I wrote three pieces this week of which I am proud. I’m not really a reporter, but these three involved, like, going to places, interviewing people and telling stories rather than just riffing on the news. Indeed, I fear I may have committed journalism.

The series was about the Detroit Tigers and how they find themselves at a crossroads:

• Two Weeks Which Changed Everything;
• Justin Verlander and the Definition of Insanity; and
• They’re Rebuilding …  at the Corner of Michigan and Trumbull.

The last piece is, in my humble opinion, especially good, as it deals with people and a city, not just baseball.

Of course there are limits to what hard work and storytelling will do for a guy in modern media. Yesterday, while literally waiting in line at Panera before taking the kids to go see “Ant Man,” I one-hand tweeted a tip I got about a trade that was going down between the Brewers and the Pirates. It, of course, got about 10x the play any of those long, well-written and reported pieces got.

Viva the 21st Century.