Yanx/Rangers ALCS IST

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Look at these lame-assed MFY fans headed to the exit. How can you pay those prices and leave a game like this? This ain't football. Amazing things can happen in baseball.

Stupid Yankee fans.

Swisher sure isn't in there for his defense.

[Guest Edgy DC]

David Robertson: at least he had fun, right Derek?

[apmorris]

hey guys

just checkin in to see whats happening,
Giradi's making a change and I'm started to feel a little comfortable with a 7 run lead.
Should've left Wood in there.

Make that 8 runs.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Another run! Good thing Steinbrenner's dead or heads would be rolling after this game!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yankee brass (and FAN callers) currently thinking about how they can get Lee on board next year.

[Frayed Knot]

Too bad Texas is too far away otherwise we'd have a similar deal to Game 7/'04 when, by the end of the game, the vacated expensive seats were entirely populated with Red Sox fans.
I'm not sure the eight or so Rangers fans who came to NY for this series would make quite the same visual or audible impact.

[Frayed Knot]

apmorris wrote: Giradi's making a change and I'm started to feel a little comfortable with a 7 run lead. Should've left Wood in there.

Either the Yanx feel that their $10mil set-up guy is too delicate to go more than one inning or that he's untrustworthy against lefties to the point where they have more confidence in some scrub LOOGY.
Either way it's not a pretty picture.

[Willets Point]

I heard some Ranger cheering actually, so those 8 people have strong voices.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Frayed Knot wrote: Too bad Texas is too far away otherwise we'd have a similar deal to Game 7/'04 when, by the end of the game, the vacated expensive seats were entirely populated with Red Sox fans. I'm not sure the eight or so Rangers fans who came to NY for this series would make quite the same visual or audible impact.

Just read a Yankee fan Facebook post:

there are more texas fans left in yankee stadium than yankees fans. The place is freaking empty. Where are all the real fans? What happens if there's a comeback right now?

Don't these folks know Derek is leading off?

[Frayed Knot]

Eh, maybe there's 15.
I've never actually met a Texas Ranger fan. I've heard they exist but always assumed that they were simply Cowboy fans who got lost somewhere.

[apmorris]

Captian!

[Guest Edgy DC]

OH MY SIT DOWN DEREK JETER!

[Guest Edgy DC]

GROUNDOUTALICOUS!

[Willets Point]

Will A-Rod get a chance for a garbage homerun?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Oh dear. No Hall of Fame for Andy Pettitte.

[Willets Point]

Nope.

Keep it up tomorrow, you crazy Texans.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nice oh-for-the-series you got going there, Teixiera.

Well done, Texas. Couldn't have ended sweeter.

[Guest themetfairy]

The Yankees LOOOOSSSSEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

I am SO PISSED that this series isn't 3-0 at this point.

On the other hand, which sentence do you suppose Yanqui fans enjoy less:
- Down two games to one
or
- AJ Burnett is tomorrow's starter
???

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Eh, maybe there's 15. I've never actually met a Texas Ranger fan. I've heard they exist but always assumed that they were simply Cowboy fans who got lost somewhere.

I've known one for about 10 years. Met her when I was in Dallas on a business trip.
She really knows her baseball, and I'd say she knows as much about her team, the players, their minor league organization and team history as most of the CPF-ers know about the Mets. And she couldn't care less about football. A very nice person.
But, I haven't found many others.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Eh, maybe there's 15. I've never actually met a Texas Ranger fan. I've heard they exist but always assumed that they were simply Cowboy fans who got lost somewhere. I've known one for about 10 years. Met her when I was in Dallas on a business trip. She really knows her baseball, and I'd say she knows as much about her team, the players, their minor league organization and team history as most of the CPF-ers know about the Mets. And she couldn't care less about football. A very nice person.

I think in Dallas the locals refer to that as a COMMUNIST!!!!![/bigpurple]

[ashie62]

Ron Washington & Jerry Manuel look alike. That is where the similarity ends.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

MFS62 wrote: Eh, maybe there's 15. I've never actually met a Texas Ranger fan. I've heard they exist but always assumed that they were simply Cowboy fans who got lost somewhere. I've known one for about 10 years. Met her when I was in Dallas on a business trip. She really knows her baseball, and I'd say she knows as much about her team, the players, their minor league organization and team history as most of the CPF-ers know about the Mets. And she couldn't care less about football. A very nice person.

Have a Dallas native visiting the office this week, and when I asked her whether she had plans for yesterday evening, she mentioned that she was a "BIG baseball fan," and would likely be staying in the hotel to watch (lest she get harassed by MFY faithful in a local bar). I recommended a few non-MFY bars for her, and suggested she go out to catch it, since Cliffy was pitching. I also casually asked if she thought that Borbon and Francoeur should start at the corners, since defense might be key with Lee on the mound. Blank stare for about five seconds, then polite, "Maybe, yeah... I don't know."

So, yeah... obviously a diehard. Enjoy your moose antlers and whatnot, lady.

I am SO PISSED that this series isn't 3-0 at this point. On the other hand, which sentence do you suppose Yanqui fans enjoy less: - Down two games to one or - AJ Burnett is tomorrow's starter ???

And that's why today feels like Christmas. I'm not even talking to the diehard MFYers in the office... just quietly enjoying the general glumness/tension.

[Frayed Knot]

2 singles + 2 OF putouts for the Yanx last night.

IOW, if the Texas OF went on strike for some reason and refused to take their positions in the bottom of each inning, Lee likely would have won the game anyway.

[metirish]

Did anyone else notice the deafening silence from the booth when Jeter tried his patented throw that came up way short? , then Ron blurted out something about not getting his legs....yyybbb.....

Ernie Johnson is absolutely useless, a good announce you hardly even notice but a bad one really sticks out.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

OMG!!! Even Ian O'Jeter is turning on them!!! His latest Tweet:

Why the #Yankees have only one shot -- a three-game winning streak and closing it out in six. http://tinyurl.com/2fexm5v

[Fman99]

Ron Washington shaves the upper half of his moustache so that he doesn't waste any cocaine.}

Having said that, I watched every last delicious out of this game. What a treat. All my YLDB friends on FB are strangely quiet today.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

metirish wrote: Did anyone else notice the deafening silence from the booth when Jeter tried his patented throw that came up way short? , then Ron blurted out something about not getting his legs....yyybbb..... Ernie Johnson is absolutely useless, a good announce you hardly even notice but a bad one really sticks out.

Terrible. Square peg, round hole, unfortunately; it's tough to overstate how good he is at presiding over the TNT basketball in-studio show (the one with Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley).

[metirish]

No doubt LWFS, he seems a lot more comfortable with basketball. Maybe it's that he only calls baseball once a year but on that single to left field that the pinch runner went form first to third he screamed like it was a walk off.

[Frayed Knot]

That's the problem with having networks working baseball's post-season: it makes too much financial sense for them to put to work these guys from other sports that they've already got on the payroll. But when non-baseball folks do baseball it shows - and if they happen to be doing your team it shows even more.
What would be the best listen would be for them to hire a couple of whoever they think are the best local announcers (Gary or one of his counterparts) and assign them to their own league's game. If they want to steer them away from their "own" team just to avoid charges of bias that's fine with me but at least you'd get guys who not only know the game better but know the players as well.

But there's nothing worse than your generic network jock trying to pretend he knows - or, in some cases, cares about - baseball. You can just tell that some of those geeks are so anxious to be doing something else that they jump all over the inevitable network promo as their big opportunity to change the subject: "College Football coming up this Saturday at 7 PM ... So how 'bout them State U. Cougars?!"