Hail to the victors valient!

Just woke up on Sunday and I can't get it out of my head. The state of Michigan just had a great saturday, with the University of Michigan easily handling Michigan State (the one black mark for the state's large sports interests, but someone had to go down in a heads-up matchup) to move up to number 4 in the national rankings and for the Detoit Tigers, who won their best of 5 ALDS matchup against the historic Yankees and their $198 million team payroll.

The Tigers were the team I grew up collecting, memorizing, and in absolute awe when we took the nearly 5 hour trip down south to go watch Lou Whitaker (my favorite), Alan Trammell, Kirk Gibson, and Sparky's gang do their thing. The only thing was in those days Oakland and at times the Yankees were dominant, so the Tigers didn't often do as well as we are this year. Here's hoping that they win out and take back the championship (I am hesitant to call it by its real name, "World's Series" since this blog is read internationally and it does make Americans look stupid to call the winners of a national (w/ Canada) sport the world's best).