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ninemm wrote:Does Beltre translate to "belt three"?

fickman wrote:I was about to start this very thread. . . I'm one of the addicts who watches every pitch of the season.

I'm glad the other ALDS is going to game 5. I actually fear this Detroit team more than this Yankees team, but I won't profess to prefer one or the other. . . we may get an unfortunate dose of what we ask for if we go down that road.

Beating the Yankees is always sweet, but so would getting revenge on this Tigers team for two reasons:
1) They whooped the Rangers during the 2011 regular season
2) In 2001, I took my girlfriend (now wife) to the game linked here and to this day I use it as a benchmark for explaining life as a Rangers fan (look at the box score! It was painful.):
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 8080.shtml
Yes, the Tigers scored 13 runs in the 9th inning. We stayed until the last out. Why? Because we were Rangers fans. My girlfriend (now wife) asked if we should go, since there were fewer than 100 fans left by the end of the slaughter. I said, "No. We should stay here and watch this. Soak it in. Remember how it feels. Hope to be one of the few to see an historic come-from-behind win. If not, then recall this one day down the road when they win a World Series. The bandwagon fans won't be able to understand what a championship means to us, and we won't be able to explain it, but we stayed loyal even through days like this."

Regardless, we should all hope for an 18-inning game 5!

Bulldog1911 wrote:It's always nice beating the yankes!!!!!