For the next week or so, we'll alternate Athletics and Tigers for the PotD:PE.  Today's Tiger is Carlos Guillen -- make sure to keep track of his performance and continue to measure the Photo of the Day mojo.  I think the biggest indicatior of the sheer power of Photo of the Day is that I had no Yankees photographs, and the Yankees were unceremoniously ejected from the playoffs in the first round, despite having possibly the scariest lineup of bats in the history of scariness.

The A's beat the Twins in three quick games.  Here's gigantic A's slugger Frank Thomas, getting out of the path of an inside pitch:

Yeah, I said I was going to post a Twin today... but then Joel Zumaya had such a kickass game against the Yankees that I had to put him up.  Here he is:

I know, the Twins aren't playing today -- I just figured I should get at least one Twin player in today and another in tomorrow, in case their series is as short as it looks like it could be.  But perhaps this off-day mojo will carry over for Justin Morneau to tomorrow:

Everything about the batting stance of Oakland A's catcher Jason Kendall makes me think of an axe murderer:

By request, here's our first Photo of the Day: Playoff Edition desktop, featuring Detroit's Curtis Granderson.  Details on who's available for you to request next can be found in the thread.

The baseball season, at least for the Jays, is over.  However, I'm going to use some of my coverage of the Jays' opposition this year to keep Photo of the Day running for at least the first round of the playoffs -- we'll see how quickly I run out of material.

Of the American League teams that made the post-season, I have photographs of all of them that aren't the Yankees.  Please feel free to request players you'd like to see in the next couple of weeks.  In the meantime, here are your Toronto Blue Jays, marching off the field and delivering high-fives all around:

I didn't get any photographs of A.J. Burnett until late in the season, so you're going to see him a little more often as the Jays' season and my season of Photo of the Day wind down.  Here he is, about to pitch the ball:

Okay, I promise: no Gilmore Girls references today. Instead, here's a photograph of Jeremy Accardo discussing strategy with Bengie Molina:

No, they're not in the same picture together.

I was in a Coffee Time searching for some appropriate Gilmore Girls season premiere junk food (don't worry, I time-slipped it and watched it after the Jays game), and what did they have on the shelf? A wonderful, wonderful doughnut. Unlike the other doughnuts in the store that had professional-looking plaques, this one had its name written in black marker on a piece of masking tape at the front of the shelf: BLUE JAYS. Needless to say, I bought it and photographed it for your entertainment. Oh yeah, and then I ate it while watching Gilmore Girls.

But today's real picture is of Troy Glaus, by request. See if you can figure out which picture is which: