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The flash back anyway
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soooooooo bored.

I'd post, but I'm sure there's something important that's going to happen in the next storyline post.

Yeehaw. I'm getting ready for the next round of the MLB playoffs. Tigers SPANKED the Yanks, 8-1 tonight. ******** sweet. I know they lost the first game of the series, but...to essentially shut down a team like the Yankees in three games they way they did (The Yanks only scored 4 runs in the last 3 games), it's UNHEARD OF!

And to rub it in LJ's face....her Penguins lost to my Red Wings. Go Detroit!

Oh, the Motor City Kitties pwnage of the Yanks was one for the ages. That's for sure. Next up is a possible 7 game series against the Oakland Athletics. I tell you what, the A's looked DAMN good against the Twins, sweeping the AL Central Champs. But the Twins got really lucky last Sunday, cause the Tigers were swept by the Royals in the final series of the season, and the Twins HAPPENED to win on Sunday, popping them up a game. But...My God. The A's SPANKED them. So much for having the AL Batting Champ in their line-up. Hell, LJ will tell you having the batting champ in your line-up doesn't mean jackshit. The Pirates had the NL batting champ in their line-up this year and they finished second to last. In all of baseball.

The greatest thing about this Tiger team, even if they lose to the Athletics, is that they made the playoffs, gotten to the ALCS and they DESTROYED the proverbial giant of the MLB in the Yankees. Just three years ago, they had one of the worst seasons in the history of the game notching 119 games in the loss column. I've been a Tiger fan my whole life, and....that season stung. Big time.

Anyways. It's October. Playoff baseball. I LIVE FOR THIS s**t! I've been following the Tigers since I was 5 years of age. Or less. I can't remember, but I know my Grandpa and myself used to watch the Tigers all the time after he'd get out of work at nights. Listening to George Kell and the Tiger's great Al Kaline call the television games, and when we'd camp during the summer, we'd tune the radio in to Tiger's games and hear the LEGENDARY Ernie Harwell calling the games over the airwaves.

I tell you, I was nearly moved to tears last night watching the Tigers/Yankees game when ESPN brought Harwell to the booth to call a couple of innings. I don't know if it's a guy thing or what, but....man. I haven't heard that voice calling a game in over ten years. It was a great moment for Tiger's fans and an even better moment, in my opinion, for the game of baseball. Harwell's been associated with the game since the damn 1940's. And I do know, when the man does end up leaving this mortal coil, I will shed a tear. He means that much to the organization, to myself as the voice of the Tiger's, and to the game of baseball itself.

I've never been to a Major League game. I always lived too far from the park to go. And that correlates with one of the biggest regrets in my life: not making it to Tiger's Stadium before they closed that and opened Comerica.

It does. It does.

Hey, get this BA. A's and Tigers last played an ALCS.....34 years ago. Back when Reggie Jackson was on Oakland's club. Gonna be a helluva series this year.

Okay, I'll get to posting this morning. I'm been very wiped lately that when I get to posting I feel like passing out and going to sleep wink Ask Reaver, it's true and he took a picture of me passsed out to prove it... or well he took it cause he could.

hey Reaver, have you ever seen the commercial "Beware of things made in october?"

It's a commercial about basball playoffs that I happen to have on my computer because it's so damn funny.