The Times and Travels of Nolan
Documenting trips I've taken and places I've seen.
What a ride it had been back to the promised land. 2014 was 10 long years in the rear-view mirror from 2024. It had been a long, long drought of terrible baseball since the last time the Tigers had made the playoffs. But in a rapid-fire, two-month strike of lightning, the drought was over. Detroit …
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How did we get here? In an abstract way, that’s a great question. The Detroit Tigers were in the middle of one of the greatest playoff runs in the history of Major League Baseball. They’d gotten off the deck – from 1 in 500 playoff odds to 4 in 10. With 7 games to go, …
Continue reading “The 2024 Detroit Tigers: How I Fell In Love With Baseball Again (Part Five)”
One thing you learn in sports: most great stories don’t actually end up happening. Dreams do come true for a select few teams, and it’s always at the hands of someone else. Being a sports fan is about embracing the journey, embracing the pain, and feeling sweet catharsis when your team finds its way into …
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Some things just belong together in this world. Ranch dressing belongs on a salad. Beautiful lakes belong in the mountains. And college football belongs on Saturday mornings in the fall. Don’t mess with what works. So that’s where we can pick up my narrative of the 2024 Detroit Tigers – on a college football Saturday. …
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Interior Alaska in August is a fair approximation of heaven. Imagine being there on your own for your first-ever visit, and you’re learning a whole new office and a whole new forecast area, and you’ve also got an area the size of Indiana to explore. You would feel like you didn’t want to waste any …
Continue reading “The 2024 Detroit Tigers: How I Fell In Love With Baseball Again (Part Two)”
There isn’t a more American sport than baseball. Sure, football is more popular, and basketball is more niche to just this country. But baseball has such a connotation with summer, hot dogs, and freedom, that you just can’t help but think of it as our national pastime. I grew up with that worldview: my first …
Continue reading “The 2024 Detroit Tigers: How I Fell In Love With Baseball Again (Part One)”
