I think Tigers fans’ perception of post-season baseball is shaped by the fact that the two championships of our memory, ‘68 and ‘84, were dream seasons where the Tigers were clearly the best AL team in the regular season and then deservedly won the playoffs. They were one-offs in that other Tigers teams of those eras came close a few times but never made it to the Series Despite the bad final week of the regular season, the ‘06 Tigers do fit the mould of a special season followed by an AL pennant, albeit not a World Series. But the Tigers’ most recent pennant of ‘12 will more likely be the norm going forward. Get a team that makes the playoffs multiple years, and chances are one of those times they will advance to the Series and even win it. Even though the year you do so may not be your best record from that era and your team may not have stood out among its peers going into the playoffs. The 2012 Tigers were not special …until October. So I won’t apologize if the Tigers win a Series with 86 wins some time in the future, because I think the Tigers deserved but didn’t get one Series title out of 2006, 2011-2014