Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 13, 2005
AL East Tightens

The Yankees pull within 2 1/2 games of the Red Sox with their blow out win and the Red Sox blow out defeat. We should probably start thinking about the five way tie, where Boston, New York, Cleveland, LAnaheim and Oakland all end up with the same record. That would be sweet.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:39 PM | Division Races | TrackBack (0)
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That's all well and good. But the BIG baseball news is that the Toledo Mud Hens won the first game of the IL finals. It was an entertaining back-and-forth 10-8 game, played in front of a nice crowd of seven thousand. I watched much of it on www.minorleaguebaseball.com, a site highly recommended for anybody interested in baseball below the major-league level.

Next game is tonight, and it will be webcasted as well.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 14, 2005 08:09 AM

Casey, no offense, but I would hardly call that big baseball news :) You do have a knack though for thread-jacking so to speak. Your cricket posts the other day were quite a spectacle!

Posted by: Benjamin Kabak at September 14, 2005 08:44 AM

The Mud Hens AREN'T big news??? Heresy!!!

Halfway seriously, it's kinda fun to watch a minor league game on the Internet. The quality of play at the AAA level is superb, really indistinguishable from the majors over a single game. And the Hens haven't had much success for a long time, so the fans are turning out. Seven thousand for a minor league postseason game is impressive, though attendance is at record levels all over the minors now.

By the way, you could have gotten a glance at the cricket on the (sadly and aptly named) Fox Soccer Channel. They carry some Sky Sports newscasts, and for once the news isn't all 0-0 metric football. Sky has shown extensive highlights of the Ashes series and the subsequent celebrations in Britain.

Just about the only other place the average American teevee viewer might run across baseball's ancient and distant cousin is on AZN, a channel basically for Asian immigrants. They carry a couple cricket shows on Saturday.

Posted by: Casey abell at September 14, 2005 09:36 AM

Indeed, Casey. I've got a ticket to tonight's game. Go Hens. BTW, there'll probably be 5-6 Hens called up to Detroit right after the Mudhens win the series, including Marcus Thames, who really should be starting for some major league team, or even the Royals.

One nice thing about minor league baseball is that the seats are almost all good. At Fifth Third Field, every seat is $8, I think the cheapest at Comerica is the $12 bleachers.

Posted by: rbj at September 14, 2005 12:22 PM
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