The Rangers have retired exactly one player's jersey (aside from Jackie Robinson's) and attempted to counter George M. Steinbrenner with George W. Bush in the owner's box.As far as Joe Posnanski is concerned, "The baseball playoffs start now."
All they've ever had was Nolan Ryan, and they've ridden him like an urban cowboy on a mechanical bull.
Ryan's no-hitters aside, this ALCS represents one of sports' great historical mismatches, 40 pennants versus zero. The Yanks should win this series just by throwing their pinstriped uniforms onto the field and reading from a few pages of The Baseball Encyclopedia.
If only Bud Selig would agree to waive a few silly postseason rules, the Bombers might send their Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster to Arlington for the first couple of games, make this a fair fight.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
I LIKED THIS SPEECH WHEN GEORGE CUSTER GAVE IT: Apparently, there's this thing called the "American League" which also gets a playoff series now. The New York Daily News' Filip Bondy explains:
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