Monday, October 06, 2003
HALF-ASS BASEBALL POST
Well, the one thing that didn't go right yesterday was that the Yankees won. In an ideal situation, the Yankees would have lost to the Twins and the A's would lose to the Red Sox. The end result of that would have been that both Giambi AND the Oakland A's would have been ousted in the first round of the playoffs FOUR YEARS IN A ROW. I hope the A's get the ax tonight. I don't want the A's to have anything over what the Mariners have had in the postseason (though they have been there more lately). I also hope the A's lose because the Red Sox are gonna give the Yankees a hell of a better run than the A's. Without Hudson, the A's are going to have to throw something like (not in order) Zito, Harden, Sparks, and Halama (good, puke, puke, and puke) (ed.: I forgot about Lilly, sorry) up against Clemens, Wells, Pettitte, and Mussina (again, not in order). In sum, if the A's win tonight, just skip the pageantry and give the Yanks the AL pennant and put them in the damn World Series. I guarantee if this Hudson injury knocked him out for a prolonged time in the regular season, the A's STILL would have ripped a huge streak and buried the Mariners.
And what's up with this umpiring lately? The A's and Sox had some weird calls the other day on interference calls, and of course, Bobby Valentine was ripping the rule book a new one on Baseball Tonight, even recalling a situation in which one of his Mets was screwed on the basepaths in the 2000 WS. Last night, there was the play where Lofton clearly caught the damn ball and should have had a triple play out of it. Even after that, they called a trap and still managed to make it weird. For some reason, I convinced myself that should have still been a double play. But I'm weird, so whatever.
And what's up with this umpiring lately? The A's and Sox had some weird calls the other day on interference calls, and of course, Bobby Valentine was ripping the rule book a new one on Baseball Tonight, even recalling a situation in which one of his Mets was screwed on the basepaths in the 2000 WS. Last night, there was the play where Lofton clearly caught the damn ball and should have had a triple play out of it. Even after that, they called a trap and still managed to make it weird. For some reason, I convinced myself that should have still been a double play. But I'm weird, so whatever.
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