YANKS IN SEVEN
As promised hereabouts, the Bronx Bombers did it again. Brawn & Boone!
A nail-biter of a game, some great pitching, a New York crowd like no other, and the home team takes the prize. Life has returned to Normalcy, words youíve read here before.
The Penultimate Post Season Series match-up, with a Game 7 featuring The Rocket Roger Clemens and Pedro ìI push around old menî Martinez, might just have been the game of the season. In some ways the coming World Series may pale by comparison.
This was the game to watch, the game to win.
And those Boston players and their fans will have to meet their Chicago Brethren in Buffalo, a fitting city, for a bridesmaidsí cry in their beer. Waiter, Iíll have a ìWait Till Next Yearî on draught, please.
Been Theah, Done Thaht
USA Today hits the nail on the head regarding Red Sox fans: Red Sox Fans Know This Feeling Very Well [1].
The Boston Herald: Sox fall short? Of Curse: Series hopes dashed as Yanks rally, win in 11 [2]
The Boston Globe: Misery Has More Company [3]
CBS News: The Red Sox Lament [4]
San Jose Mercury News: A curse, karma, and Grady Little [5]
Fair and balanced. And dead wrong, too.
The same folks who run the Fox News Channel also own The New York Post. The Post, pulling a true ìDewey Beats Trumanî of its own, ran an editorial in some early editions of todayís paper bemoaning a Yankee loss of Game 7, and congratulating The Red Sox. The editorial expresses sadness that Rocket Roger Clemens ends his career on a losing note. Did upper management at The Post want Boston to win?
Gotta love the metatag on CNN-Money Magazineís online story: Red Sox Defeat Truman! NY Post Writes About Yanksí ìLossî [6]
FOX: Fair, Balanced, Asleep at The Wheel. And bias, shining through, clear as a walk-off home team home run in the bottom of the eleventh.
Dump The Fox!
Could FOX Network coverage of Baseball be any worse? My suburban county Little League game local cable coverage is more professional and has better announcers doing play-by-play, color and analysis. And that cameral work! Horrid. They miss key plays, have MTV-style breaks and stutter-steps as production elements, they air whoosh noises when the focus should be on the drama or just the action of the game.
At least on ESPN Radio affiliates one can listen to Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. These are consummate Baseball Radio professionals.
more coming either later today or early tomorrowÖ. Click back for the rest! Including props to K-Willy, who also called the series as a Yanks win in 7
OOPS! It took an extra day or two, but the update will shortly appear in this space. By the tim eof this writing the World Series is 2 games old, but we will continue as though the timeline never was suspended. Ah, the magic of blogging!!