I do find it interesting that so many people assume that CC is a much better pitcher than CJ and that the Yankees should easily win in that matchup. Look at the stats. CJ was 15-8 and had an ERA that was pretty much that same as CC’s. CC has the longer history of success, but CJ Wilson is a very talented pitcher, and he has benefited greatly from playing with Cliff Lee. He outpitched CC in game 1 – he is definitely capable of doing it in game 5.

lol

But…? You kind of trailed off there without completing your thought.

Yeah. THAT happened. It still took four hours. I’m just glad it wasn’t the BooSux, because it would’ve been five hours long.

But then again, it’s New York — what else do you expect?

2. Many Yankee “fans” at Yankee Stadiums are largely the over-entitled CEO types who can actually afford post-season tickets. The prices are largely beyond the average fan’s recession addled means.

3. There is a significant base of old time, hard core fans who can’t afford the tickets, watched on tv to the bitter end and are still confident of a 3 game rally to propel them to their 28th World Championship.

4. I am none of the above.

The reason why the Rangers have home field advantage is because they won 90 games. Oh, wait…which is 5 games WORSE than the Yankees record. In reality land (not the land you live in), the Rangers have home field advantage because the Yankees are a wildcard team with the 2nd best record in the American League and the 3rd best in all of baseball.

Believe me, I’m cheering the Rangers on against the Yankees as if they were my local team. But if you’re going to support them, give credit where credit is due. The Rangers are peaking against the Yankees and thankfully, embarrassing them. But the Yankees aren’t losing because they’re an overall inferior team. It’s because the Rangers are playing as good of baseball as it gets, at the right time of year.

That is wrong. There is never a theoretical point where the better team wins 100% of the time. The probability of the better team a series depends on the length of the series and the difference in the teams’ true talent levels. A 7-game series is quite short and the chances of an upset, the team with less talent winning, is still quite substantial.

Hope Texas adds salt to the wound and ends the series in front of New York (I guess the only question is what inning will the fans leave ??)

*sigh*

This kind of stuff has been going on for years and won’t change. The more fans a team has the more assholes will show up to support them – same as the number of respectful fans. Unfortunately, in this day and age it’s not Mr. Nice Guy that makes a story nor make for an instructive and amusing anthropology lesson.

Cruz did not reach over the fence.

Met average payroll for the last four year … 132 Mil

Met average finish dur the same time …. 3rd

Met fan giving Yankee fan a hard time about not winning in the playoffs …. Ironicly priceless

While it is true that any team can beat any other on a given night, if you think that the Yankees being down 3-1 is synonymous to them losing a “coin flip” 3 of the last four games than I don’t think you understand how this game works on a micro level and you certainly haven’t watched this series in particular because if any team has been fortunate so far it’s the Yankees in Game 1. The Rangers aren’t ahead in this series by mere chance nor will it be explained away by luck if the Bombers happen to win the next 3 in a row.

The “reality” is the Rangers have played very well so far but I hope for their sake they haven’t made any World Series plans yet.

The Rangers have better players this year. The Rangers have better pitchers, better hitters, and the fielding is probably even. That isn’t the norm over the long haul, but that is the case this year. The Rangers are just the better team this year, which is why the Rangers have home field advantage.

Here is the reality of the situation, the better team wins nearly every time. Luck can affect 1 game but in a 7 game series, the better team will win every time. Talent always shines through over time.

Other than fans like itsmekirill refusing to give opponents credit for being better, I agree with too much being made against the Yankee fans and wonder why the media constantly looks for reasons to complain about fans. It is like they want people to spend good money, money that usually means sacrificing something else, and trek out to the stadium just to sit on their hands and politely applaud when they are told to.

Yankees have great fans and a pox on the media for trashing them. Yes it is funny for us to watch the mass exodus but only because we were on the other end in the 90s.

I blame Bud Selig for that first blown call. He’s so damn excited about moving the game along that the umps decided to do just that and not bother reviewing it even after Washington requested they do so. They’re just following his orders.