Yanks lose! Yanks lose!

[gratuitous]

With the boos raining down from the "faithful" at their ersatz stadium, the Yankees are dismissed from the 2015 season. Good Americans everywhere rejoice.

[johnsolaris]

1. go astros

Hi,

I saw my first MLB game live when the Astros were still the Colt 45's. I still have the program book from that night signed by Jim Wynn & Bob Aspromonte. It is nice to see them back in the playoffs, but I think KC will be tougher than the Yankees were tonight.

[gratuitous]

2. Yikes!

I've been a KC fan since they got their franchise, which I thought was a long time. Jim Wynn, the Toy Cannon!

[malthaussen]

10. How did you feel about the Monarchs? n/t

[KatyMan]

3. The Astros played well against KC all season

so it might be a better matchup than it looks on the surface. Of course, the Astros are a young team and KC has been in the playoffs and WS in recent years, so that experience will help a lot.

[rurallib]

4. is this the end for Rodriguez then?

Yankees out of playoffs is good for America.

[Initech]

7. Now lets get the Rangers out and it will be even better!

[shenmue]

5. Yes!

[Initech]

6. I wish my Angels could have been the ones celebrating last night.

But it's good to see any team send the Yankees home packing!

[Major Nikon]

8. The AL West was pretty tough this year

The Rangers, Astros, and Angels all beat each other up pretty good.

[Initech]

11. Well a lot of that was thanks to Josh Hamilton.

There's absolutely no way the Rangers should have won the AL West, but then Josh Hamilton fell off the wagon and attacked the Angels management, and Arte Marino literally hands him off to the Rangers (which I'm still so pissed about that I can't see straight), and they add Cole Hamels, and suddenly they're a world series caliber team? I call bullshit.

[Major Nikon]

12. The Rangers were playing very well before they picked up those two

Hamilton only played in 10 games and was 6 for 26 hitting with 2 homers. Not bad, but they could have picked up a lot of players which would have done as well. It is kinda nice that the Angels are paying him to play for us, though.

Cole Hamels was a great pickup, but the Rangers will be paying him a shitload of cash, so he'd better be.

[malthaussen]

9. I'm more amazed at the NL Central...

... although it is still hard to adjust to saying that division name. Still, the fact that the top 3 teams there have better records than any other team in baseball, AL or NL, is pretty nice, and the fact that two of those teams are the Pirates and Cubs, who haven't been what one might call "stellar" in living memory, is also impressive.

-- Mal