called them spoiled. I mean when I saw this persons tweet about how Tiger fans were being spoiled because they had lost Scherzer to another team, I was a little hurt. I thought I had a good reason to be upset but not because I wasn’t happy with my team already, it was because he didn’t want to stay with us after we gave him three plus good seasons.

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Again it goes back to the loyalty thing. We as fans have to be loyal to our team, sometimes you expect the players to do the same. Scherzer seemingly was taken away from the Tigers because of money. He wanted more than the team was willing to play him and that is always hard to deal with as a fan.

What is honestly the difference between $150 million, $180 million and $200 million? They are all large amounts of money that you will probably never spend all of, unless someone takes it all from you. So when a player picks money over the team, you should feel a little salty, it is a little ridiculous honestly.

In the end, I think in ways Tigers fans are spoiled, however with the unhappy feelings towards Scherzer leaving is not them being spoiled more than it is just the salty feeling that a player we all loved decided to pick money over us. Eventually we all have to get over it and move on, which in time will happen.

What do you think? Are Detroit Tigers fans spoiled? Is it just the younger fans? Let us know below.

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