10 September 2011

Playoff push

The Detroit Tigers are twenty games over five hundred right now.  They are nine and a half games up on the Chicago White Sox.  Their magic number before tonight's game is ten.  They have gone nine and one in their last ten games.  They are playing out of their minds right now. 

All truths that everyone knows right now.  All truths I am scared of.  I have been scared this entire season until recently just because teams like the Sox and the Indians were so close, but now the Tigers are pulling away as the season winds down.  I don't want them to have such a large lead in the division that they really stop playing, and they could coast the rest of the way if they wanted to.  I want Jim Leyland to keep in the players' ear and keep them going through the next month.  The last time I saw the Tigers play in the month of October, they were throwing the ball all over the place as they were rolled by the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.  Since then, I have wanted them to get back in the playoffs to redeem themselves.  

The moment ESPN analysts started talking about how good the Tigers are playing right now, I tensed up.  ESPN is a curse on my Tigers.  I want them to leave my Tigers alone and stay focused on the Yankees and the Red Sox.  They are going to get either the Yanks or Sox in the first round and it is going to be tense.  Both of those teams are neck and neck and I hope they burn themselves out trying to win their division because the Tigers are playing so loose and relaxed right now and everything is going right for them that I know the Yanks and Sox don't want to play Detroit. 

I think that boasting about how great your team is playing is a jinx and I don't like to do so especially around playoff time. 






Not until the game is in hand anyway.  Then it is on. 

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