I apologize for the slight hijack, but this wasn’t worth a thread of its own.
I have tickets to Saturday’s Dodgers-Mets game: a mere two days from now. I haven’t been to a playoff game since 1991. I’ve been watching the schedules all week with no luck.
Does anyone know, or have a reasonable idea of, just how long it will be before Fox/ESPN/MLB will take before they tell those of us with tickets what time we’re supposed to show up for the game? I know TV revenue is important during this time of year, but I’m getting a wee bit frustrated.
Asimovian, you’re at the mercy of the Yankees / Tigers series. I know that you don’t want to hear that, but if the Yankees clinch, my bet is Mets get NY prime time. If not, it will probably be a 4:00p Eastern start.
We could probably start a whole 'nother thread about A-rod. I just read the SI article about his problems, and I’m just left shaking my head. There was an astounding graphic up on the Tues night game – he’s tied with Lou Gehrig and somebody else (J. Foxx?) for most consecutive seasons with 30 hr/100 rbi/.300 avg. Gehrig! Damn! And yet…Mr non-clutch, everybody’s least favorite player.
Wow…I was thinking we’d find out tonight at the latest, but based on your (unfortunately, extremely sensible) theory, we might not know until as late as tomorrow night.
This is the “Gary Carter Effect,” the propensity of sports fans and the media to sometimes blame problems on their best player, rather than on the bad players who actually lose games. The usual result is the player gets traded, goes to another team and wins a championship and everyone wonders why the hell he was traded.
Who would you give up? Halladay and a few prospects might do it. Nothing less than Halladay would. Halladay is actually a little older than I would like, but I would be willing to talk.
I have had this very conversation probably 100 times this year. At least 10 times in the stadium. I know most Yankee fans would trade A-Rod, Mr. Cashman is another story. But any deal would have to start with a top of the line young Pitcher. Especially when you see Moose giving 4 runs to the Tigers in the playoffs.
We need pitching, we can live without A-Rod.
Poor Yankee fans, despairing over any position on their team that’s clogged up with a really expensive free agent former league MVP and perennial all star. I just can’t imagine the pain.
With one out in the 9th and Melky Cabrera running for Matsui who singles, Cano who is 0 for 7 is at the plate.
I would pinch-hit Bernie, but so be it. What will the kid do?
Fly out to left.
It is up to Damon now, can he get the job done or at least get it to Jeter?
Ball and two-strikes,
2 and 2,
Another Foul,
Sportsline is apparently stuck and trying to kill me…
Damon flied out to center.
Yankees lose.
One of those “bar bets guaranteed to win you money”, is that in any given baseball game, the winning team will score more runs in a single inning than the losing team will score in the entire game.
This game was the exception that proves the rule, as the Yankees scored 3 runs in one inning, and the Tigers put up 4 one-run innings.
What are these “bad players” of which you speak? When the world is your farm team, you don’t get bad players.
I kid, of course. But it appears that in the absence of bad players, Yankee fans are going after the extremely well-paid and highly talented head case.
I predict that when all is said and done this year, the Toronto Blue Jays will continue to have the fifth longest streak among major league clubs of missing the postseason.
They did finish ahead of the Red Sox though, for what that is worth.
I would be surprised to learn that Manny Ramirez is aware he’s IN Boston.
Cards knocked off the Pads, 2-0, thanks to a couple of RBI hits from El Hombre and Jed. Kid Wainwright got the last 4 outs for his second career postseason save.
/goes to start the “Wainwright for Closer” web site.
