Its kind of hard being the Yank-dee oh double E’s. At least thats what ive gathered from these past 4 games.
I feel like my usual social networking criticism hasn’t been to constructive in the past week. Anyone can bash the yankees just for the sheer thrill of a “FUCK YEAH MAN YANKEES CAN SUCK THE FATTEST PART OF MY DI-…!” from your fellow low-brow peers. Its the best way to get your opinion heard without the merciless beating from an ACTUAL New Yorker. Feels good, man. So we have already established that I am by no means a yankees fan, but being a baseball fan I feel like they deserve an unbiased opinion that doesnt include the words “fuck” “suck” or “money” included in it…from this point on at least.
Im going to keep this simple. That means no stat vomit or sabermetrics. This is straight amateur (and boy do I mean amateur) sports writing, son.
All this comes down to the fact that the Rangers want this more. Plain and simple. The way ive seen that offense perform against these post-season veteran Yankees is astounding. The yankees have enormous talent at almost each one of their positions with the exception of first base (sorry Texiera), but the way I see it is that no matter how genius their summer was, the marquee talent is past their prime. They simply CANNOT stop this Ranger offense, especially with the way Burnett, Sabathia and the relief has been throwing(also, questionable Girardi calls. But thats a completely undesirable topic for me to discuss). C.C. has a chance to put them back in the race tonight but I dont see it happening against Lee and Ranger bats. Gruesome combo.
Bottom line: The yankees are out of this as far as im concerned. I said rangers in 6, Rangers in 5. It ends tonight for the Yankees.
This is about as constructive as I want to get for now, I just couldn’t fit all of this into a status update.
(Who really wanted to see a rematch world series anyways?)
I really hope that the Rangers can pull it out in Game 6. I have always been a Yankee hater but just the booing of A.J. Burnett in game 4 has really put it over the top for me about wanting the Yankees to lose. How the hell can you boo your team that just won the world series last season? Seriously? The Yankees have a very good team, but again I don’t think their pitching is enough so hopefully we can see a Rangers-Phillies final so at least there is one interesting team. Also, you think you could check out my blog cuz I really wanna hear what you have to say. http://chrisross91.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/new-york-yankee-fans-dont-deserve-a-winner/
Comment by Chris Ross — October 20, 2010 @ 3:54 pm
Yeah I agree. Not to mention the fan interference going on as well. Of course unintentional, its still quite humorous. But I’ll have to disagree on the Rangers-Phillies series. Like I mentioned in my comment on your page, the Giants-Rangers match up I think would be much more interesting. Sure, the Phillies starting roatation is God-tier in talent and oh so fun to watch, but I think the fact that the Giants have so much no-name talent on their squad is just fascinating. Plus id like to see the AL West represent for us who couldnt make it this year. I would love to see these two teams go at it, I think itd go to game 7 no doubt
Comment by Jeff Versoi — October 21, 2010 @ 1:24 pm