Tuesday, October 19, 2004
JUST PLAIN NUTTY
Crap, what a series. Do I think the Red Sox will pull this off? No. But if there's one team to do it, it'd have to be this one. I guess what got me about this game was that both of those umpire calls went the Red Sox way, when I thought, "oh man, it's the Yankees, they're gonna get this call because they always do."
But oh, the calls...
-- Mark Bellhorn, who had struck out a zillion times in the playoffs, took the outside pitch to left field, and I immediately thought it was gone; the ball had a time lag where it hit something other than the wall, which ended up being a 12-year-old girl. Hideki Matsui obviously reacted as if the ball was gone (then wisely played it), but I don't know how the leftfield umpire couldn't have caught this.
-- Alex Rodriguez walks the fine line between having a winning-at-all-costs mentality and making a Bush League move. If that's Alex's natural running motion (which apparently he was trying to argue), then he runs like an idiot. It's Bush League, but on the other hand, he would have been out anyway, and he also didn't touch first base before going to second (I hope the umps would have been alert enough to realize that). Basically, Alex tried to get away with what he could, much like Matt Hasselbeck pointed out that the Patriots stretch the hand-check rule with their receivers to a very long five yards.
I thought both of those calls were going to go the Yankees' way. But it's nice to see that for once, they didn't.
Also...
-- Was anyone else mortified or losing their appetite whenever they saw Curt Schilling's blood-soaked sock? Ugh... But what a job by him tonight. Damn.
-- The best sequence out of the commercials for all the new crappy Fox shows: "Get the hell out of my office. Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Get the hell out of my office." I'm still not going to watch that show though.
-- Jeremy already repeated the most memorable line out of all those promos, and we've basically touted House, M.D. as this year's Skin. "His father is the district attorney!"
-- I should contact local representative Norm Dicks and get him to put a bill on the House floor that would declare a five-year moratorium on all new reality, lawyer, and doctor shows. Can we all agree on this?
-- I knew it couldn't be a true Yankee postseason series without a stoppage in play due to people throwing debris from the stands.
-- I don't know about you, but this is the first game I've seen in person or on TV where they busted out the police in riot gear. That sure put a different spin on the game. It was nothing like the four or five white-shirted security guards that come out at the Safe along the foul lines.
And yes, the Houston/Saint Louis series gets the shaft and has to play in the afternoon tomorrow, when no one (especially on the west coast) can see it. The NLCS is getting massively jobbed, no doubt about it.
Yes, it's another two games tomorrow.
But oh, the calls...
-- Mark Bellhorn, who had struck out a zillion times in the playoffs, took the outside pitch to left field, and I immediately thought it was gone; the ball had a time lag where it hit something other than the wall, which ended up being a 12-year-old girl. Hideki Matsui obviously reacted as if the ball was gone (then wisely played it), but I don't know how the leftfield umpire couldn't have caught this.
-- Alex Rodriguez walks the fine line between having a winning-at-all-costs mentality and making a Bush League move. If that's Alex's natural running motion (which apparently he was trying to argue), then he runs like an idiot. It's Bush League, but on the other hand, he would have been out anyway, and he also didn't touch first base before going to second (I hope the umps would have been alert enough to realize that). Basically, Alex tried to get away with what he could, much like Matt Hasselbeck pointed out that the Patriots stretch the hand-check rule with their receivers to a very long five yards.
I thought both of those calls were going to go the Yankees' way. But it's nice to see that for once, they didn't.
Also...
-- Was anyone else mortified or losing their appetite whenever they saw Curt Schilling's blood-soaked sock? Ugh... But what a job by him tonight. Damn.
-- The best sequence out of the commercials for all the new crappy Fox shows: "Get the hell out of my office. Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Get the hell out of my office." I'm still not going to watch that show though.
-- Jeremy already repeated the most memorable line out of all those promos, and we've basically touted House, M.D. as this year's Skin. "His father is the district attorney!"
-- I should contact local representative Norm Dicks and get him to put a bill on the House floor that would declare a five-year moratorium on all new reality, lawyer, and doctor shows. Can we all agree on this?
-- I knew it couldn't be a true Yankee postseason series without a stoppage in play due to people throwing debris from the stands.
-- I don't know about you, but this is the first game I've seen in person or on TV where they busted out the police in riot gear. That sure put a different spin on the game. It was nothing like the four or five white-shirted security guards that come out at the Safe along the foul lines.
And yes, the Houston/Saint Louis series gets the shaft and has to play in the afternoon tomorrow, when no one (especially on the west coast) can see it. The NLCS is getting massively jobbed, no doubt about it.
Yes, it's another two games tomorrow.
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