Ah, but all bad things must come to an end -- for a day or two, anyhow. And Tuesday, this Tigers losing streak joined the club. After never holding a lead of more than two runs in 107 consecutive innings, the Tigers blew out the Devil Rays, 9-3, for their first win since a spring-training game on March 30. And in the seats of Comerica Park, jubilant fans held up a sign which read, so eloquently:

"1-11."

"It's not a good record," said dependable starter Steve Sparks. "But it's a good monkey to have off the back."

"Why a monkey?" wondered first baseman Dmitri Young. "Why can't it be a bird? Or a chimp?"

Hey, who among us hasn't wondered about that? Then again, who among us hasn't wondered whether a chimp could still be considered a monkey?

But those animal-kingdom questions can wait for another day. What mattered this day was that the Tigers didn't just have a reason to celebrate. They invented a way to celebrate.

After he caught the ball at first for the final out of victory No. 1, Young leaped into the arms of pitcher Juan Acevedo -- and began dancing. Or jumping. Or something festive of unidentifiable origin. But dancing sounds better. So Dmitri Young danced.

"At least he tried," Lima said. "But I'm the only mambo king."

If you dance after one win in a row, though, you're required to have Dance Fever break out after two wins in a row. So when the Tigers won again Wednesday, Wendell Magee crossed home plate with the winning run in the ninth inning, then began looking for Young and Randall Simon. And more dancing/jumping/festiving commenced.

Magee remembered that back in 1999, when Young was with Cincinnait, he and the Reds used to do something they called The Cincinnati Bounce after every win.

"I started doing it," Magee said. "I wanted to see if anyone was jumping with me."

He, Young and Simon bounced like tennis balls. Young was a little disappointed some of his teammates didn't recognize a phenomenon had just busted out, so they failed to join along.

"We had a section that was bouncing," Young said. "We had a section that was just shaking hands. It wasn't organized."

But they can work on that -- because unless they lose the last 148 in a row, The Bounce is now the official dance of Detroit. Or at least it will be once the Tigers win a couple of more times -- and come up with some actual music to go with it.

"I think maybe a little hip-hop, since that's what Dmitri dances to in the clubhouse," coach Juan Samuel told Week in Review. "He's got all those funny moves. I watched them, and I say, 'What's going on with that?'"

Don't ask. One worrisome aspect of this dance trend so far, though, is that it's possible not everyone is physically capable of doing it. The bouncers so far -- Young and his dancemates, Acevedo, Magee and Simon -- aren't exactly bantamweights.

"Acevedo has that foundation to hold him up," Samuel conceded. "And Wendell and Randall are big guys, too. So I guess he's picking the right guys to bounce with, the guys with the right foundation."

But it's not necessarily about foundation. It's just about picking the right dance partners. And, in a related matter, it's about winning more than once every dozen games. Whatever, bouncing definitely beats waiting around for the president to call.

"I think," Samuel said, "we had a long way to go to hear from George."

Computer warriors of the week
It all started so innocently.

Last May, Curt Schilling gave up two home runs in one game to his former teammate, Philles outfielder Doug Glanville. Afterward, Glanville explained that outburst with this fairly unique quote:

"Curt's a friend of mine. We used to play video games together. He killed one of my characters one time. I never forgot that."

We made the mistake of asking for more information. Now, about 12 columns later, we're afraid no one may ever forget that.

Turned out Glanville and Schilling are hooked on the hot online war game, EverQuest. Schilling thinks Glanville is an online wimp. Glanville thinks Schilling is a barbaric cheater. And we've been hearing about it for 11 months.

But just when we thought this scene had quieted down, along came the folks from Sony Online, the corporate father of EverQuest, to fire it back up again. Inspired by Week in Review's coverage, the Sony people invited Schilling and Glanville to battle each other last week in an official Event, with actual witnesses.

So the next thing we knew, Glanville reported to Week in Review he'd just finished "mopping the floor" with Schilling on the computerized battlefield, with an assist from Phillies catcher Todd Pratt, whom he'd invited along.

Sounded simple enough -- until Schilling's version was a slightly different: "Doug got the beating he deserved." According to Schilling, Glanville induced him into a battle with Pratt -- and only then "backstabbed me like the true, leaf-eating wuss he is."

There was something in there about how Glanville did later beat him one-on-one. But that, Schilling alibied, was due to a "computer glitch."

Well, we were more than happy to leave it at that and move on to some inside-baseball type material. But would they let us? No.

Glanville admits to shooting Schilling "in his spineless back" while Schilling and Pratt were going at it. But he also accused Schilling of trying "to assault me while I was reading my book of spells in peace." Whereupon Glanville claims he "lashed and thrashed him" and disrobed him three times.

The only time Glanville recalled actually being defeated by Schilling, he said, was "after the Game Masters equipped him with some sort of illegal Chinese Star that was made famous from its killling of the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot."

And that was pretty much how it happened, we were sure. Until we heard from Schilling again. He called Glanville's elf "a scar to the entire Elvish race." And as for that Chinese Star stuff?

"Man," Schilling grumbled, "the Elves have incredible imaginations. Give them that. What occurred here was your basic barehanded beating, administered by none other than (Schilling's famous character) Scythehands Voxslayer, the deadliest pair of knuckles in Norrath, plain and simple.

"He can spin it any way he wants," Schilling concluded. "But over the speaker phone, I could hear the moaning."

The only moaning we've heard from Glanville, however, was about Schilling's underhanded war-mongering. And after 11 months of this, we have no idea whom to believe.

We asked if anyone actually witnessed this mayhem as it happened. Here are user responses.

Barry Bonds quote of the week
Finally, we conclude this week, as we hope to almost every week in which Barry Bonds homers, with the best quip of the week on the best player in the game.

This week's entry comes from Rockies coach-quipmeister Rich Donnelly, when asked if he thinks Bonds' switch to maple bats has been a reason he's bashed all these home runs the last two years.

"Hell, no," Donnelly said. "Barry is so good, he can hit with a licorice stick."

Jayson Stark is a senior writer for ESPN.com.