Not so. I had the Dodgers over the Mets before the injuries, and I consider myself an expert. 
Oakland is up 4 to 2 over Twins at the end of the 8th.
Things are looking might bad for the Twins as these games were at home and the next game in at Oakland.
Jim
Again, Oakland by the skin of their teeth. Encouraging, but the butter’s not in the fridge yet. I will not believe until the A’s win the third game.
Monday’s my birthday. Think I’ll get what I want?
I think the A’s will manage not to lose 3 straight this year after being up by two.
Today’s Final: **A’s over Twins at Twins 5-2. **
Jim
Well, we all picked the Twins and the A’s have simply shut down their bats.
It’s why they don’t play 'em on paper.
I wish this team had shown up at the Metrodome the last two days.
It’s just amazing to me that this team looks to be in over its head in the playoffs. They have a rookie starting starting game 2 in the playoffs, and he gives them everything they can possibly expect, but the veterans aren’t there for him. I can forgive a rookie like Bartlett for being a little lost, but veterans like Hunter and Castillo have been inexcusably bad. Not just bad, but stupid.
I’m a little sad that Hunter’s performance in today’s game may be the last we see of him at the dome. He’s been a joy to watch these last few years.
It’s a five game series, folks.
Except for that (I guess) 9-4-2-mental lapse-2 double play at the plate, that’s kind of how I thought it would go for the Mets – an acceptable nail-biter from Maine (who now needs to be as good as Kris Benson to justify his existence, no problem there), the majority of the work from the pen, and just enough hitting to keep it close. It’s good that the Mets beat both Lowe and Penny at the same time, and old Mad Dog doesn’t really worry me any more (he worries me less than Traschsel) – but Glavine really needs to pull out a good one tonight. I fear that Game 4 will be Oliver Perez and 7 2/3 from the bullpen. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the bullpen start Game 5.
I feel good for Delgado, who waited long enough for this. I feel sorta bad for all those Yankee fans who really got the short end of it last night. And I blame everything that goes wrong on Fox. And why the hell were the Cardinals and the Padres off last night? I wish Selig would tell the broadcasters to pound sand and have a schedule that makes sense for as many people as possible.
And how do you think everyone east of the Rockies felt in 198whatever-it-was when the World Series was SF v Oakland?
This whole attitude puzzles me. Are (say) Diamondbacks and Mariners fans really that more likely to be watching a Padres-A’s World Series than Mets-Tigers simply because they’re closer? As a Mets fan, I’m hugely more likely to watch games that my team is playing in, but as a baseball fan who loves the World Series, there aren’t any teams that I’ll simply refuse to watch just because of where in the country they happen to be located. There isn’t a combination of these current 8 teams that I would just find too offensive or uninteresting to watch.
I mean, if you hate the Yankees that much, root against them. Believe me, Mets fans have been drinking from that particular cup of steaming schadenfreude for 44 years.
The same way those of us south of Santa Barbara felt: almost total indifference, except to root for whoever is playing the Giants. 
The hard-core baseball fans aren’t the problem. It’s the casual fans. If a “local” team isn’t playing, they are much more likely to watch NASCAR or just turn off the tube and go mow the lawn. I know an A’s-Cardinals Series would have that effect on me. I’d watch a Yankees - ? Series just to root against them, but my heart wouldn’t really be in it until they had a serious chance of losing and being humiliated again. But you never know…after that unprecedented choke-job of a few years ago, anything is possible.
As a Yankees fan, I boycotted the Mets/BoSox WS. Didn’t help that my apartment-mate was a huge Mets fan.
I did not boycott it. I don’t care about the Mets much, they are the other local team, so I generally know what is going on, but they are not the Yankee’s Rivals. So Boston had to lose!
I hoped the Mets would win and I was not worried about Met fans bragging. Let them brag, at least Boston lost. That is after all the second most important thing after the Yankees Winning.
The second extended version of the Boston Massacre this year was the highlight of the regular season for me. As Willie Randolph helms the Mets and I like and admirer everything I have seen from Wright and Reyes, I was lightly cheering them on while hoping they would not be able to beat the Yanks.
As far as Oakland vs. SF, I watched three of the games and parts of another. It did not matter that is was West Coast.
Jim
Believe me, I do. The worst possible matchup would be Yankees - Dodgers, because someone would have to actually win. Second-worst would be Yankees - Mets, because of the hype that somehow baseball Nirvana had been achieved, because, you know, 2 New York teams are in the Series, and that’s what everyone wants, right? Well, at least, that’s what Fox would like to see.
Your wrong, Fox does not want a Subway series, they want ratings, for them Yankees vs. Dodgers is this years best matchup.
- I didn’t miss a single pitch.
The difference is that the SF Bay Area isn’t subject to the endless drone of “YankeesYankeesYankees” we get all the time. Last night during the rain delay, ESPN radio replayed one of the games between the Yankees and the Red Sox in 2004. Heaven forbid they replay a famous World Series game or something.
Besides, I think you might be shocked how many people do not know San Francisco and Oakland are the same metro area.
That I can see – for me Yankees-Braves is possibly the one World Series I’d have trouble finding anything to root for except for hit-by-pitches. And I admired the late-90s Yankees as players a lot more than this bunch of begrudgingly pseudo-cleancut miscreants.
Is this really the impression the rest of the country gets? I know ESPN gets all wobbly wherever the Yankees are concerned, but is national and local media coverage that New York-centric? You don’t think Boston got just as much over-hype? And wouldn’t any local rivalry that made it to the Series? Christ, the hype for a White Sox-Cubs series would be apolcalyptic.
I think the national media likes the Yankees being there because all their pointless pregame nonsense is already written for them. If it was Padres-Tigers they’d have to actually think of something to say about baseball.
I heard this and assumed it was a local radio decision – that surprises me. The YES network should sue them.
Well, since the advent of interleague play, those learning geography from Major League Baseball know that San Francisco and Oakland are neighbors, as are Toronto and Atlanta, and Denver and Seattle.
Probably true; but at least it would be fresh & new apocalyptic hype.
Here’s how it breaks down, for this die-hard: there are 4 categories of teams –
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Your Team (for me, the Giants. Just heard a joke: Q: What do you call a group of middle-aged men watching the Series? A: The Giants.)
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Teams you have mild rooting interest for, because they’re your 2nd-favorites, or long-time underdogs making their first post-season appearance, or they have exciting young players that you want to see.
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Teams you have an irrational loathing for (like, the Yankees or Dodgers)
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Teams you really don’t give a rats ass about.
The perfect matchup is 1 vs 3, then 1 vs 4…down to 4 vs 4, then 3 vs 3.
Bases loaded, two out, and A-Rod strikes out looking. It wouldn’t be so bad if he hit the ball sharply into play and made out.
And now Detroit scores.
I wonder how much of A-Rod’s contract Steinbrenner’s going to have to eat to get him out of town next year.