If you've been hanging out over here longer than, say, thirty seconds, you know I'm a huge Yankee fan. I'm not one of those fake fans, who used to root for the Mets until they started sucking and the Yanks went on a hot streak. I grew up on Yankees baseball...back when they sucked and you couldn't give away tickets to see the boys in pin stripes play ball.
October may get you football fans pumped and hockey fans are psyched for the beginning of their season. But come October, I look forward to more baseball. Luckily, since my freshman year of college, most years I actually get to see my team play in the post-season.
Although I'm not much of a betting girl, I have two bets going on the outcome of the ALCS and the world series. We're not playing for money. We're playing for blog humiliation. Something like this post from last year.
I've been watching the train wreck that has been the team's play in the post-season biting my nails and having heart failure. It's been a lot like watching the Yanks of my youth. Base running errors that kids in little league wouldn't make. Fielding mistakes. The utter inability to hit the ball. Leaving every runner who actually gets on base stranded there.
And I have to say, if they're going to play like this, the Yankees deserve to lose.
I was at the game Monday night. They didn't just lose. They lost ugly. It was actually more entertaining watching Spike Lee spill beer all over the place and the crazed fan who wanted to confront A-Rod about his relationships.
Actually, he was on to something. Someone SHOULD confront A-Rod. That guy is a fucking bum. I wonder if the Rangers agreed to pay him extra in exchange for him sucking worse than usual. But for the fact that the man was grabbing himself constantly, he wouldn't have fielded a ball well most of the game...
After another disastrous performance on Tuesday, I'm not sure how many people expected the team to survive elimination tonight. But somehow the Yanks rallied, bringing the series to 3-2. Despite the fact that they're playing like the bad news bears, they managed to give the fans a glimmer of hope in an otherwise bleak October performance.
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8 comments:
i love this time of year...every game counts...
Oh come on, you have the winningest team ever. I don't want to see them lose to the stinkin' Rangers and perhaps they won't. I watched the game last night and they played reasonably well. I am a lifelong Dodger & Padre fan and look at those guys. Dodgers used to be great. Padres never have although they were contenders in '84. I lost a bundle then. You know, the Yankees always seem to come from behind. I've never counted them out, ever. They blow me away.
I hate baseball. Why do they have to rearrange their shit constantly, and spit every 12 seconds. Did their Mother's not teach those assholes any manners?
Oh you have to refresh everyone's memory, don't you? LOL
Looks like we're both in the same position. Our teams were down 3-1 due mostly to playing like my softball team. If either team played like they can, both series would have been over by now waiting for game 1 of the WS to start.
Instead, they're hanging on for dear life as they drive us to an early grave. Much more of this and I'll be dead from heart failure.
brian: so true...though tonight's game is giving me heart failure!
CA girl: they weren't always that way. and they're not really playing like it lately!
candice: when your boys grow up, they'll be playing with themselves too... something to look forward to for both of us :P
matty: i guess they're trying to keep things interesting for the fans.
OH MY! How could I have forgotten? Does it make you feel any better that Matty's team lost too?
Woo hoo, I may even have a chance at going to one of the SF games!
Plotting, plotting, plotting...
Wonder Woman Jaime: Cheers..!!
You are one fabulous writer.. I loved your words and the simplicity.. Keep writing.. xx
I didn't watch, but I heard it was ugly and I was thinking of you!
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