Transitive properties
DMZ · September 18, 2009 at 10:13 pm · Filed Under Mariners
If Mariano Rivera is the greatest closer of all time, ice water for blood, a sure fire Hall of Famer, and on and on and on, doesn’t Ichiro flip 5-10 holdout voters by hitting that shot off him to win the game?
I mean, if they watched the game, of course, or paid attention to West Coast teams.
I’d think it was more like matter-antimatter. Not just Ichiro and Rivera, but the entire game was complete opposites pivoting on that point. For example, considering that Felix was pitching, that was one of the more pedestrian, uninteresting baseball games I’ve watched. It had all the atmosphere I remember of the bad old days, a late-season game playing out the string in which the perfunctory performance and assorted follies quickly turn me into a fatalistic fan. It makes me feel like the walkoff home run doesn’t even fit, as if it shouldn’t have been possible for a game like that to still result in such a wonderful and dramatic ending.
Still, I like this “Ichiro” fellow! Very, very much! I really do!
If I heard correctly, Rivera came into the game having not blown a save for 33 games in a row. Ichiro is awesome.
Well, since it’s Friday night and their mighty Yanks were playing…and since the bars in NY are open until 4a, there might still have been some watching bsck there…
Oh, wait…those still at the bars were either passed out or too busy hooking up by that point to notice.
ICHIRO! tatooed that pitch but so did Sweeney the previous AB. It was a great end to the game.
Hall inexplicably jogging to a pop-up aside.
Maybe the best game of the year to watch as a Fan.
If you don’t think Ichiro is a first ballot Hall of Famer you don’t deserve to have a vote.
A quick glance at Yankee blogs tells me there were a lot of fans watching, and a lot of beers being cried into during the early morining hours back in Gotham. Over 1,000 posts in one game thread, nearly half of them after Ichiro won the game.
@DaveValleDrinkNight
>>Hall inexplicably jogging to a pop-up aside.
Hall has an injured quadriceps. The question in my mind is why he was out there – Saunders can run, and is hitting a full .005 points less than Hall.
Oh, and best line I read in a Yankee blog last night said Ichiro makes Jeter look like Wayne Brady.
Though personally I’d have said Marsha.
I wish I understood that comment.
On reflection maybe I don’t.
Amen, brother, amen!
Yeah. Unfortunately lots of goons who do have votes don’t deserve them.
If 8 people didn’t vote for Cal Ripken or 6 people didn’t vote for Nolan Ryan just based on the principle of “nobody’s a first ballot hall of famer” then I think it’s probably safe to say when Ichiro’s time comes, about 14% of voters will be considered ‘goons.’
28 people didn’t vote for Rickey Henderson, which is faaaaaaaar more reprehensible.
Let’s face it. Even Lou Gehrig would’ve only gotten Ripken’s percentage if he was going in today. And Babe Ruth a bit less than that due to “character issues”.
That’s why I judge “sportswriters” as useless insults to the game and its history until they prove otherwise.