!!!!!!!!!how 'bout Dem Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diane Likens]

22 years! Sweet, sweet VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Billie Goodson]

I thought you meant Auburn :(

[LoraineStanton]

Swept the A's!!!!! Tigertown is EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

[Gina Stevenson]

Swept the A's!!!!! Tigertown is EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

Yeah, I'd never sit outside for football, but perhaps, since it's been so long, if someone gave me a Series ticket, I'd go sit outside for it --- fully dressed for winter, of course, with a couple of hot thermoses! ;)

'Hear the tickets for even the playoffs were over $100, so who knows what a Series ticket might be.

This reminded me of when I was living elsewhere and the team made it to the World Series. Lived in Phoenix when the Diamondbacks were in the Series. Hmmm ... perhaps the Tigers can do better than the D'backs did in the Series; they got there, but didn't win it. Just maybe .................... ;)

[Dennis M. Scott]

22 years! Sweet, sweet VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you imagine going 22 years?

From one who lives in the shadow of Boston.

[Bruce Carriker]

I still don't like the wild card, but congrats to you Detroit fans all the same.

If the Mets win the NLCS, I will be forced to choose between rooting for a team I can't stand (the Mets), or rooting for the product of a playoff system I can't stand (the wild card).

[Bob Evans]

Bruce

Wildcard set aside the Tigers is a great story. You have got to root for them in light of recent history and because if St Louis looses they can beat a team from New York

[Bruce Carriker]

The Tigers are a great story...no question. But they are also the product of a flawed system (IMO). I'm happy for Detroit fans. It's a great turnaround, and, as I said earlier, I've always liked Jim Leyland.

As far as rooting for the Tigers, I even rooted for the Yankees when they played the wildcard Marlins. I rooted for the Yankees when they played the wildcard Red Sox in the ALCS. I held my nose and rooted for the Giants and Barry Bonds, when they played the wildcard Angels.

The truest test of where I stand on this issue would be if the Cardinals ever got to the WS as a wildcard. Then it would be REALLY TOUGH to choose.
But this year, as much as I loathe the Mets, if they win, I'll probably root for them. Or just not watch the WS at all.

[Jim Franklin]

The Tigers were in the lead most all of the season and by beating the "A's" they earned it. Go Tiges! When I used to live in Gary IN and got tired of the last place Cubs and White Sox I could tune into a Detroit station and hear of the great pitching by Hal Newhouser and Art Houteman.

[Bruce Carriker]

The Tigers were in the lead most all of the season and by beating the "A's" they earned it. Go Tiges! When I used to live in Gary IN and got tired of the last place Cubs and White Sox I could tune into a Detroit station and hear of the great pitching by Hal Newhouser and Art Houteman.

Given the current system, yes, they earned it. My beef is not with the Tigers. It's with the system.

But, if baseball were played the way baseball has traditionally been played, the Tigers late season collapse would have had them on the golf course by now. Again...my beef is not with Detroit. Five of the previous six seasons a wildcard team has made the Series. I don't like the wildcard. It has nothing to do with the Tigers. I was rooting for them all year to win the AL Central so we could stop hearing about what a great job Minnesota's management does in a small market.