Verlander is a boss.

Martin just took a 100 MPH fastball to the ribs. I laughed.

According to Gameday, Verlander just threw a 1014 MPH pitch.

Fantastic baseball tonight.

 

Tomorrow could be hilarious with Burnett pitching.

Fun game. Holy s***, CC is huge.

Let's go Tigers.

Let's go Tigers.

f*** the Tigers. Go Yankees.

f*** the Tigers. Go Yankees.

 

This. And if pitchers continue to throw strikes on the first pitch to Young, they deserve to lose because of it.

According to ESPN, Verlander threw 15 pitches yesterday clocked at 99.5 or above (i.e. rounding to 100+)

Let's go Tigers.

I'll root for any team over the Yanks 'cept of course the Twins.

According to ESPN, Verlander threw 15 pitches yesterday clocked at 99.5 or above (i.e. rounding to 100+)

He good.

I'm not sure what people have against the Tigers (except Valverde). They played the right way. They were just decent, but saw their opportunity and made some key additions to the team in-season. They're not the Twins that perennially piss on us or the Indians with their terrible fans. I have no problem whatsoever rooting for the Tigers.

I'm not sure what people have against the Tigers (except Valverde). They played the right way. They were just decent, but saw their opportunity and made some key additions to the team in-season. They're not the Twins that perennially piss on us or the Indians with their terrible fans. I have no problem whatsoever rooting for the Tigers.

 

They play in Detroit

They play in Detroit

 

This. f*** Detroit, whether it be Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, Pistons, or anything else.

Detroit is Detroit. I think we've won that one. No need to hate them because they're from there. More likely, they need the pity.

Detroit is Detroit. I think we've won that one. No need to hate them because they're from there. More likely, they need the pity.

It's pretty simple for me, I just like a lot of players on the Yankees while I despise Valverde and Magglio. Go Yankees!

Detroit is Detroit. I think we've won that one. No need to hate them because they're from there. More likely, they need the pity.

 

Too many years, too many rivalries for me.

Detroit is Detroit. I think we've won that one. No need to hate them because they're from there. More likely, they need the pity.

I love Chrysler's new ad campaign..."Detroit was once known as the Paris of the Midwest..."

I will say about this series. I am kind of enjoying Velverde making Jeter his b****.

Give Jim Leyland credit: the salty veteran Tigers manager squeezed every drop out of ALDS Game 3 to provide his team an edge, the same way his friend Tony La Russa did in Philadelphia in NLDS Game 2 the previous day.

 

Here is where the game turned for Leyland in a brilliant but subtle move: after Detroit took a 3-2 lead after five innings, Leyland put Don Kelly, a defensive specialist, into right field for Magglio Ordonez.

 

Managers don't typically start running their defensive specialists into the game while still needing 12 outs to defend only a one-run lead. And they certainly don't do it as a matter of course when the offensive player coming out of the game is due to lead off the next inning.

 

So why put Kelly in that early? Three reasons:

 

1. Justin Verlander is so good that Leyland was willing to compromise the Ordonez at-bat -- and possibly even two of them -- to keep a one-run lead in check.

 

2. With Kelly now due to lead off the sixth, Girardi was more apt to leave a struggling CC Sabathia in the game. Why? Now two of three hitters due for Detroit in the sixth were left-handed (Kelly and Alex Avila). If Ordonez stayed in, then Girardi was more apt to bring in Rafael Soriano because four of the next five Tigers hitters would have been right-handed. Would you rather face Sabathia going past 100 pitches on a night when he had poor command or the teeth of a fresh Yankees bullpen? The Tigers had no problem with Sabathia throwing more pitches.

 

3. Here's the kicker: not only did Leyland put Kelly into the game -- improving his defense and influencing the Yankees to stick with a wearing Sabathia -- he told Kelly to drag bunt for a base hit. So what happened? Kelly dragged a bunt for a base hit, taking advantage of Sabathia falling off to the third base side of the mound -- and scored a tack-on run when Jhonny Peralta followed with a double.

 

Brilliant stuff.

 

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writ...l#ixzz1ZqkD3lzc

So Rangers vs. Tigers could be a HELL of an ALCS...

So Rangers vs. Tigers could be a HELL of an ALCS...

Eew

I'm not sure what people have against the Tigers (except Valverde). They played the right way. They were just decent, but saw their opportunity and made some key additions to the team in-season. They're not the Twins that perennially piss on us or the Indians with their terrible fans. I have no problem whatsoever rooting for the Tigers.

+1

Eew

I'm with you, I think I'd like to see a Yankees/Brewers world series at this point. It's always fun when the small market team beats the Yankees in the series.

I'm not sure what people have against the Tigers (except Valverde). They played the right way. They were just decent, but saw their opportunity and made some key additions to the team in-season. They're not the Twins that perennially piss on us or the Indians with their terrible fans. I have no problem whatsoever rooting for the Tigers.

 

Sox fans will hate them even more if they make some off season improvements. At least they don't look like a consolation team just to be happy in the playoffs.