Yeah, I was expecting Seger, Kid Rock, Eminem or maybe Motown.

Speaking as a Detroit Tigers fan, our experience is that anything started by Andy Oliver is doomed from the beginning.

Growing up with CBC broadcast in Detroit back in the pre-cable days was awesome. Apart from the pure glory of Hockey Night in Canada, we also got things like SCTV, Kids in the Hall, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and a bunch of other pre-export Canadian comedy.

Oh, please. The Pro Football Writers of America are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NFL-Television-Nike-Pepsi-Beer-Trucks-Boner Pills Complex. The instant a beat reporter starts committing journalism, they get shut out by the team from the access they need to differentiate themselves from J. Random SBNation Blogger.

Yes, Michigan hates Ohio.

Nobody lives in Auburn Hills.

Only the second biggest bullshit excuse a Detroit cop's heard from a Lions organization member. Let's not forget that Wayne Fontes once told the cops that the cocaine they found in his glove box wasn't his, it was his son's.

Wondering who "Admiral Semmes" is. (Raphael Semmes was arguably the most famous Confederate naval officer, captain of the very successful USS Mississippi.)

Nicely done.

I would have expected more smuggled hard liquor in southeastern Michigan. The Purple Gang and Al Capone did good business running Canadian Club from Hiram Walker's distillery right across the river all Prohibition long.

Just cut to the chase:

Why her?

I think it depends on how you define "media." There's other voices out there who move the discussion — Bankole Thompson, Jeff Wattrick, Jack Lessenberry, Mildred Gaddis, Ashley Woods, Nancy Kaffer, Charlie LeDuff, Carol Cain, Manny Lopez, Steve Neavling, etc. — who tend to be a bit more bloggy or alt-media but are…

And maybe a shillelagh for your Paddy whacking.

No debate here.

something with the potential to be a complete failure

You'd get America's Cup racing, where it's technically interesting but virtually unrecognizable to anybody who does the civilian version of the sport in question.

The rest of the country to New York: "If you can fold a pizza, it sucks."

It may be "Hockeytown," but the state sport of Michigan outside Detroit should be deer hunting. Get a mile or two out of town and it sounds like Fallujah at dawn on the opening day of firearm deer season.

And what I really fear might not change is the culture of corruption in city government. I've never seen any substantive allegations against Duggan, but he did come out of the Ed McNamara machine (where, among others, Bernard Kilpatrick learned his trade) and we've had persistent bad luck with that particular flavor…