but why does everyone think the nats were an excuse for the yankees loss? If you were in their shoes, wouldnt you not think the same? If you were in chamberlain's shoes, you would also be complaining and hoping for a re-schedule or something. There was about 30 bugs on his face is that not supposed to distract you?

Im not even a yankee fan, but some people think other people are because of the nat problem.

All I'm saying is I just want whats best for both teams.

it seemed like they showed up when mienkewitz was up..he was the last batter in the inning....joba shut them down easy as hell, he made them look like high school batters...all of a sudden they show up when hes about to come back in tho....u cant even say they were on indians players like they were on joba, he was swarmed, its like they gave the yankees spray to attract them...JOBA would make them all look pathetic without ur bugs to destract....they just show up for 40 minutes and leave, somethin is strange about that, why didnt they show up in the 5th or the 6th...the game was about to be over wit joba on the hill and everyone knew that, the guy is untouchable

There's a conspiracy theory here thet The Yankees sent the gnats to make an excuse for their impending collapse in YET ANOTHER Playoffs series...Good idea if you ask me!

the indians had the same problem as joba its not like george bush released gnats to attack joba chamberlain

Funny. Indians, pitching in the same conditions, seemed to handle it.

Indians had to bat with nats in their face, so to me its an equal trade off.

In Biblical times, God sent a plague of bugs when he was mad at the Egyptians. I'm just saying.....

Don't blame it on bugs. For many years Boston would fold in the Playoffs or World Series and they called it the Babe Ruth Curse, aka, "Curse of the Babe". (Ruth was traded from Boston to NY). Finally Boston won the W.S. and now the curse is in reverse. For 3 consecutive years the Yankees played top notch baseball and when they got to the playoffs a big change takes place. No more clutch hits, swinging at pitches way out of the strike zone and a lack luster bullpen. This probably will be it for Joe Torre. Don't be surprised if next season in the Yankee dugout you see a witchdoctor.

Anybody who thinks this is not thinking rationally. The Indians had to pitch and bat and field on the same diamond with the gnats. Rafael Perez and Fausto Carmona threw strikes, Joba didn't. Travis Hafner hit the ball with gnats in his face, the Yankees didn't. The game was completely and utterly fair.

they were actually canadian soldiers

Cleveland wins with the help of bugs and Red Sox win with the help of Angels.

Both teams had to play under the same conditions!