Detroit Tigers' bullpen cartoon caption contest winner!

Mike Thompson, the Free Press’ award-winning editorial cartoonist/animator, is drawing “caption this” sports cartoons every other Sunday.

We picked our five favorite suggestions from the comments section, and you picked the winner. The winning cartoon also will be published in the Sunday newspaper.

Congratulations to Kirk Marble for sending in the winning caption!

The finalists were:

• "*sigh* I should have been a farmer..." -Patrick Milligan
• "And there he sat once again, face to face, with his old nemesis." -Darren Short
• "Does it have to be MY bullpen, or can this phone connect to any bullpen?" -Kirk Marble
• "I guess I'll phone it in." -Elizabeth Smith
• "Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, who's time is it the lead to blow." -Frank Shepherd