This will be a tough three days starting tomorrow. The Twins have only lost 11 at home all season and swing some mean bats.

Hopefully, the Tigers can take at least one. One win and the lead is 7.5 games. A sweep means our lead drops from 8.5 to 5.5 over the Twins.

I don't think Leyland will do it, but I'd like to see him skip Miner in the rotation this time through. (The off day Thursday would allow him to do this.) So instead of Robertson-Miner-Bonderman for the series, we'd have Robertson-Bonderman-Rogers. (Another benefit of this move is that I think it is preferable to throw lefties against the Twins if possible, with their two top hitters being Mauer and Morneau and the Metrodome being a park that helps L pitchers a bit.)

The tigers win 3-2 in the top of the 10th! Thanks to Craig Monroe (got hurt on the play) with a game winning hit. Our lead is now 9.5 over the twins, but the Sox won in the 9th.

Instead of a twins sweep, how about 2/3 or even better, a Tigs sweep , they proved they could score two runs on a possibe cy young pitcher who has been unstoppable-even though he struck out 12. Miner matched him in the run column, which he needed!

This is totally off topic, but I just traded Freddy Garcia and Jorge Posada for Pudge. Hopefully it doesn't get vetoed. There are a lot of politics in my league.

I needed to add a better and more consistent hitter at catcher. I'm pretty loaded with pitching.

At least you will have a Tiger instead of having an white sox or yankee

I didn't have any Tigers. I had Rodney a while back, but gave him up for JJ Putz.

Now I just need to get Jimmy Rollins hitting and running the bases hard to get back on track for a successful season!

Great win.

I couldn't find any info on Monroe. How bad was he hurt? How did it happen?

To quote Jackie Gleason..."How sweet it is... to the moon!"

Minn has owned us for 8 years. Last year we beat them a little. This year total domination. But then I could say that against all the teams this year.
It's Lima Time, BELIEVE IT!

I know I posted this on another thread but:

NEW NEWS: TIGERS TRADE!

The Pittsburgh Pirates today announced they have acquired minor league right-handed pitcher Brian Rogers from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for first baseman Sean Casey. The announcement was made by Dave Littlefield, the Pirates' Senior Vice President and General Manager. No other terms of the deal were announced.

I was looking up the tigers and it this was just updated on their site!

Rogers, 24, went 3-2 with one save and a 2.39 ERA (64.0ip/17er) in 37 relief appearances this season with Double-A Erie of the Eastern League. He was Detroit's 11th round selection in the 2003 draft from Georgia Southern University.