"That postseason hooked Batgirl on baseball and the Tigers have been her second favorite team ever since. It was so painful to watch the franchise suffer these past few years, and a joy to watch them find themselves again...."
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Your situation is exactly like my own, except it's with the Royals. Hopefully their struggles are ending as well. Watching them beat the Tigers in that final series and help my first love win the division was something doubly special.

That said, I'm wholeheartedly cheering the Tigers on as well =)

Well, Hopefully the streak continues and the Twins win in '07. (Unless the Toons find a heck of a lot of money somewhere, then ... Twins in '08.) :p

I'm the same way. My parents grew up in Detroit, and my Dad was at the World Series in '68. My dad insisted on teaching me the starting players, knowledge that has recently earned me twenty bucks. I've kinda been a tigers fan, just as long as the Twins have done better. I do wish Inge, Granderson, Thames, Monroe, Pudge, and all the rest the best of luck. Lets keep it in the AL central.

Go Tigers. That's all I have the stomach to say right now.

Is there a guy smaller than eckstein?

per living in st. louis 8 months out of the year and having adopted the cardinals as my national league team upon beginning college, i am going to have to respectfully disagree with the batendorsement and cheer wholeheartedly for the cards.

it's pretty much impossible to not get excited about the cardinals in this town. cardinals fans are INTENSE.

and eckstein may be little, but he is my favorite. i have a thing for scrappy infielders.....

but, is there a guy in the ML smaller than eckstein? he's pretty tiny. Punto could eat him.

Go Tigers, Go AL cantral!

The first world series I ever got hooked on was Detroit's in 1984. I lived in suburban Detroit from 1983-1985 and my favorite daughter was born in Royal Oak, Michigan (ok, she's my only daughter). Her dad and I were at home with a toddler and, well, we watched, cheered, and were happy that the Tigers won that year. So Detroit is the only other area that I've lived in that had a baseball team, so that makes them my runner-up team and, therefore, GO TIGERS!!!

But I love the Twins best. And we moved back here and the Twins won the series in 87 and they became my team for all time. When do pitchers and catchers report?

cheers, Kal

I'd have to believe *eating* folks is against Tiny Superheroic and Little Sidekick oaths.

(Why can't there be an oath against Capt. Cheeseburger eating folks?)

::Notes the irony of this post.) :\

To the one that said Cardinals' fans are intense...yes. They are. I noticed that in just the three days I spent there in '04. We got there the night they won the NLCS. The electricity in the city was amazing.
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My favorite NL player is Scott Rolen. As everyone knows, he plays for St. Louis.

My dad grew up in Michigan and cheered for the Tigers growing up.

Scott Rolen is technically the only reason the Cardinals are my favorite NL team. That and the fact that St. Louis is amazing. But at the same time, the Tigers.....Dad grew up with them.....and they're in the AL Central......

Eh. I don't know who to cheer for.

And I'm just going to end this random rambling now. I guess Go Tigers!

Part of the reason I think this will be a fun series is there are great reasons to root for both sides and few reasons to root against. It would be nice if the series went at least 6 games. I'm picking the tigers, but I have incorrectly picked every postseason series and I'd kind of like to see that streak continue. But I'm sure I'll get swept up in the tiger fever here in Lansing.

Gardy just signed a 2 year extension.

http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/9741700

My first World Series that I really remember is the 65 series. I was at the right age to remember it (9) and I remember the heart break. I really do not remember much from the 80's because I was in the toddler fog at the time, but I do remember the 84 series and teaching the 2 old Spams to appreciate the joy of baseball. I will be cheering for the Tigers and hope that the Cards don't fold in 4. Go Tigers Go!

Because I lived 10 years in paradisiacal northern lower Michigan, I have a major-league soft spot in my heart for the Tigers. Plus, I think Leyland is brilliant and I'm all about the old timer (Mr. Rogers) doing so well.

That being said, I'm just hoping for one of the greatest series ever--I want this one to go seven thrilling, strategy-filled games, ending with a celebration of epic proportion in the clubhouse of the team that truly deserves it.

In the words of the immortal Cal Ripkin, Jr., who welcomes me every time I sign on to AOL:

Let's play ball!

I think what the Tigers managed to do this year - going from nothing to something - is just so amazing and I respect their team attitude so much. I would have had a much harder time choosing a team to root for if it was the Mets vs Tigers because I just would have been so tickled about either of them.

I'm lucky because I don't dislike ANY of the teams that made it that far and I could freely hope for great baseball and good umping and let the chips fall wherever.

But the Tigers really do rise a little bit above the rest for me - so GO TIGERS!!!

I can't root for a team that has Kenny Rogers.

Yay! I'm so excited for Game 1! I've been waiting for this all week! The Tigers are my second favorite team in baseball, and they only thing better than having them go to the World Series would be, of course, to have the TWINS go to the World Series.

Scott rolen has sexy arms. Really sexy arms.
But Tigers in 4. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Well I was born in 1968 - so I don't remember the last time the Tigers and the Cards met in the World Series =)

And I wouldn't be sad if the Tigers won but I'd be a lot happier if the Cardinals won - so time to uncrumple my red #5 shirt - Go Cards =)

And I'm so glad David Eckstein is in the NL - what a pest he was when he played for the Angels -heck of a kid/player tho -love that he runs to first when he gets a walk - and I actually think he's smaller then our own tiny super hero =)

Good luck to all involved -
Sup's on!!!

Much Love
Wonder Woman

I'm pumped. It's going to be cold in Detroit. I'm rooting for the Tigers, too, but I'm thinking it would be cool if I could take my dad to St. Louis. His mom's from there, and she's still a Cardinals fan.

I just love the fact that baseball's biggest stage is in the middle of the country this year... ;-)

Hmm...

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2006/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=2633509

Jayson "Yankees Fans Can Buy The Champagne Now" Stark discusses the possibility of playing a World Series game without a player he's heard of.

My father also grew up in Detroit (at the same time as Bat-Dad). Living as a child in New York, I loved the Mets - but Alan Trammel and Lou Whittaker were ALSO MY first boyfriends...

Go Tigers!

The *listed* heights and weights:

Little Nicky Punto: 5' 9", 185.

Alexi Castilla: 5' 9", 160.

David Eckstein: 5' 7", 165.

All measurements from the official Twins and Cardinals sites.

Aye aye! I was sad and yelling at the tigers the way i yell at the twins... i love post season play!

Pompeyo Davillo or some one with a name similar to that played for the Senators several years before they moved to Mn.He hit .292, broke his leg, and became known as Vic's brother. Later, the Twins had Ernie Orvatz, who was a 5:4 outfielder, and Albie Pearson, a 5:5 outfielder. who was a regular, and who weighed 47 pounds. The other outfielders frequently overlooked his presense.

*47* pounds?!? Should've eaten more before the game.

Unfortunately the leftover suck from the A's lingered in the Tigers locker room during game 1, but hopefully we'll come back and give Batgirl & Family something to cheer for during game 2!

I hate to say it, but it appears as if the Tigers have come down with a (hopefully short) case of Suck (maybe from the Athletics, despite heavy cleaning prior to Game 1?).

*sees someone has already thought of that before her*

The fact that ESPN is now picking the Tigers heavily simply confirms the fact St. Louis is going to win. They have not, collectively, made a single pick this post-season other than the Mets in Round 1.

I'd love to see the World Series stay in the AL Central. But my pragmatic side tells me it simply means more revenue for Detriot, and makes them a tougher team down the road...

gooooooooooo cards!!!!! :)

"I just love the fact that baseball's biggest stage is in the middle of the country this year... ;-)
Posted by: jamar1700 at October 21, 2006 03:19 PM"

Unlike last year, and the year before? ;-)

I can't help but think of one thing while watching the Series. Could there be anything worse than being one of the 4,000 Tiger season ticket holders trying to watch a game surrounded by 40,000 meathead football fans with an IQ lower than the temperature?
Hopefully the Cards put them out of their misery quickly and the meatheads can get back to the Lions.

Yikes! That was close!

Just wait. New Busch is gonna rock this week.

Is it true? Two more years of Gardy? **SIGH**

(BTW, the goal is not to make the playoffs. The goal is to win the World Series...in case some people forgot :0)

Anyway, I'm all for the Jim Leyland led Tigers...and no, I don't think Jim Leyland told his club to intentionally lose game one so that the Cardinals would get overconfident.

I'm okay with either the Tigers or the Cardinals... I just want it to go to seven games. Every playoff round this year has been a real dud; even the 7-game Mets-Cards series was hardly electric.

I think on a subconscious level my baseball fascination began with my local team, the 1960 Pirates, and the Bill Mazeroski home run to beat the Yanks. (Maybe that's why I hate the Yankees so much. :-) ) I was six at the time, so I don't recall much. The next WS I remembered was the '71 Pirates with my #1 (late) boyfriend, the great Roberto Clemente. (I still remember many of the names from that team -- Richie Hebner, the Mass. ex-hockey player; catcher Manny Sanguillen; Steve Blass, the pitcher who unexpectedly lost his stuff in the offseason....) I was a freshman in college at the time but couldn't make it to Pittsburgh to celebrate....

Despite the fact that my background is urging me to lean more toward NL than AL, I am rooting for the Tigers. (Leyland did manage the Pirates at one time. :-) ) But I wouldn't be in a snit if the Cards won, either.

Actually, he weighed more than 47 lbs. I was employing Hy Perbole, but, I have let him go, as he is prone to exaggeration. He actually weighed well over 85 lbs.

See, if the Tigers win, the pressure will be on the other AL Central teams to get with the program ....

let's see, who would that be?????????

Landed Gentry in 2007? Nah, this isn't Fantasyland.

Sitting Bull? Nope, not enough chiefs - or indians.

I guess that leaves us - - - -

By the way ... are the Twins identical or fraternal?

I've been a Tigers fan ever since Carlos Guillen was traded there just before the 2004 season, at which time they became my second-favorite team by default; but I remember well the incredible suckage of the team the year before that and it makes me so very happy to see them in the World Series that I would be rooting for them even without Carlos.

That said, it makes me absolutely giddy to watch my boy go a HR short of the cycle on the biggest baseball stage there is. A-rod's got nothin' on MY shortstop-playing-out-of-position!

GO TIGERS!!!