Get out Your brooms

was exciting being there last night.  Our seat could not have been further from Home Plate, but was it fun!!  Hope I did not jinx us with the title of this email.  CC has been hot, but Sherzer is no slouch.
Go Get 'Em

Are You Getting Sick and Tired of TBS' Pro-Yankee Bias?

Johnson, Darling and Smoltz, droning on and one about how cool and collected the Yankees are. How much pressure their hitters face. What a trajedy it is about Jeter. And Girardi losing his father.

Lions, and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

The Ultimate was when that jerk, Craig Sager decided to show up for work at Yankee Stadium Sunday in a white suite with blue pinstripes! Hey, buddy, why don't you just wear a Yankee cap?

Fister looked pretty collected when the bases were loaded...three times.

Tiger hitters looked pretty collected in getting nine runs in the first two games in Yankee Stadium.

Then Smolz strikes genius when they were talking about Valverde's record last year.

"Gee, 49 out of 49.  That's 100 percent!"

That was so dumb, one of his broadcast partners even commented on it.

Ernie and George were homers, but I don't think they were this bad. 

What do you do with Valverde

He has been our work horse for two years.  Nowhere near as dependable this year as last and then there are his Playoff antics.  On the broadcast last night, Ron Darling said that there would have to be serious conversation today about Valverde.  One of the other announcers said that Leyland is always loyal -- but to what extent.  Even Girardi benched A-rod.  Smyly looked good.  Wouldn't want to be in Jim's shoes.

WE'RE ALL BEHIND OUR BASEBALL TEAM

(sing along with me)

GO GET'M
DETROIT TIGERS
GO GET'M TIGERS!

I think even Mal-verde Could handle this...

or maybe not. Hey, coach, gimme the ball!

Well, they didn't promise us a rose garden...

So if they come down to the ninth tonight, do we call on Valverde tonight,or leave Albequerquqe in?

Anybody wanna meet here tonight during the game? Do some live posting to keep awake?

Happy Birthday (sort of) to Us!

We reached a milestone the other day, folks!

We hit 20,000 page views. Now granted, that's probably 10,000 hits by yours truly, 4,000 by Chuck, 2,000 each by Jeff, Jim, and Bill, and a couple hundred folks aimlessy wandering the internet, but it's certainly an accomplishment of some kind.

Other odds and ends:

My brother Chuck (one of those occassional visitors) points us to an interesting site for trivia

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/?page_id=162

OBTW: here's an idea: next season, would you like to go to Comerica together for a game? Chuck, I know you'd be up for it. Bill, would you come from Reston? Jeff would you come from Traverse City? Jim, would you come from Chicago? What would be the best time of year? I vote for August, easily the best time of year to be in Michigan, and the worst time to be in Dallas. Whaddya think?