It's not as bad as last year. On this date last year the Yankees were preparing for their two week vacation between games 2 and 3 of the ALDS. I'm pretty sure I was unwrapping presents under the tree as the Yanks were clinching the World Series. But travel days are always boring. No news. Pretending we care about the NLCS. It's awful. But that's what we do. We do it because we love baseball and we love baseball because the alternative for a national pastime is soccer. We're not about to love soccer, so we love baseball. It's nothing against soccer, it's just that, you know, it's soccer. It's cool when you're six and your mom is unsure about letting you play pee wee football, but after that. . .
At least it's just one day. Tomorrow is game six. Hughes is up, preparing to put his last start behind him. Technically it's already behind him, but Hughes doesn't experience time linearly, so he can't put it behind him until after tomorrow's game (assuming he doesn't suck). Hughes's legacy is on the line. I don't want to put pressure on the young man, but his whole career is staring him in the face right now. Let's hope he doesn't blink.
Will the offense show up? The plane charter suggests they will arrive in Texas, but that's no guarantee of on-field performance. Besides, the Rangers have a sports psychologist who tells them stuff like, "good game," and "go get 'em, sport." The Yankees will have to overcome this organizational disadvantage. The Yanks are currently without a sports psychologist, but Jorge Posada has volunteered to serve as clubhouse chaplain. Granted, his usual conversation starter of "what the #%&@ are you looking at?" isn't that inviting. We'll see whose method is superior over the course of these next two games.
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Phil is going to put on a clinic. On top of that Cano is MAD with power. Every time they carry on about Hamilton, Cano is all "Catch this!" and hits it in the seats. In the one good series of batters against Lee I was actually just hoping Arod could keep it going to Cano. He put a good swing on it, but no RISP for Cano.
Just get it to game 7 and see what can happen. Lee won both games in the Series last year, but they hit him the second game. Also it would be cool if Jeter hit a ball out of the infield or maybe in the air a little.
I agree. We need to force a game seven. Our guys have seen everything. Forcing a game seven will really put some pressure on Texas, especially their sports psychologist. As for Jeter hitting a ball in the air a little . . . I think we have to be reasonable in our expectations.
Jeter is going to drive in the first and tenth run of tonight's game. That's my prediction.
I'm down for 2nd and 11th runs of the game.
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