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Everybody Is In The Act

Rob Sanford

From the time most of us can remember...Mom always made you share. Each of the Tiger players must of had good Moms because it seems like every game someone else takes a turn at being a hero. When watching a good team one hallmark is that everyone buys in and plays for each other. That's how the Red Wings dominated for so long, and now the Tigers and even the Lions seem to be doing just that. My wife has become a baseball fan over the years (probably because its all I watch in the summer!} and she says in the past couple of weeks she has seen something happening. I'm always interested in her opinion....first, because I don't like to sleep on the couch, and second, she sees things that as a lowly male creature that I am, may not have seen. She says she's seeing a swagger or air of confidence and that the players look like they are having a blast playing baseball.

I love hearing that because I feel its a huge factor  in winning. No ego's, a close knit clubhouse, and a never say die attitude. Over the past month it seems like they are sharing in the glory....one night it's Ramon Santiago, another and its Austin Jackson, and so on. If we can't depend on reliable starting pitching outside of Justin Verlander, then the bullpen takes on an ever important role. I'm not all that superstitious, but I'm not ready to say the Tigers are a shoo-in...but I will say...the post All-Star slump hasn't materialized.

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