Ok, I admit it, I'm a native Detroiter and huge Detroit Tigers fan. We haven't had much to cheer about for the past two decades but the story link below from Daniel Howes of The Detroit News isn't so much about baseball as it is about leadership and how the fortunes of one team have lifted an entire region and helped reinstill community pride. A few weeks ago I was back in Detroit and there were billboards all over town for a local sports talk radio station written in a child's handwriting that read: Thanks Tigers for Making My Daddy Happy Again. " Brilliant, to the point marketing but an even more true and powerful indicator of the human emotion tied to sports or anything else a group of people choose to stand for (and behind). Take a read:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061013/OPINION03/610130336

 

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