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Placido Polanco Shares Thoughts on 2006; Detroit Tigers Legacy: ?We were Like Family?.
from Tigers101
Polanco is always happy to return to Detroit, a city that he found embraced him uniquely more than any in his career.
"I played in quite a few cities and this was the only city where we had a house, we bought a house here. We came for Christmas," Polanco said. "I feel good there, I feel comfortable."
It was also the birth of an iconic image remembered to this day throughout Detroit. How iconic? Polanco himself still has the skull cap he wore under his helmet for extra warmth that day.
"I have it, I have quite a few of them," he said with a laugh. "It was cold."
Polanco stressed the closeness of the team which has been discussed as one of the most special in Tigers' history.
"I think Jim Leyland did a great job keeping us together. We treated each other like family, we really wanted to come and work. Every day was like 'wow, happy to see each other.' I've been on teams where that wasn't the case," he said.
The reason for that might have been Leyland, who Polanco credited with the team's success. "(He) kept the whole team loose all the time. Leyland was more than a manager for us, he was more like my dad. He taught me things that I use in my daily life."
