So...who's the scapegoat?
My vote is for Cashman, as Torre is God in NY and cannot be touched.
ARod will be scapegoated in the press, but the Yankee brass won't be able to (or want to) get rid of him.
Sheffield won't come back, Bernie won't come back, and Barry Zito will be a very rich Yankee come spring training.

Kudos to Detroit. They didn't just win, but they deserved victory. They played exciting baseball. I can't wait to see their pitching against Oakland's! I pity the NL team who has to face either of these clubs.

Perhaps the greatest on-field celebration for a non-WS win ever! Just an amazing celebration. Kindly make room on the Tigers bandwagon for this Boston fan.

Yep Dave, another Redsox fan here for the Tigers. That was quite a celebration. Could you imagine the Yankee players celebrating with the fans like that? NO. Could you see Randy Johnson standing on the dugout spraying fans and even the cops with champagne ala Kenny Rogers? No way. These guys have heart and passion. I wish them well throughout the rest of the playoffs.

What is ESPNY going to do now? They won't have anything to talk about since all they know is the Yankees. They can probably going on for the rest of the playoffs talking about what could have been, or in their minds what should have been.

looks like good pitching really DOES beat good hitting.

yanks can't field, throw or pitch. NOT a great team.

and what will mccarver do without his jeter for the THIRD year in a row? and he sure can't be showing how clutch ol jetes was in THIS series. of course he can and will talk and talk and tlak wbout how jetes is the best baseball player who ever lived and how the postseason just ain't worth watching without ol jetes...

which is why i keep the tv on mute

lisa

Yeah, I'm a Boston fan turned-06-Tigers-fan now, too. Given all the crap that's happened to the city of Detroit lately...that was really nice to see. One of the best on-field celebrations ever. And I'm sorry I underestimated them...it's going to be really, really hard for anyone to beat Detroit at home this postseason.

I was going to root for the A's...big fan of the whole stat-based moneyball thing. But the Tigers fans deserve this more...so go Detroit.

Wow. Tigers played that one perfectly. They beat the hell out of Wright early, and put it away by killing the Yanks' awful middle relief. Cashman's going to have a LOT of work to do in the winter. (Schmidt and Matsuzaka in pinstripes? A-Rod to the Angles for prospects?)

Should be an interesting ALCS. Detroit's playing like the team that headed into the All Star Game with the best record in baseball. Think the Gambler starts game 1 in Oakland?

You're right, Dave. That celebration was CLASS. Unless you live in the bay area, hard not to root for the Tigers all the way.

How in the world the so called "best lineup" can't even produce as least 5 runs a game?

Daisuke Matsuzaka might as well be on his way to the Bronx.

Im flabbergasted. I can't really think at the moment. Im stunned actually. If there is one thing I'm happy for its Jim Leyland. Growing up in Northwestern Pennsylvania in the early nineties was a great to be a baseball fan. Even though I was a yankee fan, I loved watching early Bonds, Bonilla, Van Slyke, Drabek, Bob Walk...I could go on and on...play baseball. He was a great mananger then and showed why he still is now. Detroit's pitching was the difference. No matter how bad the yankees offense was, it was mad bad by that pitching. Ill post in a few days concerning the yanks offseason plans, I promised Josh that I would but right now, I think Ill just watch the Mets and wonder what could have been. Congrats to the Tigers and because of Leyland and Sean Casey...a Pittsburgh boy, Ill be rooting for them this october.

That was truly a great celebration... and that just for the ALDS!

"So...who's the scapegoat?
My vote is for Cashman, as Torre is God in NY and cannot be touched."

Torre is going, he is an aged dolt. Cashman did his job. You don't know much about Yankee fans if you think joe is an untouchable. He goes, and nobody but the rat Jeter will shed any tears.