Matthew

Baseball has no to blame on the completely terrible umpiring but themselves. Anyone who has seen Chuck Meriwether work behind the plate knows how incredibly, absolutely, totally, crappy he his. I could write chapter-and-verse on this just from Mariner games. Lord, he has no strike zone, and the least you can say is that he's awful for both teams, which for an umpire, is not a good thing to say. Some of the calls this season and in the play-off are beyond the usual "everyone makes mistakes" category, to verging on outright incompetence. And to think, the NBA is worse in the regard than MLB. You would think Meriwether would not be allowed within twenty miles of a play-off game.

Great you were at the game, it's fantastic being at a game that will be remembered for years to come. No doubt that the Twins lost that game on their own last night, geesh, bases loaded, then two pitches and two outs! What ever happened about being patient and putting the pressure on the pitcher? Come guys, at least take the first pitch. Anyway, like a good team, which the Yankees are (though I even hate to admit that) they made the Twins pay for their mistake. Frustrating game to say the least.

Hey, when you're though, give us a report on how this is... Please....I'll say something nice about the Yankees if you do.

Believe me, I will never, ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever ever, ever, ever EVER BE A YANKEE FAN!!! (Just a tad over the top, I know )

Stupid batting, swinging at the first pitch. That's it, Yankees will win after the Twins blew that chance.

HECK YEAH!!!!!!!!

Now Hans knows why we all hate the Yankees, every stupid break and call goes for them. Take note Hans, take note.

I can't believe what I just saw! How could Gardner be that far off with one out? Then to be running on contact? What a putz, but I like it.

Nathan has completely lost his mind and composure.

Nice, newly found footage of Babe Ruth. Story and film here.

Dave, you're right about those line drives, they can be very tricky. It looks like Holliday got caught in a bad glove position -- he could not figure out whether to go above or below the ball with the glove, if you know what I mean.

Re: Holliday. Without a doubt, he should have caught the ball, but hey, that's baseball. I would not get on Holliday's case too much -- he's a great player, plays the game hard, and he feels worse than anyone about what happened. St. Louis is still not out of this, they just have a very hard road to hoe, have to win three straight, but it's doable. Mannyworld is a whole other case though...

Tough luck for Holliday, but the Cardinals were still ahead in the game when it happened, just the bullpen sucked. I too had St. Louis winning it all.

You know I've had the same exact revelation once before. I don't own any of their pre-Rubber Soul Stuff except (now) the first disc of Past Masters but I've heard quite a bit. But I had that same revelation when listening to Vol. 2 of the Anthology Sets. Ticket to Ride just sort of jumps out at you. Then again, since then I was kind of blown away by something that I think came earlier or maybe the same time (someone can correct me if I'm wrong) -- their performance of Twist & Shout which I think was for the Queen (on one of the Anthology DVDs). They're still decked out in matching suits with ties, but there's a pretty palpable energy and rawness (much like on Ticket to Ride) that they bring to this performance that undermines the sort of strictly controlled get-up they have on stage. Of course, the visual component admittedly adds an important ingredient to the mix and most certainly effects my perception of what was going on. Great minds think a like... PS: The Twist and Shout Performance for the Queen.

Seems to me that Ticket To Ride is the dividing line for the Beatles music; that it is a great song is a given, but it really has a completely different feel to it than what they did before musically. Great lead in for Rubber Soul and the rest that was to follow. The production was a major step up also. I can't wait for that mono box.

12:50 a.m. I'm starting to feel like a vampire...

I was thinking we should add to the pool, for an extra five points, the date of the final game of the World Series. Heck, with all these cold weather teams in there, I might not be until early November when it's over.

ALDS: Los Angeles in 5 games New York Yankees in 4 games ALCS: Los Angeles in 7 games **************************** NLDS: Philly in 5 games St. Louis in 5 games NLCS: St. Louis in 7 games ************************ World Series: Los Angeles Angeles in six games. Hope I did it right SS1

I love PPM & WTB The stereo's sound great, though, as has been said 1,000,000,000 times, the separation is annoying at times. If the mono's sound better, I'll be in seventh heaven.

Don't sweat it, according to Timmy, you missed "incredibly bad" baseball. The friggin' loon. I'll catch the mlb.tv replay sometime today, which is a great feature if you miss a game, a quick replay of the whole game in fifteen minutes, anytime you want.

Dang! I missed the whole 12 innings!

I forgot how funny the show was, and how nice Bailey looked. Les Nessman is a great character. Plus, the theme song is one of my all time favorites.

WKRP in Cincinnati. Watching the first season off of Hulu.