It's All Happening

Tiger fans remember Opening Days, but more for the lousy weather than the final score.

Saturday's game was your basic garden-variety pummeling. No biggie, really.

But Sunday's 13-12 come from behind walkoff win in extra innings has become an instant classic; already on the all-time list of games Tiger fans remember and talk about, on there with division clinchers and no-hitters and almost-perfect games, and games in which Hinge actually does something to help the cause. 

Even before they signed Prince Fielder, the Tigers were by far the team to beat in the AL Central. Anything less than the division title would be a bad season.

The opening series sweep -- at home against the Red Sox -- and especially Sunday's dramatic win, has fans talking, awash in the magic that means the difference between an ordinary good year and The Year, as in 1968 and 1984, when everything went right. On Facebook, message boards, and sports talk radio, it's ALL happening. Your cynical baseball blogger, who's seen fifty openers -- the first admittedly when he was nine -- hasn't seen this after only three games in a long time. Fans are buzzing.

Have you seen a Tigers fan buzz?