By the way, New York fans, for as hearty as the suckfest was for Favre and the Packers on Monday night, that’s pretty much what it’s like to hear about the New York and Boston teams all the time.
Eat my triple post, bitches.
Here I am just thinking how much they suck. Chip is bad and Darling is clueless. They are not Yankee-centric, they just stink.
But I like the show Capt Clutch is putting on and damn that was just a great play by Punto.
Twins are playing like they’re hung over from partying last night. They usually have more energy than this.
It was bad. My brother has been living in New York for about 40 years. I have been getting some ugly emails the last few weeks. The Yankees have been mentioned a few times in them. Then something about a Tiger meltdown. This is not fun.
That’s 1.
CC’s best post season game ever. Jeter was the platey of the game. A quick win.
That’s exactly the game you want if you’re the Yankees. Everybody except Teixeira had a hit, Rodriguez drove in two runs, and Sabathia was excellent for the most part. I was surprised they went with Mo in the ninth inning and things got a little rocky for him, but it worked out.
Wolf and Carpenter both looked pretty awful in the first inning but they’ve settled down. Although DeRosa just airmailed a throw into right field, so it’s 3-1 L.A.
It was to give Mo a little work. Too much time off is bad too.
I was at the Phillies game today and what a party! I’m not even sure how the Rockies made it into the playoffs, they cant even catch a simple fly ball, but hey, anything can happen.
If you’re a fan of baseball mustaches, you have to love Brendan Ryan’s super-old-timey facial hair. It looks like he borrowed it from John L. Sullivan.
Carpenter is still laboring, but just got out of a bases-loaded jam.
Yeah, that dude is old school down to the socks.
WooHoo! Go Dodgers!
MLB.com had a fairly appropriate headline/image combination this evening on its home page. It said “Stars Align for Yanks in Game 1 Win.”
The four players pictured underneath—Jeter, Matsui, Rodriguez, and Sabathia—have combined 2009 salaries that exceed the Twins’ total payroll by more than $15 million.
Mariano Rivera is often at less than his best when the game isn’t on the line. We had this same discussion in the bar where I watched the game. You put Mariano in for the same reason he pitched on Sunday. He’s had two days off, and today (Thursday) is a day off. With Saturday also being an off day, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him pitch an inning Friday, even if the Yankees have a big lead.
As many closers are.
The Dodgers won pretty easily last night but they missed a lot of chances to score more runs. That was probably the longest 5-3 game in the history of baseball. It felt like both teams stranded two runners every inning. Come to think of it, the Dodgers left 16 men on base in eight innings - so on average, they DID strand two men per inning. And the Cardinals left 11 guys on base. Separately you have to give props to Pujols for that grounder he snared late in the game. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a first baseman make a play on a ground ball that far from the bag.
I heard the pair of teams set the post season record for most men left on base in a 9 inning game. So your observations are very accurate. Most since an extra inning game in 1903 the first year of the modern World Series.
Wow, apparently Kemp’s HR last night was the first postseason dinger by a Dodger CF since 1974 (Jimmy Wynn.)
TBS gave the overall figure (27) during the game and said it was a record. I realized how ridiculously long the game was taking around the time I posted last night. The game started around 9:30 pm and the third inning ended around 10:50!
Oh, you magnificent bastards! Yee-haw!! I want to kiss Loretta right on the lips!
Oh hell yeah! How about that Dodger rally? Two outs in the 9th and they score two runs to win!