Who Will They Play?

Baseball, right?

Last night the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros went to a deciding game seven and Texas won. I am not a Rangers fan, but I am even less of an Astros fan so I guess given two teams I don’t give a crap about the Rangers are the better outcome.

About an hour ago the National League Championship Series started a deciding game seven of its own between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Philadelphia Phillies. My first little league team, when I was eight years old, was the Phillies. Given that, let’s go Phillies!

Game seven is tied at one in the bottom of the third inning. Here’s hoping the Phillies win so that I can have a team I don’t hate playing in the World Series. I don’t really want to root for the Rangers again.

Also, here’s hoping the act of posting my hopes for tonight’s game doesn’t jinx anything. That’s just another reason for the Phils to win. Prove to me that my opinion has no bearing on the actual outcome, okay Philly?

Let’s go Phillies!

Epic Bat Flip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsxiCXm0E-I

When it comes to home run show boating and bat flips… this is pretty close to the best ever.

The game was tied in the top of the seventh. The Rangers had a runner on third. After a pitch, the catcher went to throw the ball back to the pitcher and the throw hit the batter’s bat and rolled down the third base line. The runner on third scored to give the Rangers the lead. Weirdest thing I’ve ever heard of in a baseball game.

Then in the bottom of the seventh one Ranger’s player (sorry for not being up on the names, I’m doing this from the slightest bit of memory) made three (3) THREE! errors to load the bases. A single brought in the tying run. Then…

Jose Bautista destroyed the ball and drove it into next month, stood at home plate to watch it go out, then gave the meanest, angriest, most pissed off bat flip ever in the history of ever. Obviously the Rangers were pissed and the benches cleared.

Normally I am on the side of act like you’ve been there before and don’t show boat, but in this case? Following the dumbest play in the history of the playoffs? You flip that bat, Jose, and you suck it up and deal, Rangers.

Now, to change the subject, I should probably wait until tomorrow to mention this, but three of the division series have ended and the team I picked won all three. If the Dodgers win tonight I will be perfect in picks for the post season.

Obviously I just jinxed it though, so if you’re a Met’s fan… you’re welcome.

Oh yeah, and the Bruins won last night! Can you believe it? The standings as of this moment: The Patriots have four wins with 12 games to go, and the Bruins have one win with 78 games to go. It’s gonna be close!

What the What?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAPwJ6qu2mw

Did you see that? Is that the right call? Does the run score or is it a dead ball?

I’ll have to ask the umpire authority… my father.

Game #163

For the Tampa Bay Rays and the Texas Rangers the 162 game major league baseball season has 163 games. The two teams face off tonight in Texas to break the tie for the second AL wild card slot. The winner then gets to play a second one game playoff, this time against the Cleveland Indians. The winner of that games faces the triumphant, glorious, freakishly bearded, civil war re-enactors knows as the Boston Red Sox.

So as a Boston fan, who do I want to win? Honestly, I don’t know. The Rays’ pitching scares me. I’ve been saying for weeks that I don’t want to face them. Now though, are they in better shape than Texas and their current seven game winning streak, or Cleveland who have also been playing well lately? Tampa Bay is kind of a mess right now. Hell, they almost blew their chance at the post season yesterday by blowing a 7-0 lead to the last place Blue Jays. On top of all that, the Red Sox have dominated the Rays in recent weeks.

I don’t know. I guess I really don’t care who wins today or tomorrow, just so long as they use up their entire bull pen and waste their best starting pitchers, and maybe have the stress of the play in games launch their hitters into terrible slumps. It doesn’t matter who the Red Sox face, so long as the Red Sox win three straight to sweep themselves into the American League Championship Series. I’ll settle for that, for now.

The Bruins Win!

Oh happy day! The Bruins beat the Rangers tonight to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the second time in three years I don’t believe it I don’t believe it I don’t believe it!!!

The Rangers lead 1-0 after one period and then the Bruins went nuts. They only scored twice during their monster second period, but that’s due more to Lundqvist being an animal in goal than to the Bruins lack of chances. In the third Tuukka Rask made the save of the season on a breakaway. It was a thing of beauty.

The Bruins now win face the Penguins in round three and they will be underdogs in a major way. Pittsburgh is playing like titans right now. They sure look unbeatable. The Bruins will have their work cut out for them, but then again I thought they were going to get slaughtered by the Rangers, so what the hell do I know.

Go Bruins!

The Bruins Lost Game ? PANIC!

Oh no…

Not again.

The Bruins lost game four last night. They now lead the Rangers three games to one. Remember the last time this happened? I do. I’ll never forget. 2010, the nightmare that keeps on giving.

The Bruins played more than well enough to win last night, partly because for most of the game the Rangers played with the intensity of a minor league intra-squad scrimmage game. The turning point was a bad goal off of Tuukka. I haven’t seen a replay yet. I listened on the radio last night so I was spared the horror. Tuukka fell on his ass and the puck trickled into the goal in slow motion. After that, the Rangers were better.

Game five is tomorrow evening. It’s a 5:30pm start, I think. Hopefully we’ll be back home from seeing Star Trek Into Darkness by then so I can torture the whole family by making them watch.

Muahahahaha!

Go Bruins. Please don’t choke again.

Bruins Win Game Three

I have to admit, I’m completely hockey shocked. Last night the Bruins beat the Rangers in game three by a score of 2-1. The Bruins were down 1-0 after two periods and got two goals in the third from the fourth line. How the hell does anyone’s fourth line beat Heinrich Lundqvist twice in one period?

The Bruins now lead the series 3-0. I really thought the Rangers were going to beat us badly this round. I really did. I said before that there have been two Bruins teams this year. The awesome Bruins were the team we saw in the first half of this stupid mini-season. The crappy Bruins were the team we saw in the second half. It had been months since we saw the awesome Bruins, and therefore we had no reason to expect to see them again. Somehow though they are back and completely in control of this series.

But the first person to say that the 3-0 lead makes us a lock to win the series gets the entire 2010 post season shoved right down his/her throat. Never forget. Never again.

Game four is tomorrow night (I think). Close it out then.

Go Bruins!

Bruins Game Three

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The Bruins trail the Rangers 1-0 after two periods. Lundqvist has been super human. The Rangers have not had a penalty called against them yet, even though Chara took a high stick to the head and was bloodied up.

The Bruins need to break through Heinrich in the third. We cannot let those friggin’ New Yorkers back into this series.

Go Bruins!

Bruins Win Game One

The Bruins won game one of their second round series against the Rangers last night on an overtime goal by Brad Marchand. Here’s the highlight video.

The game seemed pretty even to my untrained eye through three periods. The two goals Rask let in looked a touch on the soft side. The first one more so. Shockingly, the first goal that Lundqvist let in was just plain bad. If Heinrich is going to be letting soft goals in then the Bruins have a chance. If he brings his A game each night then… well… let’s say that Bruins chances will be significantly slimmer.

In overtime the Bruins were dominant. They had one power play where they were able to set up in the Rangers zone and blitz them with shots for nearly the full two minutes. The Rangers had a few chances in OT, but for the most part the Bruins had them on the heels the whole time.

The game winning goal was a thing of beauty. It was Marchand’s first goal of the post season, and it came on a perfect centering pass from Patrice Bergeron. Bergie is your MVP kids. Don’t ever forget that.

Game two isn’t until Sunday. Why?

Go Bruins!

HipstaKitty Awaits Round Two

Here we see the HipstaKitty anxiously, some might say impatiently, awaiting the start of the Bruins second round playoff series against the Rangers. Hang in there, HipstaKitty, it’s coming soon enough.