Kenny Rogers: Everyone shares in the blame

This Tiger team is looking like the biggest mess to come out of Detroit...since Margaret Whiting hooked up with Jack Wrangler!

“They were diving out over the plate more than I need to let them do,” Rogers said of the White Sox. “Bad sinker, hanging changeups, there were not a whole lot of good pitches I made out there. Disappointing, without a doubt not a recipe for success. We needed more and I didn’t give to us.”

But the hitters, in turn, aren’t doing much for the Tigers pitchers, either—what with being blanked four times in the first 12 games, one more than all of last season, and not scoring a run in the last 20 innings of the White Sox series.

“I just don’t think we’re a very good team right now,” Rogers said. “We may expect things to come our way, but they’re not. We’re as bad a team as there is right now in every facet. But that means myself as much as anyone. I’m supposed to be consistent, and to know what I’m doing, but I was very uncomfortable out there and inconsistent. So that makes it even more frustrating.

“Do we all think we’re better? Yes, but there’s not even been a glimmer of showing it.”