The good news–we won’t have to stay up late this weekend watching any more baseball games. Also, Patricia, being from St. Joseph originally, and still having a lot of family in eastern Missouri, including St. Louis suburbs, is happy.

And there’s not really that much bad news. No one at the beginning of the season expected the Tigers to even necessarily break .500, let alone get into the playoffs, and if you’d told anyone that they’d be in the series, they’d have thought you were nuts. But you don’t win a world series with eight errors, particularly when many of them come from the pitching staff. But, all things considered, there’s always next year for Motown…