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Royals are going 6-man, so the Tigers will get the usual suspects the final series. 155- Porcello vs Guthrie 156- Fister vs Mendoza 157- Scherzer vs Diamond 158- Verlander vs Walters 159- Sanchez vs Hendriks 160- Porcello vs Chen 161- Fister vs Guthrie 162- Scherzer vs Mendoza

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) Sox will lose. That's the spirit. (but probably, yeah)

Just caught the first couple episodes of The Franchise last night. You see where teams are garbage, and it starts at the top. That Loria/Samson/Beinfest thing is awful. These guys are all clowns. And when you add a personality like Ozzie, you can see where it will go off the tracks in a hurry. Ozzie's act only worked here for a very short time, and only because Jerry Reinsdorf gave him a TON of slack. Ozzie has the potential to be very good for Baseball. He's not a bad guy, but he can't manage a team because his own ego will get in the way. If he wants to do some studio TV work, he'd probably be pretty good at that. But he shouldn't manage anymore, and I don't think any team will even give him that opportunity again after this is over in Miami.

What will be, will be. They know what's on the line with these 8 games. They'll try, and the team with more wins goes to the playoffs.

Coolstandings: Tigers 51.5% White Sox 48.5% Just my own observation...Tigers 70%, White Sox 30%

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 04:47 PM) OK. I'll say it. Right now, this team doesn't deserve a playoff spot. Neither team does. This is a function of divisional baseball and the unbalanced schedule. A mediocre team is making the playoffs. I hope it's us.

If Cabrera comes up with men on base tonight, the Tigers will win.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 03:31 PM) This crowd has the feel of a golf gallery Gettin ready for the Ryder Cup.

Tigers next five games, they face Chen, Guthrie, Mendoza, Diamond, and Walters. They should be able to lose 2 or 3 of those....hopefully.

How about a rare laugher today? Score 7 runs in the first few innings, Liriano sails through 7 innings, nobody gets hurt.

I guess they're putting all their eggs in winning this thing in 162 games. Hope it works.

Yankees with a 1.5 game lead on Baltimore. Wildcard getting interesting: Bal 88-66 +1.5 Oak 86-67 -- LAA 84-69 2.0 TB 83-70 3.0 Go O's. Go A's. Go Sox. Go Royals.

I'll take the division anyway we can, but there's part of me that wants the Tigers to go 7-3 or 8-2 these last 10, and we match them every step of the way.

Bend, don't break.

I'm past the point of getting upset. If he blows this, I'll laugh.

Score 5 runs. Get a quality start. You win a lot of those games. Close it out.

Looks the Rays moved their rotation around. Now it'll be Shields, Moore, Hellickson, and Price. And the Sox may decide for a 6th starter on Wednesday, failing to realize they're in the final 10 games of the season. But if they keep a 5-man, it's: Quintana, Floyd, Sale, Liriano

That's a no-brainer. He's bad, and can't pitch at the Cell. Later dude.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 10:37 AM) here is an odd question. Historically, how have teams(division winners) fared that have entered the playoffs with the worst record? It always seems like the best season record team seems to get bounced(not always i guess, but somewhat frequently) due to the team expending all of their energy in season Since 2001 (worst division winners)- teams with win totals in the 80's in bold: 01 Cle (91 wins)- Lost ALDS 01 Arz (92)- Won World Series 02 Min (94) - Lost ALCS 02 Stl (97) - Lost NLCS 03 Min (90) - Lost ALDS 03 Cubs (88) - Lost NLCS 04 Min/LAA (92) - Both lost ALDS 04 LAD (93) Lost NLDS 05 NY/LAA (95) - you know 05 SD (82) - Lost NLDS 06 Oak (93) - Lost ALCS 06 StL (83) - Won World Series 07 LAA (94) - Lost ALDS 07 Cubs (85) -Lost NLDS 08 Sox (89) - Lost ALDS 08 LAD (84) - Lost NLCS 09 Min (87) - Lost ALDS 09 StL (91) - Lost NLDS 10 Tex (90) - Lost World Series 10 Cin (91) - Lost NLDS 11 Det (95) - Lost ALCS 11 Arz (94) - Lost NLDS 12 out of 22 worst division winners lose in the first round. 7 more lose in the CS 1 lost the WS 2 won the WS

QUOTE (tonyho7476 @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 08:13 AM) Exciting? I guess, but these wild swings in performance really suck to watch. We need to get on a bit of a run here to finish the year and win the division. You couldn't tell I was being facetious? This division and race are a joke. It's an absolute joke to baseball the Sox or Tigers are taking a playoff spot with the 7th best record in the league, especially with the new format.

Just to recap the last 44 games.... Sox 21-23 Det 22-22 Exciting s*** in that ole AL Central.

I'm done predicting. I just want to wake up in first in an awful division every day.

Sox vs KC 1-1 (0-2) -1 vs Oak 2-1 (2-1) -1 at Tor 2-2 (3-1) E at KC 2-1 (0-3) -2 vs NY 2-1 (3-0) -1 vs Sea 2-1 (3-0) E at Bal 2-2 (1-3) -1 at Det 1-2 (0-3) -2 vs Min 2-1 (2-1) -2 vs KC 2-1 (1-2) -3 vs Det 1-2 (1-2) -3 at Min 2-1 (3-0) -2 vs Det 1-0 (1-0) -2 at KC 2-1 (1-2) -3 at LAA 1-2 (0-3) -4 vs Cle 2-1 vs TB 2-2 at Cle 2-1 Tigers vs NY 2-2 (2-2) E at Tex 1-2 (1-2) E at Min 2-1 (2-1) E vs Bal 2-1 (1-2) -1 vs Tor 2-1 (3-0) E vs LAA 2-1 (2-1) E at KC 2-1 (0-3) -2 vs Chi 2-1 (3-0) -1 vs Cle 2-1 (1-2) -2 at LAA 1-2 (0-3) -3 at Chi 2-1 (2-1) -3 at Cle 2-1 (2-1) -3 at Chi 0-1 (0-1) -3 vs Oak 2-1 (2-1) -3 vs Min 2-1 (1-2) -4 vs KC 3-1 at Min 2-1 at KC 2-1 And now we're down to 87. Who wants it?

Tigers/Twins Game 2: Twins don't score in the top of the 1st.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 23, 2012 -> 06:05 PM) That's fine with me. Indians have hit him hard this year. Given their struggles vs LHP, I bet we see Santiago on Wednesday. I think it's too late in the game for that stuff. 10 games left-- 2 starts each, and if they make it, Sale and Peavy are there for Games 1 and 2 at home.