The match was billed as the "Battle of the Billionaires". Other featured matches included an eight-man tag team match between The ECW Originals and The New Breed and an eight-man interpromotional Money in the Bank ladder match. Tickets for the event went on sale on November 11, 2006. The event set the all-time Ford Field attendance record of 80,103 people people from all fifty U.S. states, twenty-four countries, and nine Canadian provinces attended the event. WrestleMania 23 grossed $5.38 million in ticket sales, breaking the previous record of $3.9 million held by WrestleMania X8. WWE estimated that $25 million was pumped into the Detroit economy. With about 1.2 million buys, the event, at the time, was the most bought WWE pay-per-view in history. 2012's WrestleMania XXVIII surpassed the event as the most bought WWE pay-per-view, receiving 1.21 million buys. Īn attendance record setting 80,103 fans at Ford Field for WrestleMania 23 WrestleMania 23 was also the fifth highest attended WrestleMania in history behind only WrestleMania 29 (which drew 80,676 fans), WrestleMania 35 (which drew 82,265 fans) WrestleMania III (which drew 93,173 fans), and WrestleMania 32 (which drew 101,763 fans). WrestleMania is considered World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) flagship pay-per-view (PPV) event, having first been held in 1985. It has become the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April. It was the first of WWE's original four pay-per-views, which includes Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four". WrestleMania 23 was scheduled to be held on April 1, 2007, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. In like a lamb, out like a skewered lamb chop.The event featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW brands. That’s what we should say about the Detroit Tigers in April.Īt least that’s been the best way to describe the past two Aprils under manager A.J. Hinch, whose squad just closed out the cruelest month with a 7-13 record. Last year, it was an even crueler 8-19 record in April. That’s two Aprils and one abysmal 15-32 record.Īccording to the math nerds over at Fivethirtyeight, the Tigers are headed for a 70-92 record and then to the street, right out on their keisters during the expanded playoffs. The analytics website gives the Tigers a 6% chance of making the postseason and a 3% chance of winning the American League Central.īut if the Tigers even have that minute of a chance to make the playoffs, it has to start this month. It has to start tonight, when they kick off a two-game set at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the few teams that’s even worse.Īnd that’s saying something, when you consider the Tigers’ 7-14 record was the worst in the AL after Sunday, just a smidge better than the Pirates’ 9-13 record. Look, I’m not trying to sell false hope here. But the Tigers had the misfortune of playing some really good teams in April like the New York Yankees, the Minnesota Twins and the Colorado Rockies. They also closed out the month with a three-game set on the road against the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers. I felt bad for the Tigers as they headed to LA riding a five-game losing streak. I feared it was going to be the worst smackdown in LA since Chris Rock’s face got in the way of Will Smith’s hand a few weeks ago. Incredibly, the Tigers took a game off the Dodgers on a night when Clayton Kershaw was fantastic, turned in a quality start and broke Don Sutton’s franchise strikeout record. The Tigers lost the series, but they only dropped the other two games by scores of 5-1 and 6-3, and they brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning in the finale. “Nice to kind of escape one, I guess, if you will,” Walker Buehler, the ace on one of baseball’s best teams, admitted to reporters after Sunday’s game. I know a lot of people hate the idea of moral victories. If you think all that matters in sports is the final result, and not what you learned along the way, then you’re probably the kind of golfer who skulls a 7-iron, watches it bounce to 3 feet of the cup and then thinks you hit a good shot. “We didn’t play well enough to win,” Hinch told reporters after the Tigers got 10 hits Sunday. “But offensively, at least we’re inching closer.”Īustin Meadows, Tucker Barnhart, Javier Baez and Harold Castro have been wonderful at the plate, though Akil Baddoo, Jonathan Schoop and Eric Haase need to improve significantly. The bullpen has been the best in baseball. Tarik Skubal, Michael Pineda and Beau Brieske have had strong starts while posting ERAs no higher than 3.60. Now, here comes May and a softer schedule. Only two teams, Minnesota and Tampa Bay, out of the Tigers’ seven opponents had records better than.
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