Funny.

I asked a buddy of mine if he'd ever heard of Ross Ohlendorf or Bronson Sardinha. He had not.

I don't care if I spelled the names incorrectly. They're not worth looking up.


Wang deserved the game #1 start. I know he can't pitch on the road, but he'd better learn.

Wang was making his third career postseason start.

When MLB.com hyped up the Yankees-Indians series, they showed grainy photographs of dead players wearing wool uniforms. Not Indians players, of course, but, you know, the Yankee "ghosts" with the mystique and the aura and the whatnot.

The Yankees are therefore experienced.


The Indians won more games than the Yankees this season.

The Indians sent the best 1-2 pitching combination in the American League against a team that has not gotten out of the first round since 2004.

The Indians aren't intimidated by Luis Vizcaino, as an example -- why should they be? Because Vizcaino wears the same uniform as players who won World Series title a bunch of times?


Maybe the Yankee failures in the playoffs is just the odds evening out or maybe it's just the better team winning year after year.

I just can not quite comprehend the continuing intellectual laziness: "The Yankees know how to win and they're the Yankees."

Stop acting all surprised when they lose.