The Detroit Tigers are leading the Al Central and have now traded for Pitcher Jarrod Washburn. I think this is a great addition and boosts their chances at advancing to the WS. What do you guys think?

Hopefully our Central lead over the Twins & White Sox can lengthen a bit in the next couple weeks, so we have some breathing room for the last part of the season.

Yeah some breathing room would be nice...

With Guillen back in the line-up, that will only help our offense...having a great utility infielder like Ramonago will benefit usin the playoffs when either Adam Everett or Placido Polanco need a day off.
-Trent

Things are coming along nicely.
PS - For the record - born in Warren, Mi. , Feb 1965 - at St. Joes
Dad was one of Detroit's Finest, we moved north to Traverse City in 1969, shortly after the riots. I now live in Atlanta, Ga.

So Michigan born but no longer a Tigers fan??? Whats up??? lol.

Joe

WHITE SOX GET PEAVY?!?!?!?!? NO!

Thats going to hurt big time. Tigers go out and get Washburn and then WS go out and get Peavy...

Hell yeah Washburn is going to be huge for us

Yeah he will. Can't wait

Tigers lost in 13 yesterday. Hopefully they get a won tonight

That would be nice...at least Minnesota lost. White Sox are closing in though.
-Trent

Yeah. We will start pulling away:)

Let's hope..because if we don't win the league, it's going to be very difficult to win the Wild Card with Boston and New York battling for the AL East division title, the 2nd place finisher of that league will pretty much lock up the wild card.
-Trent

We need some relievers really bad too though.

I wouldn't say we NEED some...some bullpens are worse off than we are, but a new effective bullpen pitcher or two would definately be helpful.
-Trent

Well the tigers are usually going into the last inning and they put in zumaya or rodney and they mess the rest of the game up and loose it.

#1-Zumaya is out for the year.
#2-Rodney has only blown one save this year, (last night), and the Tigers still ended up winning that game.

-Trent

Ive seen rodney blow more than that.

In past years maybe, but not this year.
-Trent

Its true rodneys first blown save was the other night. I just don't think he's good enough to keep getting the job done good though.

Wow we got killed today

Yessshhh..ouch 11-1. Just found out I am going to the Thursday game vs the Orioles, and Porcello is pitcing!
Going to try to get some auto's...
-Trent

Nice, hopefully Porcello does good.

Ya when has rodney blown more than 1 game? His frist was 2 nights ago... And Zumaya is out for the year... Are you sure you are watching the tigers eagles_freak5.. lol

Lol. Hopefully we can win tonight vs Baltimore...

Max-lol.

Joe-Hopefully, we got Verlander on the mound, so probably.

If he wins tonight he will be tied for the lead in the AL for wins...

Yes. I wish we could get Miner back to a starting pitcher, since Gallaragga is terrible...(5-10).

Yeah I thought he would do better. We have Verlander, Jackson, Washburn, Porcello.... What ever happened to Bonderman?

He's on the DL..never really came back from that injury he had last year.

Oh, those 4 pitchers should help us though. I dont think we'll need to use Armando very much anymore though

Um..like every fifth game we'll have to.

ummm no i dont think we'll use him that often...

Yikes, not a good start pitching. The first batters for us came through huge though!

Nice win walkoff style tonight! Too bad verlander couldn't get the win

Ya go Clete! And I feel sorry for Verlander :C

Wild first inning last night...nice win over division rival Twins!
Up 3 games over the Sox & 5 1/2 over the Twins now!

Yes, we are still the worst best team though

what?

Out of all the division leaders we have the worst record. Also we would be 4th and 3rd place in the other AL divisions.

Oh I see...hopefully we can get the offense going before playoff time!

Yeah, if white sox pass us though in the AL Central we dont really have a shot at the playoffs. We gotta keep the lead!

They won't pass us...a 5 or 6 game lead would be nice though!

Yes it would....

Hopefully we can get the game in tonight...rain rain go away!

we havent lost the lead since may 18,
we arent going to either.. we get hot for
a week and a half this month its over.

Wow, I didn't know we had the central lead since May 18th.
Bad loss to Twins last night...Verlander got rocked.
Too add a little salt to the wound, Chicago won too.
So the standings are now this...
DETROIT GB
CHICAGO 2
MINNESOTA 4.5
CLEVELAND 11.5
KANSAS CITY 15.5

-Trent

ohh yaaa go tigers!

haha lol

Come on tigers... 2 game lead? Thats not a lot.