The Czech Republic

You also have the problem of the Roger Clemens Strike Zone, which bleeds over home plate by a few inches, and maybe a few vertically too.

Humble, too

I'll start bitching if he doesn't allow me in, and we can snowball it from there.

Who the hell would rig a playoff where the Red Sox AND Cubs lose and the Marlins and Yankees advance? Q.E.D. WWE's booking team does not do baseball. However, WWE's production team may do baseball, because I thought I heard some disembodied voice go "World Series 05, you're the worst case scenario."

Agh! No! Cardinals-White Sox has no relevance whatsoever beyond "as Cub fans weep."

Yeah whatever, buddy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> rawmvp and USTU arguing over who is cooler is everything that's wrong with the world, condensed into one TSM post.

TOUCHDOWN!!!! = best call of the playoffs.

What is WITH that freakin' Baltimore accent, anyway? Oh, also: Chris Berman, I've heard of being out of shape, but this is ridiculous!

Touch 'em all!

He's new to this whole Czech Republic thing.

Do heroin?

Maybe they'll get paid to take a dive in this one, too.

They're coming out of the woodwork again.

I'll be ignoring you

And it's guaranteed to be excruciating for Cubs fans.

Oh come on, he made the right call. Thats all that matters. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I know, but the umps are so spooked they can't even get the hand signals right <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Phil Garner must be running the ump crews. "Aw dang, I made the wrong signal! Come back!"

Well we've been over this a hundred times, what's 101? The comparative dominance of the Chicago Cubs comes from millions of people growing up with day games on WGN. Also, prior to 1958, the western limits of the major league were the St. Louis Cardinals and Cubs, who each had 50,000-watt flagships and sizable networks. It's just a matter of exposure. The White Sox never matched the media presence of the Cubs, and the Cubs are more important as a result.

That doesn't prove the statement wrong. That's like saying that because you went over the speed limit, it's not illegal to speed. I don't want to get into who's allowed to like which teams, because Damaramu will come bumbling in about the Red Sox and and Eagles and everyone will gang-rape him and it'll be pointless, but I've never witnessed a case in which liking the Cubs and the White Sox is socially acceptable. You take a side and that's it.

It'll tank everywhere but Texas and part of Chicago.

Hey, I like Whitey McCracker.

Baseball was several notches down from 03 and 04, so we're suffering together. This stinker of an October is really jeopardizing The Great Baseball Renaissance, and I wouldn't be shocked if the ratings are a fraction of what they had last year and year before. We're due for a kick-ass NBA season, then.

'cept not.

JESUS CHRIST SHE DID IT AGAIN "Ozzie has seen Chicago blow a 3-1 lead in the postseason before!"

"I'm trying to think of the last time a team blew it in the NLCS....oh wait, the Cubs!" Shut the fuck up about the Cubs, Jeannie Zelasko. I'll stick my cock in your throat if it has to come to that.