Word: postseason
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Before the postseason begins, however, Harvard has one more non-conference game tomorrow night against Boston College at 7:30 p.m. at Blodgett Pool...
Thirteen years later, after I had devoted three weeks and countless hours of my senior year to watching postseason baseball both on TV and (thanks to the kindness of friends) at Fenway, the phone rang. It was my dad, repeating his old mantra, holding back his own frustration. I like to think I've learned a bit from my relatively short career as a Red Sox fan, that each loss is a little less painful than the one before, cushioned by the memories of errors more egregious and runners stranded even closer to home. Maybe I have, but Monday night...
While the Sox have many lessons to learn from the postseason (how to turn a double play, how to bring Nomar home from third), Major League Baseball itself also has to learn that it must reform the way the game is officiated--by instituting the use of instant replay or, at the very least, requiring the conferencing of all umpires on questionable calls. Ignorance and stubborn independence are not virtues in an umpire...
Starting with John Olerud's two-run single in the bottom of the eighth on Saturday night, the Mets were the Austin Powers of the postseason--stuck in 1969 with full control of their mojo...
...market that someone should have gotten into a long time ago. As one of the guys behind the Yankees Suck empire said yesterday, "There's a lot of Yankee-haters out there." And never more than this weekend, as the Sox and Yanks met at Fenway Park in the postseason for the first time ever. (I'm not even going to attempt to describe the intensity of the rivalry here. If you're curious, wear a Red Sox hat into Yankee Stadium sometime and find out for yourself...