Comments on: Nova impresses, Cano mashes as Yankees capture 9-3 Game 1 win over Tigers

By: ditto65

ditto65 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:25:17 +0000

I still can’t believe that CC only lasted 2 innings.

By: dailyrev

dailyrev — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:26:12 +0000

Nah, nobody pays any attention to me here. But when you listen to a home team broadcaster who’s fairly objective, such as the former catcher/manager Buck Martinez of the Toronto club, it’s so refreshing that it makes you actually like their team! That’s been my experience, anyway: I’ve had a far more positive feeling about the Jays since being exposed to the relative professionalism of Martinez.

By: cur68

cur68 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:03:17 +0000

Faintly, in the background, you can hear the scrape of steel on stone, right? Knives are being sharpened for that remark. A feature of the sort of thing you are talking about is a certain intolerance for anti-homerism or perceived anti-homerism. They'll be here soon, frothing at the mouth, knives a-gleaming. Just don't let the froth get in the wounds they cause, eh? Nasty stuff, froth.

By: deathmonkey41

deathmonkey41 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:54:12 +0000

Hideki was his Daddy.

By: cur68

cur68 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:51:36 +0000

I think to get the level of nail bite you are after, OG,wait till the game finishes the series. Game 3 is where it’s at. Then you better have nice long nails…..

By: dailyrev

dailyrev — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:29:35 +0000

I was listening to the Detroit radio feed and they were calling the first Cano blast a HR. They said one replay angle in that FOX-mo or whatever it’s called slow-speed showed the ball touching a fan’s jacket. So they were shocked when the umps came out and ruled it a 2b.

But this is perhaps yet another case of fan-broadcasters having distorted views of what’s happening right in front of them. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the type that I call the Eeyore Fan: everything in the game is seen through a dark lens, so that only what’s-bad-for-my-team is visible. There’s a charmingly childlike, almost infantile quality to this very common type of fandom, but it is clearly, as all fandom is at its root, delusional.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:39:46 +0000

Best of the lot so far. Not bad, but not delicious.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:38:45 +0000

Nay, sir. Any baseball game can have you biting your nails if it’s played hard and close down to the wire. Any baseball game can turn on a dime and evolve from a would-be rout to a crisis – Wednesday’s Borg-Razed game a case in point. All the different courses of destiny that have been clanking towards an intersection suddenly meet and the spirit of the races says “now,” and consummation comes, and jars two fan bases….

(with apologies to Thomas Hardy)

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:34:12 +0000

yawn - I think I'll go play Ouija Scrabble and see if anyone knows which game to bother watching. I tell you this much: it ain't gonna be Dolfeens at Chargers.

By: jcioffi1485

jcioffi1485 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:28:01 +0000

Ivan SUPER Nova!

By: itsmekirill

itsmekirill — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:08:15 +0000

My favorite moment of the night was Rivera making Betemit look like an overmatched little leaguer facing one of those 16 year old kids with fake birth certificates.

By: uyf1950

uyf1950 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:12:48 +0000

Great group of games on Saturday. I guess all the team that were favored or supposed to win did just that. Boring or not they were enjoyable

Just a quick note about the Yankees/Tigers game. Good to see Nova prove his value in a post season game and continue his outstanding play since coming up back up from the minors in July. Also, what can you say about the night Cano had, other than just great. When his 2012 and 2013 option years are up he’s going to cost the Yankees some serious money.

Good luck to all the 6 teams scheduled to play Sunday.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:06:20 +0000

Texas-Tampa G2 was an exciting, back-and-forth affair.

By: phukyouk

phukyouk — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:28:40 +0000

and the motion is passed

By: phukyouk

phukyouk — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:06:25 +0000

LMAO! i forgot all about Pedro…

By: halladaysbiceps

halladaysbiceps — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:52:55 +0000

Yeah, broken down Oswalt is what you will face

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:51:55 +0000

Many have been closer than the final score would indicate. It seems one team has run away late in a a number of these playoff games so far.

I don’t think any Game 1 of 5 will be able to equal the do-or-die excitement of Wednesday, but I have a feeling the tension will build a bit by the time we get into the 3rd and 4th games of some of these sets.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:48:36 +0000

Broken down Oswalt?

By: yankeesgameday

yankeesgameday — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:26:55 +0000

Seconded.

By: halladaysbiceps

halladaysbiceps — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:22:17 +0000

No. All is going according to plan, friend.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:19:42 +0000

We were really spoiled rotten by the runups to the division series – Wednesday night’s fantastic games especially. Aside from homeboy enthusiasm, these DS games have all been pretty one-sided – or shall we say boring – games so far. It’d be nice to have one or two cliffhangers before we move on, wouldn’t it?

By: halladaysbiceps

halladaysbiceps — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:18:01 +0000

The feelings are mutual. Instead this time you won’t face a broken down Pedro. You will have to face a “little” better rotation.

By: phukyouk

phukyouk — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:13:52 +0000

thx cepts… I too look forward to a rematch of 09… an EXACT rematch of 09.

By: ssazz

ssazz — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:11:23 +0000

There was an awful lot of talk about Fister before this match up, but hardly any about Nova.

By: bigharold

bigharold — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:06:27 +0000

“* The Tigers rallied for four hits and two runs in the ninth before the Yanks turned to Mariano Rivera.”

Rivera was like that old Bugs Bunny cartoon, .. One .. Two .. Three strikes you’re out!

By: halladaysbiceps

halladaysbiceps — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:02:00 +0000

Come to the Phillies, Yankees. I will be pulling for you guys. I look forward to a 2009 rematch. Go Yankees!