Brad Ausmus was not happy about this third strike call, and his hoodie was one of the casualties

The Detroit Tigers had been struggling. Being swept in a three game series against the Washington Nationals (the presumptive favorite to represent the National League in the World Series), will do that to a baseball team. They were struggling to score runs and had not fared much better in the pitching department. So you could say the mood at Comerica Park was tense, to say the least. But what happened next was maybe the most entertaining thing to happen during the Detroit Tigers season to that point.

Oh, and not to mention the Tigers were in the midst of blowing an 8 run lead against the last placed team in the division.

The manager (for now) of the team, Brad Ausmus, was so angry about a called third strike against Tigers third baseman Nick Castellanos. The resulting argument with home-plate umpire Doug Eddings was one of the best ejections on a baseball field I've ever seen. It concluded with Ausmus taking off his MLB issued Detroit Tigers hoodie and adding a few choice words for Eddings.

You might say that Ausmus blew a gasket and you would be 100% right in this assessment. Lets just remember that managers/coaches are people to.

Video courtesy: Reilly Raymond

Happy Birthday to my favorite athlete!

Today is Steve Yzerman's 51st birthday. Yzerman was my favorite athlete growing up a Red Wings fan. My mom will tell stories of me introducing myself as Yzerman as a youngster (I can neither confirm or deny). This does sound like something a young Andrew Walsh would do. I cannot say anything bad about him. His play taught me to stay humble and work hard. However, he is now the general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning who are the team that have defeated the Detroit Red Wings in the playoffs last year and again this year. This year's series was not much of a contest given the fact that the Red Wing's power play (a power play happens when one team is called for a penalty and the player who committed the penalty is sent to the penalty box giving the other team the opportunity to play with one more team on the ice for a maximum of either two or five minutes).

I will never forget one goal that Steve Yzerman scored in particular. It happened on May 17, 1996 when I was seven years old so I may have some of the details wrong. That's exactly what Google was invented for, if you ask me. The Red Wings won the game on a slap shot by Yzerman from just outside the blue-line of their offensive zone. It must have fooled the goalie for the St. Louis Blues, Jon Casey, barely moved to stop the puck. What ensued can only be described as pure, unadulterated joy. Every time I see a replay of that particular goal, a smile comes across my face.