shhh Let us hope....
Tigers vs Yankees
The Yankees are the Yankees, which scares every team in baseball except the Tigers. Detroit seems to relish the challenge the pinstripes bring, especially when the games take place at Comerica Park. The downside of the Yankees is that the Tigers would have to open the series in New York, rather than having home-field advantage. That said, the Tigers always seem to steal one game at Yankee Stadium, making the thought of three straight games at Comerica Park very enticing. The Yankees' rotation, which has long been the Achilles heel for this team, all of a sudden looks like a strength. Andy Pettitte pitched Game 2 of the ALDS like he pitched Game 2’s a decade ago. CC Sabathia is an ace. Hiroki Kuroda looks like what the Yankees had in mind when they signed him in the off-season. And Phil Hughes has a nice track record at Comerica Park (3-2, 2.78 ERA), which is where he’d likely start Game 3.

The problem with the Yankees is the offense. Alex Rodriguez’s struggles are well-documented. But Nick Swisher and Curtis Granderson are slumping just as badly. Swisher is hitless in his last 34 postseason at-bats with runners in scoring position. And Granderson has nine strikeouts in the Orioles series, heading into Game 5 today. Unlike Rodriguez, both are in the lineup. All three figure to be in the lineup in the ALCS if they advance. That’s only good news for the Tigers. New York has a better bullpen, but I’d give the Tigers the edge in offense and the starting rotation. And it has to be mentioned that the Tigers have taken out the Yankees the last two times the teams met in the postseason.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.