TIGERS TENACIOUS AT THE PLATE, AND OTHER HUMPDAY ITEMS

This is our song of exultant joy, because we only came to kick some ass...

• Apologies for the really highbrow take on Trailer Park Boys: The Movie last night.
• Pretty straightforward, really, for the Detroit Tigers in their 5-1 win over the Oakland A's last night in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. Brandon Inge broke out of a slump with a big early homer, and the normally free-swinging Tigers exercised some plate discipline against A's lefty Barry Zito. Oh, me of little faith.
• Wife-swapping, Keith Hernandez reminding us of all men's struggle that we "labour under the deep-down delusion that Christina Hall or Alison Migneault or whatever her name may be is waiting by the phone," plus a press box crasher who looks kind of like that Seinfeld guy. Yes, lots of fun has been had here at the expense of the New York Mets.
• Reading Scott Carefoot's RaptorBlog reminds you that there are probably two good basketball writers in Toronto, and only one of whom writes for a daily newspaper.
  
  Yours truly is trying not to crack on TV guys and newspaper scribes, but I'll direct you to where Scott calls out one newspaper guy for apparently writing that a 6-foot-2 guy can play small forward in the NBA. Six-foot-two is barely big enough for small forward in Canadian high school.
• Queen's Golden Gaels coach Pat Sheahan hasn't lost his sense of humour, if the lede to the game story in Tuesday's Kingston Whig-Standard is any indicator:
  
  Pat Sheahan spotted the yellow gift bag on the desk as he went into his office Saturday afternoon. Minutes after his football team was beaten 34-13 by the Ottawa Gee-Gees, he gingerly peeked around the tissue paper inside.
  
  "I have to check these packages to make sure there isn't anything ticking," the Queen's Golden Gaels coach said.
  
  Yes, it's good to have a sense of humour when you bleed Tricolour these days. Hey, maybe the focus should switch to those other Golden Gaels footballers: The women's soccer Gaels, led by Eilish McConville (nation-best 15 goals), are ranked No. 3 in the CIS Canada, with just one loss in 12 matches. Oh, and the women's hockey team is ranked No. 6 heading into Saturday's opener against Western. Live in fear, Mustangs.

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