It’s K-Rod versus Jeter to start the ninth inning.
Update: Jeter gets good wood on the ball and he lines a single into left.
Update: A-Rod grounds into a double play. He’ll never hear the end of that.
Update: Giambi hits a single between the shifted second baseman and rightfielder. Bellhorn pinch runs. It’s up to Sheffield now.
Update: Bellhorn takes second removing the force play.
Update: Sheffield chops one into short left field. It’s fielded by the third baseman, but he has no play. It’s now up to Matsui.
Update: Matsui falls behind 0-2.
Update: Womack runs for Sheffield.
McCarver and Buck are terrible…where is the remdog
Jeter single…. Here comes the heart attack….
I have the volume on ESPN radio because Shulman and Campbell are a pleasure to listen to.
WOW
double paly.. 1 more!! by the way, dont u need xm radio to listen to espn raidos call?
twin killing. a-rod can’t come through.
no. in new york its on 1050 am.
challenge him here Krod
nothing but gas……..
is this the ’86 alcs all over again?
ah ha, i found it 560 wqam here inm iami, tooo bad couldnt listen to the mfrom the get-go
I cant even watch this…I hope BK Kim isnt coming out
brutal…
At least Sheff is outta there. Matsui is in a huge slump
here we go again…..
that means he’s due…..
I feel an infield pop coming on
fastball already!
ballgame.. yankees lose.. tttttttttthhhhhhhheeeeee yankees LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
matsui blows it again.
congrats halos.
yes!
the yankees are turning into the braves!
this makes up for the sox disaster
good bight, thanks to all including david and yet it again….ballgame.. yankees lose.. tttttttttthhhhhhhheeeeee yankees LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yankees ’06 = damon in cf, furcal at 2b
now i can breate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know, as a Yankee fan I’m not any happier about this loss because the Red Sox lost. Guess that’s just me.
sox have a different mindset
it would have been difficult, as a sox fan, to watch to yanks win it this year…thats all i meant
$208 million waste of money.
Looks like another 6 months of A-Rod bashing for all of baseball….
Can’t wait to hear Mike and the Mad Dog tomorrow…..
Fair enough Dan. It was tough watching you guys do it, but I was happy for the fans, if nothing else.
It depends on what you consider wasting money. I would say it was, except Steinbrenner made a boat load of money as well. The defense was the goat, but that double play was terrible.
dog will have a field day…
In general, I’m pretty skeptical of the whole idea of clutch, but A-Rod is making me a believer!
Saying $208 million waste of money is showing your ignorance of the playoffs. Do you think Billy Beane is an idiot because the A’s lost in the DS a few years in a row? The best-of-5 format, after a 162-game stretch, is a crapshoot. You can take any 3 games and the Yankees will beat the Angels or the Angels will beat the Yankees. Conversely, you can take any 3 games and the Red Sox sweep the White Sox instead of what happened this year. It’s like saying someone sucks hitting with RISP when they’re 1 for 10 on the season.
Benjamin – you’re 100% right. A couple balls go off the bat differently tonight, and the Yankees win this game.
The question for Yankees, of course, is whether Steinbrenner will see it that way. While the Boss looks like he’s seriously mellowed in the past few years, he may very well see this as a $208 million embarassment.
Funny, from ’98-2000, the Yankee fans weren’t calling their postseason dominance “luck”…….
I wouldn’t say your 100% right, maybe 55%. The best team wins these best of 5 a good majority of the time. I would say all 4 of the better teams won this year (the Yanks and Halos are about even though). The Yankees real problem is that they have a payroll nearly double everyone else’s, yet they still have glaring holes.
Most of the time, the better team wins. The A’s didn’t win because Moneyball dictated that they don’t run, and station-to-station baseball doesn’t work in the postseason.
If station-to-station baseball doesn’t work in the postseason, how would you explain the 2002 Angels, the 2005 Angels, and, hell, even the 2001 Diamondbacks at times? That was all station-to-station baseball. When executed right, it does work.
Who the hell knows how the A’s lost? They had the Yanks down 2 games to none and won because of luck. Remember that Jeter play? It was pure dumb luck. It’s like that guy catching the two home runs yesterday in Houston.
The Junkees had the following problems: Lousy defense at 1b, lf, cf, rf, and c. They got nothing out of Pavano and Wright, and very little out of Mussina and Johnson. They outslugged everyone to get their 95 wins, but the Angels expoited them, and they’re the better team. That’s all there is to it.
Even as a bonafide Yankee hater I have more sense then to claim the Yankees won all those Championships through luck. Those Oakland teams were always similar to the Braves, top heavy with starters but a lousy pen and slump prone lineup.
The Yankees stopped winning not because their luck ran out, more like their talent did. They certainly have more power now, but their defense and pitching has certainly regressed since the late 90s.
Dan, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I would say they made it to the 2003 World Series through a fair amount of luck.
But the 1998-2001 teams were really good. Good defense, great pitching, great hitting, great bullpen. Now it’s bad defense, great hitting, mediocre pitching, great Mariano Rivera.
But for all of their money (and the Red Sox too), the team to beat next year is Cleveland.