Bruiser Chong

Right <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wait, St. Gabriel of Djibouti = Hawk Harrelson?

In late September and October, anyway.

Still, when has a catcher not thrown down to first when he didn't catch the ball? Nobody's dumb enough to toss the ball to the mound following a K like that in such a close, important game.

The first Angel to K on Friday should run down to the first just for the hell of it. Apparently you've got a 50/50 chance of being awarded first.

I'm gonna almost forget about this series, since I don't even expect it to be nearly as competitive as the ALCS.

Which ones are you talking about? The didn't get a single call they didn't deserve to get.

Lost in all of this is that Vlad has been absolute ass in the postseason so far.

Joe Crede better go hug the umpiring crew. What a crock of shit. Clearly caught it, he's called out and yet, they allow this. Good job on consulting the other umps after the fact. Idiots.

Of fucking course.

Nice to know the umps are easy prey to stupid parlor tricks.

Well, the Angels' pitching is just sick. I retract my statement made during game one of the Angels/Yanks series; the Angels games have become the only consistently entertaining games of this postseason. I'm loving their defense and ridiculously deep bullpen. Gotta believe that unearned run in the first or Rowand's greediness in the second is going to be the difference in this one. The series has also enlightened me to just how uninteresting Pinella is. How could a guy who looks like a damn madman half the season be so mellow and one-dimensional in the booth?

These last two games have been things of beauty. The White Sox are messing up every little element of the game that they had such a grip on all season. I don't know where Crede thought he was going, since that ball didn't look like it was going to drop at all. Perhaps he was still in shock over actually being on base.

I was thinking the difference in the series was the Astros have no offense and the Cards do.

And here I thought Bob Brenly's voice was gone until April. Watching the Cards makes it tough to be a Cubs fan. I don't think I ever saw Grudz be part of a squeeze.

How tall are you? It seems like a couple of inches can make all the difference appearance-wise between two people of the same weight.

Excellent game. Brief and exciting. I was paranoid until the last strike that the Sox would homer in the ninth to win it. White Sox looked terrible many occasions throughout the night on things they had been masters of all season. The untimely attempted steals, the missed hit and run, and the inability to bunt all come to mind.

Hopefully the Halos can work past not having Colon on the roster.

That last series featured Cardinals-lite.

Can't help but love people damning key players that are mainly responsible for the team being in the position to even be thinking about postseason play.

Yeah, if what a guy did in the postseason had any significance to his regular season stats. Oh well, $200 million just doesn't go as far as it used to. $300 million in '06!

Can you imagine what it'd be like if Matsui put the Yanks ahead and they went on to win this?

A-Rod may have just undone an entire season of greatness right there. Part of me wants to see Sheff launch one.

And just for old time's sake: http://www.forums.mlb.com/ml-yankees Also, since Ruuuuuuuuuben is coming up, I thought I'd ask this: why's he on the postseason roster when Lawton isn't?

My only hang-up about the Angels winning is Colon's status.

Sheffield's gonna whoop the shit out of Crosby after the game.