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"Yesterday's game kind of lends itself to one of those \"'Really' with Seth and Amy\" sketches that \"SNL\" used to do:\n\nHey Angels pitching staff: You thought you could give up nine walks in eight innings and load the bases with Yankees five separate times and still win the American League pennant? Really?\n\nAnd Angels defense: The Yankees sacrifice-bunted on you three times in the bottom of the eighth and you threw out the batter exactly once. So what you're saying is that when you have a one-run lead in the second-to-last inning, you give the other team two extra outs? Really?\n\nAnd Angels manager Mike Scioscia: You are probably baseball's pre-eminent ump bitcher-outer. And yet when the home-plate umpire, with the bases loaded, calls a strike ball four and awards the Yankees what turns out to be the winning run, you don't budge from your post in the dugout? Really? Rather than protest the call until your face turns the color of a baboon's ass, the way you usually do, you silently sit there instead, looking pensive and absent and vaguely perpled, like you're having trouble coming up the scansion of the sonnet you're working on? Really?\n\nThat's basically the story of Game 6, a disappointing conclusion to what had become a taut and unpredictable series.\n\nWhat this ALCS will be remembered for is A-Rod's reinventing of himself as a big-game performer. Most public figures become grotesque parodies of themselves only at the end of their careers (think Orson Welles, Elvis, Lindsay Lohan) yet A-Rod somehow figured out the trick of being a self-parody at the beginning. We knew who he was supposed to be\u2014a matinee-idol slugger, a man's man and slayer of beautiful women, a latter-day DiMaggio\u2014yet when he actually tried to be those things he always ended up looking silly. He flopped in the clutch, he got caught cheating on his wife with strippers, he was outed as a juicer, he worked too hard on his tan. Yet in this postseason, for perhaps the first time since his rookie season, he looks like a hero."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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