That’s 4.
7 to go.
So listening to the LAA-NYY game on ESPN Radio, and hearing the postgame interviews …
What the !@#$ kind of stupid question is, “How important was it to win the first game against a good team like the Angels?” And this interviewer apparently knew only one format for his questions, because he followed up with, “How good was C.C. Sabathia…?” and “How good was Mariano Rivera …?” Dude, what? Weren’t you watching the game?
Small ball tonight, but a lot of line drives. I’m guessing the guys were told not to try to go for the fences, might pull something with the cold. Still, even with that, environment favored the Yankees. Tomorrow might be a lot closer, though, now the Angels have had a chance to adjust.
Most announcers are actually stupid, shocking but true.
Anyone watching the game? I am blogging it over here. Come join me in a constant Yankees Angels Game 2 blog.
I’m having weird sound problems for the 2nd night in a row watching this Yankees game. It’s part reverb and part skipping, and fully annoying. Is it just our local Fox affiliate, or is this a national thing?
I’m perfect tonight but last night was miserable most of the game.
Is it the problem where you hear one voice and it’s like really smarmy and makes a lot of really faux-dramatic proclamations, particularly about e.g. Derek Jeter, and inserts a bunch of stupid and awkward pauses in the middle of its sentences to create drama? And then there’s another voice that’s kind of senile and rambling, and contradicts itself all the time, even though the parts that aren’t contradictory are incredibly obvious truisms like “if he had hit that a little closer to the shortstop, it would have been an out” or “the key for Burnett is going to be to throw strikes,” and often seems to get really angry about stuff that he isn’t even right about?
My TV has that problem too. It really is annoying.
Sadly that problem has been with every Fox game for years.
Jeter has shown massive improvement in his defense the last couple of years, which is pretty remarkable considering his age. Of course we can’t point that out, as that would imply Jeter wasn’t always perfect in every way, so better to make a statheads in the basement crack. Isn’t post-season announcing grand?
To be fair, a big part of his improvement was simply getting a really good first basemen. The Statsters overlooked how have a terrible first baseman like Giambi really did make all the Yankees infielders look worse. There are many posts over the 2007 & 2008 seasons talking about Jeter being terrible.
Teixeria certainly doesn’t hurt, but his range, particularly to his left, has been much improved. A better first basemen doesn’t affect that.
All true, but if you go back to film of him in the 90s, what he really did was get back his range. The two prior years were especially bad as he was playing with leg injuries both seasons and would not sit down.
He had his legs back this year.
http://www.northjersey.com/sports/OConnor_How_Jeter_got_younger_at_age_35.html
An article on Jeter’s improvements.
Good article. I had heard (most of the season) about the extra conditioning he did. It really did pay dividends.
How cold is it? Those guys are wearing layers tonight.
Right. My point is Mccarver could educate the audience how Jeter workouts transformed him from a poor defense player in 2007 to an above average one now. Instead he refuses to acknowledge Jeter was ever less than perfect. His logic is Jeter is very good now, so he must always have been very good, and anyone who ever thought otherwise should be ashamed. I’m not ashamed for thinking Jeter was a poor defensive player a couple years ago. He was and then he got better. This does a disservice to the audience and even to Jeter, as he doesn’t get credit for his hard work to improve.
Of course this was the same guy who insisted Teixeria came off of 1st base yesterday, while they were showing replays in slow motion of Teixeria catching the ball while standing on first base, so I should keep my expectations low.
I suspect you cannot keep your expectation for McCarver low enough. He always seems to be able to lower the bar more.
Gonzo, it is around 47 and damp.
Thats not so bad. I always hated playing in cold weather. Everything hurt. Line drives sting like spring training and mishitting sends a shudder through your bat.