Do you root for traded Tigers to fail?

I rooted for them. They didn’t ask to be traded. I want good things for them. Just not against us.

Unless there is some extraordinary reason to not like them, I don’t generally root against players. I view Baseball as a team sport. As long as a player wears the ol D, I love em like my first born child. On another team, once in a while, I might continue to root for a player after he’s traded, but rarely against him. Polanco is definitely one that I’d like to see doing well. Maybe it’s easier to feel that way when he’s in the other league, and his team winning couldn’t hurt the Tigers unless we’re playing them.

A similar question is: do you root for division opponents in the playoffs? I don’t. More likely, I root against them, but it’s still very much an individual thing. I have been resentful of the Twinkies when I feel they’ve lucked their way into the playoffs, but it’d take an act of terrorism to get me to root for the Yankers over anyone!

if I liked them as Tigers, I usually like to see them do well elsewhere.

… play for the Twins and the Indians. Also AJ Pierzynski. Screw that guy.

But as far as Placido, Curtis, EJax and Pudge — never.

In fact, I almost never root against anybody individually. I want teams to win or lose, but unless a guy has really done something offensive, I wouldn’t root against a person. And as far as traded Tigers, I generally actively root for them. My ideal result for this season would be—well obviously, Tigs World Series Champs—but then for Curtis Granderson to have a career year on a Yankee team that does not make the playoffs.

And I like to see them succeed… Just not against us!

Curtis Granderson is not on my television every night for 6 months a year, no reason for me to root for or against him at all. I root for the Tigers, a few select non-Tigers players (Pujols, Lincecum, ManRam, etc) and that’s it. Even when I’m rooting for the Tigers, I find I’m rooting for the team and not the actual players. I don’t develop much of an intense bond towards any of them really.

I want them all to do well. Maybe not to play that great when they play against us, but I never want any of them to fail.

but when Jason Grille came back to town, or I even watched him pitch elsewhere, I was giddy to see him get knocked around, because it wasn’t our bullpen…. Everyone else, I wish them well, unless it costs us a game in some odd way.

But always against the Yankees and Twins

but since I am a card-carrying Yankee hater (and also an Orioles fan), I can’t root for him at all now. I feel awful about it since it’s not his fault he’s there, but there you go.

Total love/hate relationship with me. In a way, I hate playing them because it seems like they’e always found a way to “fundemental” or “small ball” us to death, but I also respect the team that they are and wish we could be them (with a little more sexy…aka HR’s for batters and K’s for P’s.)

As for players, I always root for the ex-players. But if they are doing poorly, I feel a lot better about the trades that shipped them out. It’s easier to feel good about the big Marlins deal when we see Andrew Miller toiling away in the minors and Maybin whiffing all the time. I guess it’s my way of creating a win-win situation. If they’re doing well, good for my old homies…if they stink, it’s a good thing we ditched ’em.

I don’t usually root for them, but I have no real anger towards them either. They (usually) didn’t ask for the trade.

Watching Grilli hit the suckwall was amazing. Same with Monroe.

Kyle Farnsworth and Jason Grilli… yes

Jack Morris used to be my favorite, but seeing him in a full length fur coat (albeit in MN one step removed from his tigers days) made it easy to turn on him. Same thing with Steve Kemp who went to the Yanks after a stopover with the CWS.
I can root against Carlos Pena for not “getting it” until he went from the tigs to redsox to yanks to rays.
I can root against Jeff Weaver for losing it after he left the tigs.

I was horrified when Cecil Fielder was traded to the Yankees, he just didn’t look right in that uniform, same for Jack Morris, Kirk Gibson, Lance Parrish, Willie Horton, Steve Kemp, Ron Leflore, Jason Thompson, etc. They were my guys, they played for my team. Once they leave the Tigers I always root for them to do well…unless, of course. they’re playing the Tigers…that’s where my loyalty will always be…to my team, my guys, the Detroit Tigers.