Intentionally walking A-Roid with 2 outs when he only represented the tying run was a pretty questionable decision, in my opinion, even if he crushed one of Fuentes the other day.
The tension was coming out of my TV screen. Even the normally stoic Pettite was showing a little anxiety.
swisher just wasted a perfect opportunity to be espn's golden child for the week. can you imagine if he had dropped a go ahead grand slam on the road to all but clinch the alcs... i always watch swisher's at-bats closely; my reason - billy beane, the creator of moneyball, considered nick swisher to be a sure-fire prospect, and one of the most gifted players he'd ever scouted during his tenure with the a's; pretty damn impressive that he can swat 350 ft bombs with a massive pinch of tobacco in his mouth. that's multi-tasking at its finest
