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The New York Yankees had no problem dispatching the Minnesota Twins Sunday night with a 4-1 playoff victory of the final game at the Metrodome. The Metrodome has been the home of the Twins for 28 years and two World Series titles in 1987 and 1991, but the team will move into their new home next year at Target Field.

The Los Angeles Angels pulled off a stunning sweep of the Boston Red Sox on Sunday with their first postseason sweep ever, and against a team that they’ve lost against in their last four playoff meetings.

Both teams have four days to prepare for the first A.L. Championship Series on Friday October 16th at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees will host the AL Championship Series Game 2 on Saturday and the series will move to Angel Stadium on for the AL Championship Series Game 3 on Monday, Game 4 on Tuesday, and Game 5 on Thursday. Game 6 and Game 7 will be played in New York on Saturday and Sunday the 24th and 25th if necessary.

Google is going to release the beta version of their new web application called Google Wave tomorrow to about 10,000 testers and it looks to be a very cool tool for both business and personal use. The Wave was developed by the Rasmussen brothers of Australia, who developed Google Maps.

Google Wave

The Wave is a communication application that allows multiple users to communicate in real time and see what each person is typing. The users can edit documents from the same screen and others can see the changes simultaneously providing a much more efficient communication tool for business and personal use.

Another interesting use of the Wave application is to embed it in a web site, as Google says, “dropping in a Wave”. There are bugs to be worked out but it looks like a fantastic application that will give email a run for its money.

The Oakland Raiders face a blackout for this weekends game against the Denver Broncos at the Oakland – Alameda County Coliseum after failing to sell the number of seats as required by NFL rules. Thursday’s deadline of 1pm came and went so local television programing will not be showing the game.

Raider Blackout!

Too bad for the fans who cannot afford to go to the game, or just don’t enjoy the live experience enough to go through the trouble it takes to go to a game in the San Francisco Bay Area because of traffic problems.

It’s an NFL rule that has been debated lately, but it doesn’t look like that policy will change any time soon. On the bright side, tickets are running fairly cheep at $45 and up per ticket at the posting time of this blog, and the weather in Oakland is usually pretty good this time of year, so this may be one of those games worth attending in person. If nothing else, to relax and blow off some steam at the teams.
Oakland Raider Tickets are available for this weekends game against the Denver Broncos and for any of the Oakland Raider games, especially Raider blackout games! NFL Tickets are also available for all the teams for the 2009-10 season.