Yanks-Angels Game 3: Creepy Weaver Time
Baseball October 19th. 2009, 4:00pm
Jered Weaver will be pitching this afternoon for the first time in 10 days while his counterpart, Andy Pettitte, will be going on seven days rest. The extra time off probably makes no difference for Weaver, but it’s huge for Pettitte, who suffered from a “tired shoulder” in mid-September.
Andy is also coming off easily one of his best starts of the year, but now that the Angels are earmuff free and back in the sunny, comfortable confines of Anaheim, it has the feel of a game where their bats break out a little bit. [The one Yankee we know is elated to be in Cali is Robinson Cano, who would've worn a Snuggie on Saturday night if MLB allowed it.]
And then there’s Weaver, who’s given up three runs in his last 18 1/3 innings pitched and sports a home record of 9-3. It’s hard not to like their chances today, particularly after seeing the way he so easily silenced Boston’s lineup in Game 2 of the ALDS.
The only problem I see for the Halos is this quote from Torri Hunter:
“We’ve got to calm it down and have some fun,” Hunter said. “You’ve got to have amnesia, and you’ve got to let the past go. … (Against the Yankees) you can try to play too much. You can let that history get in your mind, and their payroll, and you really try to do too much. We have to block that out and play our game.”
The Yankees’ history and payroll actually enters the mind of opposing players? I thought all of that stuff was just an irresistible Joe Buck-media fixation. Weird.
Prediction: Angels 5, Yankees 3
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October 19th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Jeff Weaver loves the weed
In the lawsuit, Lisa Kesner of Lima, Ohio, claimed that Tigers players showed hard-core pornography on laptop computers during flights on the team plane. She also claimed former Tigers pitcher Jeff Weaver used marijuana in the plane’s restroom, and that current player Matt Anderson called her profane names after she told him marijuana use was not permitted on the plane. She also accused player Bobby Higginson of profanity.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Is there anything else to that lawsuit? She can’t sue for just being cursed at.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Jeter with a bomb to start the game
October 19th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Jesus that was fast hah
October 19th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Wow.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Jeter is da man.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
This is why they lost a million games from early 90s to 2003. And heaven forbid Bobby Higginson curse! Oh, that foul-mouth!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Look! It’s Jack Nicholson and his man boobs and the unfunny Adam Sandler taking in a baseball game!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
when i rule the world, anyone who has ever used and the person responsible for the existence of thunderstix will be shot and dragged thru the streets.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
If you need a #2 guy, I’m right there with you.
I also don’t know if I would pay thousands of dollars to stand behind homeplate or have my head at field level.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
In the lawsuit, Lisa Kesner of Lima, Ohio, claimed that Tigers players showed hard-core pornography on laptop computers during flights on the team plane. She also claimed former Tigers pitcher Jeff Weaver used marijuana in the plane’s restroom
Is this supposed to make me like Weaver more or less?
October 19th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
OK, Stewie Griffin.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Midget Jew alert: Ken Rosenthal reporting something. Not sure. TV on mute at work.