No Yankee Magic This Year...Let's Go Big Blue!
OK, THAT was frustrating. Not like 2002 where the Angels were really good and were on fire. This Angels team, I gotta say it - they are not that good... Yanks lost this one themselves. Pathetic. The Mariano tibute has to wait now because I'm still depressed. Usually this stuff bothers me that night and not longer, but this was really frustrating.
OK a few points:
1. Jeter, as always, did his job. Came through where it mattered. Too bad he had no help. Hits the homer to make it close, and singles to lead off the ninth down a run with power coming up. Mariano - nothing to say - if he gets the ball - Yankees win. These two guys are first-ballot Hall of Famers without question. I don't want to hear the "Jeter is overrated, he's the 3rd best shortstop, yada yada yada" crap any more. Watch the guy play, watch the tapes. He is a baseball god. He gets it done. End of story. There is no arguing this one.
2. Cano - this kid is going to be a star. Next year he should be batting third, and A-Rod 6th or 7th. Kid has balls and talent - he's dangerous. If they trade this kid - I am changing teams with him.
3. On that note, if Chacon and Wang are not in the rotation to start next year (and hell, throw Small in there too, he deserves a chance a lot more than Pavano or Wright), then someone needs to be fired and sent to an institution.
4. Another Yankee who earned his paycheck - Posada... Remember the key to the series? Keep the Angel baserunners from taking extra bases on steals - Posada was ridiculous erasing, I think, 6 out 7 or something crazy like that.
5. Randy freakin Johnson - remind me next year to beat the crap out of his wife before the first game he pitches...because apparently he is amazing when he is pissed off. Why was he not pissed off in Game 3? Inexcusable... he should be pitching every game with major attitude. He gets upset at reporters for holding a camera, but not to pitch a playoff game...?
6. Moose - I can't jump on this guy. If Bubba and/or Sheff make that play,=, it's a different game. Plus he gave us a lights-out game 1, which means he was due to get killed in this game - but he didn't. The homer to Garrett - inexcusable. But that was a catchable ball out in right-center by Kennedy. The rest of the runs were all flares and weak grounders. Yeah, he should have been lights-out in a game 5, but that's Moose, he's not consistent. That said, he wasn't awful and certainly did not cost them the game.
7. Matsui - I'm just shocked, because when has that guy NOT come through. Can't kill him because he's been so clutch so often. Still was pretty sure he was going to hit one out to take the lead last night, but whatever.
8. A decision has been made by a group of friends of mine - There is no longer such a thing as an "A-Rod" - he is Alex Rodriguez. He is just one of the thousands upon thousands of people with the surname Rodriguez. He is not special.
Boone, Crosby, Brosius, Tino, Leyritz, Sierra, and many more non-hall of famers got big postseason hits. A-Rod? not so much.
A-Rod is better at playing baseball than Derek Jeter, but he proved this week that he will never ever be close to the baseball player that Jeter is. Jeter came up in the 9th and you KNEW...you could bet your life on it... that he was getting on. F*#ckin A-Rod.
I'm not finished with him yet - he should and probably will win the AL MVP because it doesn't take into account the postseason. He will very likely hit 50 homers next year, hit .325 and knock in 140 RBIs, and perhaps win the MVP again next year. That said, I will lead a coalition of the willing to campaign to have him left off the postseason roster next year.
You hear Torre talking about A-Rod's problem this series? He was "anxious". ANXIOUS ? WTF! are you serious? Are you out of your frikkin mind? He wasn't anxious ......... he's a p*ssy! There's a difference. Brosius and Tino were probably anxious with 2 outs down 2 and a man on in the 9th...but they had coconuts.
Anyway, it's Alex Rodriguez, not A-Rod. You have to earn the 'A-Rod'. And by the way, Alex owes us 25 million dollars for this year. That assklown.
OK a few points:
1. Jeter, as always, did his job. Came through where it mattered. Too bad he had no help. Hits the homer to make it close, and singles to lead off the ninth down a run with power coming up. Mariano - nothing to say - if he gets the ball - Yankees win. These two guys are first-ballot Hall of Famers without question. I don't want to hear the "Jeter is overrated, he's the 3rd best shortstop, yada yada yada" crap any more. Watch the guy play, watch the tapes. He is a baseball god. He gets it done. End of story. There is no arguing this one.
2. Cano - this kid is going to be a star. Next year he should be batting third, and A-Rod 6th or 7th. Kid has balls and talent - he's dangerous. If they trade this kid - I am changing teams with him.
3. On that note, if Chacon and Wang are not in the rotation to start next year (and hell, throw Small in there too, he deserves a chance a lot more than Pavano or Wright), then someone needs to be fired and sent to an institution.
4. Another Yankee who earned his paycheck - Posada... Remember the key to the series? Keep the Angel baserunners from taking extra bases on steals - Posada was ridiculous erasing, I think, 6 out 7 or something crazy like that.
5. Randy freakin Johnson - remind me next year to beat the crap out of his wife before the first game he pitches...because apparently he is amazing when he is pissed off. Why was he not pissed off in Game 3? Inexcusable... he should be pitching every game with major attitude. He gets upset at reporters for holding a camera, but not to pitch a playoff game...?
6. Moose - I can't jump on this guy. If Bubba and/or Sheff make that play,=, it's a different game. Plus he gave us a lights-out game 1, which means he was due to get killed in this game - but he didn't. The homer to Garrett - inexcusable. But that was a catchable ball out in right-center by Kennedy. The rest of the runs were all flares and weak grounders. Yeah, he should have been lights-out in a game 5, but that's Moose, he's not consistent. That said, he wasn't awful and certainly did not cost them the game.
7. Matsui - I'm just shocked, because when has that guy NOT come through. Can't kill him because he's been so clutch so often. Still was pretty sure he was going to hit one out to take the lead last night, but whatever.
8. A decision has been made by a group of friends of mine - There is no longer such a thing as an "A-Rod" - he is Alex Rodriguez. He is just one of the thousands upon thousands of people with the surname Rodriguez. He is not special.
Boone, Crosby, Brosius, Tino, Leyritz, Sierra, and many more non-hall of famers got big postseason hits. A-Rod? not so much.
A-Rod is better at playing baseball than Derek Jeter, but he proved this week that he will never ever be close to the baseball player that Jeter is. Jeter came up in the 9th and you KNEW...you could bet your life on it... that he was getting on. F*#ckin A-Rod.
I'm not finished with him yet - he should and probably will win the AL MVP because it doesn't take into account the postseason. He will very likely hit 50 homers next year, hit .325 and knock in 140 RBIs, and perhaps win the MVP again next year. That said, I will lead a coalition of the willing to campaign to have him left off the postseason roster next year.
You hear Torre talking about A-Rod's problem this series? He was "anxious". ANXIOUS ? WTF! are you serious? Are you out of your frikkin mind? He wasn't anxious ......... he's a p*ssy! There's a difference. Brosius and Tino were probably anxious with 2 outs down 2 and a man on in the 9th...but they had coconuts.
Anyway, it's Alex Rodriguez, not A-Rod. You have to earn the 'A-Rod'. And by the way, Alex owes us 25 million dollars for this year. That assklown.
posted by EDS | 2:13 PM
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