Take Your Drum And Shove It Up Your Ass

Dear Cleveland Drum Guy,

Shut the fuck up.

Love,
The Detroit Tigers

It is quite possible that the last two games may have just saved the Tigers' season. After falling down and busting up their knees on Friday, choking away a 11-7 lead, the Tigs came right back and showed the Indians exactly what they'll have to go through if they want to win this division.

Today's game was beautiful because everyone at Jacob's Field was quiet from the second inning on. Jeremy Bonderman pitched one helluva game, at one point putting down 11 straight Indians' batters. Another non-blown performance by the bullpen as Wil Ledezma and Jason Grilli held down the fort for a second night in a row, pitching out of some rough jams in the seventh and eighth innings and polishing off the game in the ninth.

Bondo is now 5-0 on the season, winning his last five games after not getting a decision in his first four starts. Today's performance was the type of thing we saw from Kenny Rogers a ton of times last year- when the team needed a win, he went out there and shut down Cleveland and got it for us. Bondo's change up keeps on improving, and he's is definitely starting to get the look of a potential Cy Young candidate.

Speaking of post-season awards, how about Magglio Ordonez? Even when he went hitless today, his worth was proven by drawing two walks and scoring a couple of runs. The fact that he is seventh in the AL All-Star outfield voting shows how idiotic fans can be sometimes as this guy is truly an MVP candidate. Oh, and he's leading the league in batting average and RBIs. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Winning today to earn a split was even beyond the best case scenario for this series after Friday's game. The past two performances revealed so much resolve in this team- how easy would it have been to simply buckle after Friday's crushing loss and to take two more losses and start all over again in Texas on Tuesday?

Instead, we're right back to where we started on Thursday afternoon- 2.5 games out but with a shit-ton more confidence. And the fact that it happened in Cleveland makes it all that much more worthwhile.

So, Cleveland Drum Guy, your team had a chance to get the Tigers buried 6.5 games out by early and put some distance between your team and the rest of the Central. But now you're riding two straight losses and are showing a bunch of weaknesses- shitty back of the rotation, superficial bullpen (looks good on the surface, but get into a few more guys and you can put nine up on the board two days in a row) and a lack of a killer instinct.

And because of all this, Drum Guy, you may now shut the hell up.