WARNING . . . . MASSIVE rant coming!

Every once in a while I watch a game that just sucks every ounce of being out of me. I get that feeling in the pit of my stomach that something really bad is going to happen. The last time I REALLY felt it was during the 7th game of the WS when my Giants lost (I'm STILL trying to get over that one!).

But last night was one of those games.

I had forgotten they were playing the Mets and thus they had an early game. By the time I turned on the TV it was the 10th inning. I sat there, glued to the boob-tube since the score was 3 to 3. It was a good thing I can't ride roller coasters anymore because this game had more curves and drops than the Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

FINALLY in the 11th we got a run and were ahead . . . .

Then we brought in Armando Benetez (I know I just butchered his name) and everything went to hell in a handbasket.

Up until about a week ago Armando had been doing quite well, or at least better than he had since we got him a couple of years ago. He did have one bad game, and that seem to set things off for last night.

You see, Armando is an emotional player . . . . to the extreme. The guy just doesn't seem to be able to deal with what's going on around him. The few times he shuts out the crowd and noise he's done all right. But when all hells breaking loose around him he gets affected . . . really badly.

What didn't help was that he was in New York. I had forgotten he had been with the Mets when he blew not one, but two saves against the Giants during the 2000 post season. But what amazed me was the sheer hatred that was coming from the crowd last night. Now I understand how they would be pissed with him, but it was like they KNEW if they threw everything they could at him, he'd cave.

And cave he did.

He walked the first two guys and then everything went crazy. When the first balk was called on him, I couldn't believe it. I was totally dumbstruck. IT WAS NOT A BALK!!!! The second one that was called on him and brought in the tying run had me up off of my bed SCREAMING at the TV!! In watching on the TV you could not see that he did in fact balk the second time. Then the next batter came up and it was bye-bye ball.

What frustrated the hell out of me was that if the first balk not been called, it wouldn't have set things up for the second one.

So needless to say I didn't listen to any of the post game wrap, nor have I listened to ANY sports radio today because I know what they're talking about and I don't want to hear it.

This concludes my rant for today. Thank you for listening.