Tough Crowd.

Ladies and Germs, your entertainment for the evening, Mike Lupica!:

"But they all keep acting as if Ramirez was magically transported into Tinsel Town on angels' wings.

Not the Anaheim Angels, of course."

I said, not the Anaheim Angels, of course.

Sheesh, tough crowd.

How about a boxing metaphor?:

"Another first-round defeat for our $200 million kids when they won the first game of a five-game series and then went down as easily as Michael Spinks did one time against Mike Tyson."

Michael Spinks?

So, you're trying to elucidate a baseball playoffs series that occurred one year ago by comparing it to a long-forgotten boxing match that took place, I don't know, twenty-five years ago? Twenty years ago?

Not for nothing, but the team that was "knocked out" by the Red Sox in 2004 keeps winning 90 games or more and usually make the playoffs.

Spinks retired that night.

So, your metaphor is not only confusing and esoteric, it's not relevant.

Good work.