You can forgive the Tigers for a little jocularity these days. They’re winning like crazy and just about everything is going well. In order to keep the momentum they did what a lot of teams do when spirits are light: they played dressup. Their costume of choice was Tigers-stripe Zubaz:
Yep @zubaz got us looking right @tigers pic.twitter.com/VUIrWfAXN3
— Joba Chamberlain (@Joba_44) May 19, 2014
But then this happened:
Plane broke, stuck in *Boston till tomorrow.. — Ian Krol (@IanKrolTKB) May 19, 2014
Our Zubaz were too much for the plane to handle. Lets try again tomorrow
— Bryan Holaday (@jbholaday) May 19, 2014
And back to the hotel with you at 3AM:
This isn’t fun.. @Max_Scherzer pic.twitter.com/4cMAA7dR45 — Ian Krol (@IanKrolTKB) May 19, 2014
The lesson, folks: next time, dress appropriately for air travel, lest you make your airplane so sick it breaks down on you.