The Week Ahead
This could be the best week of the baseball season.
Mets v. Phils. Yanks v. Sox. D-Backs v. Pads.
One of the beauties of working for a baseball team is that I am strongly encouraged to watch these games. And so I will.
As excited as the Mets series makes me, I am just a tad more excited for the Yankees/Sox series. The Yankees are 7.5 back of the Sox and 2.5 back of the Mariners (4 in the loss column) with 32 games to go. As the season gets shorter, the Yankees' chances of actually missing the playoffs grow larger. I don't even know what I would do with myself if that happened.
The atmosphere at Yankee Stadium should be both nuts and extremely tense. The Red Sox have a chance, barring a September miracle, to essentially clinch the American League East with a sweep. It'll be Dice-K, Beckett, Schilling vs. Pettitte, Clemens, Wang. Imagine if the Sox do it in the Bronx. I think I would fly back to New York just to see those sad little faces.
It really doesn't get better than that.
But as exciting as the series, beginning Tuesday, will be, Monday's game for the men in pinstripes is just as important. One more against the Tigers and their ace, Justin Verlander. This game would give the Tigers the series and take them to within a game of the Yanks for the #2 spot in the Wild Card race, also inching them closer to the 1st place Tribe.
More importantly, it would be a series win over the Yankees, everyone's nemesis, which would be a nice little confidence builder going into the stretch run.
But its also be a big game for the Yankees. They don't want to into the Red Sox series down 8 games. They can't keep losing these games to teams they are competing with. Simply put, they need to win now.
So will they be ready for Monday or looking ahead to Tuesday? That's the big question. But the prospect of the Yankees being down 11 games in the East with less than 30 to go is the only hope I need to get me to the long weekend, where I should chase more Demons than I ever had, in Rocky Point, Mexico.
Vaya,
Sip
P.S. -- Didn't really know where to fit it in but I wanted to talk about it. Sunday's Little League World Series may have been the most enjoyable ending to any game I have seen since Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS, R.I.P. Rockin' Robin. A walkoff home run for a future good old boy from Georgia. The kid was euphoric; so were his teammates.
The Georgia boys then went and consoled the losing Japanese players with hugs. It was truly a touching moment.
In a time where quarterbacks are fighting dogs, refs are fixing games, and sluggers are rubbing cream on their skin to make them hit the ball farther, there is some truly nice about seeing kids play and love the game. It was just a great moment in sports.
Is there any chance that young hero Dalton Carriker isn't married by weeks end? Man do I wish I was from the South.
GO DAWGS!!!
Mets v. Phils. Yanks v. Sox. D-Backs v. Pads.
One of the beauties of working for a baseball team is that I am strongly encouraged to watch these games. And so I will.
As excited as the Mets series makes me, I am just a tad more excited for the Yankees/Sox series. The Yankees are 7.5 back of the Sox and 2.5 back of the Mariners (4 in the loss column) with 32 games to go. As the season gets shorter, the Yankees' chances of actually missing the playoffs grow larger. I don't even know what I would do with myself if that happened.
The atmosphere at Yankee Stadium should be both nuts and extremely tense. The Red Sox have a chance, barring a September miracle, to essentially clinch the American League East with a sweep. It'll be Dice-K, Beckett, Schilling vs. Pettitte, Clemens, Wang. Imagine if the Sox do it in the Bronx. I think I would fly back to New York just to see those sad little faces.
It really doesn't get better than that.
But as exciting as the series, beginning Tuesday, will be, Monday's game for the men in pinstripes is just as important. One more against the Tigers and their ace, Justin Verlander. This game would give the Tigers the series and take them to within a game of the Yanks for the #2 spot in the Wild Card race, also inching them closer to the 1st place Tribe.
More importantly, it would be a series win over the Yankees, everyone's nemesis, which would be a nice little confidence builder going into the stretch run.
But its also be a big game for the Yankees. They don't want to into the Red Sox series down 8 games. They can't keep losing these games to teams they are competing with. Simply put, they need to win now.
So will they be ready for Monday or looking ahead to Tuesday? That's the big question. But the prospect of the Yankees being down 11 games in the East with less than 30 to go is the only hope I need to get me to the long weekend, where I should chase more Demons than I ever had, in Rocky Point, Mexico.
Vaya,
Sip
P.S. -- Didn't really know where to fit it in but I wanted to talk about it. Sunday's Little League World Series may have been the most enjoyable ending to any game I have seen since Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS, R.I.P. Rockin' Robin. A walkoff home run for a future good old boy from Georgia. The kid was euphoric; so were his teammates.
The Georgia boys then went and consoled the losing Japanese players with hugs. It was truly a touching moment.
In a time where quarterbacks are fighting dogs, refs are fixing games, and sluggers are rubbing cream on their skin to make them hit the ball farther, there is some truly nice about seeing kids play and love the game. It was just a great moment in sports.
Is there any chance that young hero Dalton Carriker isn't married by weeks end? Man do I wish I was from the South.
GO DAWGS!!!
posted by Sippy Momo at 7:48 PM
3 Comments:
Sadly, Sip, the games are in the Bronx this week. But ya gotta like Dice-K, Beckett and Schill's chances to take two.
True.
Thanks Cousin. You get the Sandy Alomar Jr. "Backup of the week" award.
u saw di felice peg dude @3rd last night?
whoa
dat was a dart from a 48 year old man
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