2009 MLB Playoffs

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

Well...we have 3 outs to get at least 3 runs against Rivera. Any baseball magic left...now would be the time to use it, Metrodome...

[SteveF]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

the opening day payrolls of the last 9 world series champions. care to guess which 2 are boston?

$ 98,269,880
$143,026,214
$ 88,891,371
$ 75,178,000
$127,298,500
$ 45,050,000
$ 61,721,667
$ 85,508,000
$107,588,459

[amherstblackbear]

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Is this just a cool factoid,or is there a deeper point here?

Not being sarcastic. Just curious where you're going with this...

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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Is this just a cool factoid,or is there a deeper point here?

Not being sarcastic. Just curious where you're going with this...

Everyone's taking turns shooting cannonballs in Swansong's complaints. I think that's what is going on here.

[amherstblackbear]

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I guess I haven't been following along closely enough.

Carry on, then...

[Red Cloud]

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I'd say my point has been, and continues to, be made for me. Thanks for playing along guys.

I want to hear more about the point, though!

[Greyeagle]

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Really good play by the Rockies catcher on the 1-2-3 DP, I would have stepped on the bat, thrown the ball into right, and broken my ankle.

You're a weird bird. You're completely contradicting yourself now.

For the record, I'm a weird bird, he's just weird.

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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For the record, I'm a weird bird, he's just weird.

Old is the new weird?

[hockeyplayer1015]

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Another blown call, and a good argument for 2 blown calls there. Ball appeared to bounce off Utley in the box, then it looked like Helton slid his toe across the base on the throw.

6-5 Philly now.

[Jon]

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You can't be serious. Rimbaud is a gay hippy.

FYP.

My only hope for the next series is that Joba beans Napoli in the head.

[Red Cloud]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

Red Sox and Yankee fans united over hating the Angels? That's an unholy alliance if I ever saw one. Jon, I know how you feel about potentially hating the Angels more than the Yankees right now. Many times in the last three or four seasons I've experienced a similar sensation vis a vis the Red Sox.

For the record, I was hoping Boston won that series, but as a Yankee fan I couldn't help myself but giggle like a schoolgirl at the 9th inning. Sorry. Papelbon just acted like a dick in the Bronx one too many times.

[amherstblackbear]

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Holy crap, I guess that makes two things we can agree on, then.

Papelbon's been way too full of himself for a long time, now. He can get away with pacing forever, and trying to stare down batters when he faces the Clevelands and Baltimores of the world. But NY and Anaheim aren't buying it.

[Scarlet]

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Saw this posted on another board and laughed. And would have shelled out money for an actual paper if it had happened:

If there were any women newspaper editors (or headline subeditors), who could doubt that the back page in Boston today would read "Pap Smeared"? No man would ever come up with that, and it needs to happen.

So, the next round doesn't start til Friday???? That seems like a ridiculously long wait.

[Jon]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

Holy crap, I guess that makes two things we can agree on, then.

Papelbon's been way too full of himself for a long time, now. He can get away with pacing forever, and trying to stare down batters when he faces the Clevelands and Baltimores of the world. But NY and Anaheim aren't buying it.

Red Sox and Yankee fans united over hating the Angels? That's an unholy alliance if I ever saw one. Jon, I know how you feel about potentially hating the Angels more than the Yankees right now. Many times in the last three or four seasons I've experienced a similar sensation vis a vis the Red Sox.

He's a good reliever, but he's also kind of a stupid redneck. And the Pink Hats love him... He's not the new Calvin Schiraldi, but had 2004 and 2007 not happened, we would be up there with Galehouse, Torres, Buckner, Grady, et al... Seeing the local media turn on him and Tom Brady this morning has been bizarre. Next I'll be seeing "Larry Bird is a communist" and "Bobby Orr eats kittens" on the back of the Herald.

[amherstblackbear]

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Thankfully, I'm sheltered from that stuff by about 900 miles.

I don't want to lynch Papelbon. I just don't want to buy into the mythology.

Foulke was huge in 04. But when the team realized he had peaked, they weren't sentimental about it. I'm not saying Papelbon is through like Foulke was - but he's not God's gift to RS Nation.