Mark Buehrle pitched an absolute gem for the White Sox on Wednesday night, going 9 innings and giving up only 1 run. Unfortunately, that’s the last thing that anyone will remember about game 2 of the 2005 ALCS.
Author: Kent Summer
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Going into this weekend, the American League has one division that is still up for grabs while the National League’s divisions have been decided. Both league’s wild cards are still open with the Astros and Phillies going at it in the National League and the Yankees, Red Sox, and Indians all battle it out in the A.L.
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For the eleventh time in twenty-two games, the Yankees came within one run of either winning or losing a ballgame. In tonight’s case it was winning, as Shawn Chacon gave his team a lights out performance, pitching 6 2/3 innings while giving up only one run. Chacon who, along with Aaron Small and Alex Rodriguez, is part of the trio that has been most valuable to the Yankees since the all-star break, has now lowered his era to 3.40, down more than 60 points from two months ago.
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Yankees take a pounding
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This was a Tuesday night, but I was under the impression that I was watching the Chiefs-Broncos game. Something just wasn’t right (and now is when I stun you with my amazing statistical recall). Maybe it was the fact that the Yankees used eight pitchers through nine innings or the fact that starter Mike Mussina did not even make it through three innings. Of course the game did last for 4 hours and 16 minutes, coming within 360 seconds of becoming the longest 9-inning game ever played. And there was that whole thing about how scoring nine runs could fail in beating a team 22 games out of first place, while that team scored two touchdowns, made two extra-points and kicked a field goal to beat the first place team.
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The steroid king is back and already making his bat heard throughout baseball. When he strode to the plate Monday night for his first at bat since September 30th, 2004, he tipped his helmet to the crowd. Amidst the one minute ovation the crowd at SBC gave their slugger a warm San Francisco “welcome back.” |
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Note to French: shove your p
The fashionable thing now in sports is to announce your retirement, wait a few weeks and then decide to make a comeback. As a slave to fashion, Lance Armstrong has been contemplating a comeback.
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No laughing matter for the Yanks
At the beginning of the 2005 season if someone heard that the Cleveland Indians would be better than the Yankees, that person would be laughing their head off. But no one on the Yankees is laughing now, seeing as that has come true. But it’s not really something that the players can fix. Guys like Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter have had amazing seasons but that’s not enough to put the Yankees in the playoffs.
Everyone knows the George Steinbrenner likes to meddle. That has been one of his trademarks, ever since he took control of the Yankees. But it’s not only his involvement in the team’s day-to-day affairs that has gotten him in trouble. He has been suspended for paying gamblers to get dirt on his players, for making illegal contributions to campaigns, and then there was the fact that the Boss called one of his players a “fat pussy toad.” One of baseball’s most colorful executives, it’s no wonder that a man like George Steinbrenner, owns a team like the New York Yankees.
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Wells telling it like it is
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For a hard rocking guy who blows his eardrums out listening to heavy metal, David Wells actually made sense. His blasting of commissioner Bud Selig, while not publicly approved, was one of the most accurate takes on baseball’s exceptionally weak commissioner. From talking about Selig’s lack of an iron fist on the steroids issue to the 2002 All-Star game that was declared a tie, Wells seemed to utter his first words in a while that have hit the bulls eye.
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Every baby needs playtime
When a 32-year-old man is whining and complaining on national TV, two things come to mind. Either the man is on the Jerry Springer show or he is Terrell Owens.