Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 27, 2002
More Monkey:

Here's another good description of the effect of the Rally Monkey:


It arrived faster than the formation of Air Force jets in the pre-game flyover and left just as much noise in its wake.

It was an emotional tsunami, a wave that came from out in the Pacific and swept over the World Series. It crept out of the dugout and spilled over the edges of the jampacked stands, as surprising, as shocking as a sudden snowfall in Southern California.

It was thousands of ThunderStix and a handful of late-inning lightning. In other words, the usual.

You might not believe in the rally monkey. But in this October beyond anything in their franchise history or their imaginations, you have to believe in the Angels going bananas.


Fran Blinebury of the Houston Chronicle also gets mega kudos for using the word "penultimate."


Posted by David Pinto at 08:43 AM | Baseball