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Yankee Frugality Finally Pays Off
October 12, 2009 by
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Congratulations to the New York Yankees for making it out of the first round of the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
Ending a five-year drought has to be all the sweeter for the Yankee players, organization and loyal fans since it took the Yankees only just over a billion...
That Felt Like Nine Days
October 12, 2009 by
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Not the actual Rockies-Phillies NLDS Game 3. I meant the time between games 2 & 3 felt like forever. Or at least like the nine day layover between the NLCS and World Series two years ago.
All of these things happened in between Game 2 & 3.
The baseball Gods finally got...
Classic Chalk On The Weekends: You Only Live Twice
October 11, 2009 by
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So I deeply apologize to everyone who was inconvenienced by the lack of a Classic Chalk On The Weekends post last weekend. There was just too much going on in the present for me to give you your usual highlights of the past. But thank you to everyone who sent emails and threats...
What Matt Holliday can learn from Bucknor v Buckner
October 10, 2009 by
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Rob Neyer, pondering Dave Cameron on transferring Thursday’s blaming of Matt Holiday toward Ryan Franklin:
Ryan Franklin had four chances to get a third out, and four times he failed. I’ll bet that Franklin knows he blew the game every bit as much as Holliday. Now the...
Dealing With Cold
October 10, 2009 by
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The Rockies & Phillies won’t have to, but screw it, I’m telling my story anyway.
Don’t ask me for advice.
The coldest game I played in (by at least 20 degrees) was the first game of my high school baseball career. We were in Belvidere, Illinois for a 4:30...
We Had that Coming
October 10, 2009 by
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Is it the juice or Hawn's kid?
As Yogi would say, “It was like deja vu all over again.” For the second time, the Twins were ahead at Yankee Stadium in Game 2 of an ALDS, with Joe Nathan on the mound for multiple innings and Alex Rodriguez comes up with a big hit....
Do the Sox have another comeback in the tank?
October 10, 2009 by
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I called Terry Francona this morning to give him my three-step plan for the Red Sox, a plan guaranteeing a series victory:
Win Game 3
Win Game 4
Win Game 5
We agreed this would be the most effective strategy for the Sox heading forward. Because whatever strategies they’ve...
Managerial Ineptitude Mars Day 2
October 09, 2009 by
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Thursday, three teams lost games because their managers made terrible, terrible decisions.
The Phillies gifted the Rockies a game when their offense failed to show up and made Aaron Cook look half-decent — which he’s not. No wonder the Fightins only scored a pathetic...
Waving White Fabric: A True Distraction or Just St. Louis Throwing in the Towel
October 09, 2009 by
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One detail I neglected to mention in my Dodgers v. Cardinals Game 2 wrap-up was a post game comment by Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright. The Cy Young contender’s 8-inning, 3-hit gem left the Cards with a 2-1 lead heading into the 9th. A legendary Matt Holliday nutshot and...
Down 2-0, Cards Rethink Lineup
October 09, 2009 by
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Sure, we could all just go hog-freeeeeeeeakinnnn-wild and blame Matt Holliday for not handling a ball hit directly at him. But the soon-to-be disappointing, overpaid Met can’t shoulder all the burden. And Tony LaRussa agrees.
That’s why he’s brought in some ringers...
I stayed up for that?
October 09, 2009 by
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When the Sox play a West coast game in May, you make a judgment call on whether it’s worth it to sacrifice your sleep to watch the damn thing. Come October, there’s no choice - you watch as late as it goes. No clock in baseball means anything can happen any time. It&...
Fixing the Brewers: Incorporate New Sausage Ethnicity
October 09, 2009 by
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I will always love the Brewers. But following a 2007 playoff appearance, the 2008 Brewers failed to repeat the previous season’s glory above average…ness. And with Milwaukee failing to finish above .500 in ‘08, I’ve decided to take it upon myself to return the...
Ancient Role Players, Epic Nutshot Will Dodgers to 2-0 Lead
October 09, 2009 by
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Oh, Loretta!
In my Dodgers playoff preview, I openly laughed at the prospect of Ronnie Belliard starting in the Dodgers infield. Furthermore, I questioned the ability of the aged likes of the L.A.’s collective infield ranks (including Mark Loretta) to persevere into the NLCS...
Game 2: No Sweep For You
October 09, 2009 by
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Random thoughts/ramblings/game notes on today’s Phillies game:
-No sweep this time around, and I continue to be amazed by how quickly momentum can shift in a best of five series. The Rockies went from the brink of elimination to going traveling back to Colorado with a chance...
Rockies Induce Silence At CBP
October 08, 2009 by
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What began with a sight for sore eyes, ended with music to my ears.
I just knew the Rockies were destined to win today when ESPN blowhard (and former Philly) John Kruk threw out the first pitch. Kruk was the poster boy for dumbass northeast analysts that refused to acknowledge...
We got yer playoffs right here.
October 08, 2009 by
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On Wednesday, while Major League Baseball was unleashing three Game 1’s, the lead story on ESPN.com and CBSsports.com was that the Cleveland Browns traded Braylon Edwards to the Jets.
That’s why you gotta love Bugs&Cranks. We’re all baseball, all the time. Nearly...
Red Sox square off against Nick Adenhart
October 08, 2009 by
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In early 2007, the Patriots were on a collision course to becoming the most hated team of all time. Over in the NFC, the New Orleans Saints were the feel-good story of the year, rebounding from a 3-13 season and a hurricane that captured the mind of every American not in the Bush...
X-Ray Of The Day: Trever Miller
October 08, 2009 by
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It was a pretty dull opening day to this anticlimactic virtually starless postseason, but four ex-Devil Rays were in action.
The X-Ray star who burned brightest was Trever Miller, who I mistakenly left out of Fifteen Faces Of October: The DRT Playoff Preview. With the bases loaded...
Chavez Ravine = Bushed Stadium
October 08, 2009 by
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It’s funny - when the Mets’ season mercifully ended last weekend, I thought my suffering was over. I thought the Amazin’ hangover I had from 162 games of AAAA baseball would finally end. I thought that aiming my support at a winning franchise would change my perspective...
The More Things Change
October 08, 2009 by
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Whether it was sleep deprivation or the ghosts, it didn’t matter that the Twins had won 17 of 21 or had just emerged victorious from the game of the year, because this Derek Jeter is still Derek Jeter, this was still October and this was still New York.
Minnesota remains winless...
Game 1: That Cliff Lee Has Some Talent
October 07, 2009 by
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Random thoughts/ramblings/game notes on today’s Phillies game:
-I’ve always thought one of the hard quirks of the MLB playoffs is how quickly and aburptly it can all be over. Take the Phillies in 2007. They battled through 162 games, completing that miracle comeback to...
Seth McClung will Topple your Cable TV Empire
October 07, 2009 by
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Seth McClung is a man of principle.
Whether sending a message to a showboating Albert Pujols with a high 90s fastball to the spine or Web blasting his local cable television provider’s less-than-savoury customer service - “Big Red” isn’t afraid to let those...
Rockies Lack Gusto In Game 1
October 07, 2009 by
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The weather in Philadelphia, however, did not. Damn that crap was nasty.
When I saw the flags doing that during pre-game, I predicted there would be at least two Brad Hawpe misplays in right field. Hawpe obliged with one. But it’s Carlos Gonzalez who stole Hawpe’...
Getting to Know the L.A. Dodgers… a Bit Late
October 07, 2009 by
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If you rely on the likes of Bugs & Cranks to keep you up to date on news and views regarding the Los Angeles Dodgers, allow me to be the first to offer an apology. With writers primarily based on the East coast and three of us (myself included) residing in the Midwest, the Dodgers...
Hope for the Best, Expect the Pavano
October 07, 2009 by
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That Twins-Tigers playoff was terrific, a true instant classic. And so of course I want to examine it from what is, I’m sure you’ll all agree, the only angle that matters: What does this mean for the Yankees?
The Twins have long been my second-favorite AL team, and I was pulling...
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