It's the 2007 Post Season my friends, a GREAT TIME
Yankees
What I am excited about
Post season experience is huge this time of year. I really believe that. The Yankees can write a manual on what to do in the post season while most of the Indian players have never been here (Sabathia pitched 6 years ago in a game, Carmona has never been in the playoffs).
The Yankees line up is tremendous top to bottom.
What worries me
We all know how great the two front line guys are for Cleveland. CC Sabathia, in addition to being huge, is 19 and 7 with a low ERA and a lot of strike outs (over 200). Fausto Carmona, who I am still pissed at because of his blown saves at Fenway in 2006, is 19 and 8 with a low ERA. These guys can be trouble.
Matsui is hurting and when they say things like Shelly Duncan might start in left field, I throw up in my cereal bowl. Not good. Put Damon there and trust me, he will play his heart out.
Overall, this is a toss up. In the past, I would have bet a year’s salary, as low as it might be, on the Yankees in Cleveland. But if you remember last year, after the Yanks looked unstoppable in game one against the Tigers, they SUCKED. Sucked bad. So while I think the Yankees are the team to beat in the post season, I truly believe that, who knows? I mean really, who knows about this stuff? Anything could happen in a short series.
Red Sox
What I am excited about
The possibility of the Red Sox getting bumped in three games. That’s what I am excited about. I do not want them to go beyond the third game, losing three by a combined score of 34 to 0. While in the process of a colossal collapse, Terry gets into a fist fight with Schilling in the dug out, or better yet on the mound, when Francona comes to take him out after zero outs in the first inning of a 8 – 0 game and Schill screaming “YOU SHOULD HAVE PUT ME IN GAME TWO YOU BASTAAARRRDDDD” then posting a Chris Crocker like video on his web site bitching about the Red Sox.
What worries me
That the Sox win this series, win the next series, and win the World Series. THAT worries me.
Overall, everyone has the Red Sox cake walking through the Anaheim series. Vlad is not playing well, Gary Mathews is hurt, pitching is weak, bullpen, something that has historically been great, is not pitching well. But when things seem so lopsided (Yanks Braves in 1996 World Series, Pat St. Louis in 2001 Super Bowl) bad things happen to the upper hand. I pray daily that JD goes hitless, Beckett gets hit around, Dice-K starts to cry on the mound, Lowell strikes out a post season record 14 times in a row, Paps (I hate that freakin nickname) can’t get out of an inning, Terry goes back to actually eating chew, not just chewing it but swallowing it, Manny refuses to play, Ortiz gets fatter during a long inning, Gagne throws his glove like in the Bad News Bears (speaking of Bad News Bears, please if there is nothing else you do watch the Billy Bob Thornton version its great), Lugo’s head explodes because he looks so angry all the time, Dustin Pedroia gets sent to detention from the local junior high truant officer, Crisp braids his hair into bean stocks instead of corn rows and finally…my favorite midget of all time Jason Varitek tries to pull the same crap he did with ARod and he not only keeps his mask on for a fist fight that HE picks with a great opposing player but he also puts on chainmail and a Black Night mask like in The Holy Grail while running after someone to beat up. That my friends is what I pray for.