10/20/04 CS Game7 at Yankees W 10-3

Yankees win! Yankees win! The-e-e-e-e Yankees win! NOT! Man, I cannot tell you how completely annoying that Yankee announcer is. An amazing turn of events, starting with two overturned calls last night, and some unbelievable plays tonight. When Damon got his first hit of the night I thought - this is a good sign. Then he got thrown out the plate - here we go again. Then the bomb by Papi - Dale Sveum is an idiot. By the time that Loaiza made a bad throw to second which ricocheted into center field - this is the kind of stuff that usually happens to us.

Dan "the Duke" Davis from ESPN Radio, a notorious Red Sox fan, claimed this morning on The Dan Patrick Show that losing the World Series would be fine since we would have beaten the Yankees. I have to say that it's not good enough for me. A remarkable win, some of the best baseball I have seen, our first World Series in 18 years. If we don't win it will be a disappointment, how could it not be.

Outstanding performances all around on this team as usual, from a couple of excellent plays from third, first by Millar, short, and an unbelievable stretch by Minky to get Jeter to start the bottom of the eighth. A little strange bullpen move by bringing in Pedro in the seventh, but after giving up a pair of doubles and a base hit, he was really cooking - I think he actually hit 96 with one of his fastballs. Mike Timlin got five excellent outs, including an A-Rod whiffing strikeout after going down 3-1.