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Good Christ Drew. Throw the f-in ball

Well, that's two interceptions in a row we missed.

Oh man, that would be the highest payroll in baseball! They're SURE to win the Series now! Oh wait.

Is Cashman going to be back? I thought sure his ass was gone after 2001... 2002... and certainly last year. He must have pictures of the Boss in compromising positions or something.

Congrats to the proud parents and even prouder uncle! Someone once said that having kids is like watching your heart walk around outside your body all day long. As a dad of two, I couldn't agree more. No drugs?

Most little kids start out rooting for the team that wins a lot. Most of us grow up, though.

Not to beat a dead horse, but he wasn't arguing over a ball/strike call, or a fair/foul call, or an out/safe call, or whether the ball hit above the home run line. All of those are matters about which reasonable observers can differ. (For example, Jeremy Giambi? He was safe. And so was David Ortiz, at second the other night.) He was arguing about being called out for doing something he plainly and clearly knew was illegal. That's, as RTDB says, classless.

I have watched hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of baseball games. I have seen guys try to slide into first base to avoid a tag and make it. I've seen guys run out of the baseline to avoid a tag and get called out. I've seen guys hookslide into second to avoid a tag and make it. I've seen guys plow over the catcher and knock the ball loose, or not. But this is the first time I have EVER seen a player slap at a player's glove to knock the ball out of his hand. Probably because it's illegal and every player knows it. I don't necessarily fault A-Rod for doing it. He was going to be out and he didn't want to be out. But it wasn't like there was no penalty for doing what he did. He cost his team ninety feet (Jeter had to go back to first). If he gets tagged out or called out for running out of the baseline, the Yankees still have a guy in scoring position. Also, I agree, A-Rod was classless for whining as long he did, although I see the point of people who argue that he was just trying to get on base any way he could. After all, I'm still waiting for Frank Pulli to call Reggie Jackson out for interference in the 1978 World Series. Reggie and the Yankees got away with that one, and it was a turning point in the game. (I'm also waiting for the NHL to take away Brett Hull's goal, incidentally.) It was perfectly reasonable for A-Rod to think he too could break the rules and not get caught. But he did get caught, and he should have just walked off the field because he knew he was wrong.

There are your run-of-the-mill Yankee apologist posts and then there are posts like this. Most baserunners who try to "avoid the tag" don't deliberately hit the glove with the ball in it. (I suppose you could argue that A-Rod thought Arroyo had the ball in his other hand, but that defies reason about as much as believing that Roger Clemens actually thought he was throwing a ball at Mike Piazza.) Rather, they twist OUT OF THE WAY of the tag. Mientkiewicz wasn't part of the play until after A-Rod knocked the ball out of Arroyo's glove. If A-Rod hadn't slapped Arroyo's arm, the umpires probably would have called interference on Mientkiewicz because A-Rod ended up missing first base. But the first action was A-Rod's blatant interference, so he's already out no matter what Mientkiewicz does. In any case, "trying to knock it away" is still interference.

I'm rooting for the Sox tonight, but regarding the rest of your post, Bills fans thought the exact same thing after the Comeback against Houston.

YES baby Game 7 it is

I'm saying that when it comes to experiencing real bigotry, Canadians as a group have a long way to go.

What the hell... that 2-1 pitch was a strike.

Yes, those Canadians... long-suffering victims of racism they are.

I was listening to NFL Radio when the Dolphins lost to the Jets. Fiedler pitched it to nobody in particular on the last drive and the Jets recovered and the game was over. Mandich was apoplectic. He yelled something like "Fiedler is DUMB! And Wannstedt is DUMBER!" I'm surprised it took them more than two weeks to ban him from the team bus. Then again, who knows what he said during Sunday's game.

They played this clip on the JumboTron before the game Sunday. Danny got his usual Orchard Park reception.

Anybody who regularly listens to the rampant homerism of Michael Kay and John Stirling ("Thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh Yankeeswin!"), and is suddenly confronted with impartial announcers, should be excused for thinking the impartial guys are somehow "biased" against the Yankees.

How were they favored? Didn't the Yankees win the division? Didn't the Yankees get home-field advantage?

That "gust" was there all day long. I know because I was sitting at the east end of the stadium. Nobody was going to make a 43-yarder at the west end yesterday. I don't think punting made any sense either. But a draw to McGahee would have been my choice. Ten extra yards of field position makes a difference, especially considering Miami was going with the wind. What if a gust picked up the snap and sent it over Moorman's head? In my mind there was a bigger likelihood of that happening than there was of Lindell making that kick.

"He's a fine young man."

Can we get back to talking about sorority girls on teeter-totters?

The E Street Band. Hello?

I would become a Bisons fan in a second. There are a lot of ex-Browns fans and ex-Giants fans in Buffalo and WNY. Ex-Leafs and ex-Rangers fans too.

Absolutely. Back in the early '90s we hoped time wouldn't run out before we could find a way to win the game. Now we hope time runs out before we can find a way to lose the game. I was listening to the last drive on my car radio and when Bledsoe fumbled, I calmly flipped the radio off. If a play like that had happened ten years ago I would have flipped my car into a ditch. Numb is a VERY good way to describe it.

I hear both sides of the argument but I can't help but think that Travis is a big-time player who comes up small when it REALLY counts. I have the same opinion of Bledsoe and Moulds. I can't wait til the Losman-McGahee-Evans era starts, because at least with them there's the potential for future improvement. The three guys we have now ... what you see is what you get.