2009 ALCS: Angels @ Yankees

[Dipre]

lol he sucks dick tonight. let me hit i might hit the ball and not swing at anything.

 

Sense, my good sir:

 

This makes none.

[msubulldogs21]

Don't even know what to say. It's just inevitable.

[bsox0407]

Sense, my good sir:

 

This makes none.

 

i won't swing at the ball when its way off the plate. maybe ill get a hit and maybe not suck as bad

[a700hitter]

How about Kevin Brown's awesomeness?

 

Or Mariano's meltdowns?

 

Or Tom Gordon's bed-s***ing?

Gordon didn't s*** the bed. He threw up in the bullpen twice.

[bsox0407]

i won't swing at the ball when its way off the plate. maybe ill get a hit and maybe not suck as bad

 

take the f***ing easy out.

[Cocos Disciples]

Fitting way for the Angels to lose. 2-0.

 

The Yankees are going to win the World Series. Such is life.

[Dipre]

Gordon didn't s*** the bed. He threw up in the bullpen twice.

 

Wow.

 

Such accurate references.

 

Your old-timey memory is spot-on as usual.

[Dipre]

Lol Angels.

 

They better win 3 at home!

[msubulldogs21]

That'll do it for the series. Anaheim had to split the first 2 and couldn't get it done.

[Optimist]

Yankees win! Really didn't like the idea of going to LA 1 - 1, so it was nice to win today. Good game.

[bsox0407]

That'll do it for the series. Anaheim had to split the first 2 and couldn't get it done.

 

they had that game f*** fuentes

[Keeper]

WTF Figgins! Not a smart play.

[bsox0407]

WTF Figgins! Not a smart play.

 

that wasn't figgins. he is 3b he was covering third like he supposed to.

[Keeper]

Ah, my bad. Izturis. Not a smart play and not a smart post.

[bsox0407]

Ah' date=' my bad. Izturis.[/quote']

 

yeah he should have gotten the out at first. then two outs 2nd and 3rd.

[msubulldogs21]

Only hope is Anaheim sweeping all 3 out West, and we all know that's not happening. They may get 2 of 3, but they blew their chance at the series tonight.

[Gom]

What a f***ing post-season so far. I've seen two classic games out of four. Unreal.

 

Some notes from the stadium....

 

1) This was the COLDEST game I've been to. It was brutally cold.

 

2) I've always been an Arod fan, and I hate the haters...and he finally put this s*** to bed. When he came up in the 9th, for the first time, I expected him to do something. When he came up with the bases loaded in extra innings, the stadium went nuts. I remember thinking "this is all this guy ever wanted, and he finally got it". The stadium showered him with cheers, and when he flied out to Hunter...nothing. Not a single boo, nothing. f***ing finally.

 

3) That non-double play call was a joke and an embarrassment. I was hoping that the Yankees would not win on that play, because that was a joke. I am glad that in the big picture, that play did not have a direct impact on the outcome of the game.

 

4) Girardi keeps burning his relievers...and I worry it will cost him one game.

 

5) Considering how many closers s*** the bed this post-season [Nathan, Papelbon, Madsen, Street, and now Fuentes], it is amazing how Rivera does it game in game out, year in, year out...and is the best of all time.

 

6) Did I mention it was really f***ing cold?

[msubulldogs21]

5) Considering how many closers s*** the bed this post-season [Nathan' date= Papelbon, Madsen, Street, and now Fuentes], it is amazing how Rivera does it game in game out, year in, year out...and is the best of all time.

 

Like I said on facebook, I hope that by the time he reaches age 60 he starts to slow down somewhat. It's incredible what he does day in and day out.

[bsox0407]

3) That non-double play call was a joke and an embarrassment. I was hoping that the Yankees would not win on that play, because that was a joke. I am glad that in the big picture, that play did not have a direct impact on the outcome of the game.

 

if you see the replay he was close to the bag but never touched it. but still that is in the neighborhood call. that ump just wanted to go home cause it was cold. technically he was safe but any other ump would have called him out.

[Gom]

That call was a joke. A complete and utter joke. As a Yankee fan, I was embarrassed.

[bsox0407]

That call was a joke. A complete and utter joke. As a Yankee fan' date=' I was embarrassed.[/quote']

 

the call was embarrassing to all baseball.

[bsox0407]

That call was a joke. A complete and utter joke. As a Yankee fan' date=' I was embarrassed.[/quote']

 

he picked the wrong time to call it at that time. in the first inning it would have been okay.

[yankees228]

That call was a joke. A complete and utter joke. As a Yankee fan' date=' I was embarrassed.[/quote']

 

I disagree. You're talking about something "the neighborhood call" that has a lot of gray area. Because it's not in the rule book, umpires likely have various different interpretations of what "the neighborhood call" is. Think about why the neighborhood call exists. It's to protect the player turning the double play. If they come off the bag a little bit early, in order to avoid getting crushed by the oncoming runner, they're likely going to get the call anyway.

 

The problem with what Aybar did is that he was never on the bag, and Jerry Lane probably thought that his intent was not to simply avoid injury. If Aybar has his foot on the bag at some point, but comes off a little bit early, I bet he gets the call.

 

You're talking about something that is not an actual rule. There is so much gray area, and it is a questionable call at best. There would have been no shame in winning that game after that call, and I would have loved if Damon on Teixeira had knocked Melky in.

 

I ask the people here that you don't pass this off as a biased post, and you actually read the content.

[yankees228]

Also, for the most part, Girardi managed this game well. You cannot manage this game to go 15 innings. You have to give your team the best chance to win at the current time, while maybe thinking a couple innings ahead. The way I saw it, Girardi made one mistake. There was no reason to take Joba out after only a third of an inning. He should have pitched into the 8th instead of Hughes, and they could have saved Hughes for after Rivera.

 

Otherwise, the way he managed was excellent. He use of Rivera this postseason has been fantastic. Girardi has taken full advantage of one of his best weapons this postseason.

 

He used Coke appropriately, turning around Figgins to his much weaker side and going lefty vs. lefty against Abreu. After that he needed to bring in Joba to face the RHHs in the middle of the order.

 

He brought Aceves out at the appropriate time, because he was shaky in the 11th inning when he gave up the run and he got extremely lucky going Vlad. You cannot let him face Morales batting left handed in that situation. Considering the way Morales hits right handed, along with how Aceves was throwing the ball, you have to protect against the home run in that situation.

 

After that Marte was useful simply to turn Morales around, but you cannot keep leaving him in to face RHHs.

 

Then he went to Robertson.

 

Girardi cannot manage for this game to go 14 or 15 innings. You cannot expect a manager in the postseason to do that. However, even if it did, it would have been the Yankees' fifth starter against the Angels' fifth starter. For the 14th inning, those are not awful odds. I've been one of Girardi's biggest critics this year, but he has done an excellent job in the postseason.

[yankees228]

The only way that homerun could have been better would of been if it hit Chone Figgins on the way out. Pump your fists at that' date=' little guy.[/quote']

 

Did you have an issue with Posada's emotion at second base after he tied 2003 ALCS Game 7? Joba's fist pumps are ridiculous, but when you get a huge hit in a huge spot in a postseason game there is nothing wrong with showing some emotion.

 

Also, I know it was really cold there last night, but I could not believe how many empty seats there were. For the most part, the entire row behind me was empty. In the old stadium, during the postseason, the place was always packed. I guess Yankees' fans have become Braves' fans in the postseason.

[ORS]

Baseball can fix the "neighborhood" call. The rules allow some latitude that could fix it, IMO. I agree that the intent is to keep the fielder safe from injury, and that's a worthy intent. That brings up the issue of why the fielder needs to protect himself from injury. It's the bogus slides that occur going into 2B. Guys slide 4' off the bag with their arm out, come in high and hard, and some occaissionally come in spikes up. Eliminate that. Start calling runner interference whenever the slide is not directly into the bag, low, and feet down. Runners will change their approach if the umps start calling the game the way the rules allow.

[example1]

Also, I know it was really cold there last night, but I could not believe how many empty seats there were. For the most part, the entire row behind me was empty. In the old stadium, during the postseason, the place was always packed. I guess Yankees' fans have become Braves' fans in the postseason.

 

It was obvious on television, especially later in the game. It was pathetic. Such silver-spoon fans, with their $200m team and their yearly playoff apperances, not even willing to sit through a cold night to watch a playoff game.

 

I wish it was just about the cold, but I've seen empty seats in that place all year.

[example1]

Baseball can fix the "neighborhood" call. The rules allow some latitude that could fix it' date=' IMO. I agree that the intent is to keep the fielder safe from injury, and that's a worthy intent. That brings up the issue of why the fielder needs to protect himself from injury. It's the bogus slides that occur going into 2B. Guys slide 4' off the bag with their arm out, come in high and hard, and some occaissionally come in spikes up. Eliminate that. Start calling runner interference whenever the slide is not directly into the bag, low, and feet down. Runners will change their approach if the umps start calling the game the way the rules allow.[/quote']

 

I agree with this. One rules directly impacts another, but if only the second rule is enforced one side gets a distinct advantage.

 

That said, Aybar should have just come close to touching the bag, even just skimming over it with one of his feet. He was straddling the bag, but he was a foot away from it and he never moved closer.

 

I would act shocked that the Angels have totally f***ed themselves over in this series, except that's basically the Angels team the Sox saw year after year in the playoffs. Obviously many very good players, but a very unpolished feel about their execution.

[Dojji]

Unsurprising really. This is a team that can't figure out what its identity is OFF the field, much less ON.

 

So yeah, the Yankees are about to prove that spending big sometimes works after all. Blah.

[Gom]

Such silver-spoon fans, with their $200m team and their yearly playoff apperances, not even willing to sit through a cold night to watch a playoff game.

 

I wish it was just about the cold, but I've seen empty seats in that place all year.

 

I presume this post is not about me and the rest of the bleacher creatures.