A well pitched, well played, well fought battle between the Indians and Yanks. The better team won, there is no doubt. In a game of  the hit series survivor, the Tribe outplayed, outwitted, & outlasted the Yanks.

    Scalped was manager Joe Torre. The Chief of the Yankee Tribe was skinned and laid to rest as New York skipper by the hands of the Indians from Cleveland. While I never did give Joe much credit  for managing the best players money can buy, he was the best man for the situation. The way Torre handled the NY zoo, media, criticism to himself and players, and still found time to manage and win for a dozen years, I give kudos to the slain leader of the Yankee squad. With the influx of youngsters added onto the Yanks team, I felt this was Torre's finest managerial job he had done. He no longer had all the best players at every position, the best starting-5 rotation in MLB, and no best bullpen in baseball.  I'll miss Torre and his casual strolls to the mounds at all the parks.

    The other dearly departed who deserve all the criticism for the Yankees and their losing was Chien Wang for basically handing Cleveland a pair of games. The other player to hand Cleveland the post season victory, start your chant, DEREK JETER clap, clap, clap-clap-clap. Jetes was horrible! He sucked playing SS, he sucked hitting. He SUCKED PERIOD!

    The new kids on the block were lead by veteran pitcher Paul Byrd who baffled Yankee hitters. Byrd, who looks like the late great superstar of WWE wrestling Chris Benoit put "the crippler" on the Yankee bats. A missed 3rd strike check swing call by 3B umpire Bruce Fremming almost opened the flood gates, Byrd was able to hold on and ward off  the Yanks into submission.

    Heroes? There were many. KLuv showed off his flare in games 1 & 2. Fausto mowed down the Bomber bats, Hafner came up with key hits, Garko was clutch, Shoppach played a great role last night, Sizemore, Martinez were solid. Sabathia, though not at his best still got the win showing why he deserving of his hardware he'll pick up at seasons end (Cy Young), Perez & Betancourt were outstanding out of the pen.

    A great win for the Cleveland Indians, it was a looooong time coming.

Headlines next week:

                            "Tribe scalps Sox! 4-0, head to World Series"

TWO WORDS!

                        GAME OVER!