Kaz Matsui is Mr. October
Baseball October 12th. 2007, 9:12am
How come we never got the memo on Kaz Matsui’s resurgence? He was instrumental in the playoff against San Diego, and then hit a grand slam against the Phillies to effectively shut the door on that series. And in Game One of the NLCS (Arizona 1, Colorado 5), not only did the Mets reject come through with the go-ahead RBI, but he also was involved in the only play anyone’s talking about from Thursday’s woeful game, the dust-up at second base that ended up with Arizona fans pelting the field with water bottles (and losing access to beer for it!).
Those Upton boys seem to live for controversy, huh?
Matsui continued his torrid month, Jeff Francis was money, a former Kansas City Royal got Colorado out of a bases loaded jam and Clint Hurdle had a strangely dark tan going on. We miss anything? We spent opened with 30 Rock (thanks to those who recommended this show, it’s good) and went over to the game during commercials. Then we were glued to the Office, which absolutely rocks. After 10 p.m., we were forced at gunpoint to watch D-listers rapping on MTV (we were too tired to object, and Kendra’s body is sick), while flipping to the game during commercials. And everytime we went to the game, nothing compelled us to stick around. The atmosphere seemed as boring as the dry Arizona desert. Surely Cleveland and Boston can put on a better show.
Up tonight: fantasy bum Doug Davis goes for Arizona in a must-win (totally) spot against awesomely-named Ubaldo Jimenez (who was dominant against the D-Backs last time they played).
17 Responses to “Kaz Matsui is Mr. October”
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October 12th, 2007 at 9:20 AM
I appreaciate the underacheivers in this years playoffs
but man is it boring or what
TBS is a poorly ran network
How did they get the playoffs away from Fox
October 12th, 2007 at 9:23 AM
This grilled cheese has mayonnaise in it!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:29 AM
I think Matsui has found a nice niche in Colorado, where the beer flows like wine, and the women flock like the salmon of Capistrano.
But seriously, there is about 1% of the media scrutiny for a baseball player in Denver versus a baseball player in New York City.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:35 AM
Give the kid a big tip, no more than 10%. Then what? Then hope he walks away.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Take a chance on me…
October 12th, 2007 at 9:40 AM
I tried, I really did. I was tired and just wanted to stay in and get a little baseball in to juice me up for tonight. I like the Rockies and I like Brandon Webb. That said, even the bottle tossing was boring (we do it much better in Cleveland, only we use D batteries and dog biscuits). Outside of Denver and Phoenix, what incentive do you have to watch? fucking colorado has turned into Tiger Woods, its boring as hell.
they might actually win a game against the AL team. Last year doesn’t count, Detroit was too busy putting out fires to care about a World Series.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:43 AM
Oh no it’s bad. It’s real bad. It’s like eating a hot circle of garbage.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:45 AM
But you’ll still reimburse me, right?
October 12th, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Oh, by the way, I don’t think I’ll take life advice from someone wearing a one-piece swimsuit as underwear. It’s laundry day!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:53 AM
Me want food!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:34 AM
TBL – Game #163 between the Rockies and the Padres was a tiebreaker, not a playoff game.
spencer096 – You are a pathetic excuse for a baseball “fan”. If your team isn’t playing, you can’t watch? Pathetic. Last nights game, although not as close as most of us that aren’t Rockies fans would have liked, was still compelling and fun to watch. Of course, you have to actually like the game to appreciate it and those who only care if their team is playing do not count as fans of the game.
The shot against Detroit was stupid, uninformed, moronic, overused, Jimmy Kimmel nonsense. I will put Detroit’s record in championship celebrations against any city in the country over the last 20 years. Of course, the comparison would have to be against a city that has actually won a championship, so that rules out Cleveland.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:53 AM
spence096 is a horrible excuse for a college football fan also
October 12th, 2007 at 12:16 PM
While we’re on a roll here, irishmafia would be a pathetic excuse for a 3rd grader
October 12th, 2007 at 1:17 PM
wow, lots of hate. i dont like the NL for the same reasons I dont like minor league baseball with stars doing rehab stints. sorry. i dont like the NL style of play. i like the modern style of baseball, just as i prefer the modern style of the NFL over that of the 70’s. baseball has too much going on for me to give a shit about two teams 1500+ miles away especially when my team is facing off against the most obnoxious fan base in sports.
yea, the 163rd game was exciting as hell. last night’s game was boring. just because i think something is boring doesnt mean im not a fan. i found pretty much the last 3 years of cleveland browns football to be boring, watching the cavs (if not for lebron) would be like watching paint dry. I know boring, and last night was pretty fucking boring. excuse me for not sitting there afraid to blink while two teams knock a bunch of singles around and the most riveting thing in the game was an runner’s interference.
oh, im sorry i made a reference to detroit. me being a cleveland, i have never endured someone saying shit about my city on the internet. that has never happened before. trust me you can look it up. cleveland never gets shit talked. /sarcasm
irishmafia, im sorry that youre a miami fan and you refuse to look at things objectively and you act like mao when someone disagrees with you and back it up with logic like, “WE’RE THE U, SO THAT MAKES US BETTER.”
October 12th, 2007 at 1:18 PM
I’m a pathetic excuse for a human
October 12th, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Not liking the style of NL play is a legitimate reason to not watch. I don’t agree, but it is personal preference. I find the clashing styles interesting and I’ve always enjoyed seeing the “other side” of things. I enjoy watching the double switches, the bunts with one out, the singles and moving runners up. I think, generically, that that is a more exciting brand of baseball than a double, a walk and hoping for the 3 run HR. Besides, in the playoffs, pitching and defense is what wins, not slugging. I am hoping the Indians win, but don’t really have anything against the Sox. Do not take the NL team lightly, especially if it is Colorado.
You didn’t “make a reference” to Detroit. You bashed it – in a stupid and uninformed way. If you want to say the Tigers played like shit in the World Series last year, I cannot argue – they did. If you want to remind everybody that the Pistons lost to the Cavs, I cannot argue with the facts. But, do not pull the “burn the city” card, because it is old and not accurate. Through the 3 Pistons championships and 3 Red Wings championships (as well as U-M and MSU), there have been zero problems in the last 20 years.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:43 PM
neither is the “burning river” card. we burned it more than once, we should get credit for consistency. what’s more impressive 7 no-hitters for nolan ryan or setting water on fire 3 times? again, something that hasn’t happened in 20 years. and anyways, i was being light hearted. but there really was no excuse for the tigers to lose last year against the fucking 83-79 cardinals other than them choking.
as for baseball, i respect the strategy of the NL, it’s kind of cool when a really good team does it, but i like power pitching and i like power hitting. if that makes me an unrefined baseball fan, so be it. the AL plays it both ways. in game 4 the tribe played that ’small-ball’ style to perfection and beat the yanks whos majority of runs came off of HR’s. I just like that the AL can do it both if you have the team for it. plus the AL doesnt have to worry about the pitcher being an automatic out (tho, the way travis hafner is swinging, he might as well just cede an out).
i stand by my opinion on the talent disparity. that said, the rockies aren’t a team to take lightly. they have big hitters through the lineup, the only problem is do they have enough good hitters to get production out of the DH?