Baseball is a game of numbers and stats, and right now, for Detroit, they look pretty damn good:

Every Detroit fan everywhere knows what 35-5 means -- the Tigers' record after 40 games of their 1984 World Series-winning season.

That start was so good Detroit had to play just a little above .500 ball the rest of the season to cruise home in first place. In fact, the Tigers closed 69-53.

Detroit enters its Friday interleague game at Pittsburgh with a 54-25 record. If the Tigers win Friday, they will be dead even with the 1984 team's record after 80 games.

Detroit is Doing AWESOME! after all their pathetic performance last year, they are living up to the talent they have on staff. Mags and pudge alone should have raised the team up last year, but it took a full year for Detroit to learn how to play baseball in terms of accompaniment (spelling?)

Still, though I would say that in star value, Detroit is at least as good (if not a touch better) than the sox, I think that Detroit can't hold this run all season, they are wearing out their starters, without using their bench, I think the Sox will make it up, and Detroit will come in CLOSE second, and should, and definately deserves to be the AL wild card, by seasons end.

I must admit, I'm a Sox fan (I've been so-chi, my whole life, though I've lived elsewhere, NEVER favored the cubs, but so Chi, are the winners, so now I can come out of the closet) so I might be a little favoritist, however, I think that the STATS don't lie.