Farlane,

Totally agree seeing and hearing the Great Ernie Harwell on Friday night was a huge highlight. It reminds me of the summer-days of ’84 when we listened to him every night. How awesome would’ve that have been if the Tiges hit a home-run during that inning so we could’ve heard him once again do his legendary home-run call “it’s a llllllllloooooooonnnnnnnnnnngggggggg Drive, way back and gone!!!!”. I was hoping Ernie would’ve kicked those other two bumbs out of the booth. Joe Morgan – what a joke compared to Ernie!

Also, I think a lot of people now realize how strong their passion is about the Tigers when compared to the Pistons or Red Wings. Baseball is a much bigger family-event. It seems we can always remember back on a great childhood experience going to the old ball park with are dads and getting sick on all the cotton-candy.

How fast will Hockeytown be replaced again with ‘Tiger-Town’?

As I watched the games over the weekend, I realized that baseball is still my first love (sorry Pistons – we can still be friends). These Tigers play baseball in a way that’s exciting and effective. Now if only I can convince my son that baseball isn’t boring…

Also, thanks for the link to the A’s blog. I found a post that was the perfect intro to the ALCS there!

• The Yankees, who led the major leagues in runs scored during the regular season, did not score for 20 consecutive innings before posting a run in the seventh inning on Saturday. That was the longest postseason drought by a team that led the league in runs scored during the preceding regular season since the infamous 1919 White Sox (aka the “Black Sox”) failed to score in 26 consecutive innings against Cincinnati during the World Series.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....ops_061007

So before this series, the only way to be as bad as the Yankees were was to TRY to be that bad.

-Sam

1. I’ve never seen a team carry the manager up on their shoulders.
2. I’ve never seen a team bring the celebration out on the field.
3. Whichever player took the Leyland for Governor sign and held it up is priceless in my book (someone let me know who it is).

What a great team – praise the manager and reward and share with the fans. I couldn’t see any other teams doing it!

The Yankees are like the perfect rich couple that everyone knows. They have a lot of money, they take lots of trips, and they want for nothing. Their life, on the surface, is perfect. It isn’t until you go deeper that you realize that their marriage is a sham, and is entirely without joy.
In contrast, Detroit is the couple that has been married for a while, where nothing has come easily to them. They have gone through ups and downs; highs and lows, but they find that in the end, they have gone through it together, as a team, and when they finally succeed at something, the joy they experience is unparalleled.

I have a feeling that even if the Yankees would have won the World Series, their team–and their fans–could not have experienced even a fraction of the joy that took place in the ballpark in Detroit tonight. For Detroit, it was all about the unadulterated pure joy of winning a baseball game; for the Yankees, it simply was another day on the job.