June 19, 2008

Maybe it's just that the basketball season has ended, but I'm coming down with a serious case of Tigers fever!

Detroit has won eight out of ten, and the Tigers are now just six and a half games behind division-leading Chicago.

All of this is starting to feel vaguely like 2006, only with Detroit in the role of Minnesota. On June 19, 2006 the Twins were eleven games behind Detroit! As was the case with Detroit this year, in 2006 everybody had picked the Twins to do well, but a sluggish start combined with a suprising Detroit surge kept them way behind the Tigers and White Sox (who are now playing the role of Detroit in 2006, but who will fade much sooner) for most of the season. Ultimately, the Twins won the division (on the last day of the season, no less, and at the expense of the Tigers).

Anyway, if the 2006 Twins could do it, why not this year's Tigers?