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Wow.
We really are just one win away from the World Series, thanks to yet another stellar outing from Jeff Weaver. He didn’t dominate, but he got the outs when he needed them. I can’t seem to stop gushing about that guy.
Albert Pujols perhaps extinguished one story line by homering off of Tom Glavine, who I’m sure was more than a little chagrined to have had to intentionally walk him before he was relieved, but perhaps ignited another.
In the top of the ninth with Cliff Floyd batting, Floyd bounced one to Pujols, who in his normal hard-headed “Fuck you, Jobu, I do it myself” routine, ran to the bag to make the out himself instead of flipping it to Adam Wainwright, who was over to cover. But on VEB’s Game 5 overflow thread, commenters Hardcore Legend and EBroglio suggested that maybe Pujols took it himself to make Floyd run hard to the bag knowing Floyd had a bad Achilles tendon.
I wouldn’t put it past the muckraking New York beat writers to suggest such a notion; if so, there will be a shitstorm of epic proportions in the fishwraps and on the blogs this morning.
Again, wow. This whole up-3-games-to-2-in-the-NLCS thing is weird and scary to me. I still can’t believe So Taguchi hit a home run the other day. I’m at a loss for words. Interesting ones, anyway.
