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Something extremely rare will happen today. Before today, only 8 times in the 100+ year history of MLB has there been a need to play a tiebreaker game to determine a slot in baseball’s post season. The winner of this afternoon’s game between the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins will win the AL Central title and will move on to face the Yankees in the ALDS.

As far as the hotness factor is concerned there’s a big difference in the makeup of these two teams. Detroit’s hotties are more of the cute, young and slender variety. While the Twins are manly, beefy and brawny. Twins catcher Joe Mauer and Detroit’s starting pitcher Rick Porcello are possibly the hottest two jocks in all of baseball. Coming into the game the two biggest story lines are, how will Porcello, a 20-year-old rookie, handle the pressure of pitching in the game of his life and will 6-5 225 lb catcher Joe Mauer extend his MVP season.

The game takes place this afternoon @ 5 EST/4 CST on TBS.

Tiger Hotties

Rick Porcello

Justin Verlander

Ryan Ruburn

Ryan Perry

Ryan Raburn is my pick to click for the Tigers. If he gets to Baker early he could be the difference maker for Detroit. All hands are on deck but don’t expect to see Verlander in action today.

Twins Hotties

Joe Mauer

Carl Pavano

Scott Baker

Matt Tolbert

Denard Span

Justin Morneau

Carlos Gomez

Jeff Manship

Morneau struggled down the stretch with only 3 hits in his last 36 at bats and hasn’t played since mid September. Span has been in and out of the lineup all year with injuries but is one of the best outfielders in the game.

Prediction

From a baseball perspective I think the Twins have the advantage. After all Minnesota forced the tie breaker by going 10-3 down the stretch while the Tigers failed to put the Twins away and closed at 7-6. The Metrodome is a shit hole for baseball but it’s one of the best home-field advantages in all of baseball.

Twins starter Scott Baker just beat the Tigers last Thursday but has had only one quality start in his past four. Tigers starter Rick Porcello had 3 straight quality starts to end the season. For this reason I believe Detroit may grab the lead early but look for the Twins to win this one late. I just got a feeling Michael Cuddyer and Joe Nathan will come up big in this game.

I also think the Twins win the hotness battle but that’s a really close call. Your thoughts?

20-year old Detroit Tiger hottie Rick Porcello makes a mistake and starts a bench-clearing brawl in Boston last night. There’s some history of HBPs between these two clubs in this series. I’m not sure this one was intentional, I mean look at his his reaction right after the pitch and as Youk comes after him.

OK, so I’m gay but damn Youk, throwing your batting helmet is about as gay as it gets. And then you get thrown by Porcello while he was in retreat? Rick Porcello’s hotness factor up 30%.