지난 이틀밤을 야구 Playoff때문에 잠을 설쳤다. 오늘 아침 우리차  정규 check up하는
날이라서 아침 7시반에 갖다주고 단골 정비공 Jere가 집에 데려다 주면서 그친구도
지난 두밤을 그렇게 지냈다고한다. 이만큼 이곳에는 운동팬들이 득실거린다.

44년 미시간에 살면서 홈팀이 야구에서 2번 농구에서 3번 아이스 하키에서 4번 우승한것을
witness했는데 지금생각하면 산과개업을 하면서 바뿐 와중에도 Redwings playoff game을
새벽 1-2시까지 관전하고 8시 C-section에 맞추어 가느라고 부산을 떨던것이 지금도 눈앞에
주마등같이 지나간다.

스포츠라는것이 무었이길래 이렇게  장성한 성인들을 흥분하게 하는것일까?

Detroit Tigers owner인 Mr. Ilitch는 피자사업으로 성공한 billionair로 Detroit Redwings owner
이기도 한데 Redwings로 4번의 우승을 즐겼지만서도 젊은 시절 야구 minor league 선수이기도
했었던 이분의 평생꿈이 자기 야구팀이 World Champion이 되는것이라한다. 그도 이제 80을
훨씬넘었는데 금년에 행운을 얻었으면 하는 바램이다.  규정

GO! DETROI TIGERS!

Thank you, Dr. Hwang, for your excellent exposition of the baseball world of America.
You are certainly one a million, hard core fan of all major sports.
Sukjoo, who is one of the fans of Tigers only when they make it into the playoff,
stayed up until 1 AM to watch the Tigers beating the Oakland A's, and woke me up
to let me know, but I wasn't upset being awakened.

Mr. Mike Ilitch and I are old acquaintances.
I took care of his mother-in-law and father-in-law until they died.
Instead of his wife, Marian, he sometimes would bring them to my office.
He would ask me to call him direct in case of emergency.
Once I had to call him and he responded right away and came to the hospital.
When his mother-in-law was faced with a critical decision in regard to the urgency of
cardiac cath for possible heart surgery, I asked him to hold a family meeting of some 12 of them
and to let me know their decision. He immediately responded as well.
He used to impress me in that how humble and down to earth he was in person.
I believe he was around 50 and I was around 40.
I thought I would reminisce my encounter with him many years ago,
which left me a lasting good impression.

Thanks for your comments! Dr.Lee and Dr. Bang!

Mike Ilitch is very popular owner at the Motown. As you know he owned both Redwings and Tigers.
He has raised Detroit Redwings as one of the best franchices in all the sports and quite succesful as well.
Eventhough he had got 4 rings in Ice Hockey, his life long dream has been his Tigers being World champions!

I would settle with the sport repoter for our websites! Ha, Ha!  Dr. Bang!  

Here are the line-ups for ALCS and NLCS.

Detroit Tigers  vs  Winner between NY Yankees and Baltimore Orioles(ALCS).
SF Giants  vs  Winner of Washington Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals(NLCS).  KJ