Ah, Torre, my old friend. Do you know the Commonwealth proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold? It is very cold in Comerica Park.1
The Tigers have eliminated the hated Yankees in four games. This is favorable news. Since the Sox are out of contention, I'm having to consider alternative outcomes and their relative acceptability. Now that the Yankees are gone, the only truly hated team remaining is the Mets. The Dodgers will probably fall to them, but I'm counting on the Curse of the NL as my fallback scenario.
Life is now better since the Yankees are out of the postseason.
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1 All the more appropriate since I was flipping back and forth between Star Trek II and various SEC football games this evening when I found out.