Tigers win!

[1gobluedem]

The team song from 1968...applies again to this team

"We're all behind our baseball team... Go get 'em Tigers
World Series bound and picking up steam... Go get 'em Tigers.
They'll be joy in Tiger town, we'll sing new songs,
When the bengals bring the pennant home, where it belongs

We're all behind our baseball team
Go get 'em
Detroit Tigers
Go get 'em Tigers!"

Yay!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. This is very cool!

Maybe we could upset the mighty Yankees! You know I was kinda buygged by the first games broadcast. The Tigers and Yankees go back to 1901. There was very little mention of the history of the two teams individually (who remembers Frank Lary, the Yankee Killer?) and how together, they have created many special baseball memories. To listen the the networks the Yankees never play anyone but the Red Sox.......... :shrug:

[bigwillq]

2. They won what?!

:shrug:

One game doesn't make a series.

[1gobluedem]

4. Getting a split in NYC in the playoffs against the Yankees...

...and all their experience is very, VERY cool for us post-season starved Tigers fans and the team. They hoped for split and got it and are coming home to play two in a row. So, of course it doesn't mean we won the series but I'm celebrating anyway. Go Tigers!

[bigwillq]

7. Yanks have a good road record too.

AS did the Tigers.

49-32 for the Tigers.
47-34 for the Yanks in the reg. season.

I don't doubt that the Yankees can win anywhere.

[MaineDem]

19. But three do!

Congrats to the Tigers!

It was a beautiful thing.

[Zech Marquis]

3. The Tigers were the better team today

Talk abour clutch pitching! Especially the relievers throwing darts no lower than 98 in the last 2 innings :wow: Very impressive! The next 2 games are NOT locks for my Yankees at all!

And of course Arod swung the bat like a little girl :argh: goddamn ego driven JERK!!

[bigwillq]

8. Yes they were.

They won the type of game they won all year.

[LisaM]

5. Great game!

I agree, the announcers act as if the Tigers are some kind of expansion team or something. Maybe when we play in Detroit, they'll mention some of the Detroit greats.

[CatholicEdHead]

6. Good job, beat those Yankees!

[Counciltucky]

9. Tigers' pitching is incredible...

...and they proved it in that game.

I'm a Yankee fan, but I'll give credit where due: the Tigers' pitching staff is for real.

[LisaM]

10. Joy in Tigertown! The whole night long!

What a game! What a game. No, it's not over, not by a long shot. But I've got to give the boys some props tonight. Go Tiges!

[1gobluedem]

11. Shutout!

What a great game. I love Granderson.

[spoony]

12. Rogers is amazing! Painting those corners, wow.

I love Granderson too :)

[vickitulsa]

13. Don'tcha just love the way the mouthy-and-mocking-as-usual Yankee fans

seem to have gone very quiet all of a sudden? ;)

Of course not all Yankee fans -- a creature that I once was myself, actually (though long ago) -- are jerks and braggarts who pretend their high-dollar team is far above and better than anyone else.

The sensible Yanks fans know enough about baseball to realize there IS no "lock" on any post-season five-game series until the series winning game has been played.

I'm just SO PROUD of those TIGERS!!! :bounce: :woohoo:

They deserve every bit of recognition Joe Morgan is finally, begrudgingly giving them. And way more! But then we knew that already ... hard to understand why he didn't, and why he has such a hard time admitting it....

And I usually don't like to gloat over any quality team's loss if the players didn't quit battling; but it really did my old heart good to see the hangdog faces in the Yankee dugout by about ... oh, let's see, two outs into the eighth inning? :D

And let's face it -- "The Gambler" was DUE to whup they New Yawk butts, so even the odds were kinda running in the Tigers' favor in a lot of respects. What a joy to see a 41-year-old pitcher who was so maligned and even dismissed by opponents who should have known better pitch the game of his life when it really counted, in the post-season, and in a critical game!

You could just see the quiet satisfaction in his face as the night wore on -- if you looked deeper than the stern mask of determination he wore from the first pitch onward, that is. He KNEW he could do it! He knew he had the "weapons" and the experience, the skill and the fortitude. He knew his hitters could deliver in the crunch, too. The outcome was really NOT a surprise!

But it sure was a pleasure to watch unfold, wasn't it? :)

Now I'll be biting my nails as everyone takes their positions for the NEXT game ... you know the Yankees are steaming hot to redeem themselves and will do everything they can to do just that. BUT neither can anyone now dismiss the capability of the Tigers to finish this thing off.

So look out, folks -- it's gonna be a FINE GAME coming up next time!

And no matter HOW the series finally comes out, I'll be proud of this year's Tigers forever.

And I love that fight song! GO TIGERS!

:applause:


(Note: I have always wondered why Yankee fans in the modern era wouldn't prefer to have a "normal" team that isn't packed to the gills with the highest-dollar players Steinbrenner can find ... if only because that way when they DO win, they have something to be proud of and even surprised by on occasion. The way it's been since old Mr. Moneybags took over, it's almost like fans and team alike should HANG THEIR HEADS if the Yankees DON'T WIN IT ALL! Does anyone see what I'm sayin' and think it makes any sense? :dilemma:)

[MaineDem]

14. That was a beautiful game

I'm not a Kenny Rogers fan but he was masterful.

I'm a Tiger fan until the World Series if the Mets are in it. Otherwise, I hope the Tigers go all the way!

Win today so there are no more games at Yankee Stadium! :)

[vickitulsa]

15. "Win today so there are no more games at Yankee Stadium!"

That's the idea! :D


And it sure was a beautiful game -- though I suspect the Yankees thought it was pretty damn ugly! D'oh!

[Auggie]

16. I know it's cliche, but good pitching beats good hitting every time.

[geek tragedy]

17. A-Rod's last game as a Yankee?

Maybe I can start rooting for the Yankees after they unload him.

[Jawja]

18. And now they've

eliminated the Yankees!

Love to see that BIG MONEY team get knocked out. :bounce:

[1gobluedem]

20. Three games in a row -- is THAT a series?

Because, if it is, and I think it is, TIGERS WIN!

[Bluzmann57]

21. It is a series

at least in the first round and Tigers win!

[El Supremo]

22. I am more happy that the Yankees lost than if ANYBODY won.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

I picked the A's as my favorite at the beginning of the year. Sorry Tiger's fans.

[DaveinMD]

23. congrats to the Tigers from a Yankees fan

and boo on all the people who just posted here to hate.

[El Supremo]

24. Hate?

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[vickitulsa]

27. Good for you for the congrats to the winners.

But the most hateful comments I've heard for years have come from SOME Yankee fans who seem to think they have a right (if not a duty!) to taunt other teams who don't have their huge purse to work with and the loyal fans which support them through bad times AND good.

Yes, you got me thinking about this, I admit it. :)

I happen not to feel comfortable razzing players and coaches who fail, but that's just me and who I am. AND it's surely understandable (and not surprising) that after all the rude and nasty Yankee fan behavior the rest of us have put up with for a very long time, a FEW taunting comments have been thrown back in their faces.

Doesn't the old saw apply here too? If ya dish it out, ya have to be able to take it!

Graciousness deserves the same in return, IMO -- but then wouldn't that same principle apply to nastiness as well?

It's asking a LOT of the many fans of other teams at whom SOME Yankee fans have hurled their arrogant insults and taunts to expect those same folks to be gracious and kind when a high-dollar Yankee team falls on its face as badly as this one did, don'tcha think?

JMO, but I think they call that "karma."

[DaveinMD]

30. I haven't seen the hurtling of insults

from Yankees fans here, but maybe I just wouldn't notice them. There is lots of Yankee hate out there, but I don't think jumping on others when their down is good form. I congratulate the Tigers fans, though. Its been a long time coming and they are good fans.

[RamboLiberal]

25. Kudos to the Tigers and Jimmy Leyland

This Pittsburgher is rooting for yunz guys to go all the way. Glad to see you mow the mighty Yankees down!

Sweet justice for Leyland for all the years his Bucs couldn't get past the Braves.

Be a sweet sports year to see you win it all!

[Jack Rabbit]

26. Congratulations, Tigers.

But just so you know, I'm rooting for the A's.

[theHandpuppet]

28. Congrats to the Tigers!

They might not receive the biggest paychecks, but they showed me who's got the biggest hearts. Good luck on your way to the series!

-- from a Reds fan

[Broken_Hero]

29. Congrats Tigers...

very good game...yesterday was a double dip happy day for me...the Yanks lost, and so did OU, two of my most disliked teams...:) Good job Tigers, now I got no one to root against, except the Cards...:)

from an M's fan...

[UrbScotty]

31. YEARGH!! (nt)

[SethInUpstateNY]

32. From a Yankee fan,

congrats to the Tigers.

[Lefty48197]

33. I found a source for the song:

www.cdbaby.com/cd/gadfly901

click on "play all songs" in the lower left corner of your screen. For some reason, the link wasn't working when I clicked on it, and I couldn't cut & paste it either. Later it WAS working. If you have any trouble, then you can type in the address as shown into you address bar. At the website, you'll find the "play all songs" buttons.