Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

All right, starting with baseball.

You know, when the sport of baseball is not getting its own way,

when the commissioner is not doing dumb things like calling his own trophy a quote,

piece of metal. Piece of metal metal when they aren't putting the players

in pornographic see-through uniforms and letting the ump show ruin the games when you clear out all that noise and nonsense

Baseball is still pretty damn good. Baseball is still great and especially in the

post season and especially when you have some really fun teams on some

really amazing runs like we do this post season. Yes, it got very sweepy in the wild card round.

The brooms were definitely out yesterday. In fact, the only team that did not finish the deal

and get their sweep was the Mets,

which I don't think surprises anybody.

They're the Mets.

And it definitely didn't surprise anybody in Wisko because that's where the Brewers reside. And they finally showed up like the Brewers that we know.

But that's not where I'm starting or as Matt in L.A. would say,

but that's not why I called.

As much as I love my Wisko fam

and their baseball team, I've got to start

with the potential end of an era.

And one of the best baseball David Viegolai stories ever. You know I'm talking about you D, the big D. Detroit.

Love these guys so much. Love this story so much. You know I'm talking about the Tigers ending the Astros historic run of seven straight

AOCS appearances. A Detroit Tigers team that was 55 and 63 on August 10th. A Tigers team that according

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