We deserved to get eliminated last night. Our "power hitters" were woefully lacking in anything resembling "power", and our defense was -- well, horrible.
Amusingly, the only thing we actually seemed to have done fairly well in during the post-season was our much-maligned pitching. Sure there were some hiccups with it, but certainly not at all on a par with the level of pain brought on by our defensive errors, and lost bats.
Although, last night's game was rough. It's hard enough to beat a team of nine when you're doing so badly, but a team of thirteen is even tougher. Especially when you hide those extra four players in the uniforms of MLB Umpires.
Last night's game had some of the most brain-dead calls I've seen in a while. There was an (admittedly) close play at first where the runner was clearly safe but was called out, and even stranger was Cano being called out on interference when he clearly didn't interfere at all, and if he had run where the umpire wanted him to run, he would have been interfering with the play.
Then you go back a few nights to the umpires calling a runner "safe" at second because a foot came off the bag a millisecond too early. Yes, technically, he's safe, but that's a play that happens -- in exactly that fashion -- all the time in baseball. The umpires have always shown leniency to fielders who -- having gotten the ball in plenty of time to score the out -- move their foot away quickly to avoid injury. That the only time that play was called in that fashion was against the Yankees is highly annoying.
But, I have to look at the bright spots... my upcoming weekend schedule was looking majorly hectic if they made it into the ALCS, between people coming to visit, having to run down to Newark and pick up my parents, and (if we'd made the ALCS) meeting up with White Sox fan, Brian, to go see an ALCS game. Now, my weekend schedule has only half the things it potentially had, which is sort of a relief.
Now I am cheering for "whomever plays Houston," because I don't want that traitorous pig Clemens to get another ring. Go St. Louis!
We? I didn't realize you worked for Mr. Steinbrenner. Nice to see that you are at least identify withthem when they lose, as well as when they win.
Absolutely I still use the "we" there. I am not some fair-weather fan, and if I identify with them as "we" when they're up, I'll say "we" when they're down as well.
And yes, the irony of using both "we" and "them" in the above sentence is noted. :-P
well, now you've seen a more brain dead call, if you watched game 2 of the ALCS ;)