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DETROIT -- Finally, the wait is over for Mike Maroth.

It was almost an afterthought on the transactions wire on Wednesday morning, when the Tigers activated the left-hander from the 60-day disabled list. But after three months of rehabbing his surgically repaired left elbow, and about two weeks of waiting to see when he would be back, Maroth recognized that it was a big deal.

In some ways, he said, it was as tough a challenge as enduring his 21-loss season of 2003. And like that, he thinks he's a stronger pitcher for coming out of it.

"It was adversity that I had to deal with, just as going through that season was adversity," Maroth said. "This was another test, another trial in my life that I had to persevere through. How was I going to handle the adversity? Any time you go through that, it's going to be a challenge. Was it a tougher challenge? In certain ways, it was. They're kind of hard to compare, but in certain ways, it was more of a challenge, because I couldn't go out and perform. I was able to take the ball in 2003 and go out and pitch. [i] just never got good results."

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GO ANGELS

Well he's kind of had it in me ever since i accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly" and replace "dog" with "son".