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Originally Posted by tjkurita
The Yankees suffered a huge loss today. We'll see if they even make it out of the ALDS. Wright on the mound and Wang didn't even take the trip to Detroit.
I don't dislike the Yankees, but it was nice to see Rogers completely dominate them today. He had a huge monkey on his back. It's shook off by now.
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I watched the whole game last night, and it was great. I would have loved to have been at Comerica Park last night. There was an electricity in the air that I could feel all the way into my living room.
Rogers really did pitch a great game...I've not seen him pitch like that, I don't think, ever.
Today is a big day for sports here in Michigan. The Michigan-Michigan State game is in Ann Arbor (GO BLUE!!), and game 4 of the ALDS is in Detroit. It's gonna be fun watching TV tonight!!
The Tigers have Jeremy Bonderman going tonight, and I'm not sure what's going to come of it. They have a good chance of winning the game, as Bonderman can dominate when he is on. That said, he's gone Nuke LaLooshe on us quite a bit lately. Seems like he is prone to one bad inning and a lapse in concentration. I'll be very interested to see how he pitches after watching that performance last night by Rogers. It will also be VERY interesting to see how the loaded Yankees respond to getting spanked by a pitcher for whom, if you listen to A-Rod (or shall we call him K-Rod?
), they didn't have much respect...well, not before last night anyway.
I spend 40+ games sitting in the bleachers in 1984, the year the Tigers won the World Series. It was my first summer away from home as a college student in Ann Arbor, and it was a great time to be a baseball fan. I lost interest in baseball after the strike, thinking the players and owners a bunch of greedy primadonnas. This year, for the first time in a long time, I'm watching baseball regularly again. Regardless of what happens from here on out, it's been a great year for the Tigers and a great year for baseball. What a story...three years ago one of the worst teams in HISTORY, and now perhaps on the verge of knocking off the highly favored Yankees.
Oh, and call it Karma, but George Steinbrenner is an Ohio State grad.
EDIT: Oh geez, how could I forget...ESPN was good enough to have the Grand Old Man of radio, Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell, sit in for a couple of innings. I got chills when I heard him say, as Jason Giambi struck out, "he stood there like the house on the side of the road and watched it go by". I can remember hearing him say that SOOO many times as a child, huddled up late at night, long after my parents had put me to bed, listening to the game on a portable AM radio with one of those funny white earphones. What memories that brought back.
Oh, and he told a story about how he and Leo Durochure got into a scrap years and years ago when Leo got in his face on a train over some or other stupid thing. I gather Leo had a reputation for being a bit pugnacious. Well, apparently Ernie wiped up the floor with him...which, knowing what I know of the man (southern gentleman extraordinare) is hysterically out of character.
Thank you ESPN for letting Ernie sit in.
