Here’s reason 11:

11. Verizon Wireless drops call right in the middle of DD’s conversation…he say’s Neifi, Tigers confuse for Dimitri…

10. He and Leyland go camping together at Brokeback mountain during the offseason

9. During our last road trip, he procured photos of Mike Illitch in a lap-dance at Scores in NYC

8. DD lost $1 bet with Cubs General Manager, Jim Hendry

7. Neifi’s employment is actually part of a work-release program Mike Illitch committed to, mistaking the Tigers with Little Caesar Pizza employees

6. Working the contrarion position worked for Leyland once on his stock portfolio…so what the heck?

5. DD can boast on resume he led Tigers to 2006 AL Central division champs with 8 player handicap

4. Neifi carries the teams luggage on road trips

3. Tigers needed a community spokeman for uplifting underprivagled kids during off-season; “…if I can be a ballplayer, you can be anything…”

2. Leyland plays the insanity/genius card, in attempt to secure his legacy as one of the best MLB managers ever

AND THE #1 REASON Neifi Perez is allowed to play professional baseball:

1. Neifi agrees to deliver pizzas for free for Mike Illitch during offseason

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DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Sports Writer
Though the Tigers still have the best record in the AL, they arrived at this series with a chance to fall out of sole possession of first place for the first time since May 20 — a sobering possibility for a club that climbed 40 games above the .500 mark, at 76-36. With pressure from both the Twins and White Sox, the playoffs are by no means a sure thing.

Detroit will finish the weekend still on top of the division, but Minnesota wasn’t worried.

“We’re still in good shape,” Tyner said. “I think we feel all right. We haven’t been playing that great, but luckily neither have the Tigers or White Sox.”

Keep up the great work billfer !!!!!!!!!

Until this morning, I had the Verlander SI cover on my coffee table, next to the john, by my night stand, at work… It was cherished.

This morning, I threw it with the weekly trash pickup. What happened? Big time Verlander win!

I’m not a big jinx guy, but that was weird.

So, do what you want with your Verlander SI covers, but know, for me, it was really nice to throw it out. I’m also pretty sure SI will send us backcovers in the future.

Yay Tigers!

It seemed the majority of White Sox fans actually want the Tigers to sweep the Twins because they feel they can always catch the Tigers later and they want the Twins eliminated. That doesn’t make any sense, especially with the White Sox loss tonight.

It’s probably because they don’t care about catching the Tigers as much as they care about locking up the wildcard. They won’t admit that, of course.

My fear is the symbolism of him finishing with 19, which is what the short lived wonder Mark “The Bird” Fidrych did in his rookie year, is not good.

I don’t care about symbolism. I just want them to protect his arm.

Anne has even been posting tonight, have not seen her in a while good to see you.

Steve

Tigers magic # is now at 18. Not bad with 22 games left. Because of the struggles the Tigers have had I am predicting that the Tigers won’t clinch the Division until the last home stand, but if all goes well it will be against Toronto and not go all the way to the last weekend. If it does though we have the Twins vs. White Sox to hedge our chances on.

It is amazing watching the White Sox message board on their MLB website. It seemed the majority of White Sox fans actually want the Tigers to sweep the Twins because they feel they can always catch the Tigers later and they want the Twins eliminated. That doesn’t make any sense, especially with the White Sox loss tonight.

Does anyone knows if it is realistic for Verlander to still win 20 games? I think with 22 games to go he may still get 4 more starts which means he would have to win all of them. My fear is the symbolism of him finishing with 19, which is what the short lived wonder Mark “The Bird” Fidrych did in his rookie year, is not good.