Weekly Mail Sports: Yankees lose to Angels
Yankees lose, THHHEEEEE Yankees lose.
Last week, I picked the Yankees in 5, but only if they stopped their whining about having to travel to California twice. Last week, Joe Torre and Alex Rodriguez complained that the Texas Rangers took some of their best players out, leading to an Angels come from behind victory that gave them home field against the Yanks. Meantime, the Yanks got their butts handed to them by the Red Sox.
So they stopped complaining about that, but some of them got annoyed again when their Saturday game was rained out, it was rescheduled for Sunday night at 7:30. Which meant that if they won, they'd have to fly out to Cali and play the next night.The Yankees wanted to play Sunday afternoon, but since FOX had NFL games, they ordered baseball to move the game to Sunday night. They wouldn't get into their hotel probably till 5 AM or so LA time.
FOX Sports, those bastards!
This time the Yanks may have a legitimate beef, but as someone said the other night, "call the UN Commissioner of Human Rights". I realize that playing three time zones over after a night of flying isn't easy, but this team is also (as some of you may know) very well compensated for their efforts. (or lack thereof). So I take their complaining with a grain of salt. But I have to admit I was rooting for them. I don't really like the Angels all that much, and a buddy of mine from the Post, a man who once told a Post editor that he "hated the Yankees as much as he hated Al-Qaeda, "had an opportunity to cover the ALCS for a Chicago newspaper if the Yankees won. So I was bummed that they lost.
But they had ample oppurtunity to pull this series out, especialy after they played so solidly in Game 1. They were sloppy in Game 2, and awful in Game 3. They battled hard in Game 4 to tie it up, but some sloppy fielding, bad baserunning and clutch hitting failure (see Rodriguez, Alex) cost them Game 5.
Another buddy of mine from work asked me the other night what the big deal about Bernie Williams was. It's true that Bernie put up solid if not Hall of Fame numbers, but I explained it this way.
It has now been 5 years since the Yankees have won the World Series. Only 4 players have stayed continuously through those 5 years. Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, and Bernie Williams. Jeter is the most beloved Yankee, Rivera probably the most dominating. Posada's my least favorite Yankee, so I"ll recuse myself on that one. Bernie is not only a link to that dynasty, he's also the centerfielder, probably the most revered position in Yankee history. He's also not one to rock the boat, as classy a ballplayer this town has had. Yankee fans will say that he's a true Yankee, (though I have a Bar Room BS that will dispute that)
Bernie Williams brings back memories that as Yankee playoff failures start to become Yankee playoff misses, will grow more distant and fonder. New York has a reputation as a city that eats you up and spits you out. But you can own this place if you win. If you win and you don't act like an a-hole, its even better.
That's the big deal about Bernie Williams.
Last week, I picked the Yankees in 5, but only if they stopped their whining about having to travel to California twice. Last week, Joe Torre and Alex Rodriguez complained that the Texas Rangers took some of their best players out, leading to an Angels come from behind victory that gave them home field against the Yanks. Meantime, the Yanks got their butts handed to them by the Red Sox.
So they stopped complaining about that, but some of them got annoyed again when their Saturday game was rained out, it was rescheduled for Sunday night at 7:30. Which meant that if they won, they'd have to fly out to Cali and play the next night.The Yankees wanted to play Sunday afternoon, but since FOX had NFL games, they ordered baseball to move the game to Sunday night. They wouldn't get into their hotel probably till 5 AM or so LA time.
FOX Sports, those bastards!
This time the Yanks may have a legitimate beef, but as someone said the other night, "call the UN Commissioner of Human Rights". I realize that playing three time zones over after a night of flying isn't easy, but this team is also (as some of you may know) very well compensated for their efforts. (or lack thereof). So I take their complaining with a grain of salt. But I have to admit I was rooting for them. I don't really like the Angels all that much, and a buddy of mine from the Post, a man who once told a Post editor that he "hated the Yankees as much as he hated Al-Qaeda, "had an opportunity to cover the ALCS for a Chicago newspaper if the Yankees won. So I was bummed that they lost.
But they had ample oppurtunity to pull this series out, especialy after they played so solidly in Game 1. They were sloppy in Game 2, and awful in Game 3. They battled hard in Game 4 to tie it up, but some sloppy fielding, bad baserunning and clutch hitting failure (see Rodriguez, Alex) cost them Game 5.
Another buddy of mine from work asked me the other night what the big deal about Bernie Williams was. It's true that Bernie put up solid if not Hall of Fame numbers, but I explained it this way.
It has now been 5 years since the Yankees have won the World Series. Only 4 players have stayed continuously through those 5 years. Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, and Bernie Williams. Jeter is the most beloved Yankee, Rivera probably the most dominating. Posada's my least favorite Yankee, so I"ll recuse myself on that one. Bernie is not only a link to that dynasty, he's also the centerfielder, probably the most revered position in Yankee history. He's also not one to rock the boat, as classy a ballplayer this town has had. Yankee fans will say that he's a true Yankee, (though I have a Bar Room BS that will dispute that)
Bernie Williams brings back memories that as Yankee playoff failures start to become Yankee playoff misses, will grow more distant and fonder. New York has a reputation as a city that eats you up and spits you out. But you can own this place if you win. If you win and you don't act like an a-hole, its even better.
That's the big deal about Bernie Williams.
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