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Sunday, June 20, 2004 |
Game Over, Yankees: Dodgers 5, Yankees 4
Okay, it's official: this is the best series I've seen all year. I couldn't watch all of it -- especially the Dodgers' four-run second inning -- but man, oh, man, what a finish. Super Dave's in-the-park home run on a bad play by Matsui proved the difference. Gagné made it close giving up that Giambi homer, but strikeouts of A-Rod and Matsui are cause for celebration.
Let the Yankee sneerers now shut up. Gagné's been through the heart of their lineup and they got to find out why they put up "Game Over" on the scoreboard when he takes the mound. Eighty-one, boys, and I hope you choke on it. Every other team in baseball is happy and grateful to win. The Yankees expect it, and their hubris makes it all the sweeter to watch them fall. Oh, sure, there'll still be the crutch of "but he's never done it in the postseason," and I expect we'll hear that from the eastern sports press soon enough.
Some comments on the telecast:
- God I hate ESPN national coverage. If only I had known Vinnie was going to stay on for the whole game on radio, I would have turned off the sound on the TV. It's tough to say which of Joe Morgan and -- what is that other guy's name? -- is worse. On the one hand, Joe Morgan says some ridiculous things, but Fat Bald Guy has the annoying habit of calling Beltre, "Bell Tray", even as Morgan gets it right. Ugh. Where's Vinnie?
- ESPN in HD? But not, apparently, on Time Warner Cable. Thanks, TW.
- They had the crowd mixed way down; the "Yankees Suck" cheers were almost inaudible. When I was at the park Friday, it was a near-constant roar.
Comments:
Three words: high speed Internet. Satellites just can't provide it unless they've got ridiculous latency times. Digital cable has its drawbacks, but I'll be damned if I go back to Pac*Bell DSL. Once I started having problems, Pac*Bell barely knew I existed, though they were happy to take my checks.
The guy from Time Warner who came in to sell us cable Internet service said we were the easiest sale he ever made.
The guy from Time Warner who came in to sell us cable Internet service said we were the easiest sale he ever made.
Rob,
But what's stopping you from getting satellite TV and cable internet? You can get internet separate from TV with cable. I have time warner too.
And yea, I hate ESPN baseball too. Well, not everybody, but I really can't stand their main team of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, two gnats homers. Which leads me to another point.. Why does ESPN/ESPN.com employ so many people from northern california and the northwest:
just off the top of my head..
Jon Miller (gnats)
Joe Morgan (gnats/a's)
Jim Caple (m's/gnats)
Rob Neyer (a's)
Eric Neel (okay, he's a dodgers fan, but also living in Oakland and an a's fans)
Harold Reynolds (m's)
add to that the northeast ESPN media brigade, and no surprise there's always bias.
They hardly ever have anybody from socal... there was Bobby Valentine that one year, and this year we have Kruk, but Kruk's clueless.
mattkew
But what's stopping you from getting satellite TV and cable internet? You can get internet separate from TV with cable. I have time warner too.
And yea, I hate ESPN baseball too. Well, not everybody, but I really can't stand their main team of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, two gnats homers. Which leads me to another point.. Why does ESPN/ESPN.com employ so many people from northern california and the northwest:
just off the top of my head..
Jon Miller (gnats)
Joe Morgan (gnats/a's)
Jim Caple (m's/gnats)
Rob Neyer (a's)
Eric Neel (okay, he's a dodgers fan, but also living in Oakland and an a's fans)
Harold Reynolds (m's)
add to that the northeast ESPN media brigade, and no surprise there's always bias.
They hardly ever have anybody from socal... there was Bobby Valentine that one year, and this year we have Kruk, but Kruk's clueless.
mattkew
# posted by 
: 6/21/2004 02:56:00 AM
: 6/21/2004 02:56:00 AM
Gurk. As to why, well, as a friend of mine once put it, I don't answer "why" questions.
Sure, you can get cable separate. But IIRC there's a discount for going cable+Internet. Besides, there's this whole deal about satellite not getting local channels, and the local broadcasters aren't going to go down without a fight. If they win, you're hosed. (Besides, I'm taken with the argument that neither the cable guys nor the satellite guys have paid for the terrestrial broadcasters' content, so why should they get it for free?)
Sure, you can get cable separate. But IIRC there's a discount for going cable+Internet. Besides, there's this whole deal about satellite not getting local channels, and the local broadcasters aren't going to go down without a fight. If they win, you're hosed. (Besides, I'm taken with the argument that neither the cable guys nor the satellite guys have paid for the terrestrial broadcasters' content, so why should they get it for free?)
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