Tim Kurkjian

And I talked to his brother Gus the other day.

He said, yeah, Louie is a dog, man.

Back when Jeff Blair and I were growing up, a dog was someone who didn't play very hard.

Now a dog is a guy that you want in every sort of fist fight there is.

He just goes out there with a wrestler's mentality, and he throws as hard as he can on every pitch.

He gave up his second earned run of the season the other day.

It came, like, at the beginning of June.

How can that happen?

All five of those.

I'm counting the twins out.

I don't see the twins as a playoff team.

Okay.

But all those other teams, and this is my point about the American League, is you can't count the Orioles out.

I did the Blue Jays-Tigers game a couple weeks ago in Detroit on the radio, and I got asked before the game on a radio show, are the Blue Jays done?

Are the Tigers done?

And the answer is no.

No one is done in the American League.

I'm going to say that the Blue Jays and the Orioles out of that group has the best chance to win the third wild card.

But again, it's June the 12th.

There is so much more that has to be played from here.