My friend Kevin wrote a blog yesterday bashing Derek Jeter. He made some pretty wild assertions that any person with an IQ above that of an impaled ferret would realize were satirical. Naturally someone (I am assuming some snobby liberal college student) went totally nuts on this. Perhaps he didn’t notice that Kevin referenced himself as a fan of the Detroit Tigers. Now I understand that Kevin isn’t going to go do drugs with Derek Jeter. As a Detroit fan he hates Jeter and would never share drugs with him even if Jeter sprung for them. He is a Detroit fan and considering the past two decades of this teams history (discounting 1987 and before) we got to give Detroit fans a bit of room to vent. Aside from the Piston’s what have they had to be happy about? The glory days of Michigan have gone since Chris Webber called the phantom time out in the 90’s. The Lions couldn’t win with Barry Sanders for crying out loud. We gotta cut these Detroit fans some slack, give them a little room to express the relief from their frustration, realize when a person is using satire. So if Kevin wants to slam Derek Jeter, I say slam away Kevin. Everyone has been slamming to Tigers for a really, really, really long time.