MLB Playoffs

You know, we can leave the A-Rod arguments in the A-Rod thread and talk everything else here. Because personally, it's a little redundant here.

 

Well, that's the thing.

He needs some Defining Moments. Smacking two home runs in a 19-8 rout isn't going to help your legacy, .300 career postseason average be damned.

And if he proves me wrong one day, great. He's a fine human being and a fine ballplayer. ... It's nothing personal (at least with me.) It's just fascinating to watch a player of his talents completely shirk under the glare of the playoff spotlight. Doesn't make him any less of a Hall of Famer, but ...

I'm stealing this phrase from Verducci, but it's apt: There's a reason Scott Brosius won't have to buy a meal in New York ever again ...

 

The Tigers/Royals series had significance not only for the Tigers and Twins, but Yankees too. Instead of facing Johan Santana possibly twice, the Yankees got Detroit. Although that hasn't really helped the Yankees yet.

And is this Real World you speak of the same one where the Yankees were up 7-4 in Game 1, and the Tigers had two on, two out and Magglio Ordonez at the plate? Never in danger of losing? Wasn't close? And is this Real World the same one where Jorge De La Rosa and Todd Wellemeyer combined to shutout the Yankees?

 

I kicked your ass around the room on the NL MVP thread, and you haven't admitted it, so it doesn't matter if someone types "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz." to you, or composes the Dowd Report.

Either way, and at every point in between, nothing is absorbed by you.

 

Well, boys and girls, it's time for the Superbas and the Metropolitans.

 

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

When's the last time two starting pitchers with the same number (Mussina 35, Verlander 35) faced off in a playoff game?

 

They just did a vignette on Sox-Mets Game 6 in '86. Obviously, Buckner had to live through the shame of the most famous nutmeg of all time. But now that the Sox are no longer cursed, I'm wondering if Buckner will ever return to Fenway to get the adoration he deserves for everything leading up to that play. He had some good years with the Sox. They had old-timers appreciation this season and he didn't show again.

A former Sox player from that team lives in town, and I asked him why Buckner doesn't re-appear after all these years. Isn't it about time? I asked. "Would you?!" was the player's response.

Yes I would, I said, because the Sox won the World Series finally and I think Red Sox Nation is completely willing to forgive Buckner. Think how emotional that moment would be.

 

The "best player in baseball " or as Hockeybeat called him "slappy Mcslappy" (before he bacame prez of A-Rod fan club) is batting 6th in Yankee lineup.

What he is being paid is immatieral. Go through the list of Hall of Famers. I defy you to find me more than 5 who batted 6th on their team in post season. The thing is that not one baseball expert has questioned the wisdom of Torre putting A Rod at 6.

 

Buckner did come back and got an ovation.

 

When? Not this year.

 

Dude.... no one is denying ARod is having a rough patch.

Batting 6th.... means jack shit in that 1927-style lineup.