momentarily watching a yankee pitcher that looks like a fat kid in pajamas reminds me why i stopped paying attention to baseball as an actual sport.

The Yankee fans look like Cub fans.

That was some moxy.

Told ya!! You had better starting pitching going into this series and through 5 games it showed. Fister came through tonight. That was actually brilliant by Benoit in the 7th pitching around Tex with the bases loaded. It worked.

I'm not a fan of the Yanks, but it's pretty obvious who the better team in this series was.

But that's what makes the baseball playoffs great. If your team hits better with RISP and you get decent pitching out of your 1-2-3, you can win the World Series. I like the Tigers to beat the Rangers.

When the Tigers acquired Fister they became the best team in baseball. Right now at this second, Verlander/Fister is a better 1-2 than Halladay/Lee and it's not even really close. The better team won that series without question. I don't know how he does it looking at him throw, but Fister was a great pitcher all year, he didn't get a heckuva lot of run support in Seattle.

Antitrust32 in 5.....4......3......

Fister has basically pitched like a right handed version of Lee the last three months. But still, as much as I appreciate horsey's enthusiasm, I can't compare Verlander/Fister to Halladay/Lee. Maybe to Halladay/Lee Harvey Oswalt.

:) I'm counting on my horse tonight! I can't wait for game 5... this is what playoffs are all about!

Wow. Nothing else to say about that except, Wow.

As far as the best team winning the series, not sure about that either. Just like Joey said, the Yanks had a ton of men in scoring position and did absolutely nothing with those opportunites.

Good luck Tiger fans going forward against the Rangers.

Also for the record, I thought Jim Leyland out-managed Girardi.

Hope the Cards win. I have no interest otherwise.

Not a fan of these 5 game series. If they want to do that then at least give the team with the best record in each league a first round bye and add another wild card team. Make having the best record more meaningful than home field advantage which in baseball isn't as important as football.

It's funny you say that, I heard Leyland's press conference yesterday. He mentioned that sometimes he feels like it's better to be on the road for these elmination games. He said something about there being certain distractions at home in addition to the pressures of playing in front of the home crowd.

Just scored tickets to game 5 tonight. Pumped up isnt the word! The Doctor will see you now........

wow!!! sooo jealous!! Have a great time!! Go Phillies!!

I'll ignore the ridiculous Fister hagiography, and just ask, what the hell makes you say that? They got outscored 28-17.

Didn't the Red Sox have almost an even run differential during their September collapse despite winning like six games? I'm not sure counting cumulative score is necessarily indicative of, well, anything.

I'm not sure Leyland outmanaged Girardi (that's like the blind leading the blind). He just got lucky. Miguel Cabrera somehow ended up with over 100 RBI's this year despite Leyland continually placing three guys ahead of him who don't ever end up on base. I realize Delmon Young had a nice enough series, but continuing to bat low-OBP guys like Jackson and Don Kelly early in a lineup isn't going to win a lot of games on the offensive end.

Girardi wasn't great last night, I'll give you that.

Really? Take a look at the MLB standings. They go almost exactly according to run differential. The top four in the NL were the four that made the playoffs. Three of the top four in the AL made the playoffs (Boston was third, Tampa was fifth). It's one of the best indicators of how good a team is.

But that's what a short series can do. It can propel the inferior team if they leave fewer runners on base and get slightly better starting pitching.

And the Red Sox were -23 in September.

Standing room only, but it'll do! Thanks Uncly, enjoy watching Doc as he transforms into the Surgeon. 5-2 Good Guys!