2009 MLB Playoffs

[jmh]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

Wait... WHAT?

[mookie1995]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

game 3 of the '69 WS is on mlb network right now.

i must admit i find the suitcoats and ties appealing attire.

[hockeyplayer1015]

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1. I doubt he's going to pitch on 2 days rest, but you're right we might see him for an inning if we see a Game 7.
2. Well now's a good time to start, so having him pitch a meaningless ninth inning doesn't make much sense now.

Game 7 would essentially be his bullpen throw day anyways, so he'd be available for an inning or 2, possibly 3 max.

[Terrierbyassociation]

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1. Everyone's available on some level for a game 7 World Series

2. Lee's never gone on short rest, from what I heard this morning.

1. I doubt he's going to pitch on 2 days rest, but you're right we might see him for an inning if we see a Game 7.
2. Well now's a good time to start, so having him pitch a meaningless ninth inning doesn't make much sense now.

[bronconick]

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So this is a surprise, Cliff Lee won't start Game 4 on short rest but will pitch Game 5 and obviously won't be available for Game 7.

Guess that statsnerd Charlie Manuel forgot about pitch counts, letting Lee run it up to 122. Or maybe that was always his plan. If it was his plan to give Lee Games 1 and Games 5...then he's not maximizing Lee.

1. Everyone's available on some level for a game 7 World Series

2. Lee's never gone on short rest, from what I heard this morning.

[JF_Gophers]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

So this is a surprise, Cliff Lee won't start Game 4 on short rest but will pitch Game 5 and obviously won't be available for Game 7.

Guess that statsnerd Charlie Manuel forgot about pitch counts, letting Lee run it up to 122. Or maybe that was always his plan. If it was his plan to give Lee Games 1 and Games 5...then he's not maximizing Lee.

You obviously are overlooking one key thing. Manual knows his team will sweep at home, so Game 5 will be the last game of the series, thus maximizing Lee.

[Terrierbyassociation]

Re: 2009 MLB Playoffs

So this is a surprise, Cliff Lee won't start Game 4 on short rest but will pitch Game 5 and obviously won't be available for Game 7.

Guess that statsnerd Charlie Manuel forgot about pitch counts, letting Lee run it up to 122. Or maybe that was always his plan. If it was his plan to give Lee Games 1 and Games 5...then he's not maximizing Lee.

[The Paragon of Virtue]

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I *thought* TBS did that for the play-in game between the Twins and Tigers, though I may be confusing it with something else, like the Red Wings games in Sweden.

They used Caray and Darling for the Twins/Tigers game.

[Jon]

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I *thought* TBS did that for the play-in game between the Twins and Tigers, though I may be confusing it with something else, like the Red Wings games in Sweden.

Although TBS' aura of suck is so great that I started hating Don Orsillo at the end of the Sox/Angels series. Possibly because I was so enraged that I confused him with Papelbon. I'm sorry Don. But that was one too many games without Remy...

[bronconick]

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I really think they should have a guy from the Phillies booth, a guy from the Yankees booth and Craig Sager's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and not use Buck and McCarver for anything more than target practice...

I *thought* TBS did that for the play-in game between the Twins and Tigers, though I may be confusing it with something else, like the Red Wings games in Sweden.

[Jon]

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Buck and McCarver spent all of Game 2 trying to make a mountain out of a molehill about Pedro, meanwhile conveniently ignoring the game A.J. Burnett was throwing. When Burnett struck out his ninth batter in the 7th, Buck finally, begrudgingly started to compliment the job he'd done.

But Burnett isn't a storyline, Pedro is. What the f-ck ever. It kills me that we're blessed with such idiocy on Fox, TBS, and ESPN.

I really think they should have a guy from the Phillies booth, a guy from the Yankees booth and Craig Sager's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and not use Buck and McCarver for anything more than target practice...

[mookie1995]

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Buck and McCarver spent all of Game 2 trying to make a mountain out of a molehill about Pedro, meanwhile conveniently ignoring the game A.J. Burnett was throwing. When Burnett struck out his ninth batter in the 7th, Buck finally, begrudgingly started to compliment the job he'd done.

But Burnett isn't a storyline, Pedro is. What the f-ck ever. It kills me that we're blessed with such idiocy on Fox, TBS, and ESPN.

did anyone else like the "pedro is so smart, even not on the mound..... AND THERE'S A DRIVE BY TEX-SHARE-AH!!!"

[SteveF]

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Given the way Yankee fans complain about their broadcasters, it really says a lot that the Fox people are just that annoying.

its our radio broadcast that sucks.. and its really just waldman. sterling is a little corny on his homerun calls and obviously does the yankees win thing, but his play by play is otherwise very good and he is always very flattering of the other teams' performance and up to date on their season's success

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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Given the way Yankee fans complain about their broadcasters, it really says a lot that the Fox people are just that annoying.

Buck and McCarver spent all of Game 2 trying to make a mountain out of a molehill about Pedro, meanwhile conveniently ignoring the game A.J. Burnett was throwing. When Burnett struck out his ninth batter in the 7th, Buck finally, begrudgingly started to compliment the job he'd done.

But Burnett isn't a storyline, Pedro is. What the f-ck ever. It kills me that we're blessed with such idiocy on Fox, TBS, and ESPN.

[Jon]

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They make me miss Michael Kay, Paul O'Neill, David Cone and Al Leiter. Even though Kay could get annoying, the rest of the guys made up for it with their banter between each other. I really haven't laughed during a baseball game as much as I did when O'Neill brought his own milk to the radio booth because his wife wanted him to drink skim milk.

Given the way Yankee fans complain about their broadcasters, it really says a lot that the Fox people are just that annoying.