Who is everyone rooting for in the Twins vs. Tigers playoff?
Who is everyone rooting for in the Twins vs. Tigers playoff?
Tigers
Tigers, but I can't imagine either team taking the LDS back to New York.
Tigers, if only they have an actual shutdown ace in Verlander.
I'd prefer the Yankees play the Twins. Besides the fact that I think the Tigers are the better team, if the Tigers were to win it wouldn't jumble their rotation (besides Verlander, which I'm not so sure is a positive). The Twins, on the other hand, would be forced to either pitch Nick Blackburn in game one on short rest for the second straight start, or they would have to go with Brian Deunsing or Jeff Manship. Either way that would give the Yankees an enormous advantage right off the bat.
Definitely the Twins. It's not worth much (as Detroit showed us in 2006), but they haven't won a game against New York all season and the team just seems to historically have Minnesota's number.
And I really want them to face Carl Pavano in the playoffs.:lol:
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Well, I don't really care about the historical aspect. The Yankees used to have the Red Sox number...Originally Posted by Optimist;484898;
Also, in terms of momentum, it doesn't concern me at all. Momentum, or lack thereof, going into the postseason has been proven meaningless numerous times.
Tigers.
Tigers.
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Hard to root for any team that blew the dogs that Detroit blew in September but Id stick a knife in my leg before I rooted for any team owned by Carl Pohlad unless they were playing NY
Regardless of who wins today, I hope it's a nice 20 inning affair in Minnesota today.
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Ya the Yanks are going to make out regardless due to the extra game and the extra day it took to play the game....Theyre going to be hard to handle, at least with Verlander the tigers had a pop to win the 1st game and then the Yanks would be down 0-1 with all the pressure being on Burnett.
Thats not going to happen now since JV pitched Sunday.
If that happened, which series would you take?
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I want the Twins if only to make sure Mauer wins the MVP and not some Yankee.
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