Waiting for what’s next in L.A.
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Oct 18, 2009 
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Hello from Los Angeles.
My friends Cory and Ann got engaged about a year ago, and their plans for an October wedding fit perfectly into the plans of a Triple-A beat writer living in Scranton. For a Yankees beat writer working out of New York, it was a bit problematic. I was wearing a tux when last night’s Game 2 went into extra innings and the reception ended just in time for me to see the winning run. So far, my Sunday has been spent traveling to California and getting fully caught up on another Yankees walk off.
In a few minutes, Sam and I will be on a conference call with Joe Girardi and Andy Pettitte. We’ll let you know all of the news that comes out of that conversation.
Until then, I’m thinking about the state of the Yankees when I left New York on Friday vs. the state of them when I got to California today. Being ahead 2-0 with the possibility of using C.C. Sabathia in Game 4 was obviously the Yankees best-case scenario, but it seemed really unlikely three days ago. At the very least it seemed one of those first two games would be significantly delayed, causing problems for the rotation. Or maybe a game would be cancelled altogether, leaving everyone to change schedules and adjust on the fly. Or maybe the Angels would have won a game or two, leaving the Yankees in a hole.
None of those things happened.
A seven-game series isn’t won or lost in the first two games, but the Yankees are in great shape. And in much better shape than they might have hoped for when the weekend started.
Leaving for SoCal shortly, attending games three and four. Hope to check in at some point, looking forward to seeing some great baseball.
Go Yankees!
Looks like Saints are for real.
Super Bowl week will ALL be about saint’s running back Reggie Bush and his girlfriend Kim Kardashian.
Negative thinking is just lame! I miss Pete a lot!!
Pete who?
Gee, Chad, I guess you never got the memorandum… God is a Yankees fan!
I was at last nite’s marathon & miraculously the weather was nowhere as bad as predicted I felt. The heavy rain let up til bout the 11th inning, & then it really tapered off so I KNEW they’d keep the marathon going. As far as the cold, I guess it depends where you sat. I was packed like a sardine amongst the Bleacher Creatures, & dressed in layers, covered by a rain poncho, so I was fine. One of my sons froze in the grandstand.
Time to go for the jugular in Anahiem. I think we will lose one of the games and then take the next two to wrap this series up. whats scary is that alex is clearly locked in and the rest of the players..i.e tex, cano, havent’t begun hitting the ball the way their used to. If tex gets hot, we are not coming back to the apple. we’ll be popping bubbly in the “hotel California” such a lovely place.
Poor Pete: A Rod’s on fire, Joba’s stellar in relief, all the comments on Extra Bases are from Yankees fans and the genuises at the Boston Globe are having him cover the Phillies Series. When the Gods wish to punish us, they give us a new job…
Anyone know where I can see a re-play of last nites yank game? I have comcast. Thx
“This blog is one of the best baseball sites around, and he deserves credit for it. Leaving it right as the postseason started (he couldn’t negotiate a few weeks more with the Globe?) has made more than a few of us scratch our heads.”
“Negative thinking is just lame! I miss Pete a lot!!”
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I think that Pete left when he did because of business reasons. Think about it. If Pete waited till after the postseason to move to the Globe, there would have been little intertest from which to build his new blog audience. The Globe editors were banking on the Sox getting deep into the postseason to enable Pete to engage with his new audience. Didn’t happen. The Sox were three and done. The Globe editors, I’m pretty sure, insisted upon Pete starting his new gig when he did. We shouldn’t blame Pete.
As for how everyone is dealing with Pete’s being gone, I think that it’s a classic human reaction of how people cope with loss. Aesop nailed it in his fable about the fox and the grapes. Can’t get the grapes? Console yourself by declaring that they were sour anyway. Pete was the BlogFather. Big loss. Sour grapes.
No one died and made me King, but lets forget about Pete and focus on our New York Yankees being up 2 – 0 against the Angels.
eric October 18th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Anyone know where I can see a re-play of last nites yank game? I have comcast. Thx
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There’s a time machine in Coney Island.
Welcome back Chad !
You’ll hardly catch your breath and it’s time for Yankee baseball – warm weather style.
A-Rod is this – A-Rod is that ….
A-Rod is this – A-Rod is that ….
A-Rod is this – A-Rod is that ….
im sick of hearing how great the angels will play in warm weather….since when are the Yanks NOT a good warm weather team? I believe we did most of our winning during the warm months…..
The referees in the Giants and Jets games today made their anti-New York bias evident.
This call should be reversed here. But it will not.
this isn’t football. the warm weather/cold weather issue doesn’t exist in baseball.
it exists in football because the season is played in the fall and winter, and there’s no snow or sub-zero conditions on the west coast. Thus it can be a real shock to the system when you go from a 75 degree environment to the frozen tundra of Chicago on new years day.
But baseball is mostly played in summer, so every team plays in the heat. Theres no system shock because the summer heat can be atrocious in the east. If anything, the west coast teams who play in a dry climate are at a disadvantage when they have to play on the east cost in humid conditions.
I do not think the refs mattered, however, in the Giants game.
But the repeated cheats in the Jets game have so far cost them, including the holding call in overtime.
“Pete was the BlogFather. Big loss. Sour grapes.”
Ed H
I agree there was a fox and there were sour grapes. Although I think a Fox is too kind of a description. Sour grapes sounds just about right when discussing his take on Alex.
Incidentally, The Angels DON:T play in LA, they play in Anaheim.
Anaheim is 30 miles south of LA.
It’s would be like calling the San Francisco Giants the San Jose Giants or the Baltimore orioles the D.C. orioles or the Green Bay PAckers the Milwaukee Packers. It’s a fiction to call them the LA angels.
Anaheim is part of the greater Los Angeles area….hence the name Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim…..also they are LAA for short…..not AA….
Yankees Karma…good weather…CC starting…Going to the WS! Haven’t had twists of fate like this since the winning days..