TIGER TALK

Well, that series certainly didn't go like we thought it would after taking the first game, did it? To me, the series turned in the second game when we blew the lead...but you knew that, too. The question is, how do we feel now being only 2 games up on Minnesota and 3 1/2 on Chicago? Well, looking at it from a contemporary point of view, you probably feel shaky as hell.

Looking at it from a totally fair and realistic point of view, if someone asked you in April (I know you were busy watching the Pistons and Red Wings blow wonderful seasons in the playoffs) how you'd feel about having a 2 game lead in the toughest division in baseball coming into mid-September-even though the Tigers will have had a horrible month leading up to that, you would have been more giddy than Paris Hilton running into 5 sailors just beginning their leave after six months at sea.

Is this all just psycho-babble BS? Probably, doesn't mean it won't work, however. We'll be fine if we can just turn it around and win or series or two in a row...something we haven't done since the Boston series in the first week of August. Remember, its not like the Sox or the Twins are exactly streaking past us here, they have both played .500 ball down the stetch...better than us the last month, but its not a problem we can't fix.

That's what I'm telling myself, anyway. Do you think I will ever totally convince myself to really buy my own BS? Well, if I don't, it won't be because I didn't try.