Yankees Win Fair and Square

So if you're following the Major League Baseball post season, you're probably familiar with the controversy regarding some important missed calls thus far in 2009 October baseball. Since this is my first official blog post, I won't discuss stale news but rather focus on the freshest material which occured in last night's ALCS game which featured the Yankees and Angels. While I bleed pinstripe blue, I like to believe that I can be un-biased and fairly assess controversial plays. For example, when Swisher was caught with his pants down leading off second base and was called SAFE, after watching re-plays, he was clearly out by a foot. Now the Angels had every right to be upset about this call but thankfully they can't say this shifted the momentum of the game in any way. That very same inning, Swisher was on third and scored on a sac fly but the Angels said that he left the bag too early and Swisher was then called out. After watching that re-play, Swisher obviously did NOT leave the bag early and while this bad call cost the Yankees a run that inning, I was actually happy because Swisher was already supposed to be out and now the Angels can't say that we received any freebies. Now I wish I could say that is all and that's the end but alas there was one more bizarre play that resulted in yet another umpire mistake. This particular incident occurred shortly after Posada failed to score on a Robinson Cano double when he was already at 2nd base! While Cano seemed quite irritated that Jorge failed to give him a post season RBI, you have to give Posada a pass for falling for Tori Hunter's Oscar award winning performance pretending that he was actually going to catch the ball out in center field even though it ended up going WAY over his head. So while Posada remained on third, with Cano hot on his heels at second, a weak squibber was hit in the in-field, thrown to the plate and this time Posada was the one caught with his pants down in-between third base and home. Cano, who had been itching to move up a base had already arrived safely at third base while Posada retreated back to the same bag that Cano now occupied like some weird version of 4-corners. Well if you weren't watching you would think "Well hey this happens sometimes, Posada is out, Cano is safe." I'm sure that would have been the case if Cano wasn't daydreaming about RBI's and lollipops in Candyland and had completely stepped OFF the bag at which point he allowed himself along with Posada to get tagged out. Now in all fairness to Tim Mcclelland, he probably assumed the former and gave Cano and Yankees a BIG break. Now we all know what happens when you assume and while Halo fans were probably livid at yet another umpire mistake that favored the Bronx Bombers, the Angels once again got out of the inning, no harm, no foul. The Yankees went on to win 10-1 without any help of "bad calls" from the men in blue and all is once again right in the world (at least if you're a Yankees fan).