Baseball Musings: Maybe Damon <i>is</i> God

October 20, 2004

Maybe Damon is God

Damon just hit his 2nd HR of the game. It was bad enough that Vazquez walked Cabrera, but giving up a 2nd HR to Damon is a killer. Now he walks Bellhorn, and the Yankees need another pitcher.

Red Sox fans, I think you're going to win this.

Update: Vazquez can't get Cabrera, Damon or Bellhorn, but he gets Manny to pop out. Go figure. At least Javier has a great Scrabble name.

Update: Vazquez walks Ortiz (that's better than allowing a HR). That's it, they're going to the big gun, Esteban Loaiza! That should instill a lot of confidence in the NY fans! :-)

Update: Varitek hits a rocket off Cairo. Miguel looked like Horace Clarke on that play.

Update: Loaiza gets out of the inning with no more damage. Seven runs is a big deficit to overcome, especially when it's not likely that your pitching is going to shut down the opposition for the rest of the game.

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Comments

I wonder if they're going to throw Moose out there. He's consistently shut down the Sox in this series. Of course, there is the short rest issue ... but desperate times, eh?

Posted by: Mike at October 20, 2004 09:58 PM

Oooooh - bite your tongue!!!!! No jinxing allowed! :-)

Steph

Posted by: Stephanie Kesler at October 20, 2004 09:59 PM

I'm not watching the game, if you can believe it. Last year, really really sucked. I much prefer the quiet play-by-play of our man here...

Posted by: Mike at October 20, 2004 10:01 PM

Why no Moose?! WHY?!

Posted by: Mike at October 20, 2004 10:02 PM

Damon has occassional power I know being a Royals fan. Like I said on my site if things work out two former Royals Centerfielders will be in the Series. Looks the the curse is over for the Sox.

Posted by: bruce at October 20, 2004 10:02 PM

I'm listening to the game on the radio - I love Jon Miller. But I'm only listening to the Sox half of the innings. I'm too much of a coward. No lead is really safe here...

Oops Loaiza just came in and got the outs. Time to turn off the radio. :-)

Posted by: Stephanie Kesler at October 20, 2004 10:10 PM

I love listening to Joe and Jerry. They are amazing. "Once the hero! Twice the hero!"

Posted by: Mike at October 20, 2004 10:12 PM

he IS God.

Posted by: alan at October 20, 2004 10:13 PM

Last 3 games, tv on mute, Joe and Jerry on the radio. The delay is cool cause you end up with a replay on every pitch.

Posted by: Dave at October 20, 2004 10:19 PM

I'm in Alaska, so it's ESPN radio as opposed to Joe and Jerry. Although, I could listen to Joe and Jerry on the Internet....

Posted by: Stephanie Kesler at October 20, 2004 10:23 PM

Can someone please explain the Horace Clarke reference?

Posted by: Julia at October 20, 2004 10:24 PM

Well, the other thing was that last year Fox kept playing up the "coise" so much. It was sickening. Plus, when they cut from the game to the desk-announcers they showed the Babe winking at the camera. Hmmmm...

Joe Torre said something very rational in the pre-game press conference. He asked: Are we here to keep the Red Sox out of the World Series? Or are we here to go the World Series? The point, at least to me, is that tonight's game is NOT about the rivalry. It was good to hear the Yankee's side of the fence say this. (I'm sure others have said it; I'm a new fan and in Boston.)

Posted by: Mike at October 20, 2004 10:25 PM

When I first started watching baseball, Horace Clarke was the Yankees second baseman. He was awful. My algebra teacher once said that Clarke should play 2nd with a chest protector. He stopped more balls with his chest than with his glove, it seemed. Whenever I see a ball go off the chest of a 2nd baseman, I think of Clarke.

Posted by: David Pinto at October 20, 2004 10:29 PM