I was at the game yesterday, and you know, I don’t so much care about an ass-kicking*, but I would at least like it if the Phils looked for one second like they were having fun or something. Or at least if they looked like they weren’t going to puke up the last three weeks.
** I’m a liar. I would love an ass-kicking.*
Only if we get to hit Charlie Manuel in the head with aluminum softball bats if he so much as thinks about putting Jose Mesa in.
I can’t watch the Yankees game but apparently Joba gave up the tying run and Rivera is now pitching in the tenth with the score 1-1.
A-Rod is 0 for 6 in the two games so far.
This isn’t going to end well.
Dan Wetzel on Yahoo! sports has a good column on the Yankees postseason futility the last few years. As a longtime Yankee fan I’m not happy about it but he makes a lot of good points.
Rivera escaped bases loaded in a strange inning. We’re going to the 11th. Joba’s inning was marred by a strange swarm of insects. He was pitching while covered in them.
Jim
Great Og. One more piece of weirdness for MLB’s postseason lore.
I still maintain if they go back to NY down two games with Clemens scheduled to start after that long layoff they are toast.
You are probably correct, but I will hold out hope until the last out.
More proof that God is a Red Sox fan. Or at least isn’t a Yankees fan.
Dang, I missed that inning. Think I’ll see it on Sportscenter?
And could this be a year where all four series are decided by Sunday?
Yanks just blew it again. 
Jim, I consider you a friend, really I do. But…
[Nelson Muntz]Ha-ha**!**[/Muntz] 
Go, Tribe!
I can take it and we’re not dead yet. But man these 2 games stunk.
Andy pitched great. Joba gets attacked by swarms of insects and no Yankees are hitting.
Jim
I really thought the Yankees were going to pull it out there for awhile. How many times did Cleveland have men on third and fail to get so much as a cheap hit? That was a bit of a nail-biter.
At least the emotional part of baseball is over for me this season. Now I can watch semi-dispassionately. Maybe.
You should write for the press.
In the two ALDS games so far, the Yanks are 8-66. That’s a .121 batting average. Only once have they managed two hits in an inning. Matsui is 0-7, Posada is 0-7, Mientkiewicz is 0-4, Captain Clutch is 1-8, and the only Yankee with more than 1 hit is Bobby Abreu.
But Choke-Rod is 0-6, and that will probably be the big news.
…and that’s why the Cubs or the Angels are going to have a new third baseman next year.
In any case, I think that was the best baseball game I’ve seen in a few years.
Nah. Dodgers. We will give A-Rod his props out here. He needs to play National League ball for awhile. We can dump Gonzalez, Kemp, Garciaparra, Schmidt and Wolfe without batting an eye. That will free up the cash to get A-Rod to Tinseltown.
I am absolutely exhausted.
Those bugs, they were from Casey Coleman. Yes they were.
I would certainly hope the Cubs, at least, would be smart enough to led A-Rod replace shortstop Ryan Theriot, with his .266 average and 3 homers, rather than Aramis Ramirez, who is one of the best third basemen in the National League.
Good point. That.
I was listening on the radio and when I heard Mesa was coming in I thought 
That guy’s still pitching? We couldn’t get rid of him fast enough in Seattle!
But I’m rooting for the Phillies. I want Jamie Moyer to make it to the World Series (Seattle fans still love that guy).
Well, there is still some hope. When they go back to Yankee Stadium the umpires will succumb to their usual “OhMyOgWe’reInTheHighHolyPlace” and shrink the Yankees’ strike zone down to the size of a grapefruit, forcing Cleveland’s pitchers to throw everything right down the middle of the plate so that Jeter can hit a dramatic, game-winning home run in the 9th. 
Yeah, we were rid of Mesa for like 35 minutes or something, but he keeps turning up like a bad penny. And I am genuinely glad to hear that the Phils managed to pick up a few guys – especially Moyer – who are actually liked and respected and not, you know, Jose Mesa. (Jamie Moyer is the Phils’ nominee for the Clemente Award this year.)
Mayflies? They’re late this year. Must be the oddly warm October weather.
They come out of nowhere in the billions - one day there are none, the next day they cover everything, and a few days later they’re gone again.
I used to live right on the beach, where they were the thickest. They would completely cover windows and doors and just about anything light passed through - like a thick shield of bugs over everything. Amazing how fast they’d come and go in such numbers.
Odd that they’d be hanging around a pitcher in the middle of a field, though. They gravitate towards light.
I couldn’t even look at Chamberlain when they kept showing those closeups, covered in bugs.
It was like a horror movie scene. Okay, a lame horror movie, but still.