I hope A.J. Burnett throws an awesome game so all the Yankee Panic can stop for 16 hours. It’s all so ridiculous.
Right now all the sportswriters are waiting to hit send on one of two stories:
Story #1: Girardi is an idiot who should have gone with his ace.
Story #2: Girardi is a genius who knows which buttons to press and boy did he manage AJ correctly!
(Of course there’s story #3 about the 12-11 victory in the 19th inning)
Keith Olbermann’s usually sane blog has this to say:
This fourth game has all the feelings of the end of another “up” cycle for New York, a night reminiscent of the end of the 2003 World Series or the ALCS the next year or – for the elderly – more like the end of the ’81 Series or some of the grim regular season finales later in that decade.
Keith can you calm the hell down…the Yankees haven’t won the World Series in what, 11 and a half months? The end of an up cycle with CC, Teixeira and A-Rod each signed to 27 year contracts. The Yankees will be fine Keith.
Junior is here on the couch with me and is overanalyzing Jeffrey Maier 2010…very cute. (Sportswriters please dust your generic We Must Have Replay Now! articles…oh wait the Berkman “homer” just happened…do you like replay now Yankees fans?)
Meanwhile out west I am happy that the team of my ancestors the Formerly New York Giants won today. If the series goes 7 I can make some serious Stubhub.
Cheering for the former New York Giants (the team my ancestors cheered for too) and also the former replacement Washington Senators to be in the Series. Sorry for your pocketbook, but the former Baltimore Orioles won’t be going the distance in the ALCS.
wow another good one by Michael. You guys were on fire today while I was in meetings.