Heckuva All-Star Game last Tuesday. Kenny Rogers gets the start and allows one run over two innings. Really nice to see Pudge and Kenny get to be battery mates during the All-Star Game. Pitching dominated the game the whole way, and Brad Penny was pretty impressive, striking out the side in the first. For the most part all he threw were fastballs, and all in the high 90's. Feel kind of bad for Trevor Hoffman, one of the more dominating closers of this era. With two out in the top of the ninth he allows three straight hits, including the game winning 2 RBI triple.

Anyway it was a great weekend for the Tigers they took 3 of 4 from the Royals, while the White Sox got swept by the Yankees leaving them 4.5 games back of the Tigers. This is the largest lead for the Tigers this year. I listen to the 670AM out of Chicago and its great listening to those guys worry about the Sox and give respect to the Tigers This all makes for some very interesting baseball starting on Tuesday when the Tigers and the Sox take each other on for a three game set in Motown.

With the trade deadline looming, I'm getting a little antsy, as I wonder what the Tigers will do. There's a lot of talk that they need a left handed bat, which is true. Hopefully Dmitri Young can come back and add a little more pop in the lineup. If they do make a trade I could see them offering up Zach Miner who although is a good young pitcher, the Tigers don't have that much invested in him. They got him in the Kyle Farnsworth trade last year from the Braves. They still would have plenty of good young pitching in the minors, plus Maroth should be back soon and they've got Jordan Tata, who was used in relief earlier this year and did well. He was sent down to gain experience as a starting pitcher because he just couldn't get much game time due to the success of the stating pitching this year.

Let's go Tigers!