By Broken Hearted on Monday, November 5, 2001 - 12:00 am:
I bet all of you Red Sox fans out there must be having a grand old time tonight.
*$&!ing D-Backs and "Captain Dirtbag" Randy Johnson...
By Randy Johnson's Mullet on Monday, November 5, 2001 - 12:08 am:
Go D-Backs!
Or more accurately, go whoever's playing the Yankees!
Go Red Sox!
By Jason Becker on Monday, November 5, 2001 - 01:59 am:
Puuuhh-lease!!!! The Yankees have one the last 3 in a row.
Gice the Dbacks credit. Johnson and Schilling are just a pair of "horses" as coach Brenly has said that have teamed up for one of the best tandoms ever seen in one year. Also gotta love them getting revenge by slamming the previoulsy untouchable Rivera.
All in all a great game and a great series.
Way to go DBacks!!!
By Broken Hearted on Monday, November 5, 2001 - 02:31 am:
As an aside, we were also let down in '97 against the Indians...but at least that was a home run, and not a cheap humpback single.
The Indians won with honor...can you tell I'm bitter? :P
I do have to give props to Curt Schilling, though, as he's also a gamer (having rescued Squad Leader all by his lonesome).
By Supertanker on Monday, November 5, 2001 - 03:35 am:
"...but at least that was a home run, and not a cheap humpback single."
It isn't the single that bugs you, it is the drawn-out crumble that loaded the bases and made a single win the game. Losing by an HR is quick, painless, and easy. Losing slowly as your team makes mistake after mistake and throws away the 7th game is what burns. It takes a whole team to lose that way, not just one bad pitch.
Not that I used to live in Phoenix and I'm goading the Yankee fans ;)
By Bub (Bub) on Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:57 am:
Supertanker is right. Winning by a humpback single = good baseball strategy. Like running out the clock in Football. That's what made last night's game so special. Low hit count, pitchers sweating bullets, honest mistakes, Shilling saying "fuck" on the mound when he was finally taken out, etc.,
Sure Homers are exciting, but that's actually the cheap way to win. The big mistake in the ninth was letting the first lead off single get on base with zero outs, then the throw to second that was off-target.
As it turned out that final pitch landed on the field, when a sacrifice pop would have won the game. A sacrifice fly would've been a "cheaper" win.
-Andrew
By Jason Becker on Tuesday, November 6, 2001 - 01:55 am:
"but at least that was a home run, and not a cheap humpback single."
Its not cheap its baseball. Your also conviently forgetting Grace's single and Womack's double(thats 3 hits). It was a combination of a poor decision/bad throw by Rivera and good hitting that did it.
Stop trying to find some excuses Yank fans. The Dbacks beat the best team and the best closer ,period.