Fans react to Justin Verlander leaving the Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers traded Justin Verlander to the Houston Astros, just beating the midnight deadline. Fans are sounding off on the decision.

[UMOSU]

He'll be a Tigers legend forever. I hope he can help bring a championship to Houston . It's been such a difficult and tragic time for them. Houston is a great city and could use the boost that a World Series win would bring.

[ryanpmcp]

Dear Detroit Tigers,

From an Astros fan, we sincerely thank you.

[andypetrovich]

Glad to see Astro fans are appreciative. Good job winning the Series.

[houstontxdave]

Verlander is an Astros now. Now a World Series Champion! God Bless the Detriot Tigers

[Big_pimpin]

who knows maybe verlander will win a championship...oh wait

[d_walsh]

quite the legend, y'all are great fans Detroit of verlander, being a life long astro fan, wow he did great in the playoffs. we are very thankful. good luck tigers.

[thatyellow]

I can respect these fans, as a Astros fan, we thank the fan base for giving us a blessing. Maybe he'll win another ring next year!

[tripolicXcards]

We thank Verlander for helping us get that World Series title.

[jaybrick]

And now he's in the world series again

[gabrielbarboza]

Houston knows all to well how our teams will a trade...then that player..well in houston case those players go to other teams and help winn their new team a world series...thank you the city of Detroit..for your well wishing for Justin ..

[yKarmaPolice]

Justin Rose is gonna get traded to a different news station lol (because both players who were traded were Justins)

[BBBYpsi]

At least some day he will be in cooperstown as a Detroit Tiger again.

[stephanienealy]

The goat riding away from Detroit into the sunset

[amaysnj]

I hope he comes back to Detroit and helps us win a World Series with the team we're building

[deedonnerramone]

The final nail in the 2006 - 2012 coffin, time to rebuild, which is always painful and tough on fans to see the new cast of characters come in and form a winning. I think the manager Mr. G will bring back the ghost of Jim Leyland. We shall see.

[thatkidkirch]

Dear Detroit, this is a Houston fan speaking.

Thank you.

[summeronio]

Did he really just disrespect Isiah Thomas like that

[teddybagwell]

Is it just me or is this reporter extremely annoying? He seems to be antagonizing the fans in the way he's asking them questions

[steveroe]

Detroit's Mount Rushmore will have more than 4 people on it, starting with Ty Cobb, Hank Greenberg, Al Kaline, Jack Morris, Alan Trammell, Justin Verlander in baseball; in hockey, Terry Sawchuck, Ted Lindsey, Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Niklas Lidstrom, Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg; in basketball, Bob Lanier, Dave Bing, Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer, Ben Wallace; in football, Bobby Layne, Dick Lane, Billy Sims, Lem Barney, Barry Sanders, Calvin Johnson, Matthew Stafford, Lomas Brown, and Kevin Glover. Forgive me if I missed someone you thought was worthy, especially in baseball. Virgil Trucks, the only player in baseball history to win two games in the postseason without winning a single game in the regular season (1945) due to serving in the army during WWII. Fun fact.

[crazboy]

Detroit from Houston we're treating him and Kate like the king and queen