Monday, October 23, 2006

It's a Cruel, Cruel World

I thought that losing in four games to the Tigers was the low point of being a Yankees fan this season. I thought very wrong.

Following the Yanks' quick exit, the death of Cory Lidle shocked the team, the fans and all of baseball. There is no human being with any trace of a soul who could joke about this situation, regardless of what team they root for.

Then, on a much less serious level, Joe Torre nearly lost his job. Next, two Yankees castoffs and former playoff busts squared off in Game 2 of the World Series. To make matters worse, both have pitched brilliantly all postseason. Before allowing 3 runs to the Tigers, Jeff Weaver had an ERA under 3.00. His last Yankee memory was an inning of relief in which he surrendered a game-winning home run to then-Marlins shortstop Alex Gonzalez. In the opposite bullpen was Kenny Rogers, who increased his scoreless inning streak in this year's playoffs to 23. To do that, he pitched eight scoreless innings of two-hit ball.

The final blow on Sunday was the article run by ESPN.com. In it, Bob Klapisch describes how A-Rod (yes, A-Rod is still in the news) failed to attend Lidle's memorial service in California last week. Great. Just great.

Is it basketball season yet?

1 Comments:

At 2:38 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

you forgot who else is playing in this world series -- marcus thames, the tigers dh, a former yankees prospect. way to let another one go, george.

 

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