Alex Rodriguez, the Skunk at the Yanks’ Garden Party, didn’t stink up the joint at the Big Ballpark last night because Raul Ibanez pinch-hit for him in the bottom of the ninth and did this:
And then in the bottom of the 12th, Ibanez improbably did this:
Reggie Jackson (aka Mr. October), watch your six.
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Calcaterra: “All you can do is to grab the New York papers and see which miserable misanthrope columnist decides to turn this into a story about A-Rod sucking instead of a story about a two improbable bombs from an improbable hero. That’ll tell you everything you need to know.”
Hey! The hardmisanthroping staff managed both!
Can the hardworking staff comb through the Retrosheets and find out whether Mantle was ever pinch-hit for in the post-season? 🙂
It had become an article of faith at NPR’s “Weekend Edition/Saturday” hosted by Scott Simon, that the impecunious teams in MLB would triumph over the Plutocrats of Baseball. Um, not so fast. It’s not over yet, but if the Yanks prevail in the Junior Circuit (old-timey expression, I know) and the NL ends up with a big-bucks team as it standard-bearer, that meme goes out the window. In any case, I won’t be watching.