No "Manifest Destiny" In La-La Land: Yankees Eliminate Angels

30 years from now my daughter (born 10 days ago!) will be in a store looking at one of those, what happened the year you were born cards. Price of gas, bread, milk. What TV shows, movies were big. There is always a sports recap. Steelers superbowl, Lakers NBA Finals. World Series. IT CANNOT SAY YANKEES! GO PHILLIES!
Please baseball gods do not allow my daughter’s first world series to be a Yankee championship!

that Jeter is not a good defender?

“I was just thinking how appropriate it is that Mariano Rivera takes a bow before every pitch” ~Tim McCarver.

I hate FOX baseball coverage, I hate the Yankees, I hate the Phillies even more. I will not be watching the World Series for the first time in my lifetime. Sigh.

GO PHILLIES!!! And can someone please make Tim McCarver & Joe Buck disappear.

I hope that when one stops rooting for the Yankees, her soul begins to repair itself immediately (like when you stop smoking and your lungs begin to immediately fix the damage ).

that had the Angels winning it, oh well… that’s what you get when you use the Magic 8 Ball & powerful mind control drugs without reading the instructions for either. I repeat my assertion of a few games ago that the Leggo My Sleggos owe us some of this Bad News Halos baserunning and fielding next year. Oh, and Brian Fuentes (what does he make, like 40 billion a year?) sucks so bad he makes Byung Young Kim look like Rollie Fingers… thank you thank you thank you Jesus that Andrew Bailey is my closer and JOey Devine is coming back around too, because that means that we have 2 closers and they have none.

The big silver lining for next season’s AL West is that we will never have to worry that Jeff Mathis will be run out of town again, no matter how Mendoza-licious his numbers might be… now Scioscia will play him even more, and we already know he’s good for at least several actions a year that result directly in LAAAAAAAAAA losses, often to our gallant lads in the cleats of white.

OK, I officially declare myself a Phillie Phanatic this week, how could I not? The A’s used to play there and the Phils have no players I hate and Joe Blanton and Matt Stairs too. I wanna see The Ace of Cakes whittle through A-Rod & Cano whilst Tim McCarver & Joe Buck chew their NY-cheering towels and scream like little girls whenever Jeter takes a groundball up the ass or off the chest.

and found a soft spot for slegnA in their emotional year, they would go on and make a baserunning blunder that would just make me shake my head and say – no way does this team deserve to win a ballgame and represent AL in a World Series (or anywhere, for the matter of fact).

Hitting a 90mph cutter is hard and throwing it perhaps even harder, not that I would know. But running to a proper base and stopping once there is something a 9-year olds already do properly. When do yo start to forget these things? For baseball priding itself as a chess game of sports, there are pretty many plain dumb moves out there.

Not that Yankees did it much better, thanks for asking. Overall, it might have been a series with worst baserunning I have ever seen, although it might lack a crowning moment like this one.

and you know what? It was WAY better. I don’t need McC (obnoxious twangy clown) or JB (smug pseudo-objective egotist). I (and most likely anyone posting around here at this time of year) can analyze my own baseball.

The right handed Phillies better be ready to hit an outside pitch in Yankee stadium. All you have to do is see how the Yankees hitters are aggressively going after that outside pitch to see the way to hit in Yankee stadium. I find it hard to believe that the Angels thought that the way to win was to take that pitch and rely on the mercy of the godawful umpires in this series (Mcclelland’s unbelievable call of one out only when two runners OFF BASE were tagged is the worst call I’ve ever seen in over 40 years of watching baseball).