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cknox0723 · 06-09-2008, 01:35 AM

If you're just joining the ride or reading this post by accident, hang on for a sentence or two. It's game two, ALCS in Yankee stadium, and we're not the Yankees. That's gotta be enough to keep reading, right? If not...this isn't the prettiest team you'll ever see in an ALCS, but it's the kind of team that silly announcers and writers would love, because the wins are coming for no single reason, just a combination of goofy stuff.

But game two goes as well as game one, which means we tally another one in the win column. Way to **** up the suspense, I know, but a three run top of the first deflated the home crowd about as much as I just killed all the suspense there. Well, as much as you can deflate a capacity crowd cheering on a ninety-some win team in the house that Jeter probably built single-handedly some offseason, as much as I can wreck the suspense in a paragraph that you might just be skimming. If you're actually reading, congrats. The runs scored in pretty typical fashion for a team that's not so awesome: leadoff hit by SS Ramon Vazquez, one out walk by RF Magglio Ordonez, single by cleanup man Eric Munson, sacrifice fly by CF Vernon Wells, two-out double by 1B Frank Catalanotto. Just one of these guys was on the team through all of last season's last place carnage.

Magglio Ordonez would hit a solo home run to left to lead off the third and stretch the lead to four. Scott Podsednik would walk to start the fifth and do the sort of crazy things on the bases you can dream on, stealing second, moving to third on a ground ball, scoring on a fly ball to right center. A Ramon Vazquez walk to start the seventh would lead to another one, and if no one's figured the big secret, it's that a leadoff baserunner is very, very, very helpful to scoring a run, especially when they actually score.

Esteban Loaiza would pitch a brilliant seven innings, even more betterer than his first-round outing that led to a win. Seven innings, three hits, two walks, 6 k's, 13 ground ball outs. It's six to nothing when he leaves and six to nothing when the game goes final. The home crowd really is demoralized now, because who the **** are the Pale Hose to come in here and win two games from the YANKEES who have won all these championships and have all these All Stars and Cy Young pitchers plus a payroll greater than the GDP of Anguilla?

I don't know who the Pale Hose are to pull all that off but it sure helps when you're not giving up any runs.

Two-nothing lead going back to the second city, two games from the World Series, three home games ahead of us. All I can think about is how I don't know how to handle good things, and this is no exception. Isn't it May, where we're 3 and 13? Is this heaven, just Iowa, or are we really a team that can play with this $400 billion fake baseball team?

06-09-2008, 01:35 AM	#936
cknox0723 All Star Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 1,957	game 2, alcs If you're just joining the ride or reading this post by accident, hang on for a sentence or two. It's game two, ALCS in Yankee stadium, and we're not the Yankees. That's gotta be enough to keep reading, right? If not...this isn't the prettiest team you'll ever see in an ALCS, but it's the kind of team that silly announcers and writers would love, because the wins are coming for no single reason, just a combination of goofy stuff. But game two goes as well as game one, which means we tally another one in the win column. Way to ** up the suspense, I know, but a three run top of the first deflated the home crowd about as much as I just killed all the suspense there. Well, as much as you can deflate a capacity crowd cheering on a ninety-some win team in the house that Jeter probably built single-handedly some offseason, as much as I can wreck the suspense in a paragraph that you might just be skimming. If you're actually reading, congrats. The runs scored in pretty typical fashion for a team that's not so awesome: leadoff hit by SS Ramon Vazquez, one out walk by RF Magglio Ordonez, single by cleanup man Eric Munson, sacrifice fly by CF Vernon Wells, two-out double by 1B Frank Catalanotto. Just one of these guys was on the team through all of last season's last place carnage. Magglio Ordonez would hit a solo home run to left to lead off the third and stretch the lead to four. Scott Podsednik would walk to start the fifth and do the sort of crazy things on the bases you can dream on, stealing second, moving to third on a ground ball, scoring on a fly ball to right center. A Ramon Vazquez walk to start the seventh would lead to another one, and if no one's figured the big secret, it's that a leadoff baserunner is very, very, very helpful to scoring a run, especially when they actually score. Esteban Loaiza would pitch a brilliant seven innings, even more betterer than his first-round outing that led to a win. Seven innings, three hits, two walks, 6 k's, 13 ground ball outs. It's six to nothing when he leaves and six to nothing when the game goes final. The home crowd really is demoralized now, because who the are the Pale Hose to come in here and win two games from the YANKEES who have won all these championships and have all these All Stars and Cy Young pitchers plus a payroll greater than the GDP of Anguilla? I don't know who the Pale Hose** are to pull all that off but it sure helps when you're not giving up any runs. Two-nothing lead going back to the second city, two games from the World Series, three home games ahead of us. All I can think about is how I don't know how to handle good things, and this is no exception. Isn't it May, where we're 3 and 13? Is this heaven, just Iowa, or are we really a team that can play with this $400 billion fake baseball team?