Tonight’s game between the Yankees and Angels is easily the most heavily officiated baseball game I have seen in ages. Ervin Santana was positively squeezed by the home plate umpire. Robinson Cano was thrown out running to first base on a strikeout for stepping out of the runner’s path by about the width of Cano’s footprint. A-Rod makes a great diving play at third, only to get hosed by a bad call on his throw to first. It seems as though this game meant a hell of a lot, and the umpires made it painfully aware to the world that they knew it. To me, the best officiated games are the ones where you don’t notice the officials. Something to think about in the ALCS and NLCS, guys.