Looks like the Tigers are back on a roll.

Sorry that $200M did not pay off

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The Yankees aren't so much a team as a collection of great individual players. Sure it works out well for the most part but there is something lacking as you pointed to Griff.

Looks like pitching is the key this year. A's were #2 in AL pitching (behind the Twins who lost Liriano and had their bullpen choke). Have to think the A's have the edge but as I've said all along the playoffs are a crapshoot.

Ha ha ha ha ha

Jeremy Bonderman's slider was seriously nasty today. The Tigers kept running on the weak arms of the NY OFs. The Yanks are built only to hit and they didn't do that.

Looks like future Yankees southpaw Barry Zito will start for the A's Tuesday. There are not going to be a lot of runs in that series, 3 should win games.

It didn't look like luck against the Twins. As they said in the Merc today, the A's Won the War on Error. They executed well on defense. Outfielders threw guys out, infielders got to grounders, ...

The Tigers and the A's are similar, the series will go the distance.

Word is that Torre is to be fired as Yanks manager, to be replaced by Lou Pinella. Torre is arguably one of the most successful managers in baseball, but let the Yanks get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs a couple of times, and *bang!*

In KC, we lose 100 games and our manager is coming back next year.

I don't like either attitude. Torre kept all those primadonnas in line and this is the thanks he gets. :mad: At this point a hard salary cap would protect the Yanks from themselves. I like that they try to win though.

As opposed to the Pirates, who gave up trying to win. That seems like a hopeless situation.

The Twins were counting on a win from Santana and when that didn't happen the wind was out of their sails. Now suppose they did get that win. Would their bats have stayed silent? Would the bullpen have choked? It was still an uphill battle for them without Liriano and having Radke hurt but the Twins did a lot of winning during the year including against the A's. We Oakland fans had many years being in the position the Twins were in with a lot of "if only..." lamentations when the series finished.

The bar of success is so high there it wouldn't surprise me to see somebody take a fall. I'd be dissapointed if they didn't try to win but I firmly believe teams should prosper based on intelligence and athleticism and teamwork instead of how many people live in a team's market.

A's are really grasping now. Tigers have played more than good enough to win. Oakland is having a bout of their usual troubles this year: inconsitency and injury.

Why don't you just call it what it is...a terrible line-up!

No, it's great Tigers pitching, has been the best all year. And, injured A's defense. Mark Ellis makes that double play and Jimenez does not. Take SS and 2B out of any team and see what happens.

Just another lovely day in St. Louis...from MSNBC earlier this morning:

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Congrats to the Cards! If there was one team from the NL I thought would win it was the Mets. Guess the crapshoot theory came to fruition once again. The Cards still get credit for not giving up and getting the job done.