This afternoon, the Detroit Tigers, my favorite team in all of sports, won its 43rd game of the season. This may not sound like a momentous achievement–except that 43 is an important, painful number for fans like me. That’s the total number of games the Tigers won in the entire 2003 season, when they were a laughingstock. Today, the season isn’t even half over, they’ve got the best record in all of baseball, and I can’t stop smiling.