Comments on: Grace Slick

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:11:42 +0000

[18] 3, 4 and 5. 6 was another punch in my guts, seeing Andy get killed like that. It was horrific.

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:19:04 +0000

Slice does put it in perspective. After 9/11, it was almost fitting that the Yanks battled back, and took it to the 9th inning of the 7th game,just falling short. It would have felt great then if Mo made that throw to start the DP and end the game and win the series but with ten years to mellow the memory it just feels proper and “respectful” to the larger events of the time that they didn’t. Grateful and melancholy were affirming then.

My son was 7 at that time watching that game, and that loss steeled his Yankee fandom for life. His Yankee crying moment.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:38:35 +0000

18)”could not care less”

…I can’t help myself, forgive me.

By: YankeeAbby

YankeeAbby — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:27:53 +0000

[5] took the words right out of my mouth. I could care less that they lost the WS that year – games 3, 4 & 6 were thrill enough for me

By: Andyroo

Andyroo — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:19:41 +0000

and……it wasn’t Mo that got that call, it was Robertson. My bad.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:53:54 +0000

[13] Hahahah! Da Mayor!
[14] Yes, Alex, it was very, very cool.

By: Andyroo

Andyroo — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:53:07 +0000

Getz never went around on the strikeout. How frustrating to have to face that cutter, along with the fact the guy throwing it is a legend who’s going to get calls like that at times.

Not that I’m complaining

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:25:47 +0000

GETTING BACK TO LAST NIGHT…Wasn’t that cool? LOL

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:22:27 +0000

[11] yeah, weeping, that’s what I’m talking about. Vomit city. I totally get it. I just, for whatever reason, never got there.
2002,2003, 2004? I was the fucking mayor of Vomit City.

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:16:45 +0000

[7] I’m sure you had the right perspective as well I mean who could blame themselves for being caught up in the baseball? It was magnificent. November. Unheard of.
On a baseball level it was as devastating as it gets. Game 7, 9th inning. The shit you can’t even make up happens, as it happened again and again in that see-saw Series.
See saw, roller coaster, time traveling De Lorean. Pick your ride. The ’01 Series was more unbelievable, more exciting. Completely dizzying, and disorienting. In the immediate aftermath it would have been as easy to vomit as it was to lose grasp of the bigger picture.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:11:41 +0000

And ftr, I felt none of your perspective that night, Sliced. I felt horrifically ill. The second Womack hit that double, my guts felt kicked out.

In fact, the second Grace hit that line drive up the middle, I felt kind of sick.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:08:50 +0000

[5] Very well said, Sliced. And for me, the embodiment, the icon of the team’s fight is of course, O’Neill, getting thrown out at third base going for a triple off Schilling.

Talk about valiant. He knew enough to know he had a better chance advancing a base right there, when he had a chance, than waiting on second for that fuck to strike out the side.

I was so proud of him there.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:05:22 +0000

[4] The first thing I think, every time I see that throw in my head is, “Fucking rain…”

Like Joba and the fucking gnats…

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:03:23 +0000

I was not at all happy after they lost, but about 6 weeks later while watching all the year-end things on ESPN and other places and really stepping back to look at the whole crazy run of those few weeks I gained a new appreciation for it. The Yankees ended up being the only thing I remember fondly from the fall of 2001.

But yeah that was the worst Monday morning ever, the next day.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:58:37 +0000

5) You had the right perspective. I was furious and guilty that I felt that way after the thrills they gave us AND the fact that they had just won three championships in a row.

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:55:38 +0000

Fifth in 6 years, that is.

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:52:22 +0000

Ah, the 2001 World Series. In the immediate aftermath I was sure of two things: Mo, and the Yankees would be back on top soon enough, and Alfonso Soriano would be a Yankee forever after bringing the team so close to a championship victory. Of course Mo proved to be the surest of those sure things.

That blown save honestly bothered me so little that night. The Yankees had hit about a buck fifty in the Series, had their doors blown off by Randy Johnson, and still made a valiant run at their 6th title in 5 years.

They gave us an absolutely thrilling postseason just weeks after the worst day in New York City history. I was grateful to be alive. Grateful to watch baseball. Grateful to see the Yankees fight until the 9th inning of Game 7. It would have been a great victory, one of the best in franchise history, but in light of the tragedies of September 11th, I was completely at peace with the outcome

By: Jon DeRosa

Jon DeRosa — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:40:25 +0000

I always have wondered if the poor throw in Arizona was caused by the light rain.

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:36:29 +0000

[0] Only a handful, indeed. By my count, its 8: Jeter, Posada, Alfonso Soriano, Choate (!), Counsell (!!), Mo, Barajas (I forgot he was on the D’backs), and Batista.

Mo is grace personified.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:33:31 +0000

Yeah, I only caught one Nina.