tfbg9 loves the DET Tigers! Congrats!

Well, after the O's the Tigers are my next backup team. Love the uniforms, love Leyland, like the players, and love what's left of the city. I just hope they don't zone out in the World Series again, but this time I don't think the NL will catch them half asleep. This should be a great matchup whichever way it sets up, and may the best Michigan team win.

Was I wrong? Oh, yeah.
GO TIGERS!

RIP 2012 Yankees, now officially the least favorite Yankee team of my memory

RIP 2012 Yankees, now officially the least favorite Yankee team of my memory

Didn't they have a lot of rapists in the early 1990's? Well, two at least.

Didn't they have a lot of rapists in the early 1990's? Well, two at least.

Nothing wrong with a good therapist.
edit: in my best fake Darrel Hammond, Sean Connery accent.

Didn't they have a lot of rapists in the early 1990's? Well, two at least.

Statutory rapists. But my memory doesn't really go back that far.

yeah!

Yanks never had a chance. The two lowest regular season win totals: Tigers and Cards. They will be in the World Series, because that's how baseball works now. They each had 88 wins, but I assume the 'Second Wild Card' designation will serve as an effective tie breaker and allow the Cards to get another bullsh!t title.

Statutory rapists. But my memory doesn't really go back that far.

Repressed those bad memories?

Repressed those bad memories?

+1

Yanks never had a chance. The two lowest regular season win totals: Tigers and Cards. They will be in the World Series, because that's how baseball works now. They each had 88 wins, but I assume the 'Second Wild Card' designation will serve as an effective tie breaker and allow the Cards to get another bullsh!t title.


Hey, at least Arod made contact a couple of times.

The yankees could have done something about it, like say, not playing like a bunch of sick nuns in this series. They barely showed up. They played like garbage. They eminently deserved to lose the series and they did so in the most humiliating way possible. There's nothing unfair about it.

I would have guessed the yankees were the team with 88 wins, from watching this series. Lifeless, punchless, badly managed, they had it all going on. My team had the worst damn season they've experienced in 40+ years, but seeing this series salves the wounds a bit.

Were there any Yankees fans here who actually liked this team? Most of the other threads have their fans saying how much they detested them. That's an honest question.

A world series with a banged up and bad Yankees team vs a plucky Nationals team that can't hold a 6-0 lead would probably not be a good series.

Yanks never had a chance. The two lowest regular season win totals: Tigers and Cards. They will be in the World Series, because that's how baseball works now. They each had 88 wins, but I assume the 'Second Wild Card' designation will serve as an effective tie breaker and allow the Cards to get another bullsh!t title.

It's Bud's master plan to turn MLB into the NFL. Expanded playoffs so every fan feels they have a chance? Check. Expanded revenue sharing so every owner is guaranteed profits? Check. Change the draft rules to level the playing field? Check.

Personally I don't like it, but plenty do, and you can't argue with the monetary success of his vision.

A just end for a thoroughly unlikeable and not-very-good Yankees team. Good riddance. Thanks for the least interesting season since I was in grade school.

I would have guessed the yankees were the team with 88 wins, from watching this series.

If you watched this series and thought the Yankees won 88 games, you probably don't have much of a future as a scout.

(I know that's not what you meant, I just couldn't help it.)

Yanks never had a chance. The two lowest regular season win totals: Tigers and Cards. They will be in the World Series, because that's how baseball works now. They each had 88 wins, but I assume the 'Second Wild Card' designation will serve as an effective tie breaker and allow the Cards to get another bullsh!t title.

This will be how I do my postseason predictions from now on - in every series, favor the team with the worse regular-season record. Hasn't every series including WC games (except for Yankees-O's) turned out this way? This means Detroit will beat San Francisco in the World Series but it could go either way against the Cardinals since they both won 88. Nine teams won at least 90 games in 2012; if St. Louis advances, none of them will be in the World Series. Tampa Bay didn't even make the playoffs. Ah, baseball.

What sucks about beating the Yankees is that the win is not about what the Tigers did right but what the Yankees did wrong....

A just end for a thoroughly unlikeable and not-very-good Yankees team. Good riddance. Thanks for the least interesting season since I was in grade school.

Oh, Pobrecita!

Yankees win it's because the Yankees are great. Yankees lose it's because the Yankees suck. Same old boring BS that everybody else is so sick of. Guess what, you got your rears kicked by an 88 win team because RIGHT NOW, we are playing a lot better than you. Deal with it. The Tigers were good.

Congrats Tigers fans.

That was an embarrassing performance by Yankees hitters, and it looks like this offseason is going to be full of stupid drama with A-Rod.

Were there any Yankees fans here who actually liked this team?

I did, even if I can't deny what I've seen with my own eyes over the past four games. But I loved the way they kicked the Red Sox's butt all year, I liked them in June when they rolled over the Braves, the Mets and the Nats, and I loved the way they held off the O's in one of the best September races in recent memory. I loved the first two games of that September series against Oakland, and the first Ibanez doubleup game against the Red Sox. And until today, it was hard to find any fault in the postseason with the often-maligned starting rotation, which gave them one quality start after another. Horrible as they were in the LCS, they're still my favorite team, and you've got to take the bad with the good.

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Guess what, you got your rears kicked by an 88 win team because RIGHT NOW, we are playing a lot better than you. Deal with it. The Tigers were good.

They were damn good when it counted, and that's all that really matters. Great pitching and timely hitting can't be honestly described any other way. Leyland says that this time they'll be prepared for the next round, and I have a feeling he'll be proven right. Sure hope so.

The oddest thing to me, is a month ago no one could have thought the Red Sox might have a brighter immediate future than the Yankees do. Now it's possible, depending on if they trade A-Rod (and how much annual contract they have to digest), Jeter's ankle, and a raft of free agents in an era of new financial constraints.

That was an embarrassing performance by Yankees hitters, and it looks like this offseason is going to be full of stupid drama with A-Rod.

This is one time I'm not going to say "Alfonso Soriano is available".

But I loved the way they kicked the Red Sox's Pawtucket's butt all year,

I don't know if the Orioles would have beaten the Tigers in this series, but I feel pretty confident they'd have put up more of a fight than this.

Yankees win it's because the Yankees are great. Yankees lose it's because the Yankees suck. Same old boring BS that everybody else is so sick of. Guess what, you got your rears kicked by an 88 win team because RIGHT NOW, we are playing a lot better than you. Deal with it. The Tigers were good.

I can understand this perspective from Tigers fans. Also, with Sanchez and Infante the entire season, it's definitely a 90 win team. That being said, it looks like I'll have to root for St. Louis, because I am a petty person. Rooting for the Cardinals on BTF is a lot like joining the NWO, so I guess I just hit Sting with a chair.

Go Cards! Come on, they lose Pujols to free agency and Berkman to injury, and they might do it again? This is one of the best stories in baseball history! Get with it!

Were there any Yankees fans here who actually liked this team? Most of the other threads have their fans saying how much they detested them. That's an honest question.

I liked them, I think. There were a bunch of guys on the roster who I really liked/cared about: Cano, Nova, Hughes, Phelps, Robertson, A-Rod, Jeter, Granderson, Gardner, NunEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I will admit this was the least I've watched a Yankee team since I started following in '98. Some of that was beginning to work full-time and some of it was that Gardner, Mo, and A-Rod missed significant time with injury and Nunez was banished. Plus, for me a big part the decision to watch is the SP. This year: (1) Kuroda was awesome, but wasn't so awesome that it made up for the fact that he's an old mercenary (2) CC was very good, but with the drop in velocity/stuff, not as much fun to watch as in the past (3) I don't like Andy Pettitte (4) Hughes and Nova were maddening. So...I think it's fair to say maybe they were the least enjoyable squad, but I still liked them.

Good night Yanks. I wish you had had the decency to lose to the Orioles, but then you just wouldn't be the Yankees if you did that.

Were there any Yankees fans here who actually liked this team? Most of the other threads have their fans saying how much they detested them.

There are some high drama posters at BBTF. If you think the Yankee fans are bad, check out some of this Red Sox chatters when Boston was playing poorly but had yet to make clear that it was a lost season. Not pretty.

Not winning may be disappointing, but the idea is that following MLB is supposed to be fun. It helps not to lose sight of that. On most teams, there is something positive to focus on, such as Jeter's surprisingly great age-38 season, the presence of 3 likely all-time Yankees on this team, holding off the Orioles down the stretch. And when things aren't quite right, there's always next season!

Well... you didn't actually expect the Yankees to win a series without Jeter, did you?

Statutory rapists. But my memory doesn't really go back that far.

So you're saying those women could have gotten pregnant.

I don't know if the Orioles would have beaten the Tigers in this series, but I feel pretty confident they'd have put up more of a fight than this.

Also, the A's could be going to the World Series if they got to play these Yankees.

But not having to see Lew Wolff get on that stage and make some stupid insincere speech is okay with me too.

Not winning may be disappointing, but the idea is that following MLB is supposed to be fun. It helps not to lose sight of that. On most teams, there is something positive to focus on, such as Jeter's surprisingly great age-38 season, the presence of 3 likely all-time Yankees on this team, holding off the Orioles down the stretch. And when things aren't quite right, there's always next season!

Now run the "Neifi Perez" List on this year's Chicago Cubs.

I was at the game tonite - my best live sports experience by a country mile. I was a few rows behind the really annoying ballcap guy from the Ford commercials. When Cabrera hit that bomb I was jumping and screaming with joy.

Condolences to the Yankee fans here, and congratulations on a tremendous season. Your team had two of my alltime favourite players, Ichiro and Granderson.

Now, to the World Series!!!

EAT EM UP TIGERS EAT EM UP

As a Tigers fan, I still find myself referring to the Jackson/Scherzer acquisitions as the "Granderson trade." No offense to Curtis, but time to knock that off.

GO TIGERS!!!

Lots of people are screaming 88 wins right now, but as of today Detroit has won 95 games and the Yankees have won 98. Calm down.

This Yankees team broke the franchise record for homers. Cano had an MVP calibre season. Jeter had an outstanding season considering his age, ditto Pettitte. Ichiro Suzuki played very well for Yankees despite everyone thinking he was done. Kuroda pitched prety well. They won the division and won a playoff series.

If that's a horrible season for a fan........

I think the bad part of this season, for me at least, is that for the first time in a long time, I'm not sure how the Yanks stay good after this year. However, Brian Cashman is better at that sort of thing than I am, so I'll worry about it later.

Obviously, by the end of the year, the Yanks weren't hitting well as a team. Whether the long season and injuries wore down the offense, or it was a bad stretch, I don't know, but it wasn't a ton of fun watching this team just whiff with RISP for the last couple of months. Still, gotta love the middle infield, Kuroda, Phelps, Eric Chavez, and Martin hitting 21 HRs somehow.

I was sad that Robertson had something of a down year, ditto CC, but they were still pretty darn good. I guess I'll have another year to wait and see if Hughes "figures it out" but his stuff is so diminished at this point that being a 3/4 guy doesn't really disappoint me. I don't like Pettitte, Soriano, Rodriguez or Teixeria. I won't have to worry about two of those guys next year, maybe three. I never really saw a reason to get excited about Ivan Nova so his weird season didn't really matter to me.

Losing Mo for a season was horrible, and I suspect that's a large part of why a lot of people were down on this team's likeability. Also, for the first time in a long time, there is absolutely no one on the farm who looks like they can contribute next year. Banuelos got hurt, Betances turned into Brackman, maybe Corban Joseph gets a shot to stick as a utility guy, that takes some of the fun out of it. I am excited that Brett Gardner will be back next year, I love that guy.

As a Tigers fan, I still find myself referring to the Jackson/Scherzer acquisitions as the "Granderson trade." No offense to Curtis, but time to knock that off.

I actually said at the time that I thought Scherzer was the best player in the deal. Given how he's pitched against the Yankees (my only exposure to him) since then, I suspect I was right.

So you're saying those women could have gotten pregnant.

No, if she's legitimately underage, the body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

the presence of 3 likely all-time Yankees on this team,

Jeter obviously. A Rod? OK. Pettitte? Well, depends on how big your staff is.

Well, depends on how big your staff is.

That's what she said.

I'm sorry.

Three words, Miserlou.

Russell.
Coltrane.
Martin.

@dadboner is so psyched right now, you guys.

Happy for the Tigers and their fans. Rooting for them to get it done this time.

the presence of 3 likely all-time Yankees on this team,

Jeter obviously. A Rod? OK. Pettitte? Well, depends on how big your staff is

Cano would be the third. Folks may quibble over whether he has already surpassed Lazzeri, Gordon or Randolph, but he seems likely to eventually be the consensus All-Time Yankee second baseman, assuming he signs another contract and avoids major injury.

If you think the Yankee fans are bad, check out some of this Red Sox chatters when Boston was playing poorly but had yet to make clear that it was a lost season. Not pretty.

hey, whoa now, settle down. Many of us knew the Sox royally sucked from early on. Once Papi went down, the team was a whole bag of suck. The SP never got into a groove where you thought that even if they didn't score they could still win. If they didn't score, they lost...unless Buchholz was pitching, he had a solid year.

As for NY/Detroit. Sure NY hitters looked very poor, but I give credit where it's due and Detroit's SP did the job, shut them down and just generally looked great doing it. Maybe NY could have been more patient? Doesn't matter, Tigers SP did the job and I give them the credit. Congrats to Detroit, their fans and particularly, the guys that post here. Hope your guys go one better.

I'm not sure how the Yanks stay good after this year.

Same way they always do... by writing a bunch of checks with many zeros at the end.

All I could think during the post-game festivities was that I haven't seen two people hold up someone like Leyland and Dombrowski did Illitch since Weekend at Bernie's.

As a Michigan native, Facebook is utterly unbearable right now. I feel good for some close friends, who suffered through the Tony Clark and Bobby Higginson era of Detroit Tigers baseball. As for the rest of the people who didn't acknowledge Detroit had a Major League baseball team until two weeks ago...

As a Michigan native, Facebook is utterly unbearable right now. I feel good for some close friends, who suffered through the Tony Clark and Bobby Higginson era of Detroit Tigers baseball. As for the rest of the people who didn't acknowledge Detroit had a Major League baseball team until two weeks ago...

Yea, it happens. Ride the wave man, ride the wave. Hopefully pitcher defense won't be a deciding factor.