While watching the pristine teal green water waves of the Gulf of Mexico roll up on the sugar sand of St. Pete Beach Beach from my cabana chair here on Spring Break, I have been pondering a couple of these powerful thoughts:

How did my vision of a 35-5 start for this 2008 Detroit Tiger campaign (ala 1984) get crushed so abruptly? Finally we have one glimmer of hope following Wednesday night's 7-2 romp over the Red Sox, after the Tigers scored just 15 runs in its first 7 outings. At least it's not as bad as 2003, when the Tigers went 0-9 to start things off en route to 43-119. OK, behind these potentially potent bats and the much needed return of Curtis Granderson in the not too distant future, maybe the Tigers can creep back above .500 and make a 1984-type run. I can only hope.

How did Chris Douglas-Roberts get through this week, overcoming the glaring thought "if I could have just hit that second free throw," his team (the Memphis Tigers) we could have won a National Championship. The NCAA Tournament Final Four and Title game has some glorious moments for select players (like Keith Smart, Michael Jordan and Lorenzo Charles), but, man, it can have some horrific memories as well. Just ask CDR, Chris Webber and Fred Brown and many others.