State of the Evil Empire -- ALDS update

Well tonight the Yankees took game #2 of their ALDS against the Minnesota Twins! Yankees are up 2-0 in the series AND get to play in the Bronx for the next two games! Andy Pettitte finally looked like the post-season version of Andy Pettitte us Yankee fans have grown up to love! GREAT to see major contributions from Lance Berkman, Curtis Granderson,  and the rest of the hits were pretty much evenly distributed! How about the evolution of Curtis Granderson people! Granderson has been a MUCH different hitter since he went to school with Kevin Long back in August! Now granted the Yanks aren't out of the woods quite yet as they have to see what they get from Phil Hughes! But so far, so good! 

Outside of the Yankees, there have been some really really interesting stories so far in this MLB post-season! How about Doc Halladay's no-hitter?! How about 14Ks by Tim Lincecum?! Unreal! But...with the good brought some bad! In game 1 of Yanks/Twins, we had an umpire blunder when the RF umpire, 1B umpire, 2B umpire, and the others involved DID NOT see Golson CATCH the ball but instead saw "a trap"! Now....in live play, I thought Golson did trap the ball! But...when I paused the TV and replayed it back to that frame, it was clear he caught the ball! One of these days....a play like this is going to SCREAM for more Instant Replay and cost a team BADLY! This is yet another red flag for MLB to get their act together! 

Yesterday, we had a record two ejections in the same day in post-season play! The first one was the first post-season ejection since 2005! Now a check-swing call is difficult and Joe Maddon was trying to fire up his lifeless team that failed to show up to the Trop like their fans! (yes I went there!) The other ejection later that day is bothersome. Reportedly Ron Gardenhire had a past history with HP umpire Hunter Wendlestadt, and Hunter blew a strike 3 call that was clearly a strike! Now that bothers me! It really wasn't "borderline" at all!

So far...It looks like we're moving closer to a Yankees/Rangers ALCS and a Giants/Phillies NLCS! We'll have to see how it all plays out! But with the Rays showing NO life AT HOME...tough for me to find them winning three straight! Same with the twins....they looked defeated! And they have to play in a place where they CANNOT seem to find wins! Phillies will continue to dominate a Reds team that beat up on a crappy NL Central and the Giants will beat up on a Braves team that doesn't have much left!

Stay tuned for more post-season updates!