MLB LDS PICKS

my LDS picks are as follows:
Tigers in 4
Rays in 5

Cardinals in 5 (Upset Special)
Dbacks in 5

It's Happened Again-Denny McLain Arrested

It's happened again. Former Tiger star and Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain was arrested Thursday on a fugitive fraud warrant at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, and he is in the St. Clair County Jail pending extradition to Lousiana. Doesn't this guy EVER learn?

DETROIT TIGERS CLINCH DIVISION

The Detroit Tigers became the first team to clinch a divsion, as they won the American League Central by defeating the Oakland A's 3-1. The Tigers took the lead when Wilson Betemit tripled in the winning run, then added insurance on a Don Kelly home run. Doug Fister was brilliant as the winning pitcher, and Jose "Papa Grande" Valverde got his 45th save to finish the job. The Division title is the first for the Tigers since they won the American League East in 1987.

The Worst Offseason-EVER

This has been a horrible off-season for NHL players, coaches, owners, and fans, as, with today's tragic Lokomotiv air disaster in Russia, 46 professional hockey players and coaches have died this summer. We've lost way too many good people this summer. This off-season cannot end soon enough.

Derek Boogard
Rick Rypien
Wade Belak

Players and Coach killed in Lokomotiv air disaster:

Vitaly Anikeenko

Yuri Bahvalov

Alexander Belyaev

Mikhail Balandin

Alexander Vasyunov

Joseph Vashichek

Alexander E. Vyuhin

Robert Genrikhovich Ditrih

Pavol Demitra

Andrey Zimin

Marat Natfullovich Kalimulin

Alexander G. Karpovtsev

Alexander I. Kalyanin

Andrey Kiryuhin

Nikita Klyukin

Igor Borisovich Korolev

Nikolai Krivonosov

Evgeny Kunnov

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kuznetsov

Stephen Daniel Patrick Liv

Jan Marek

Sergey I. Ostapchuk

Vladimir Leonidovich Piskunov

Karel Rahunek

Ruslan Salei

Evgeny Sidorov

Karlis Martinovic Skrastins

Pavel Snurnitsyn

Daniel E. Sobchenko

Gennady S. Churilov

Maxim A. Shuvalov

Artem Nikolaevich Yarchuk.

Head coach: Brad McCrimmon