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Monday, October 16, 2006

World Series Bound!

Back in April, if you would've told me that the Detroit Tigers would be playing in the World Series this year, I probably would've wondered if you were a crack addict. Seriously, although the Tigers have been my favorite sports team since I was a teeny-tiny lad, they'd not had a winning season in 13 years. 1984 was but a dim (but wonderful) memory, being the last time the team had appeared in that ultimate sports showdown.

But, allegations of your addiction aside, here they are. Saturday night, the Detroit Tigers clinched the American League pennant, completing a four-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with a 6-3 victory that was punctuated with a three-run walk-off home run by Magglio Ordoñez. (SIDE NOTE: Oakland's Frank Thomas is nicknamed "The Big Hurt"... but he went O-for-13 in this series... my new nickname for him: The Mild Inconvenience.) It was pandemonium (or fandemonium?) in Detroit Saturday night following the game... but in a good way. No rioting, no burning of police cars... more like lots of hugs, high-fives, whooping and hollering. Finally, the erstwhile Hockeytown reverted to Tigertown.

It's been 22 years since the Tigers appeared in the World Series (in a ridiculously lopsided four games to one victory over the San Diego Padres). Let's see... the critics picked the New York Yankees to beat the Tigers... they were wrong. The critics picked the Oakland A's to beat the Tigers... they were wrong. Now, I'm waiting to see whether it'll be the Mets or the Cardinals who end up playing the Tigers in the World Series... so the critics can pick them to beat the Tigers... and be wrong.

Go Get 'Em, Tigers
We're all behind our baseball team
Go get 'em, Tigers
World Series bound and pickin' up steam
Go get 'em, Tigers
There'll be joy in Tiger Town
We'll sing you songs
When the Bengals bring the pennant home
Where it belongs
We're all behind our baseball team
Go get 'em
Detroit Tigers
Go get 'em, Tigers!

Favorite quote: "That Polanco guy is a pain." -- Oakland A's relief pitcher Huston Street.
Posted by at 1:06 PM

6 hopefully thoughtful response(s):

  1. OH NO!!! NOT you too! I have lost both of you and rainman to BASEBALL?!?!??!!
    UNBELEIVABLE!!!
    ~searches for remote~
    I am watching Football!
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  2. Baseball is the grandest and most elegant sport there is. Nothing can touch it, and I mean nothing.
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  3. ~grumbles~
    Fine, Still wuv you!
    I am just over here watching Football! ;o)
    I jsut don't get the love of baseball...I just don't. I am VERY sorry. I wish I could...I mean...it's so apple pie and dinner at mom's...

    LOL ;)
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  4. Baseball is a wonderful sport, if only because of the sound of a game, late at night, over the radio. It's pure poetry. Go Tigers! (But Go Mets, too!)
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  5. Jim
    After reading that post about the 84 Series it brought back some serious memories. That was the year I bought my first house and was in the middle of a serious remodel job during the series. I watched the dam thing on a 12" B & W TV. All I could afford at the time.

    Super - Its a guy thing, you wouldnt understand. :)

    Lets Go Tigers!
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  6. 1984 was the first year I was in the US. I watched the World Series in bars in Aspen where we were living. I still remember Alan Trammel, Jack Morris and Kirk Gibson after all those years. I grew to appreciate baseball after a few years in the US, but was initally bored by the headlines in Washington DC with Eddie Murray bashing balls out of Memorial Stadium in many Baltimore lop sided losses in those days.

    Living in Australia now, I couldn't care less and am completely caught up in cricket again.
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