Write on

Sparky and the Detroit writers think so much alike it's scary. They must be tapped into DTFT.

One day after Sparky comments ...

It hasn't been this much fun to be a Tigers fan since 1984. Last year was good, and memorable and exciting, but it was so unexpected that you kept waiting for the bottom to fall out. This season, you feel the Tigs belong.

... this appears courtesy of Michael Rosenberg in the Free Press:

Anyway, the point is that the Tigers entered the game with the second-best record in baseball and left it in second place. They are now 29-18. Last year, they were 33-14 through 47 games, but because they had lost for so many years, it didn't feel real. There was still that lingering fear that they would go on a 16-game losing streak and re-sign Deivi Cruz.

This is different. Everybody expects the Tigers to be in the race all season. This year, everybody is in his or her seats for the start of the movie. Everybody gets to experience all the wonderful moments of a playoff race.