I watched Culpepper's Miami debut later on TiVo
Yesterday, I bought the YES Network.
(Not the actual company, just the channel on my dial.) (Assuming I have a dial.) (Which I don't.)
For the last week, the YES Network has been good to me. On Saturday, it brought me live coverage of the Wisconsin-Bowling Green game.
And last night, it brought me Game 4 of the 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks. (The YES Network, controlled by the New York Yankees, seems to recall this as being a three-game series as it only replays the Yankee victories.)
I would have preferred to watch last night's Steelers-Dolphins game, but JQB (a Red Sox fan) insisted that Game 4 was a classic game in baseball history. Thanks to Marnie's strange obsession with Game 6, which Arizon won 15-2, I barely remember anything else about that series.
It turned out that Game 4 was the downfall of Byung-Hyun Kim, who blew a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the 9th inning. The game started on Oct. 31, and as it went into extra innings, the camera zoomed in on a clock showing 12:00 a.m. — it was the first World Series to be played in November.
With 2 strikes and 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th, the camera showed a man in the crowd with a sign reading, "Mr. November."
A moment later, Derek Jeter hit a walk-off home run to right field.
JQB was right, it was a classic moment.
3 comments:
Game Six -- evidence of the manager's idiocy. Schilling, who they wanted to use in Game Seven, had a 99-4 lead after three innings. The situtation was SCREAMING to take him out of the game after 6 and rest him as much as possible for Game Seven.
Nope.
Never has a world champion had a worse manager.
Replace Schilling with Johnson. And replace 99-4 with 15-0. And third inning with fourth inning.
JRR regrets the errors.
No argument about Brenley. He pitches the crap out of Kim one night, Kim finally falls apart. Then he pitches him the next night. Awesome!
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