OK … so Cliff Lee won the first game of the World Series and looked pretty good doing it.
OK … he looked great doing it.
OK … he dominated. I mean … 10 strikeouts … a complete game, the first in a World Series since 1995. Pretty good.
And … yes … he used to pitch for the Indians.
And yes, the Indians might have gift-wrapped the Phillies their second World Series title in a row (though they do have some other good players and a pretty good mana … umm … never mind).
But while Joe Posnanski marvels at Lee's lack of nerves, we in Cleveland understand what we saw. Because we know that Lee is just "out there" enough to be able to shrug off nerves in his first World Series game.
It's what he does.
At least it's what he's done the last two seasons.
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it's funny how the national media was so oblivious to the sheer domination of cliff lee. most of them thought c.c. would take the game. any tribe fan with an i.q. slightly below normal or higher could have told them they were wrong.
i was listening to bill simmon's podcast with the guy who made the u.s.f.l. documentary this morning. bill thought cliff would be a good number 2 or shaky number 1 in the world series. both the doc maker (a philly guy) and i were like "are you high simmons?". cliff lee's last two years are tapping into the koufax zone. a pitching android. i called a buddy of mine who lives in philly the day they got cliff and told him the championship was theirs. that may or may not occur but if cliff ends up making 3 starts in the series then it's over for the yanks.
What gets me, why don't opposing teams step out of the box or call time more often? Lee (who I love and still watch pitch every start) works almost as fast as Charlie Weis at an all-you-can-eat-Dunkin Donuts. Opposing batters need to do everything in their power to slow him down and get under his skin.
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