As a little note just to follow up on the Twins-Tigers playoff games, as it turns out, th reason I couldn’t watch it is that the sports network with the rights, Sportsnet, was deliberately not showing it in order to try to force people to pay for their bigger MLB package.
Those filthy shit-eating rat bastards.
That was an incredible game last night. My son was totally engaged last night. It might be the game that takes him from casual fan to nutty fan like me. We had good seats on the third tier above the Twins batting circle. Great views of the entire park. The only play we did not see was the ball down the line the Melky almost caught and the Umpire blew the call on.
Despite Gardenhire and Yankees Haters being petulant about it, I’m pretty sure the Yanks would have won anyway. This is a team that comes back really well.
Nathan was looking pretty shaky. Blackburn looked great. Twins made some surprising mental mistakes they don’t normal make. The Yanks just kept trying to comeback.
The home plate Ump seem to have done a really poor job with inconsistent calls for both team.
The Twins left an unbelievable number of runners on base. I swear it was at least one every inning. Nick Punto was nearly impossible to keep off the bases. The wonders of postseason baseball.
Jeter and especially A-Rod are hitting great. Teix got off the snide in the best way possible of course. Setting up the tying runs in the 9th and hitting the game winner, pie in the face short home run in the 11th.
Outside of Marte, all the pitchers looked good. Hits given up were usually grounders with eyes.
It was a great, tense and exciting game.
(Reposted from mellophant out of laziness)
As to A-Rod, somewhere I wrote that I saw A-Rod turn the corner this season. It stopped being 24 and 1 and he became part of the 25. He seems to be showing it with his much more relaxed approached this year and the results are wonderful. Him and Jeter are hitting around .500 each so far.
That really and truly does stink. They should really be slammed for this stupidity. Too greedy for words.
According to MLB.com, it started snowing there last night, and the game has been postponed.
Game 3 moved to Sunday, Game 4 to Monday.
Wait a few weeks. If the Rockies hang in there it will get worse.
WOOOOOO!
A Dodgers sweep. Who would have imagined that?
iViva Los Doyers!
It’s still 15 minutes before the game was scheduled to start, and it is 23°. MLB did the right thing. You can play when it’s around freezing, but not in this kind of shit.
Seriously! What are they going to do if the Rockies make the World Series and they need to play a game in Colorado in November? Yikes.
In Denver in November, you’ve got a not bad chance of 60 degrees and sunny. (The temp will drop fast once the sun goes down though.) 'Course, you’ve also got a not bad chance of a foot and a half of snow.
This is very unusual for this time of year. The average high for today is 69°. Tonight’s low will break an all-time record by four or five degrees. It was in the 70’s last week and will be near that by mid week. It’s hit or miss this time of year in Colorado, but what is happening right now is extremely unusual.
The Rockies were in the Series only two years ago. How much later would it start this year, a week?
A week can be a long time when winter is coming. Sometimes winter comes early and nasty. It is taking a risk.
Angels eliminate Red Sox on a huge late inning comeback/choke. A wonderful day to be a baseball fan!
All we need is to get rid of the Yankees, and it’ll be another excellent season.
You beat me to it by a minute. When the Sox were up 5-2 late in the game, i thought we would have to wait until Game 4. I’m not a huge Angels fan, but seeing the Sox out, especially in a sweep, is very nice.
Anyone seeing the chance of a Freeway Series?
I can’t believe the Sox went down so easily. Of course I am think you are being greedy RickJay. You already got your deepest wish J.P. is finally gone. So you can excuse the Yanks winning it all again. I think this is their year. I really do.
Wow. I didn’t even go back to that after about the 6th. (?) I was trying to play a computer game, browse the Dope occassionally, and channel surf between three sports. Cutting it down to two sports seemed to help, but was apparently a mistake. 
We don’t need another Yankee World Series win for at least one or two generations. I wouldn’t mind a Met win (or a win by another NY-area-based team, which I think that market could easily support.) No offense, but the Yankees have had their quota. It’s time for some new dynasties and rivalries. Continued media obsession over the Yankees and Red Sox is, I believe, starting to be a drag on the major leagues.
RickJay, you know the Yankees have always dominated baseball talk since they got Babe Ruth. It seems silly to say it is dragging things down now. I’m fine with the Red Sox disappearing though and being replaced by Tampa Bay or the Jays. 
This is a great game so far. Both pitchers are really dealing.
Fuck, Mr. ARod tied it up.