LAKELAND, Fla. — Kirk Gibson doesn’t want you to read this.
It’s a warm morning in early March outside the Detroit Tigers’ clubhouse at Joker Marchant Stadium when the former Tigers slugger, who now works as an analyst for Bally Sports Detroit, walks up to me. We’re both part of a small media contingent waiting to speak with manager A.J. Hinch at his pregame news conference before a spring training game.