Except for my first three years, I've been a New Yorker all my life. So, I'm obligated to be upset about a New York team losing a hard-fought series. But you know, I don't mind so much. If there's any team that deserved to be the only team in MLB history to win a seven-game series after being down 0-3 it's the Red Sox. And if it's gotta be the Red Sox then I'm glad they did it against the Yankees.
It makes for a good story. And Curt Schilling is THE MAN.
I knew the Yanks were gonna lose the series after that sixth-game when Gay-Rod slapped the ball as he ran for first base. Right at that moment, Yankee karma reversed itself and the Curse of The Bambino was lifted. (Well, the 'Sox still have to win the World Series first.)
My basketball team sort of went through something similar this season. We were killing the team we played during the second game, and we kind of acted dicky about it. Ace suggested we keep playing hard and try to hit 70 points, but some other guys on the team took it to mean something totally different. The other guys started actually yelling for us to hit 70 points. They were being pretty obnoxious. Granted the other team was playing dirty (okay, very dirty) and I even caught a ball in my stomach because I was harassing an inbounds play and the passer got frustrated. But in situations like that, you get mad, then go down the court and pop a trey in their faces. Which I did. (Yeah, VillaAlien, it was a Carlton Park deja vu moment.)
I just hope our karma isn't completely reversed. I need more trophies.
Posted by glenn at October 21, 2004 08:48 AMregarding the a-rod play, i still don't understand what was so illegal about that. i mean, when a runner trying to score and barrels into a catcher that's perfectly legal -- including trying to whack the ball from his mitt. it's legal because the catcher is in the base path and that's the runner's territory.
bronson arroyo was in a-rod's basepath, so why is it so different? would it have been inteference if a-rod simply lowered his shoulder and barreled him over as opposed to swiping the ball?
i still don't understand what the real rule is.
i ain't mad, i'm just confused.
Posted by: halfalien at October 21, 2004 01:38 PM