Go Get 'Em Tigers (by Thom)

Please forgive me for a sport indulgence here, but this has been an exciting week for me as a baseball fan. I grew up a Tiger fan, with my coming-of-baseball age in the middle of the Cecil Fielder, Rob Deer, Mickey Tettleton era. After college we moved to the Pittsburgh area and then the Cincinnati area. I’ve seen a lot of pathetic baseball over the last 15-20 years. I enjoyed watching the awful Pirates and Reds teams but they never filled that love I had for the Tigers. We moved here to Africa a year ago, so I’m sure this is some sort of Murphy’s law thing going on here, but I’ll tell you: I grew up a die-hard Buckeye’s fan and Pittsburgh Steelers fan and I’m more excited about the Tigers making the playoffs this year than I was for OSU beating Miami for the National Championship in 2002 or the Steelers winning the Super Bowl last year.
This has been such a special year. I’ve had to watch from afar, but wow - this is fun! “Go Get ‘Em Tigers” and “Bless You Boys!”
By the way, Amanda thinks that if things don't work out for the Tigers maybe we should switch our allegiances to the Minnesota Twins, for obvious reasons.