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What's infuriating about the denouement of the Divisional Playoffs isn't that Seattle and New York were gypped (That is, if you really believe that Sandy Alomar slid across home plate without leaving any dirt on it). Both went down to teams that, over the course of four and five-game series, proved their mettle with clearly superior starting pitching and clutch hitting, and wholly deserve their spots in the Championship Series...
Williams, who still managed 117 RBI after two stints on the disabled list led Yankee impotence at the plate, going 2-for-17 while staring like a deer in the headlights at pitches comfortably in his "red-hot zone...
...used his opening comments at the campaign finance hearings Tuesday morning to vent at the White House. It was a multimedia display, including clips from those now-infamous tapes of donors quaffing coffee in the Oval Office, and colorful calls for the President to "step up to the plate" by taking responsibility for fund-raising misdeeds. "Nobody wants this to go down as a successful cover-up," said the ambitious senator, with all the righteousness he could muster...
...Brady Anderson in center, Alex Rodriguez at short, Frank Thomas at first, Mike Piazza behind the plate, Jay Buhner in right, Ken Caminiti at third, Craig Biggio at second, Barry Bonds in left and Roger Clemens on the mound. Despite the presence of such stars, we lost our first six games--not counting a tie called for darkness. Actually, it was in an effort to lighten things up that the coaches decided to give our Little Leaguers the names of big leaguers with the corresponding positions, if not quite the talents...
Jeff Bagwell can tell you all about being hit by a pitch. He had a bone in his left hand broken three years in a row. That hasn't stopped him from crowding the plate in that squatty stance and sending balls into orbit that the Johnson Space Center ends up tracking. Of course, baseball isn't as exciting as figuring out what's going to explode next...