With Thanksgiving a couple days away, I wanted to share twenty-five Detroit Tigers “things” that I am thankful for…

1. Mike Illitch and his commitment to win
2. Miguel Cabrera
3. Justin Verlander’s bounce back season
4. Sparky (Sparky Anderson)
5. Witnessing the ’84 team
6. Going to games with my dad and now my son
7. Sweet Lou & Tram (Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell)
8. Big daddy Cecil (Cecil Fielder)
9. Al Kaline still as part of the team
10. Magglio’s home run (Magglio Ordonez)
11. Opening Day in the D
12. Gibby (Kirk Gibson)
13. Jim Walewander scoring in the 12^th (’87)
14. Rod Allen (yea, I said it)
15. The Voice of the Turtle
16. Flag poles in play
17. Carlos Guillen popping his chain (for Jered Weaver)
18. The Corner
19. Home Runs out of the park
20. Double D
21. The Old English D
22. Must see JV and Miggy’s Triple Crown
23. Jimmy Smokes (Jim Leyland)
24. Doyle Alexander
25. Ty Cobb, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann, Norm Cash, Mickey Lolich, Hal Newhouser, and the other Tiger greats that I never got to see play