MLB Playoffs

There are two certainties about the baseball playoffs. The weather will be chilly and people will complain about something.

 

1991 Game 7: My favorite (non-Dodgers) game of all time. If we ever meet I'll bring the Dewar's and you bring the tape.

 

Winning the '04 series was an afterthought for Red Sox fans? I know it was very anticlimactic compared to the Yankees comeback (what wouldn't be?), but it was still their first championship in 86 years. Even with the Yankees comeback, it would have been very heartbreaking to lose the World Series again. In fact, it might have been more so; if it wasn't going to happen that year, when would it happen?

The first six games of the 1997 World Series were mostly blah, but I loved Game 7. Another pratfall for a Cleveland team on the brink of a championship. A rookie pitcher (Wright) out-pitching a 10-year veteran (Leiter) in the biggest of games. And an 11-inning thriller, with Jim Leyland finally getting a ring after those heartbreaks with the Pirates.

 

Has this postseason been boring? I suppose. But I look at it this way. In one more week, there will be no more baseball to watch and, as a stay-at-home, disabled, retired baseball writer, I can't help but miss it, so leave it alone, please. Despite its warts, it's still baseball.

And one other thing. I realize I may be alone in this thinking, but all the jokes about spnited's age are really becoming tired and boring. And also quite childish.

Sorry, but it's the way I feel.

 

Casty how do you feel about the Rogers Pine tar contraversy? Are you in agreement with many who say its not a big deal?

One thing for sure it shows you how good High DEF TV is when its working right.

 

Boom, it was a story that day. And it would have been a continuing story if La Russa had challenged. But if the manager of the team being "abused," is satisfied, who am I to complain?

Pine tar is a foreign substance. Is resin a foreign substance? If so, why is it out there on the mound? And if pine tar is so evil, why can all hitters use it constantly? Maybe it should be legal for everybody, I don't know. Experts tell me pine tar on a baseball does not significantly alter it.

Truth is, I don't know. But yes, it was a story. Now, I think it should die.

 

Eliminate all foreign and made in the U.S.A. substances from baseball. period.

 

I don't believe the postseason has been THAT bad, fellas. I can't tell you how excited I was to see the Tigers come back to beat the Yankees in four games. And then watching the Tigers advance on Magglio's blast was something else.

 

Not to mention some of the storylines i.e. Kenny Rogers, once a crappy playoff pitcher, turning into Sandy Koufax ... Magglio Ordonez's ALCS-clinching homer ... Yadier Molina, of all people, going yard in Game 7 of the NLCS ... Yes, the Tigers beat the Yanks ...

It's been a pretty enjoyable postseason.

 

Game 7 of the NLCS was among the best playoff games this decade. You had a home run robbed, a game-winning home run by a terrible hitter and a strike out with the bases loaded in the ninth inning. That's not bad.

 

I thought 1996 and 1997 (and 1995 had the incredible Glavine game) were very interesting to watch, but I agree with the rest.

 

Sorry fellas, but this October blows chunks. I LiVE FoR ThiS, too, but this sucks right now.

My top 5 in postseasons my life's time (as your unelected president calls it) and in orderZ:

-- 1986
-- 2004
-- 1991
-- 1996
-- 1988