"The challenge now is for the Tigers not to feel sorry for themselves.

Because with Magglio Ordonez's season-ending ankle injury following Delmon Young's series-ending oblique injury, they have a lot to feel sorry for themselves about.

What it comes down to, though, is that as difficult as it's going to be, these two injuries must be treated as distractions. Bumps in the postseason road.

Manager Jim Leyland has said it a hundred times, "if you let postseason stuff be a distraction, you'll be distracted.""