LCS - "And Then There Were 3"

knowing Fox, it'll be Buck/McCarver.

I don't know how Jon Miller can work with Joe Morgan without killing him. Last night, as I was going home, Morgan, at least twice, repeated something Miller said almost verbatim, as if Morgan had not even been listening. Then there was this gem (sorry for the repeat from the game thread last night):
Kevin Youkilis is on first base with one out with David Ortiz at bat.

Joe: "Now, I don't agree with that (Ortiz had just swung at a 3-0 pitch and fouled it down the left field line). He can't hit a four-run homer here ... After all, if he hits a home run, the rally is over."

Ortiz walks on the next pitch. Joe and Jon talk about Manny Ramirez, with Joe mentioning how "consistent" Manny is as a hitter (he used the word at least twice). Ramirez then hit into what all A's fans surely know to be the true rally killer, the GIDP to end the inning.
Just to be clear - Joe Morgan believes that if you are down 4-0, have a man on base, and the batter hits a two-run homer to cut the lead to 4-2, that is a bad thing because the "rally is over".

Sorry, Byrnsie.

the worst part about that picture is that when byrnes came up to the plate, i said out loud, "the worst part about this is that byrnes is going to try to do too much here, and either pop up or roll over a ground ball."

the slide made it look like he tried harder to get to the bag, but simply running through the bag would have gotten there faster. illusions...

that said, i still love you byrnesy.

to Colorado that happened to Detroit last year after they pounded the A's and had to sit around for a while.  It's a shame that one of the best streaks in baseball history might come to a close because of scheduling (or even being too damn good).

that's okay, I don't mind talking to myself...

during the injury reports.

you killed the rally.

you don't see that too often.

3-Run bomb for Jhonny Peralta!

discussing leadoff HR vs. leadoff walk leading to more multirun innings again...

he's shocked innings that begin with a leadoff home run are more likely to be multi-run innings than innings that begin with a leadoff walk.  "you wouldn't expect that."

but I can't help thinking that Dave Henderson's home run off Donnie Moore just turned legal drinking age on Friday.  And if any current "star reliever" is capable of playing the role of Donnie Moore (in the baseball sense, not the life sense), Joe Borowski would seem to be a likely candidate.

OTOH, if Donnie Moore hadn't been there to serve up the home run, Bill Buckner would have been at home watching on TV as somebody else let a ground ball go through his legs.

to win, but jeesh, how about some tension or something?

Boston fans show no mercy

Lofton Lifts One Out, J.D.'s Got No Lift

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Joe Morgan strikes again.  Just now on the radio:

"You know, a lot of people don't realize it, but sometimes a home run can be a rally killer.  You empty the bases, and then what?  You start again from scratch."

He shoulda taken the walk.

let's try keeping it in the park.

they'll NEVER catch up. :-(

I'm heading to the playoff game in Cleveland on Thursday and can't help but think that the price of tickets is going WAY up if it could be a "clinching" game.  I still am looking forward to being part of the crowd (minus a towel).

Paul Byrd in the 6th inning this post-season:

3 batters faced
3 HRs

Your consummate "5 inning pitcher".

'beloved' cat missing :.Yo-yo'ed between intense workday and home searching hillside (for body) and neihgbors yards (Hey, what are you doing back there!), printing up fliers and handing them out, posting them.  A $32.00 ad in the paper through the weekend.  Local interntet lost and found.

At the 36 hour point......I come home after handing the latest fliers and he is sitting on the deck.  Jeebus.  Well, I panicked - okay,  but most he's ever been gone in 7 years is maybe 12 hours at most.

So great!...sigh, relief....I can enjoy the game.

Who's in the hole, LMAO?

i think manny thought it was a walkoff

baseball.  I'm tense.  They can stop hitting it out of the park now.

solely for the purpose of making Joe Morgan look bad. Whether or not he needed help.

as ManRam.  Jim Rome's head must now be too big to fit through a doorway.  

it seemed like lofton was doing the best to keep himself in the game.

Manny gets some chin music here? Yes or No.

i just found out he grew up in sunnyvale and was a rabid A's fan! :)

Just got home from work.  Only one more day that I can say that for a while!

I have that song "Possibility" from that Ford commercial they played 3 billion times last year stuck in my head.

but this is baseball, with two very good teams, and anything can happen. Cleveland needs to stay focused...and not let the boot off the Sux' necks.

deck in Cleveland and probably won't even be able to see any plays in right field.  Woo hoo!