After suffering through the Jays’ season, last night’s AL Central tiebreaker is exactly what I needed. It was easily the best baseball game I have seen in a long, long time. People call soccer the beautiful game, but it doesn’t hold a candle to playoff baseball.
Here are a couple of quotes I’m ripping from facebook that describe my feelings from last night exactly:
I would have suffered several nervous break downs if I had to watch the Jays play a game of this magnitude to get into the playoffs.
thanks, Twins and Tigers, for reminding me that baseball doesn’t have to be about mind-numbing frustration.
Ah frig. The Tao’s gone down the exact same “Beautiful Game” road. ( http://taoofstieb.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-sentence-post-onthis-beautiful-game.html ) I try not to look at other blogs before I post. Maybe I should start.
Guy, let’s not have this break down into a sport v. sport battle, hmm? Let’s just enjoy the game for what it was — as I said, a reminder that baseball doesn’t have to be about mind-numbing frustration.
Wasn’t meant as a dig at soccer. Sorry if you took it that way.
It was me who had the quote about the nervous breakdowns and .. it was true.
Man, that game would have driven me crazy as a fan of any of those two teams.