Sunday, June 12, 2005
How The Mighty Have Fallen
Two of three from the Red Sox then two of three from the Yankees. Ahhhhh.
(AP photograph)
How fantastic for Seabol. After just one at-bat with the Yankees four years ago, he hits his first major league home run against them to put the Cardinals ahead. That deserves a curtain call. And a shower of beer.
Morris wasn't super-sharp (three walks, six hits), but he was effective (one ER). I know King gave up that second run, but I'm not really sure why he was in there; Matsui hits lefties better than right-handers. It was an...interesting choice. Pavano's home run was unnecessary, but as Julian didn't lose the lead, the dugout phone seems to have survived. I especially liked Tony coming out to talk to Eckstein and having him run before he stole second. A clever little deke. I had the YES Network announcers (Michael Kay and David Justice) today. They could not understand why Jimmy faked bunt. Totally confused them. Otherwise, if they added, "Oh, he's so pretty," they would have sounded like me about Jimmy. They were very complimentary of the team and fans. Except dwelling on the whole pitcher-has-to-bat thing a little too much and explaining the Triple Crown categories, they weren't too bad.
A little love for Yadi at the official site. Rolen's not quite ready. That's OK, he can take an extra week or two-just get him healthy. I TiVo'd Cards' draft pick McCormick's start in the College World Series (although I know he threw 137 pitches) to watch tonight since Desperate Housewives is done for the season. The P-D also covers these things.
(AP photograph)
How fantastic for Seabol. After just one at-bat with the Yankees four years ago, he hits his first major league home run against them to put the Cardinals ahead. That deserves a curtain call. And a shower of beer.
Morris wasn't super-sharp (three walks, six hits), but he was effective (one ER). I know King gave up that second run, but I'm not really sure why he was in there; Matsui hits lefties better than right-handers. It was an...interesting choice. Pavano's home run was unnecessary, but as Julian didn't lose the lead, the dugout phone seems to have survived. I especially liked Tony coming out to talk to Eckstein and having him run before he stole second. A clever little deke. I had the YES Network announcers (Michael Kay and David Justice) today. They could not understand why Jimmy faked bunt. Totally confused them. Otherwise, if they added, "Oh, he's so pretty," they would have sounded like me about Jimmy. They were very complimentary of the team and fans. Except dwelling on the whole pitcher-has-to-bat thing a little too much and explaining the Triple Crown categories, they weren't too bad.
A little love for Yadi at the official site. Rolen's not quite ready. That's OK, he can take an extra week or two-just get him healthy. I TiVo'd Cards' draft pick McCormick's start in the College World Series (although I know he threw 137 pitches) to watch tonight since Desperate Housewives is done for the season. The P-D also covers these things.
