On the Detroit Tigers Home Page

I had a phone chat with Jason Beck, the reporter for MLB.com, specifically the Detroit Tigers page. I met him a few years ago, and we email occasionally. We had a nice 30 minute chat about the Tigers - a great person to talk baseball with!

This was on the Tigers page under the title
"Warm memories linger in chilly Detroit:
Tigers return without ado, but fans cling to remnants of magic"

Yet around downtown, there were still some reminders of the magical run the Tigers had taken to the World Series with the city along for the ride. Among them, on the other side of Woodward Avenue, the marquee on both the Fox Theatre and State Theatre thanked the Tigers "for a great season."
More importantly, those who witnessed the magic won't soon forget how it unfolded, despite the disappointing end.
"It's pretty disappointing," said Fr. Steven Kelly, Rector at St. John's Episcopal Church next door to Comerica Park. "But soon after they lost [Friday] night, it kind of dawned on me: If you had told me last year that they would be in the World Series, I would've laughed. We really got two extra months [of games], because it's the first time in a while that the games in September meant something. I was more depressed about it last night at 12:30, and a bit more optimistic later looking forward to next year."
Like the theaters, Fr. Kelly changed his signs. Where his electronic board once read, "Pray for the Tigers," the sign reads, "Thank God for the Tigers."

And later in the article

But as nearly everyone pointed out, the bright side of at least getting to the World Series is that the offseason is four weeks shorter. The other change on Fr. Kelly's sign outside the church points out that Opening Day is April 2.

The entire article can be found at www.tigers.com or directly at
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061028&content_id=1726736&vkey=news_det&fext=.jsp&c_id=det