We're IN! Tigers Make the Playoffs!

For the first time in 19 years the Detroit Tigers are in the Playoffs!

While driving home from the closing of St. Agustine Church, a very sad day for all, we got some good news. The Tigers had beaten the Kansas City Royals and have clinched a spot in the Post Season! I honked the horn as they announced it. There wasn’t really much other information other than that. Channels were fading in and out, football games were on. But it was official!

I explained to the rest in the car the whole concept of the Wild Card and who plays who. Before we left for Canada, I put in a tape to (hopefully) record the end of both games over the weekend. The paper said that Saturday was supposed to be on TV-20 and Sunday on Fox Sports. It turned out to be exactly the opposite, but that turned out to be a really good thing!

After the game, the post game Celebration was carried on Fox, the channel I thought was supposed to have the game. So, I caught on tape the ½ hour, live broadcast of the guys bursting with excitement and popping champagne all over.

This morning I violated the rule of "No TV in the Mornings". I sat Connor down and said, this is something that you have to view. I was very stern, getting him to think he was about to be forced to learn something. Instead, it was of our Tigers popping champagne! (And good champagne too, I noticed the Dom Perignon label. They squirted the Korbel, and were each given a bottle of Dom for drinking.)

Maggs was completely soaked already during an interview when they dumped the whole Gatorade cooler on him; Brandon had a bottle dumped and left upside-down in the back collar of his jersey; Verlander and Grilli were chomping on cigars; Todd Jones and the skipper, Jim Leyland, and Mike Ilitch fighting back tears trying to speak; Kaline and Horton were there too. It’s so cool to see a baseball celebration, and then see "Detroit" written across their chests!

Leyland even gave a thank you to Alan Trammell and the boys for setting this all up. Very classy. They have the day off on Monday, to recoup, and then back to Comerica for the final six regular season games!I’m already trying to figure out Thursday’s day game, I have a ticket. Do I go for an extended lunch? Or if this could be a clincher, I might want to be there later rather than earlier. Hmmm... Decisions!