Actually, it’s quite hard to root for Minnesota going forward.

My favorite moment was when Ron Darling made a reference to Dag Hammarskjold.  I like to think he did it just to see if Chip Caray could play off it whatsoever.  He could not.

What do Delmon Young and Carlos Gomez have between their ears, cotton candy?

And what game was Chip Caray watching? With Nick Punto batting, “line drive, base hit”. That Raburn then catches in the air before gunning out the dazed and confused Gomez.

A blind person listening to Caray doing a game would not get a terribly accurate account of what was happening. He cares far too much about drama and far too little about accuracy.

Ah, yes, Kevin S. it is more than hard to root for the Twins, I would say it was impossible. Listening on the radio the game sounded sloppy to me and the fiddly-fart pitching changes seemed to make it a cross between a mediocre 2-1 NL game with the time the length of a 15-13 Yankees win over Boston.
Poor Tigers and they wanted to be our ALDS opponents.

Not to harp on the announcers too much, but think of how awful it would have been had Casilla been safe.  Would Caray’s blown call on the Punto drive be the soundtrack to that game?

And what was with his insistence on the redemption storyline?  He made the point with Rayburn, then after Casilla gets the hit that wins the game, Caray says he didn’t tag up properly earlier.

These people have watched a baseball game before, right?

The home plate umpire was awful most of the game - and it really is too bad he blew it and cost the Tigers a run but I assumed he was going to cost someone at some point.

Definitely not the most incredible game ever.  But certainly fun and never-say-die-ish.

And I think next year, they should just let the Yankees pick who they want to play in the postseason.  We should make it as easy as possible for them—they need the help, right?

Anyway, I would say it would be impossible for the Twins to win this but then again, if you told me that the Twins would be here because ALEXI CASILLA batting in the DH SPOT drove in the game winner, I would have put my house against it, so baseball is fun.  The end.

/exhausted in Minnesota

My favorite Caray’ism:

“Will this be the last regular season 9th inning ever in the metrodome?”

Unless they decide to play the ninth inning twice tonight it will.

I was thinking of the Inge non-HBP. The Casilla call was wrong too, I think, but it was pretty bang-bang, and I’ve seen that call go that way a lot before. He just whiffed on Inge.  And of course, the strike zone was atrotious.

I guess, as the umpires explained to Jeter this season, the rule really is that if the ball beats you on a non-force-out play, you’re out.

Speaking of managers, it’s too bad for the Tigers that Leyland couldn’t find anybody other than Gerald Laird to bat with two outs and runners in scoring position in the 8th inning….and the 10th inning….and the 12th inning….