You really need to add some of your insights about the playoffs. I miss the Tigers and you like crazy already. Thanks for the great summer of broadcasting.

Hey Rod,

I think Porcello did a great job Tuesday. Unfortunately, Leyland got frightened at the first sign of trouble and pulls him for unreliable Zack Minor. Up to that point, Rick had pitched a 4 hitter in the biggest games of his life. What does Minor do? Gives up a single, a home run, and the lead. His time of affectiveness for the Tigers is done...ship him off. Same with Jim Leyland. His methods are old school and don't work anymore. When we had runners at first and third with one out, does he have Granderson steal second? No. If the throw goes through, Everett breaks for the plate and we manufacture a run. In the end, we get doubled up on a line drive. Finally Gerald Laird....great defensive catcher...but zero offense. 0 fer 6 in the biggest game of our season. Blows a sacrifice bunt attempt. We gotta have better than that. And finally, I'm still ticked that we GAVE AWAY Jair Jurrien for Edgar Renteria. Jair by the way won 14 games for Atlanta, had an ERA at 2.50 and was payed $450,000. Those 14 games sure would have meant alot to the Tigers. Well... it was an exciting year. With some middle relief, a few bats, and some new leadership, I believe that we can win the division next season. Go Tigers.

DC in Traverse City

Jim Leyland has been here 4 years.

2006- team choked away a division championship and eventually a World series to a .500 team.

2007- Team gets out to a huge lead and choke from July on. Miss Playoffs

2008- Team was supposed to be best of a bad division, end up in last place of a bad division.

2009- 7.5 game lead with 26 to play, Choke Choke Choke.

What coach/manager could make it through a 4 year stretch like that to begin there tenure. The team chokes because Leyland can't the spotlight and attention. The man is a quitter and a perennial choker

Wow, what a game. What were the papers in Leyland's back pocket? A manual on how to lose a baseball game. All the papers in the world wouldn't have told me to take out my hottest hitter Maggs. Just another example of Jim being old and predictable. Ron Gardenhire makes Jim Leyland look like Luis Pujols

I hope the Tigers can win this afternoon but wow, Denard Span said it best Detroit Choked. Jim Leyland should be ashamed of himself for playing a drunken Cabrera on Saturday night. Win at all costs even if the guy you run out there has only been awake for a couple hours and reeks off scotch. What worries me the most is that our 26 year old $150 million dollar man is an alcoholic and probably a wife beater. You would think our 20 year old rookie would be the one that we would all be worrying about, but I DO have confidence in Rick. He has shown the professionalism and maturity that Cabrera so obviously lacks. Cabrera has always had discipline issues even if it was only pushing himself away from the dinner table. Now those issues have spiraled into drunkeness and domestic violence. Also what was most disturbing was the other incident at the Townsend, teasing an overweight 15 year old? What also shouldn't be lost is the fact that Dave Dombrowski has shown his true colors. Covering this up is a disgrace and I think his comment that the previous incident which was documented by police was "inaccurate." So now DD knows more then an officer on the scene. Can anyone explain how Dave Dombrowski would have known if a police report was 100% accurate? He wasn't there for either incidents so how could he even comment on that. Its to bad alot of these guys don't speak English because they could learn alot from Ernie Harwell. If you don't make these poor decisions you can have a blessed, carefree, successful life.