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Championship Series 10/14/12

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Two more games to enjoy today. On the downside, Joe Buck enters the postseason.

Detroit Tigers at New York Yankees
Anibal Sanchez vs. Hiroki Kuroda

The Tigers are up one game, Jeter is broken and out, and Girardi has favored emotion over intelligence and is burying A-Rod. I got very close to cheering for the Yankees over the Tigers, but I'm finding that I just...can't. Amazingly, it's another early game for the Yankees.

St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants
Lance Lynn vs. Madison Bumgarner

The last two champions meet in the next CS for the first time in six decades, I read. Lance Lynn had 18 Wins this season and I'm fairly sure I've never heard of him. I'm not in love with either of these teams, but I like both of them enough to cheer them over the other clowns.

60 thoughts on “Championship Series 10/14/12”

  1. The great thing about early evening Yankees games is that they're also late-evening Yankees games.

    Even if the ALCS was Angels-As and the NLCS was Mets-Pirates, the ALCS would have still been the Early game. Fox has the NLCS and it has a football doubleheader. Do not throw off the Emperor's groove! Beware the groove!

  11. This sums it up pretty good:

    Bet the Yanks wish they still had Donny Baseball. Man, he was one of the best in the biz. Any real man's a Donny Baseball man, you guys.— Karl Welzein (@DadBoner) October 14, 2012

  14. Joe Giradri says the Yankees are being treated unfairly. I laugh in your general direction

    3. How, by being the first team in MLB history to play 5 consecutive home games? If only Joltin' Joe hadn't worn the number, Girardi could switch.

      1. but, there are no days off! and the played all these weird times! and they played a lot of extra innings! not fair!

        but I think he was talking about not using instant replay, because you know, the Yankees have never been Cuzzied in Yankee Stadium

        1. Ah, well at least he has a good point. I mean, I can't think of any other team that didn't get an off day after an extra inning game after the regular season ended before having to start a new series at home. I can think of a team that didn't get an off day after an extra inning game after the regular season ended before having to start a new series on the road, but that's a completely different situation obviously.

          1. I can't think of any team that had to follow up a late afternoon extra-inning home win with an early evening start on the road the next day even though a different postseason series started one day later. By Gum, the Yankees' advancement-clinching regulation-length win started at 5 in the afternoon! And they had to play at 8pm the next day! That's only slightly more than 24 hours between games. Subtracting travel time to and from their own beds, answering questions for the rabid local press, and celebrating through the night at fabulous clubs means that there were probably less than 12 hours with which the players could truly rest.

      1. I have Jon Miller on MLBtv radio. He's such a pleasure to listen to sans Joe Morgan. The feed is a few seconds ahead of the FOX feed, but that's ok. We're playing board games tonight, so it give me a little buffer to look up at the TV.

  19. I see that the Tigers realized they'd better walk RAÚL IBAÑEZ if they want to win.
    Also? The reason RAÚL IBAÑEZ didn't homer in the ninth is because his team was behind by three runs and there was no one on base. Why hit a homer that won't tie the game or put his team ahead?

      1. RAÚL IBAÑEZ was thinking of the team and took more pitches than that slacker.
        Seriously, though ARod has looked absolutely horrible this postseason through the Gameday Classic prism.

      1. I fixed it now. Is it bad that the all-caps guy is actually becoming Ra Uacutel Iba Ntildeez in my head?

  21. I must say that I am surprised that I'm the only person in the Brackef to pick the Cards. In the crapshoot that is the playoffs, they've found that the way to load the dice is to barely win enough games to make the playoffs. I think LaRussa might have left his cheat sheet in the clubhouse desk drawer.

          1. Is this the spot where I complain that he should have been singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"???

            Love ya, Tony. but I still hate substituting that song for the real baseball anthem.

        1. That's one more hit than anyone else on the team!
          If you're lukewarm, and everyone else is icecubed, that makes you the hottest!

    3. Yeah, there was that, but he also said that there was no one that the Giants would rather have up here other than Buster Posey.

      Riiiiiight.

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