Comments on: We Wuz Robbed, Again

By: andy

andy — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:11:46 +0000

California makes afine whine…

By: bruhaha

bruhaha — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:31:20 +0000

A third (logically, not temporally) bonehead call went against the Angels in the bottom of the second, converting what should have been a walk into a double play resulting in bases loaded and no outs

I do agree with you on the bad calls, but a minor correction here. There would still have been one out, as there was before the “double play” ENDED the inning.

But I also note that the Angels play in the game in question(and the next) was not exactly impressive. Arguably the costliest goof was still the “dropped” third strike in game two.

Meanwhile, I can’t help thinking that the officiating crew must be the same one that made a whole SERIES of bad calls against the Phillies in the final three weeks of the season. [Yes, I know it was different crews...but their goofs all looked the same!] Very likely if any one of those calls had been corrected the Phillies would have beat the Astros outright for the wildcard, or at least forced a one-game tie-breaker to settle it. (Nothing against the latter. I’m eager to see them knock the Cards out tonight.)

In short. . . I feel your pain, but at least the Angels got the chance!

By: Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:13:57 +0000

The only post-season baseball game I ever went to was the 1988 World series, Game 1. I doubt I’ll see a better one.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:16:36 +0000

No argument there. I didn’t keep stats, but it seemed as though they walked at least one batter every inning, hitting one and making numerous wild pitches that didn’t count as wild pitches because there was no runner on base. Statistically, those were just ordinary balls, but non-statistically, they were pretty poor. Between that and their lackluster hitting in all the innings where there weren’t any bad calls, the Angels were definitely not on their game last night, and the Sox were.

Still, with bad calls accounting for a six run spread, I’m not sure there’s anything the Angels could have done to “win” last night’s game even if they had had their act together (which they didn’t). Having to “really” beat the other team by 7 in order to get credit for beating them at all is a tall order even when your team is at its peak.

By: Flap

Flap — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:41:18 +0000

Woulda Coulda Shoulda

That is baseball.

If the Angels play better then they will win.

By: Justene

Justene — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:25:05 +0000

I hope the company was ok.

[It was, of course. On my left, literally if not necessarily figuratively, were two members of the Calblog family who generously invited me to the game. On my right, literally and almost certainly not figuratively, were too wild and crazy ChiSox fans reminiscent of the SNL Superfans.]