Dan Dickerson was every Tigers fan with spot-on NSFW hot mic moment after elimination

Dan Dickerson was not in the mood to recap the Detroit Tigers' heartbreaking ALDS Game 5 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Honestly, who could blame him?

The longtime Tigers radio announcer was clearly feeling all the emotions that the Detroit fanbase was after their team ended up on the losing end of an historic, 15-inning rollercoaster – anger, frustration and dejection chief among them. He captured every one of those emotions – colorfully – when he was caught on a hot mic after the devastating loss.

"We'll be back to talk about it after this on the Detroit Tigers radio network," Dickerson said before he thought he was off the air. "I don't have to do a game [recap], ah f---. F--- this game recap. Oh, I'm sorry, was that out loud?"

Dan Dickerson said what every Tigers fans was thinking during NSFW hot mic moment after ALDS loss

In Dickerson's defense, it was after 1 a.m. in Detroit by the time the nearly five-hour marathon of a game ended on a walk-off RBI single from Seattle's Jorge Polanco. Many Detroit fans shared Dickerson's frustration with how the game – and the season – ended for the Tigers.

The Tigers had taken a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning on a two-run homer from Kerry Carpenter, while ace Tarik Skubal pitched six innings of one-run ball with a whopping 13 strikeouts – the most ever by a pitcher in a winner-take-all postseason game. But the Mariners tied it up almost immediately after Skubal exited, and the score remained deadlocked until Polanco's walk-off hit in the 15th.

Dickerson, for his part, expressed remorse for his actions (and his F-bombs) in a statement provided to the Detroit Free Press after the incident.

"I want to sincerely apologize for swearing during a break in the post-game last night," Dickerson said. "Our mics were inadvertently left open — but I know better than to swear into an open mic. It was said in a moment of frustration, and not a reflection about how I feel about doing the game recap — just how I felt about doing it in that moment after a five hour, 15 inning, season-ending loss. I'm very sorry any fans had to hear it — my apologies again."

Respect to Dickerson for issuing the apology with regard to his swearing, but Tigers fans can't fault him for feeling as passionate as wins and losses about they do. After all, it's one of the reasons Detroit loves him so much.