God exists
posted at 12:36 am on October 9, 2007 by Allahpundit
He must. This is simply too glorious to admit of any other explanation.
Actually, I take it back: a sweep with A-Rod going 0-for-the-series would have been irrefutable proof of God’s existence. A four-game series win with A-Rod finally notching his first postseason RBI since 2004 is merely evidence thereof.
Although with Jeter hitting .167 for the series and the Yanks dropping three of four to a team against whom they were 6-0 during the season — with the clincher at Yankee Stadium! — is, I confess, awfully strong evidence.
I’ll have to give this atheism thing some more thought. Exit question: When does the axe fall on Torre? Click the image to celebrate.
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Hopefully soon. As a Yankee fan, I’m very disappointed in him.
amerpundit on October 9, 2007 at 12:38 AM
Tomorrow. It will be “breaking news” on FOX’s website. I will probably get an email alert from CNN about it as well. The coveted Drudge sirene? Probably not.
SouthernGent on October 9, 2007 at 12:38 AM
I’m a diehard Yankee fan and I think its time for him to go, get some fresh blood in at manager. Sometimes you just have the same guy for too long he loses some of his effectiveness
Nevertheless teh Yanks should move him to the front office. My padres already have a manager but it’d be awesome if we could get him there too
Defector01 on October 9, 2007 at 12:39 AM
Screw the Yankees!
They’re the Oakland Raiders of baseball.
bahahahahahah
/gloat
SilverStar830 on October 9, 2007 at 12:42 AM
You tease!
geckomon on October 9, 2007 at 12:47 AM
I’m a die-hard Sox fan, so I was certainly not broken up over their loss tonight, but I DO like Joe Torre… hate to see him get the axe.
D2Boston on October 9, 2007 at 12:48 AM
It isn’t the Yankee players I like to see lose, nor their fans. It is sheer bliss though, to see that jackass Steinbrenner lose!
Gatordoug on October 9, 2007 at 12:49 AM
I think the announcers were saying it was likely his last season, weren’t they? I didn’t pay that close attention, but I thought I heard them saying that.
Also, I’m too lazy to retype what I already said in the Cowboys thread, so I’ll just paste:
RightWinged on October 9, 2007 at 12:51 AM
The standards that Yankee fans have is insane. Torre is 8th in all time wins I think, 4 world series titles, 10 division titles in 12 years. I’d say he’s a pretty good manager.
Next year could be ugly for the yankees. Torre gone, no Rocket, Andy Pettite may be leaving, A-Rod and a whole lot of the others are coming into free agency. If it’s as ugly as I hope it is I may become a regular season baseball fan again.
BadgerHawk on October 9, 2007 at 12:51 AM
Praise Allah! (no the other one)
Limerick on October 9, 2007 at 12:52 AM
Screw all you Yankophobes. What country is “Cleveland” in anyway?
ronsfi on October 9, 2007 at 12:58 AM
In AMERICA, you might have heard of it. Oh, and Cleveland is somewhee else the Yankees are not, in the ALCS!
Gatordoug on October 9, 2007 at 1:00 AM
As happy as I am to see the Yankees go, I have to say the rest of the playoffs are about as uninteresting as could be. I’d love to see an Indians-Rockies World Series. That would do NHL type numbers. Speaking of which…Let’s Go Rangers!
Drew on October 9, 2007 at 1:03 AM
The yanks got all 4 of their runs on homers. The ultimate act of selfish ball playing. Too many super stars and not enough Derek Jeters.
csdeven on October 9, 2007 at 1:05 AM
I blame A-Rod. He sucks.
Jeter always pulls his weight in some way, even if he’s not hitting so great. He’s an amazing base player. But A-Rod has brought nothing to the Yanks at all. He deserves to be fired, not Torre.
Sydney Carton on October 9, 2007 at 1:10 AM
As a Red Sox fan, I hope soon, too. ;-)
flipflop on October 9, 2007 at 1:15 AM
No I’m pretty sure it’s America then the East River then…Wasteland until you hit Dallas. You better check your map “hater”.
ronsfi on October 9, 2007 at 1:20 AM
Look, I’m a Sox fan, so part of me really savors the sight of Yankees fans twisting on the knife. But, “A-Rod has brought nothing to the Yanks at all”?
Are you shitting me?
He led the league in nearly every important offensive statistical category, this season: homeruns, runs, RBIs, and OPS. He finished the year with a WARP3 of 13.7. In non-statgeek terms, that means that the Yanks, using the average AAA callup rather than A-Rod, would have finished 80-82: two games under .500, out of the playoffs, and sniffing Toronto’s taint in the AL East standings. A-Rod is the single biggest reason the Yankees have managed to be in the hunt at all these past few seasons, given their increasingly old and balky pitching.
You guys want to throw him under the bus based on a relative handful of at-bats in the postseason? Fine with me; someone’s going to snap him up faster than you can say “small sample size”.
Centerfire on October 9, 2007 at 1:33 AM
Yankee fans: the Dobsons of the baseball world.
Big S on October 9, 2007 at 1:38 AM
So the Indians scalped the Yankees? I guess they didn’t need those casinos after all.
ReubenJCogburn on October 9, 2007 at 1:41 AM
Heh.
ReubenJCogburn on October 9, 2007 at 1:42 AM
Allah Finds God Through Yankee Loss…….film at 11.
Seriously though, Joe Torre- what have you done for Steinbrenner lately? Only four World Series rings in X many years?
Bahh. He’s a chump. Where’s Billy Martin!
Ah. Well then.
Nice going Yankees fans, you’ve chased away another hall of famer.
He’ll look good at short in Fenway next year.
Tman on October 9, 2007 at 1:54 AM
And here comes Armageddon. Coulter is on Red Eye.
Bring on the Tribe!
Pablo on October 9, 2007 at 2:02 AM
Yeah, team players would just hit singles.
Pablo on October 9, 2007 at 2:03 AM
Just saw an article that called this loss part of the Clinton Curse. No New York team has won squat since she’s been senator.
Still, a better headline would have been: Cleveland Mishandles Yankees’ Wang.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on October 9, 2007 at 2:16 AM
When I saw the title, I thought AP must have got his
iBrickiPhone.opusrex on October 9, 2007 at 2:16 AM
Typical Liberal. Invoke God when it’s “convenient”.
Go Yankees!
hadsil on October 9, 2007 at 2:43 AM
Yes, yes, YES!! I might be able to support the Yankees if it wasn’t for that arrogant sack of self importance.
Ellen on October 9, 2007 at 5:31 AM
Cool! Drew Carey will get another chance to swing at somebody at Fenway! Sweet!
kiakjones on October 9, 2007 at 6:16 AM
Torre wasn’t the problem. I don’t think you can bring anyone into the Yankee organization that would help motivate the team more than Torre has. The head coach won’t make ARod not suck in the postseason, coaching won’t make the pitchers give completely miss their pitch zone. What coaching will do is bench Zambrano ala the Cubs, what coaching will do is call passing plays when you need to use your run game ala UCLA. Changing Torre won’t fix the Yankees.
Nonfactor on October 9, 2007 at 6:47 AM
I only have two words to say at this point…….
GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ScoopPC11 on October 9, 2007 at 7:08 AM
The Indians won by playing National League-type baseball: a hit’s a run.
Works every time
harrison on October 9, 2007 at 7:22 AM
ALL YOUR BASEBALL BELONG TO CLEVELAND
saint kansas on October 9, 2007 at 7:26 AM
A Rod and Jeter: “Hi! We’re A Rod and Derek Jeter, and every hot babe on the planet wants to sleep with us!”
Allahpundit: “Well, you’ve got plenty of time to make them happy, because as usual, you’re free long before the World Series!”
radjah shelduck on October 9, 2007 at 7:35 AM
Has anyone noticed how biased the national media coverage has been of the Yankees loss? ESPN, ABC, CNN, etc. all covered the story of the Indians win as being “oh, now Joe Torre is going to get fired for this debacle, etc. etc.,” implying that Cleveland was somehow a club not worthy of playing in the ALCS and that they only got in because of a “screw up.” Look, Cleveland won the series 3-1, and won 2 of 3 games decisively. Cleveland won its division. Cleveland’s a good club. They may even make the World Series (though the Red Sox are one hell of a team, so I’d say Cleveland would have the long odds on that).
Outlander on October 9, 2007 at 7:40 AM
Hey $200 million doe snot buy what it once did. That Clemens was a great signing for $28 million wasn’t it?
Hilts on October 9, 2007 at 7:40 AM
A Yankees elimination and an unbelievable Cowboys victory – what a night!
Hilts on October 9, 2007 at 7:41 AM
Mock away, heathens…mock away.
It is infinitely better to have made the playoffs and lost, than to be a heavy favorite to make the Series and piss away a 7.5 game lead with 16 games to go.
I, for one, am extremely proud of the way the Yanks came back when everyone left them for dead. This season, unlike many others, provided a glimpse into dynasties to come. Deapite Wang going limp this week, I still look forward to him anchoring a rotation to include Phil Hughes, Ian Kennedy, and Joba Chamberlain (maybe), with Johan Santana getting his big payday in ’09. If A-Rod walks, I definitely want him to go to Boston, so he can be an albatross around the neck of that franchise. Mike Lowell can then come back to where it all started, and with a hell of a lot less drama to boot. Damon found new life in left field but he may still be traded to an NL team along with Farnsworth and Mussina. Here’s hoping that Donnie Baseball can run things with the same steady hand that Joe Torre showed all these years.
Pile on now, haters, while the pilin’s good, but know
this….
The Empire will rise again.
Kid from Brooklyn on October 9, 2007 at 7:47 AM
As a longtime Yankee fan, this is 31 seasons without a WS title and 6 titles. More used to the disappointment than championships.
Oh well. Time to blow this up and regroup.
It’s been nice, Joe Torre.
JammieWearingFool on October 9, 2007 at 7:48 AM
I gotta be honest with ya, The Rocket really needs to retire. His pitching might be good on his good days, but that just means he’s inconsistent. The man is 45 years old. He’s had a longer run in baseball than basically everyone, he’s been around so long that some of the greats of yesteryear were only in baseball half as long as he was before they retired.
I’m not really worried about The Rocket as far as money either, he’s leaving baseball rich, he’s a walking example of baseball history and therefore could easily endorse anything for anyone. He’s not a man without options, but he is too old to play good baseball.
All A-Rod has proven is that he’s the best postseason choker in the MLB.
I’m sure the Yankees will find somebody to bribe with undisclosed amounts of cash, and then those guys can choke in the postseason.
BKennedy on October 9, 2007 at 8:01 AM
If Torre gets fired, he’ll have another job in under 24 hours if he wants it.
Asher on October 9, 2007 at 8:06 AM
It’s not the curse of Clinton, it’s the curse of A-Rod. They Yankees have done nothing in the post-season since he’s been on their team.
I’m not much of a baseball fan anymore, but my team has always been the Yankees (I’m from Northern NJ). Watching Torre’s horrible managing job in Game 2 convinced me it’s time for a change. This obsession with “pitch counts” cost them that game.
asc85 on October 9, 2007 at 8:11 AM
Hopefully 5 seconds before it falls on Ned Yost, known in the land of Cheese and Beer as He Who Must Be Fired.
steveegg on October 9, 2007 at 8:41 AM
God always seems a to leave just a little bit of room for doubt, doesn’t He?
BNCurtis on October 9, 2007 at 8:43 AM
Great. Why didn’t I ‘preview’ that one? Try again:
God always seems
ato leave just a little bit of room for doubt, doesn’t He?BNCurtis on October 9, 2007 at 8:44 AM
Eh. Whatever.
Jaibones on October 9, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Last night made a Mets fan feel real good.
flipflopper on October 9, 2007 at 9:09 AM
AP,
This AND the Boys win. There’s your irrefutable proof. :-)
Kowboy on October 9, 2007 at 9:10 AM
Yeah, with somebody like the Devil Rays or the Royals. And then he’ll go back to having a losing record, just as he did before he put on the pinstripes. It’s easy to win 90 games every year when you outspend all the other clubs.
radjah shelduck on October 9, 2007 at 9:15 AM
If the bugs swarming Joba chamberlain causing him to lose his control (and Game 2) didn’t convince you AP, nothing will. That was pure Old Testament baby! LOL!
TheBigOldDog on October 9, 2007 at 9:17 AM
Everyone knows that libs hate the Yankees. You’re all outed.
JiangxiDad on October 9, 2007 at 9:49 AM
Somebody better tell Hiliary that; both of her teams got knocked out in the first round.
Speaking of which, that gives me a bit of hope for 2008. Both the Yankees and Cubs vastly outraised and outspent their opponents, and both crashed and burned as spectacularily as the T-65.
steveegg on October 9, 2007 at 9:54 AM
I object to your insinuation that God is a liberal.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on October 9, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Lou’s taking Joe’s job? Where’d your dog hear it?
JiangxiDad on October 9, 2007 at 9:59 AM
CyberCipher on October 9, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Haven’t they been the last few years?
steveegg on October 9, 2007 at 10:01 AM
Arrogance humbled. God Does exist! My post season is already complete, with the Yankees done. Icing on my celebration cake would be the Bosox winning it all, as my team (Braves) are now becoming the Cleveland Indians of the 1990′s.
Doug on October 9, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Did something important just happen? What gives?
Ochlan on October 9, 2007 at 10:14 AM
A new baseball empire is rising – in the West, and they are called the Colorado Rockies.
CliffHanger on October 9, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Here is Suzy Waldman, Yankee Announcer, breaking down on air about the Yankees loss and Torre’s press conference.
Please note that the pic is not Suzy. Suzy actually looks like a youn helen thomas.
Rich on October 9, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Oh…I see…some guys played a game of something and one side won.
Awesome.
Ochlan on October 9, 2007 at 10:51 AM
Thanks to the Cleveland Indians, maybe Allah’s posts will now begin with, “Oh, Great Spirit…”
T J Green on October 9, 2007 at 11:29 AM
Yankee Derangement Syndrome
ronsfi on October 9, 2007 at 11:32 AM
The sooner the axe falls on Torre the sooner the Blue Jays can hire him.
I can dream, can’t I?
Blaise on October 9, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Thanks so much for sharing! That was hysterical! I used to listen to Susan Waldman shilling for the Yankees and Knicks when she used to be on WFAN. I know she does the Yankees now, but I normally don’t listen to the radio calls.
What kind of life does she have when she’s crying over something like this?
asc85 on October 9, 2007 at 1:27 PM
The season was over the minutes the Red Sox got Josh Beckett. Yes, they had to give up Ramirez, a first class SS and a fine hitter. But in the bigs and especially in the playoffs, you win with pitching. Dice K., Beckett and Schilling and you win any short series. Case closed and lets not forget about Papplebon coming out of the pen. Why have the ACLS or the World Series? It’s over. Boston Red Sox World champs 2004, 2007. Put a fork in it. It’s done.
Larraby on October 9, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Hey, last century was great for the Yankees. Maybe the next one will be too.
Pablo on October 9, 2007 at 6:37 PM
NY: Nine of 16 runs on homeruns, six of the solo variety, two with two outs and bases empty. Two of their 16 runs scored came with two outs (one of those a solo homer).
Cleveland: Eight of 12 RBIs in GAME 1 ALONE came with two outs, including all of Kenny Lofton’s four RBIs in that game. Fourteen of 24 RBIs in the series came with two outs.
NY: Seven home runs in the series, for a total of 9 runs scored. 24 other hits for a total of 7 runs scored.
Cleveland: Six home runs in the series, for a total of 7 runs scored. 41 other hits for a total of 17 runs scored.
NY: Left 11 of 14 runners in scoring position, and grounded into 6 double plays (Jeter 3 times).
Cleveland: Left 18 of 33 runners in scoring position, and grounded into 5 double plays
NY: Aside from the 5th inning of game three, where four consecutive batters reached base safely, only two occasions of consecutive base hits across four games. Six other occasions of consecutive baserunners which included walks, errors, or fielder’s choice (three of those immediately followed by double-plays).
Cleveland: Sixteen occasions of consecutive batters reaching base safely, including 5 batters (once), 4 batters (once), three batters (three times). In two different innings of game 4 there were multiple sets of consecutives batters to reach safely.
NY: A-Rod cements his legacy for post-season failure, though finally delivering an RBI. Jeter is a great ball player, I couldn’t bring myself to rag on him, but he couldn’t get anything done either, other than ground into DPs.
The real reason for all this nothing from the Pinstripes? Cleveland’s pitching was absolute nails for all but two innings of work out of thirty eight.
One of the most stacked offensive lineups in baseball history did little more than strikeout, pop up, and ground out.
And yes, AP, there is a God, though this massive choke by the Yanks is no evidence for or against. Your own conscience is the most tangible evidence you’ll ever have that He’s here, and that He loves you. If you won’t listen to that, a sports result that gives you pleasure isn’t even “in the ballpark”.
- Galatians 6:6-9
Freelancer on October 10, 2007 at 12:50 AM
Will the Yankees finally quit the “buy an All-Star team” routine and finally keep some of their farm players to build up through their system?
But nope. It’s not the player’s fault. It’s Joe Torre’s fault. That’s it.
“I already gave you a miracle. The ’69 Mets.”
-George Burns in “Oh, God”
Hawkins1701 on October 10, 2007 at 1:33 AM
Actually, the exact quote is as follows:
“God: The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.”
-George Burns in “Oh, God!”
Hawkins1701 on October 10, 2007 at 1:40 AM