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As you all know by now, Miguel Cabrera arrived home at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning drunk (he blew three times the legal limit, meaning it was at least a .24, so did the dude was pretty hammered) and got in a fight with his wife, where some type of blows were exchanged by both parties before the police were called.

I’m not really going to get into the domestic violence portion of this story, because we all know that’s a no-go, so just assume I’ve already bashed him for that.

But what the hell was Cabrera doing going out and getting wasted before one of the Tigers’ most important games of the season? I understand that ballplayers have lives, and after games sometimes they go out and have some beers. That’s fine. But 5 a.m.? On a day when your team is in a near must-win situation? Cabrera had to be picked up at 7:30 a.m. at the police station by the Tigers GM, and just 12 hours later began a game in which he went 0-4. Had the Tigers won that game, they wouldn’t be facing a one-game playoff tonight in Minnesota, with reduced playoff odds down to 43.2 percent, which is terrible considering that on Friday they were up around the 95 percent mark.