Post For A Saturday - Backs-Against-The-Wall Edition

 I have heard a few times over the past week "Don't let them celebrate at our field"

I love the sentiment...as a motivator at a high school basketball game.  

I don't know if motivation works the same way in an ALCS.  

However, if you add in "Don't let those arrogant, elitist, 15 year WS-less Yankees..." I am good.

I am a pragmatist.  The only team that can come from a 3-1 deficit on the road in the MLB playoffs is someone PLAYING AGAINST Cleveland so I doubt that we will win this series.

But there is this little thing called momentum.  The pressure is clearly on the Yankees, that is, the 15-year WS drought Yankees.  IF they don't win tonight they can tell themselves they can still win at home in the next two games.  If they would lose game 6 they could tell themselves it's OK, we'll win game 7.  And, if they DO win Game 7, after losing 5 and 6, they would likely look back and say, "Crap, we barely beat those loser Cleveland Guardians"

So we don't have to win the series to WIN the series, if you know what I mean.  

So, little battles.

Pitch by pitch, inning by inning.  Just like they have done it all season. 

I sense the Guardians will win today.  Only one playoff team gets to end their season with a win.  But if you can end a great season by winning your least game at home...well...that's something great, no matter how the chips fall when you return to New York.

Your fans have been with you all year.  Your teammates have been with you all year.  Let's win this last home game of the season for Cleveland.

Go Guardians.