Catching up ...
When we left off, our heroes had a 1-game-to-nothing lead over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ... Well, a win by Dice-K (via Manny's bottom-of-the-ninth, three-run walk-off that hasn't landed yet) and an heroic outing by Curt Schilling & the Boston offense
helped complete our ALDS sweep
in LA ...er, Anaheim? Los Angeles County? So we're back in the League Championship series for the first time since 2004 ... would it be unlucky for me to start counting 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004 ... 2007?
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
And ...
the Cleveland Indians swept the Yankees
3-games-to-nothing in their series, which would be prefectly sweet except that we have to play them now and boy, they looked like a well-oiled baseball machine versus New York. Not to mention that we had the exact same record this season ... but we won the season series and have home field advantage, which only contributes to the aforementioned confidence. In a related note, I wonder if Steinbrenner is going to live up to his promise of firing Joe Torre? My co-worker, a cordial Yankees fan, said in a moment of measured honesty that she thinks he should go. The Yankees have been tilting on the cusp of futility since we came back from that 3-0 hole in the 2004 ALCS - it's like they never really recovered ... or maybe they're just not as good as they were in 1927 ...
(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
(AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
As for the Senior Circuit, their Division Series played like some sort of metaphor for the emergence of Sun-Belt libertarianism & the modern "exurban" community and the decline of Eastern economic and cultural hegemony ... in otherwords, the Cubs and the Phillies got swept.
Posted by GM G AT 09 October, 2007 14:29
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