Just an Empty Lot

I pass by the field which was Tiger stadium regularly, and I regularly sigh. What was once a grand baseball palace is now another Detroit vacant lot.

In all likelihood nothing will ever come of it. That's the City for you: all talk. Well, mostly talk: it amazes me that they cannot get an eyesore like the old train station on Vernor torn down despite its standing empty since the 80's, but they could get that ballyard razed within a decade of its closing.

I suppose it's all in their priorities. I think former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wanted it gone so that he could seem an active leader or to keep in the favor of the Ilitch family; no second stadium means no competition for their Tigers. Any way you slice it, there's one less chunk of Americana.

Heavy sigh. We do not appreciate things they way we ought. Yet we wonder why there's little respect for people and things anymore. There's a lesson in there somewhere, but we'll never learn it.