EVIL~! alkeiper

Watching Sting/Vampiro, I just realized why WCW folded. It sucked ass.

They had Ortiz at the plate with a man on second, first base open, two out. Ortiz's OPS is 150 points higher against righties than against lefties. You can afford to issue a walk if you want a better matchup. Manny Ramirez is a great hitter, but his numbers are down this year and he's a righty. And really, you only need a cursory glance at the stats to see that Ortiz was a MUCH more dangerous hitter this year. Why not Lowell? His performance was just as good as Manny's this season. The Angels were in trouble and went with the most favorable matchup they could. A Hall of Famer delivered a big hit. It's not Mike Scioscia's fault, and it's not a case of K-Rod choking. A good hitter came up big.

So now all four series are 2-0. Wonderful.

How is it humanly possible to take over four hours to play a 3-3 game?

Tom Glavine declined his player option for 2008, he is now eligible for free agency.

No new ballots for three days, so this thread is closed while I tabulate the results. Expect them completed in a few days.

It's not a bad deal considering you'll routinely pay $1 for a soda you only piss out the next day.

Sabu never managed to really stick around a minor promotion either though. WCW gave him a run but it was so abbreviated that I couldn't even blame politics. 911 just couldn't wrestle. All the years I watched ECW I only saw him in one real match (911/Rey Misterio vs. the Eliminators) The Samoans vs. Murdoch/Adonis match is well worth watching. Murdoch/Adonis are such a tremendous, forgotten tag team.

This game is fantastic. Just what the playoffs needed.

The big problem for the Yankees is that even if they get the win, Torre might be gun-shy on using Chamberlain again in a big spot.

Sounds like someone at TBS subscribed to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index. Despite the bugs, this is easily the best game of the postseason thus far.

Ric Flair/Kerry Von Erich, Christmas 1982 Hulk Hogan/Nick Bockwinkel, Super Sunday 1983

The pythagorean record is useful because since you can reasonably project win/loss records with it, you can evaluate individual players' direct contributions to winning games. As far as predictive value it's good from year-to-year, but not so good in-year.

Since there isn't much data on Rodriguez at the major league level, we'll use a common sense metric. Rodriguez when he played in Rochester the last few years tended to play second rather than shortstop. The reasoning here is that if his glove were a tremendous asset, his teams would put him at short as much as possible. What Rodriguez brings to the table is a bit of plate discipline in the infield. The Pads waived Brady Clark to pick up Rodriguez, so that's what the deal boils down to.

No series is over until a team wins three games. Winning three in a row is certainly not out of the question for either the Cubs or Phillies. What a crappy postseason though. Six games so far, and only one (D'backs/Cubs game one) has had any sort of drama whatsoever.

If you're talking a team's rotation, you'd have to make a distinction between three, four, five man staffs. Either way I don't think anyone has kept track much.

Great idea, but I can never find good Phillies moments online.

Would the CTDWAT trolls please shut up? Almost everything is fair game for a thread in this folder.

Anyone notice a commentator asking the other about Sabathia leaving the pitches high, and the other commentator just repeating the question?

Jeter fails in the clutch, Abreu doesn't.

Almost anything is game for a thread in these parts. It seems fairly petty to strip her of medals won seven years ago, particularly when most athletes may have used and just had the benefit of being low profile enough to avoid investigation.

No bitterness here, just disappointment.

At least they've been the best team in the division over that span. Actually since their inception in 1998, the Diamondbacks have won more division titles (four) than any other NL West club.

Particularly considering you can find his name listed if you check out WWE's Title History section.

Thing is, I really like this Rockies club. Homegrown players, better pitching staff than you think. I wouldn't be bored watching them later on. It's not like the D'backs where they already won a World Series recently.