Ballgame Over. Yankees Lose.
By Mark Kilmer Posted in Baseball — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
As a Yankees fan, I feel obligated to blame last night's loss on A-Rod. After all, he walked twice and left a runner on base.
No, it's a different year, and I never blamed A-Rod personally for a series of collapses which had begun well before he got to New York. Alex Rodriguez is a Yankee. Period. And he's the most exciting one to watch, kind of like a 9th inning-Papi with talent beyond the big swing.
Here's what I saw last evening:
Sabathia could have been beaten last night. The little graphic, if it is to be believed, showed 7 of ten pitches thrown out of the strike zone. Posada swung at every one of them.
The Yanks we wearing the man out.
Wang had one of the worst night's of his career, and when Joe pulled him for OHLENDORF!, the game was there conceded. The TBS guys a little earlier that if Joe had run Damon from third on Shelley Duncan's double, there might have been a different momentum to the game. It would have been tied!
So what? Wang and Russ would have given the game away no matter what.
The most exciting team to which to listen in the second half of the season was New York. The most savage throughout, Cleveland. As I've written before, though I cannot find the link offhand: Cleveland rocks!
If anyone is to blame for this loss, it is me for not shouting at the TV loudly enough. I have my reasons.
That being said, Andy pitches tonight and the ship should be righted.
Kenny Lofton was a Yankee about three years ago.
I'm no longer the Yankee hater I once was
by Dienekes
but I still do love screaming "Yankees lose! Yankees lose! Thuhuhuhuhuhuh Yankees LOSE!" :P
Amen
by hoyasaxa
Although, I'm still pretty sure I'm just as big a Yankee hater.
My cousin sent me the following text message within five minutes of the Phillies clinching the NL East: "Too bad they aren't the yankees... Who will win in the post season."
I hate Yankees fans. I hate the Yankees.
Thuhhhhhh Yankees lose!
“I think we are the team to beat in the NL East -- finally.” - Jimmy "MVP" Rollins, 1/23/07
Only a little bit of a Yankee hater here...
by drothgery
... but an Indians fan forever and always. Yeah, the Padres are my hometown team now, so I've got a better idea of what's going on with them than with anyone else. And if I really wanted to, I could claim allegiance to the Brewers, Cubs, or White Sox by virtue of the same stay in southeastern Wisconsin where I picked up a cheesehead. Or (sigh) the Yankees by virtue of living in New York state (if not city) for a long time. Or even the Red Sox based on college years in Massachusetts.
But if I'm glued to the TV for post-season baseball, it'll probably be because the Indians are on.
Personal to Alex Rodriguez
by Neil Stevens
Come to Los Angeles, and I don't mean Anaheim.
4 2-0 series
by Dienekes
i wonder when the last time that happened was?
Anything like these bugs.
This is disgusting.
“I think we are the team to beat in the NL East -- finally.” - Jimmy "MVP" Rollins, 1/23/07