Isn’t the magic number for homefield 1 as well?  The Angels have lost 63 games, so if they win all their remaining games, the best they can do is 99.  So the Yanks winning their 100th tomorrow should do it.

Yeah, and I just updated the HFA magic number too, so I’m not sure why I thought the Angels needed to lose.

CC doesn’t deserve the CYA, but to this point, he, like Teix, has lived up to his contract, which is all you can ask for.

CC is gonna have one more start for the reg season, correct?

[4] Correct.

He has one more start to try for his 20th win before the playoffs.

Twins threatening to cut the deficit in the central to one game.  For all the trepidation about Verlander and Jackson, would you really rather face a team that surged into the playoffs on an impressive comeback run?

And of course, I know the right answer is that you’d rather face whichever team manages to prevail in the 29 inning one game playoff a week from Monday.

If the Yanks lose to either of those horrendous teams in the ALDS, the season was a massive failure.

[7] Especially if they get knocked out by Carl Pavano.  Actually, I can’t even think about that.

“Twins threatening to cut the deficit in the central to one game.  For all the trepidation about Verlander and Jackson, would you really rather face a team that surged into the playoffs on an impressive comeback run? “

Yes.  In a 5 game series I’d much rather face a hot team w/o any really good SP.

Yeah, what is Minnesota’s rotation again?  Scott Baker, Nick Blackburn, Carl Pavano, The Artist Formerly Known As Francisco Liriano, and Brian Duensing.

I’m sorry, but U2 sucks.

Call me petty, but I’m glad the RS can’t clinch the Wild Card at Yankee Stadium.

I have officially shifted my focus to the playoffs.

Call me petty, but I’m glad the RS can’t clinch the Wild Card at Yankee Stadium.

I will not call you petty.  You can thank the Rangers for doing something right.

SG, whassup with yesterdays Yankees lineup under the heading:  2003 Detroit Tigers?

Go Yankees. too drunk on Rogue and Newcastle to attempt to say anything else. On the plus side I didn’t submit to Natty Lite or Coors Lite.

SG, whassup with yesterdays Yankees lineup under the heading:  2003 Detroit Tigers?

I have an issue with superstitions. When the Yankees lost two of three to Seattle and then also lost the first game of the Angels series, I figured I’d sarcastically refer to them as the worst team of all time in the next game chatter thread, and call it a mismatch chatter instead.

Then they won.

So I had to do something similar for the next game chatter thread.

And they won again.  And so on and so forth.

I know it’s silly, but I ain’t messing with a streak.

It may be silly, but at least it’s not petty.  I’d be perfectly content if the ‘mismatch chatter’ theme continued all the way through the end of the world series, but we’ll probably see an ultra-house money lineup mess it up sometime next week.

A number of us thought it was pretty funny.