ALCS 2004 - Game 3... And The Winner Is Annie!

The main reason I didn't live-blog game three last night was that I couldn't catch the beginning of the game. I was at the a href='http://www.palacetheatre.org/'>Palace Theater in Manchesterhappily enjoying my daughter Shaina's first performance as a supporting player in a professional musical theater producution. It was a production of Annie!, and Shaina was part of the subset of the ensemble of orphan girls who got a little more stage time, and more singing and dancing than the larger group of girls, and also a few spoken lines -- her first in any production. We had a large family and friends contingent visiting, with lots of intersecting and non-intersecting logistics, so the whole weekend was really a blur, but everyone was tremendously proud of Shaina.

We didn't get out of the theater until 10 PM, which I had figured would probably be around the 6th or 7th inning, but it turned out to only be the 4th. Gary Sheffield hit what turned out to be the winning home run about 20 seconds after I turned on the car radio and got it tuned to WCBS AM New York. Traffic in Manchester was messed up because the event at the Verizon Wireless Arena let out at the same time as the play, so by the time I got home the Yanks had picked up several more runs, I was too worn out to blog, and I didn't really want to be accused of gloating, either. I'll just say this: the Sox are a much better team than they looked like last night, or in any of the ALCS games for that matter, and last night was just one of those days when everything went right for the Yankees. Game 4 is under way now, scoreless in the second. I'll pick up the commentary from a new blog entry.