Brandon Lyon turns 30 today. Josh Anderson turns 27 (It’s still not too late for a card, Wendi).

And here’s one for the oldtimers — Rocky Colavito (whose name came up here yesterday) is 76. And probably taking great delight in the fact that he outlived Joe Falls.

why can’t we call upon him again, if we don’t trust mando? hmm.

There’s no place like DH. There’s no place like DH.

How, exactly, is he a better choice for a start against the Red Sox than Amanda? Do the Boston hitters need extra BP?

"Junichi Tazawa gets the first chance to replace John Smoltz in the Boston rotation, starting with Tuesday’s home matchup against Detroit and the struggling Rick Porcello. You know all the caveats about chasing wins, but I’m still a little bit temped on this one. Tazawa spent most of the summer at Double-A, posting a 2.57 ERA and 1.08 WHIP along with 88 strikeouts over 98 innings."

Funny, I don’t recall Porcello doing too bad his last couple starts…

But we get Penny tonight and a guy making his 1st career start tomorrow (who’s not Matuz)….I’m liking our chances.

Cuz if he is, that would explain a few things, like how his pitches just don’t look right in many of his starts.

For what it’s worth, he actually gave up fewer runs against the Twins than either Justin Verlander or Jarrod Washburn. Plus, Lambert probably would be less effective and Miner isn’t stretched out. Starting a reliever against the Red Sox would probably be nothing short of disastrous because it would wipe out the entire bullpen.

If he was still doing such a great job, don’t you think Boston would keep him? After all, they are in a pennant race too.

I got to work this morning ( at a mental health facility) and our security guard was on the phone with the police because we had a "suspicious" looking device in our parking lot… yeah. We all commence to our daily tasks and about 25 minutes later the police showed up in the parking lot and we were all evacuated from the building.

 We were told to go wait across the street until we got further instructions from law enforcement. (It’s a good distance, at least 100 yards) We were all allowed to retrieve our vehicles and were told we could wait or they would call us once the “situation” was resolved. So several of us waited to see what the outcome would be and others opted to go home and return once the "crisis" was over.

About 9:30 the state police and their bomb squad showed up and got out their cool robot and he rolled into the vicinity of the "device" and did his job. He picked it up and turned it every which way so it could be looked at from all angles. Eventually they decided the item was no longer "a device" and they sent a dog into the building to check things out and we got the all clear to come back in. Yeah, it’s Monday.

Oh and by the way, they said it was some kind of a filter that someone had attached wires to, so it would look like a bomb. Funny, mental health is the first budget to be cut in Michigan. Maybe they need to re-think that.

if JV breaks his single-game record for strikeouts his next start (14) he will have 200 strikeouts in a season for the 1st time in his career.

They are coming home mad, we better be on our game tonight!

Anyone going to Fenway tonight shoot me an email at peterf@consonus.com I’ll be in Section 35 (dead center) with my son, and I’ll be wearing SOMETHING with Tigers logos.