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]]> By: Christian http://ballgamespoints.com/2007/10/16/thoughts-from-the-nation/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Christian Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:48:48 +0000 http://ballgamespoints.com/2007/10/16/thoughts-from-the-nation/#comment-243 What an absolutely infuriating series so far. We get to their two best pitchers and end up down 3-1. What in the fuck is that about. Nothing really makes sense anymore, this is like when I used to play Douggie in NBA Jam and would put on "Computer Assistance" so I wouldn't blow him out by that much. Instead in this twisted version the Tribe is getting the computer assistance and are using it to blow the Sox the fuck out. This series is so frustrating that attempting to make sense out of it is pointless. Sometimes teams just get hot in the postseason, nobody knows that better than Sox fans, or Cardinals fans, or White Sox fans, or hell even Detroit backed into the playoffs last year before dusting off the AL's best en route to a beatdown at the hands of the St. Louis, who won a couple more games than Tampa Bay won this year in 06. The fucked up part is most of us wanted Cleveland when the postseason started. Mainly because Anaheim owned NY and because Cleveland seemed far more beatable on paper than NY. My what a difference two and a half weeks make huh? Now we're looking up at the Indians who after a game 1 hiccup and a 5 in a half hour game 2 ending in a 7 run 11th are just bitchslapping us around the same way they did with the Yanks days ago. 65 year old Lofton who oughta be in Japan right now (DHL told me so) is cranking postseason bombs and Johnny Pheralta is doing very much what Hideki Matsui was doing to the Sox in the 04 ALCS before Pedro dusted him and completely made him a non-factor. Victor Martinez is playing like Josh Gibson and aside from Youkilis and Ramirez the Red Sox are just not able to do what they did to get here. They had a lot of frustrating stretches this season, but they never lost more than 4 games in a row. They also never won more than 5 games in a row, but I digress. This series is still winable, but there is one huge thing going against us tomorrow night: Manny stood and pimped a home run while down 4 runs. You know that pissed off the kid who was pitching (whose name I can't recall right now and I would be a pretty penny that Wedge tacked up a FatHead-sized photo of Manny in that pose and put it in front of each and every locker in that clubhouse. I know it's not football, and that sometimes the added motivation that can be so useful to getting a lineman pumped up to kick another lineman's ass can be very detrimental to a baseball player, motivation is motivation and Manny gave those boys in Cleveland a lot to gear up for. I'm just hoping nobody drills him. I know that this probably won't matter that much in the long run, Manny admiring his home run. If the Sox lose tomorrow it won't be because he did that, but it will stick out as a very ugly moment in an ugly series that the Sox should have been far more competitive in. If they win tomorrow then they're going back to Boston to face Schilling in a do-or-die game and then with Westbrook and Byrd a second time anything is possible. This series has been littered with these moments. Bad calls, home runs just clearing the yellow line, hard hit balls right at fielders, incredibly un-clutch double plays, Eric Gagne. Moments that remind us all of game 3 in 04 and how helpless we all felt as fans. Well, I don't feel helpless yet, but I'll feel a lot less helpless if we score 2-3 runs in the first couple innings tomorrow, because frankly if Cleveland gets two early off Beckett I honestly don't see this team overcoming it. Get ahead, stay ahead. This team doesn't have the comeback pedigree that it had in '04. They haven't played many (if any) must-win games yet this WHOLE SEASON. Time to see what these boys are made out of, and I hope it's something stronger than what we've seen so far this ALCS. What an absolutely infuriating series so far. We get to their two best pitchers and end up down 3-1. What in the fuck is that about. Nothing really makes sense anymore, this is like when I used to play Douggie in NBA Jam and would put on “Computer Assistance” so I wouldn’t blow him out by that much. Instead in this twisted version the Tribe is getting the computer assistance and are using it to blow the Sox the fuck out. This series is so frustrating that attempting to make sense out of it is pointless. Sometimes teams just get hot in the postseason, nobody knows that better than Sox fans, or Cardinals fans, or White Sox fans, or hell even Detroit backed into the playoffs last year before dusting off the AL’s best en route to a beatdown at the hands of the St. Louis, who won a couple more games than Tampa Bay won this year in 06.

The fucked up part is most of us wanted Cleveland when the postseason started. Mainly because Anaheim owned NY and because Cleveland seemed far more beatable on paper than NY. My what a difference two and a half weeks make huh? Now we’re looking up at the Indians who after a game 1 hiccup and a 5 in a half hour game 2 ending in a 7 run 11th are just bitchslapping us around the same way they did with the Yanks days ago. 65 year old Lofton who oughta be in Japan right now (DHL told me so) is cranking postseason bombs and Johnny Pheralta is doing very much what Hideki Matsui was doing to the Sox in the 04 ALCS before Pedro dusted him and completely made him a non-factor.

Victor Martinez is playing like Josh Gibson and aside from Youkilis and Ramirez the Red Sox are just not able to do what they did to get here. They had a lot of frustrating stretches this season, but they never lost more than 4 games in a row. They also never won more than 5 games in a row, but I digress. This series is still winable, but there is one huge thing going against us tomorrow night:

Manny stood and pimped a home run while down 4 runs. You know that pissed off the kid who was pitching (whose name I can’t recall right now and I would be a pretty penny that Wedge tacked up a FatHead-sized photo of Manny in that pose and put it in front of each and every locker in that clubhouse. I know it’s not football, and that sometimes the added motivation that can be so useful to getting a lineman pumped up to kick another lineman’s ass can be very detrimental to a baseball player, motivation is motivation and Manny gave those boys in Cleveland a lot to gear up for. I’m just hoping nobody drills him.

I know that this probably won’t matter that much in the long run, Manny admiring his home run. If the Sox lose tomorrow it won’t be because he did that, but it will stick out as a very ugly moment in an ugly series that the Sox should have been far more competitive in. If they win tomorrow then they’re going back to Boston to face Schilling in a do-or-die game and then with Westbrook and Byrd a second time anything is possible. This series has been littered with these moments. Bad calls, home runs just clearing the yellow line, hard hit balls right at fielders, incredibly un-clutch double plays, Eric Gagne. Moments that remind us all of game 3 in 04 and how helpless we all felt as fans.

Well, I don’t feel helpless yet, but I’ll feel a lot less helpless if we score 2-3 runs in the first couple innings tomorrow, because frankly if Cleveland gets two early off Beckett I honestly don’t see this team overcoming it. Get ahead, stay ahead. This team doesn’t have the comeback pedigree that it had in ‘04. They haven’t played many (if any) must-win games yet this WHOLE SEASON.

Time to see what these boys are made out of, and I hope it’s something stronger than what we’ve seen so far this ALCS.

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