Chris Ilitch 'excited' as Detroit Tigers advance to playoffs

[@Professional-fh1ow]

56 year old Tiger fan here, glad to see what may be the start of another 5+ year run with this young group and the farm talent. Some don't like the "Gritty" thang but man, it truly describes our state, not just the city...WE ARE!

[@dennisb-trains23]

Mike Illitch was cheering from above! 🐯🐅⚾🧢

[@noah.conley]

Hopefully Trevor will spend on this team

[@dennisb-trains23]

What do you want? Look what we got in Bumaez?

[@noah.conley]

@@dennisb-trains23 to ink Greene and skubal to extensions would be a nice start lmao! Mr I would never have a bottom 5 payroll in the mlb

[@jwcakes]

Trevor will spend all his grandpas money, it’ll be glorious lol

[@ajthagreat313]

@@dennisb-trains23bro before we signed Baez he was cheeks we never should’ve signed him. I want bregman snd and a number two pitcher

[@davidcassidybooksbymarlene6014]

Tiger fan for 55 years in the Kaline-Cash-Lolich etc glory days, through the 80s and now. I've never seen such raw determination on this young team, who for years now have ridden the legacy of past Tiger greats. I am ecstatic that in my lifetime I get to see them in another playoff. Last playoff game I went to was when they played the Cardinals and it was sad to seeing them lose the World Series - so exciting to see how they've turned the baseball world on its ear.⚾🐅

[@charleswalker3781]

Mr. I must be smiling.

[@TheUnnamedAssailant]

Don’t get cheap Chris, get Skubey signed here long term, get a nice couple bats, and make a Dynasty in the D

[@SaucednFound7]

The locker room background noise is crazy 🎉 I wish I was there lol sounds like a good time

[@brandonknight431]

Illitch is like "this is great! I didn't have to spend any more money!!!"

[@hen8950]

Hire back Al Sobotka. Detroit loves that dude.

[@AaronRobinson-fg4ic]

Congratulations mr Chris Illich

[@jimbo91262]

Bravo Chris Ilitch for hiring AJ and Scott!!! Bravo!!!

[@blumberg1982]

Mazel Tov Jeff Greenberg and the entire Tigers team, staff and fanbase and organization on an amazing accomplishment!! Let’s gooooo!!

[@bigson1973]

Now open the wallet Chris and pay Skubal and keep him here

[@yarmezhenderson4204]

CONGRATULATIONS CHRIS llinch let,s go detriot tigers 🎉

[@rock1724]

Nice interview, I hope we dump some money into this team next year!

[@Dman-ex6oj]

Not because of you Chris. IN SPITE OF YOU!!

[@donosterlingheightsmi1696]

Let's Stunn the Baseball World and bring home a World Series Championship...It's been since 1984..I can still see Larry Herndon catch the last out . Remember Kirk Gibson hit a blast off Goose Gossage...ALong time ago I was just 13 years old ... 31-11 is almost 35-5 only to end a regular season instead of starting the season ...Proud of the Tigers but let's Finish this more work to do...LETS GO "DETROIT VS EVERYBODY"

[@mangrove]

Motor City Gritty 🐯

[@PatrickC63]

I give Chris I absolutely no credit for the way the coaches and players have come together. This season reminded me of the movie Major League, where the owner did everything possible for the team to lose. These players and coaches weren’t having that!

[@BubblePopper24-du8bb]

Good Dad alert! Not drinking because his son is there. Nice

[@jaysonb.6669]

Ran the team into the ground for the past 7 yrs. Better spend some money next offseason cheapo

[@resetthis9838]

They've been saying they were waiting for the team to turn the corner to invest and bolster the lineup... I would say that now they have.

[@brandonknight431]

You know he won't spend shit this off-season. Go lions

[@smithjones6315]

@@resetthis9838 So I wonder what their excuses will be now.

[@markparent4914]

No thanks to you Chris. Your dad would be ashamed

[@dennisb-trains23]

You must be a trump lover. All your negativity is a positive atmosphere is sweltering.

[@billherman7294]

​@dennisb-trains23 So u brought politics into this wonderful night, shame on u. Besides, he has a point, but you don't get it and u went political

[@dtemesy3143]

Shut up dude

[@gordonjones6436]

@@dennisb-trains23 the TDS is showing

[@Jay_Cannon]

@@dennisb-trains23 you must be a Harris supporting woke cupcake because you seem like you have an incredible lack of intelligence, a spectacular lack of awareness of reality and have to make everything political. Maybe you’ll cap it all off like the typical woke cupcake and tattle on my comment because your butt hurt fragile mind got it’s feelings hurt, so bad man’s opinion should be censored. Since I’m sure you’re so in love with supporting Ukraine do us all a favor and relocate there. 👋

[@ajthagreat313]

Spend some money

[@ararefish123]

Chris is a good dude

[@lilPavs13]

Just not a good owner

[@AaronRobinson-fg4ic]

​@@lilPavs13you right he is a great owner

[@lilPavs13]

@@AaronRobinson-fg4ic his father was a great owner 👍

[@AaronRobinson-fg4ic]

@@lilPavs13 his father messed up our farm system. You win with young talent now.

[@brandonknight431]

Sucks as an owner

[@Bias1978]

Hell no he didn't expect to be here !

[@rompstomp1454]

No thanks too you Chris

[@RogueStatusQVX]

Can we get rid of Bally already? Make the games so people in the city can actually watch them without it being behind a paywall.. ? That would be great

[@keithnelson5554]

This idiot had nothing to do with it. He just had dumb luck. He still needs to go. He sold the team out and they persevered. Its like a real life version of the movie Major League.

[@AaronRobinson-fg4ic]

Man shutup you grumpy old man

[@brandonknight431]

One of the worst owners in sports, they won despite him, now I'm sure he's happy he didn't have to spend any more money, and he won't this off-season. Huge cheapskate, I don't even watch the tigers

[@donbaker3993]

@@brandonknight431 He'll always be cheap.

[@billherman7294]

Pull some money out of that snot locker

[@Jay_Cannon]

This 🤡 tried his best to make this team fail, but even with him working against them, not willing to part with a buck, they still did it. Sellers at the deadline, won’t invest a dime. Still did it in spite of your attempts to crush the team.

[@thewizardofoz511]

You wasn't supposed to say that😅 😭 you know damn well this man thinks he looks like a genius with what's going on and how it went on..😂..n you can't tell him nothing right now.. this man thinks he's the ish..

[@dtemesy3143]

Do you believe that? He tried to make this team fail? Man, some lunatics in here

[@Jay_Cannon]

@@dtemesy3143 sure do, you need to invest in you team, which he does not. He forced Hinch to play Baez because he did open the wallet up to one awful player he vastly overpaid. Plenty of holes to fill essentially and again him & his crony Scott Harris basically said they weren’t adding anything. They were SELLERS at the deadline. They stumbled upon this, this was not the plan. The plan was to tank the season, that’s what sellers do. I may have overstated he’s trying to ruin the team, but yes, I fully believe he doesn’t care about performance, I think he knows they’ll make his money, he knows he makes more money if they don’t spend to get quality players, and he doesn’t give a sh*t what you or I think about it. Does not care about the fans one bit. To him we’re just idiots who continue to pay to watch his team filled with a talentless plethora of subpar players. Tell me where I’m wrong 🤷 Don’t just comment what’s tantamount to “gee some people” with zero retort or without anything to prove me wrong. Give me a reason this is incorrect or what I said that isn’t true.

[@brandonknight431]

Hes almost as bad as John fisher, owner of the A's. Same deal, born into money and clueless, and money hungry.

[@brandonknight431]

​@@dtemesy3143umm yes, Chris sucks at being an owner, he needs to sell the team to someone who will invest in this team. They did this despite Chris.

[@h2oford965]

You have a celebration when you win something. Tigers didn't win nothing. And loss the worst team on the weekend. Tiger suck just like the lions

[@SocialAssasin89]

Bro own up spend this off season you got hot n ready money

[@brandonknight431]

He ain't spending shit, I bet they will keep Baez next season, lmfaooo

[@SocialAssasin89]

Spend some money then chief

[@brandonknight431]

He's happy as hell that he didn't have to spend any money to get into the playoffs, as hard as he tried to miss them. Loser owner