Congrats to the Tampa Bay Rays, who eliminated my Yankees in the playoffs last night. It was a best-of-five series that was decided by ONLY ONE RUN, so at least it was competitive!! Lots of irony, as well....the very tall AARON JUDGE could not prevent a home run which seemed "catchable," but the very SHORT Brett Gardner DID rob a home run from the Rays!! Such is life, I really didn't think the Yanks would get very deep into October (see my Sept. 28th blog).
The biggest irony of all, though, was that the guy who hit the GAME-WINNING solo homer did it off Aroldis Chapman...the man who threw at his head in a regular season contest a few weeks ago. Talk about "getting even"!! Wow. Chapman never should have PROVOKED the man. This is now TWO YEARS IN A ROW when Chapman gave up a home run which ended our season...last year, it was that cheater ALTUVE of the ASTROS who did us in (the entire Astros team was proven to have cheated all year, over this past winter, by the way...more later.) Yes, Altuve cheated, but CHAPMAN THREW THE BALL and he threw the season-ending pitch LAST night, as well. I'd like to see Chapman GONE from the Yanks next year. Here's why...
1.) His Domestic Abuse past. I have put up with him on this team because the Yankees acquired him TWICE, nothing I could do about it. But now that our OTHER Domestic Abuse pitcher, Domingo German, is supposedly returning to the Yanks next year (I wrote to the New York papers urging the Yanks to get rid of him), having served his suspension, I don't want TWO women-abusers on my team at the same time. I never even wanted ONE, truth be told!!
2.) Chapman's previous "niche" was that he could throw 100 mph a few years back but now "everyone" does it, it seems. It's "old hat." He's no longer one-of-a-kind. And,
3.) Had Aroldis never PROVOKED that guy by "head-hunting," MAYBE what's-his-name wouldn't have had that extra "juice" and eliminated us last night!! We'll never know.
FROM THIS POINT ON, I'M ROOTING FOR THE RAYS AS THEY ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ROUND AND FACE THOSE CHEATING ASTROS. I am still a Yankee fan but the integrity of baseball is at stake. Bad enough the cheating Astros weren't really PENALIZED for cheating, I don't want to see them "REWARDED" by representing MY league in the Fall Classic!!
I don't know how the Astros have made it this far WITHOUT Gerritt Cole (who came to US and has been GREAT, by the way) and without the injured, aging JUSTIN VERLANDER, but here they are, ready to tangle with the RAYS to see who advances to the World Series. The Astros must be stopped. We cannot allow cheaters IN the World Series giving them a chance to WIN the World Series the year after they engaged in the most scandalous (in my opinion) example of cheating in MLB history. So far, in this weird "Covid" season there have been NO FANS IN THE STANDS TO BOO THESE CHEATERS and that's a big break for them...but the RAYS must make them PAY. (After all, the RAYS were cheated by the Astros last year ALSO and I'd love to see them SWEEP the 'Stros in this best-of-seven)!! CHEATERS and WOMEN-BEATERS simply don't deserve to win, in life!!
Go, RAYS!!
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