Wow KO picked a Yankee play as the smartest in series history

[Johonny]

what is nothing else going on today? Hey KO I know you like the Yankees and all but ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[malaise]

1. Still that was one hell of a play

even if you don't like the Yankees.

[Johonny]

19. I just saying KO is a little bias on this issue

He's just like Faux

All I know is he would have scored on the double had he been on second or third. Smart play but I'd think the smartest play in history might well occur in a game not won by 3 runs.

[gateley]

2. It WAS a smart play, gotta admit (and I don't like the Yankees, but credit where

credit is due )

I welcomed it after listening to all the Doom for Obama? news stories today.

[tridim]

9. It was a good distraction from the daily BS. Good segment, great play!

[bigwillq]

3. Which play?

[VMI Dem]

5. Damon's steal of 3rd.

[malaise]

7. Johnny Damon's stolen base

on Sunday night.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009...


Johnny Damon pulls into second base with steal only to find Phils third baseman Pedro Feliz covering the bag, and takes off for third.

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He may just have won the world series with that quick thinking

[Journeyman]

12. Video of the play here. . .

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7111779&t...

[bigwillq]

14. I've seen the play.

Thanks to all who responded. I thought it was Damon's play, but wasn't sure. Wow, I'm a bit stunned. Smartest play in the history of the World Series? Wow.

Great play indeed. A heads up play. He still would've scored from second on A-Rod's hit, though.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. A-Rod wouldn't have gotten two fastballs with Damon on second, though

[bigwillq]

18. Probably not

but that doesn't mean he wouldn't have gotten a hit.

[Johonny]

22. I can anyone know?

all I know is KO is a Yankee fan. He probably should have had an unbiased baseball guy deliver that instead of himself. Felt sort of fanboyish on his part.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

33. I disagree with Keith

imho, this is the smartest play. It turned the Series around in favor of the Yanks. Unfortunately there is no video. This is the famous 'sticking his hip out' but I didn't stick my hip out play........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbZj8haBXVo

[KharmaTrain]

4. I'm No Yankee Fan, But I Agree...

Damon's play was one of the smartest I had ever seen in nearly 50 years of watching baseball. So many teams do that stupid lefty shift and the Phillies deserved to be burned.

It was refreshing to see something other than the usual political spin. Now to hit the DVR and watch Mad Men...

[malaise]

10. It was one of the great plays in any sport

[KharmaTrain]

16. My Personal Favorite Was in The 2005 ALDS

A.J. Pierzynski running on a dropped third strike that the catcher, Joel Skinner, feel asleep...thinking the inning was over and rolled the ball back toward the mound. A J didn't hear the umpire call him out and ran to first and was called safe. After being replace by a pitch runner...who stole second, that runner came home on a Joe Crede single with the winning run that was a crucial victory in that series. But then being a White Sox fan, I'm biased.

[tridim]

6. For some reason I'm not hating on the Yankees this year.

I guess I just like good baseball. My team lost in round 1.

Hell of a play Damon!

[godai]

Just an average, dumb play by the Phillies

Lidge was asleep at the wheel in not covering 3rd base. Smartest play in HISTORY? No way.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. If you don't consider that the most heads-up play of this Series thus far, you're an idiot

Utley's play has been amazing at bat, but that's not "smart," it's just good.

What Damon did was smart - a snap view of the field and quick decision making.

It doesn't take a Yankee fan to recognize good, smart baseball. But let's see. Name a smarter play than that. Let's decide.

[malaise]

11. Genius stuff

I agree.

And the discussion was way better than these crap races.

[godai]

13. I vote for Lee's catch behind his back n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. You vote for a snap fielding play in a 6-0 game

Against a decision based on variable factors that put the go ahead run on third and took away the opponents strongest pitch, forcing him to throw fastballs to one of the best hitters in the game? And thereby leading to the go ahead run in the ninth inning?

Wow. That's fucking stupid.

[godai]

21. Degree of difficulty - Damon 1 Lee 10

I could have gone to uncovered 3rd base. He would have scored from second so no impact on the game. Lee's reaction was amazing. What's the score got to do with it?

[VMI Dem]

23. How the heck is that a smart play?

Nice fielding, yeah. But Damon's play was heads up baseball. No comparison.

[godai]

24. I responded to 'heads up play'

Almost always, you'll se a pitcher duck out of the way or stare into the outfield. Lee must have done that before. He was prepared and made a great catch.

[VMI Dem]

25. Great fielding. Heads up? No way.

[bigwillq]

26. Lee's was a reaction play.

Damon's was a "heads up" Play.

[RagAss]

20. Smartest play in Sports since the Rope-a Dope.

[bigwillq]

27. Did KO say

Smartest Play in World Series History or just this World Series?

[VMI Dem]

28. WS history.

He did a countdown of all time.

[bigwillq]

29. Maybe I'll catch the KO repeat

Would like to see that list. Off the top of my head, I can't really think of any specific play I would consider the smartest in WS history, but tough to think it was Damon's. Great play, no doubt. But not so sure it was the smartest ever. And I am a Yankees fan!

[VMI Dem]

30. I was only listening off and on.

I remember Gibsons home run was on there. And that play from the Minn-Atl WS where they fooled the base runner (Nixon?) into holding up a little rounding second.

[gratuitous]

36. So, he had Darryl Motley's home run in second?

Or is KO just another nitwit New Yorker whose sports knowledge ends at the Hudson River?

[VMI Dem]

37. What made that a smart play?

[gratuitous]

38. Choosing the black bat

Duh!

[VMI Dem]

39. heh.

[rurallib]

31. Yankees in damn near every world series

At least one of them had to do something swmrt.

[Johonny]

32. Tweety just threw down on KO and the Yankees

"Fight, fight, fight". It's a pundit blood bath tonight on MSNBC.

[flvegan]

34. In the history of the World Series? Doubtful.

Good heads-up baserunning by Damon? Absolutely. Smartest in Series history? Unlikely.

[Berry Cool]

35. Aw, Keith can't help it.

This is why Dan Patrick always calls him a Yankee apologist.

[TorchTheWitch]

40. It was a no-brainer play

Nothing the least bit brilliant about it. With the Phillies dumb enough to have no one covering 3rd base then the obvious no-brainer deduction is to steal 3rd base... though it can hardly be called stealing when the Phillies just made a fucking GIFT of it. I'm furious that the Phillies were so epically STUPID to leave 3rd base wide open like that. That's a mistake not even made in little league. No excuse for that whatsoever.

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. I doubt anyone alive today is qualified

to proclaim the best/smartest/biggest/dumbest/anythingest play in 105 World Series, particularly since there's nothing or not much in the way of film or video for more than half of them.