The Tigers tried.
I give them A+ for effort. It was a great game. One for the ages. Made all baseball fans proud.
They had the game won going into the bottom of the 10th inning. Had a one run lead. Their stud closer was in the game, and he was dealing. The Tigers avoided all the usual nonsense that comes with playing in the Hump Sack during a 9 inning game. The crowd noise, the waving hankies, the disappearing popups, superball bounces, screwy ground rules, hockey glass in the outfield walls, Hefty Sak drapes, homemade windstorms when someone opens an exit door, rug burns, the warm beer that arrives when you order from a vendor 45 seats away (one time zone), all the stuff that makes that dump the worst baseball venue in the world.
But then in the bottom of the 10th, the Movie Theater that was supposed to die, remembered it was October and Jason never dies in October.
The Glad Bag that won't go away reared it's ugly head in the form of a leadoff flare to leftfield that Ryan Raburn misplayed into a triple after losing it in the roof. Followed soon after by a routine double play ball that took a magic hop (it made Wham-O proud) and snaked beyond the reach of 2nd baseman Placido Polanco to allow the tying run to score.
And just like that, the Twins scored in the 12th and The Dome lived to kill another day.
Next victim? The Mighty Yankees. MY TEAM. A team that has been destined to win their 40th American League Pennant and their 27th World Championship this year. A team with the best record in baseball, and the best Yankee team that Steinbrenner's millions (billions?) has fielded in a decade.
I'm scared.....I am very, very scared. The Yankees couldn't handle nature's widges in Cleveland two years ago, how are they gonna handle this supernatural beast? Put New York's Cardinal Egan on the 25 man roster? Pack a couple of chainsaws in the gear bags? Give each player a tiny crucifix to wear around his neck?
I DON'T LIKE HORROR MOVIES.
Never watch 'em.
Don't wanna see one now.......So....Yankees...listen up guys....Throw the ball, catch the ball, hit the ball hard and keep your damn heads in each and every inning of every game. Win every inning, win every game.
BEAT THE NEVER ENDING SUPPLY OF BLOOD AND OXYGEN OUT OF THE TWINS.....TREAT THE TWINS LIKE PROVERBIAL BASTARD STEPCHILDREN OF DIFFERENT MOTHERS......DOME BE DAMNED.
I can't think of a better team to finally send that Den of Iniquity off to the Netherworld...forever.
PLEASE????
C'mon... the twins are a good baseball team...that is well managed.. Hey yes the dome has some issues but both teams are in the same building on the same field. And Detroit has played there enough to know how to deal with all the distractons...as have the Yankees. Perhaps you should give some credit to the players and their manager. And if you look at the replay of Raburns error he saw the ball all the way and misplayed it trying for heroics.. It was a great game ..flawed with base running errors and fielding errors but most great games are. So Good luck Twins.. beat the best team money can buy..
ReplyDeleteBoth teams are certainly in the same building on the same field, but one of them gets to play on that field 81 times a year. The other, does not. Consequently, The Dome, with it's far too numerous "quirks" gives the Twinkies the greatest "home field advantage" in baseball, possibly in any sport.
ReplyDeleteI gave a LOT of credit to the players and the manager in my previous blog entry. I believe Gardenhire should be voted Manager of the Year in the American League.
That doesn't change anything about how screwed up the Dome is.
And as far as the "replay" of Raburn's error (he wasn't given an error, btw, a triple all the way)...Here are his post game comments about that play and the Cabrera home run, that he thinks he should have caught:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091007/SPORTS0104/910070353/1129/sports0104/Ryan-Raburn--Metrodome-gets-last-laugh#
"I can't blame the stadium," said Raburn, "but,
yeah, I guess."
That evil place even sedates it's victims with doses of Stockholm Syndrome!!!
dame be damned indeed///yankees be damned as well for their greed and corruption///cardinals once proud now damned for taking in the evil holladay////ditto for dodgers with manny///ditto for the dead sox and all their tomfoolery////ditto for the phillies for their evil fans///by default that leaves the mostly innocent rockies and the orange county boys perversely strapped with the la name to fight for whats right about western civilization///innocent victims are the poor people of detroit who have already had to bear an all too disproportianate share of the nations ills
ReplyDeleteoops sorry dame//meant dome be damned
ReplyDeleteBuckeye put down the crack pipe
ReplyDeletewithout the aid of drugs i bring you the truth so that ye shall know the truth
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