The Snakes Win!

[Cyber Liberty]

Bwaahaaa!

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

"...The Hildebeast didn't even know her team was playing..."
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YEP - No Doubt....

She was asked to play while she was a college gal - all of the other reindeer -err- players really laughed at her, while she standing at the Plate holding the baseball - all the while sreaming at the pitcher to throw the bat....

[harbinger of doom]

First, Schilling wanted to go back out and unlike the other night, Brenly listened. I understand what you are saying and it is a good point about getting RJ out early yesterday. However, the big non move tonight by Torre was having the middle not play at least halfway to double up Gonzo. Irony is Torre had them back in game 5 and Soriano makes that play up the middle. If the infield is back, Jeter camps and there are two down. Of course, it is fun to speculate on all the 'ifs'. I changed in the 8th who I wanted to win. I snapped and decided the Yanks had won enough.

[factmart]

</>I just kept thinking how cool (and classy) it would be for the yanks to come out and stand on the first base line to applaud the winners...

I didn't want the Yanks, to win, but they are class even in losing. Joe Torrie words after the loss were the classiest I've ever seen. I wonder if people remember as a player he was the MVP one year. �

[Diddle E. Squat]

Always quick to take advantage of any photo op with controlled media soundbites(except for an occasional benefit concert), the junior senator from New York has already offered her comforting message to her Yankee constituents. Paraphrasing a predecessor and role model, she exclaimed, "Let them eat cheese!"

[JoeA]

Well it looks like at least three of us saw the same thing. Rivera's strike zone seemed to shrink by 2 inches in the ninth inning. Several inside pitches that were strikes in the 8th became balls in the 9th, forcing him to go over the plate and give up hits.
..but....

The series is over, and it was a great one!!!

Congratulations Diamondbacks.

BTW: take good care of the trophy, we'll pick it up next year.

[harbinger of doom]

infield back = corners in, middle DP depth.

Isn't FR great? I have actually tried to make it clear that I meant to say 'corners in, middle DP depth'. Nothing about evolution, demonrats or libertarians. Just Baseball!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yeah, I have to agree, (Steinbrenner excepted) the Yankee organization as a whole exhibits class from top to bottom. They are (for the most part) a model of how a sports organization should be run.

[jf55510]

Monday morning quarterbacks are ALWAYS RIGHT.

Last night I thought Johnson should have been taken out after the fifth inning. Also prudence suggested that Schilling be taken out after the 7th inning because he was the lead off batter in the bottom half of the inning. That and Schilling looked tired in the 7th that he should be taken out.

[factmart]

For all the Yankee fans, hows this for history, the DBacks have won 100% of the series they have been in, and have gone to the series 25% of their history....BWAHAAAAHAAAAA

I'm not a Yankee fan but so have they have gone to the series 25% of their Historty.

[Heff]

I'm still a Yankee Fan..always will be.

But...the D-backs were the better team tonight. They're also a classy team.

It's PATHETIC that some of their fans aren't as classy.

Why is it soooo hard for some people to accept that the NY Yankees is the most successful team in professional sports?

[harbinger of doom]

If the ump had been covering the outside part of the plate, you get the inside plus 6 more inches. But the ump was covering the inside on the lefties and had a good look. Most umps seem to cover the inside and give the outside if the catcher's mitt doesn't move.

Rivera didn't really throw a fatty. Finley's hit was below the trademark, Womack hit a nasty cutter in and Gonzo was completely jammed and was staring at an 0-5 night, if Torre has Jeter and Soriano in DP depth. But I digress...

Good observation none the less.

[jf55510]

I totally agree about Torre, and that is Monday morning Quarterbacking, but the original post was about Where the Brenly BAshers were.

[harbinger of doom]

You said it different, but I agree with you on the "why" Schilling should have been lifted. If you knew you were going to lift him in the 8th at any sign of trouble, then hit for him in the 7th. But I still think Schilling was able to talk Brenly out of it, unlike Game 5.

[L.N. Smithee]

He left Schilling out there to long to give up the go ahead run.

Right. Brenly should've been afraid of letting Schilling pitch to a fearsome slugger like Soriano.

When there Anderson, Witt, Morgan, [Batista] left in the pen.

Uh huh...and if Brenly had brought in one of those guys, and the pitcher had thrown a gopher ball to take the DB's out of the game completely, you would have somehow retained respect for that decision? Or even better -- you would have thought it was a good move to bring in Johnson on zero-days rest if his first pitch was blasted into the right field spa? It is to laugh.

If Byung-Hyun Kim had gotten either of the third outs in Games 4 or 5, people might have been whispering wondering why Stupid Joe Torre continued to send David Justice to the plate when he might as well have been swinging a badminton racquet up there. But Justice's strikeouts didn't end up hurting the Yankees, so Torre got away with his faith in him. Brenly's faith in Kim -- and the law of averages that was overwhelmingly in Kim's favor -- wasn't rewarded with victory, so people like you say he's stupid.

It all comes down to this: When a team gets to a single game for all the marbles, there is going to be one move a manager makes that everything turns on, and the loser will be a jackass in the minds of many for the rest of his life.

This time, the loser is Torre, but he will not be called a loser out loud because (a) his teams have dominated the Series the past half decade, and (b) he is too beloved by the New York-dominated media majority to straddle the blame.

[harbinger of doom]

Has a thread ever gone with the subject matter unchanged?

:)

Brenly "I may be an idiot, but indeed, I am no fool". Brenly was just fine throughout. But good call anyhow, JF

[JoeA]

Yankees:

Founded, 1903.
38 Pennants in 98 years = 39% winning percentage.
27 World series wins = 71% winning percentage.

In other words, talk to me in about 97 years.

[L.N. Smithee]

Monday morning quarterbacks are ALWAYS RIGHT.

That's why the Sunday afternoon quarterbacks make the big bucks. They take the hits when they are wrong, and have to listen to us easy-chair guys tell them we could do it better.

I can't say that I don't ever engage in second-guessing, but I always keep in mind that there is no way I will ever know the entire story, complete with the intangibles that will remain in the dugouts, clubhouses, and locker rooms, never be told to the fans of the game.

[JoeA]

If the ump was covering the inside on lefties, was he moving for leftie/rightie batters? I hope not, but that would account for the inconsistency. Womack did hit a nasty pitch, but Grace's hit and Gonzo 's were not typical Rivera ptiches, they might not have been fat, but they were meatier than his usual offerings.
Of course, he's pitched quite a few innings this week, so I'm not surprised that he didn't have his best in the ninth.
Jeter even with the bag, rather than in, probably makes a catch of Gonzo's shot. But, that's why the game is great, It Ain't Over Till it's Over.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Muahahahahaha...if the AL wasn't such a basket case league...oh, the humanity...

[aruanan]

Neener, neener, neener.