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Now you know how Cubs fans feel. AW SHUCKS No no, Cubs fans get to root for other teams. Between the Knicks (never), Mets (1986), Giants (1991) and Rangers, 1994 was the last chance I got to see a title run by one of the teams I support. The Knicks are a lost cause, the Mets will never get another opportunity like this, the Giants aren't capable of winning a SB, and I really don't give a shit about hockey. It's 4 times as bad when you have a team to root for year round and you've had to watch them lose 4 world championships since the last victory all while the Yankees have recently won as many titles in a 5 year stretch as the four of them in my entire life. Add in the fact that the Knicks and Rangers have been leading the world in payroll, and the Mets have been top 5 for a long time and we can't even buy a damned ring. At least if I lived in a small market I could say that we just can't compete financially. As it is, there's really nothing that can be done to improve any of those teams enough to win a title.

When is Game 4 of the WS? I want to make sure I get to see Detroit clinch without having to watch any of the other games.

That was just about the most painful way to go down as is possible. Yay. It's looking less and less likely that I'll ever see any team I like win another championship in my lifetime.

Come on Beltran, just one more big hit against the Cards.

Why bunt 2 into scoring position when a wounded dog can just go down looking instead? Cliff Floyd fucking sucks.

When Floyd puts it on the ground and gives up 2 outs let me know what was the better choice.

Why send up Floyd in an obvious bunt situation? WHY?!?!?

Now Valentin gets the bloop hit that would have given us a lead. Fucking guy's timing could not have been worse.

Fucking Valentin blew it. Endy gets a pass there.

That catch deserves the hype that the meaningless one Melky pulled off against Manny ended up getting. Wow.

Good Lord, I thought they'd drop but not THAT low this quickly. The same site had 30 Rock at 5.5/9 and 20 Good Years at 4.7/7 last week.

Tiki wouldn't deserve HOF status yet. Another 2+ years like last his last two would get him in though. Comparing almost any RB to Marshall Faulk is insanity since Marshall is one of the most unique players in NFL history as you can see below. Among the league's all-time top 50 Rushes: 13 Rushing yards: 9 Rushing TDs: 6 Receptions: 17 Yards from scrimmage: 4 Rush/Receive TDs: 4

Props to Maine, Reyes, Mota and Lo Duca. Wagner was the drizzling shits again, and I'd rather see Heilman go 2 if need be. Wagner cannot be trusted in a Game 7. Darren Oliver was listed as the starter on ESPN hours ago and that works for me. I don't really know how tomorrow's game goes but I just hope that the Mets get an early lead so TLR can kill his bullpen and double switch himself out of options. It's amazing that there will be a game 7 in this series when the Cards have played 1 really good game so far.

Maine = shit. Why Endy didn't throw to 2nd there I'll never know. Not a good start.

The Mets pitching isn't that bad, yet in 4 of the 5 games to date the starter hasn't reached the 6th inning. In 3/5 of the games they couldn't go more than 4 and Trachsel got lit up in Game 3. Darren Oliver put in more innings than any of our last 4 starters. I don't see how starters averaging 4.1 IP isn't "that bad". For Christ's sake, Jaret Wright goes deeper in games than that and that's including Glavine's gem in Game 1. Take that one out and the Gm 2-5 starters have gone 3 2/3 on average. Awesome. The Carpenter game is the equivalent of the Cardinals losing that game to the Bears on Monday and last night's game was winnable as well. The offense hasn't been great but the pitching lost 2 swing games and no matter how good you are, you're not going to be able to beat a playoff team 5 or 6 times in a 7 game series and that's what the Mets have made of this series. The Cardinals have played well enough to have a 3-2 lead, but also have played poorly enough to have lost this series 4 games to 1 if the Mets could have played up to par by holding leads or had their big guns available. When Maine gets pulled after about 3 1/3 tonight down 5-1 it'll be an appropriate end to the series.

Why are you talking about St. Louis' pitching? The METS are the team whose pitching rotation was ruined. Game 1 - Glavine was great (Mets win 2-0) Game 2 - Maine (4 IP), Mota & Wagner shit the bed (Mets lose 6-9) Game 3 - Trachsel went ONE inning (Mets lose 0-5) Game 4 - Perez (5.2 IP) didn't have to pitch well since they scored 11 runs early. (Mets win 12-5) Game 5 - Glavine (4 IP) choked (NYM lost 2-4) The Mets are 1-2 in games where they got starts from guys who would probably not have pitched had Pedro and Duque been healthy. The starters have logged 21.2 IP in FIVE games leaving the 'pen to pitch the other 21.1 innings. Only an idiot would say that the Mets didn't suffer because Maine, Trachsel and Perez had to start 4/6 of the NLCS even though St. Louis doesn't have Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax and Tom Seaver starting. The shitty starting pitching has worn the bullpen out, and they've got nothing left. What team can win a series where the starters have gotten one more out than the bullpen?

The Mets have scored enough runs to win 4 games in this series. The pitching cost them Games 2 and 5. They had 3-0, 4-2 and 6-4 leads in Game 2 and lost. They led 2-0 yesterday and lost. No team is going to score 8 or 9 runs a game in the postseason. The series would be over already if they could have held onto those leads. The offense got them by LA, it's not going to get them by StL. You'd think that as a Yankees fan you would understand that not having enough pitching is a bigger issue than having a ++ offense. Unless Beltran, Delgado, Reyes & Wright can pitch 5 shutout innings it doesn't matter what they do at the plate.

The Yankees were a whopping 10-8 against the NL this year. It doesn't matter though since only the Mets were actually bit by the injury bug and even if they lose tonight or in Game 7 it's not a historic upset. The 2004 ALCS was the last historic upset in MLB. Now if the Cards manage to beat the Tigers, that's another issue.

Upset? Yes Historic? No I don't see how any team that loses 2 of its 3 top starters a week before the playoffs is expected to win every playoff series it plays regardless of how well they did in the regular season. Just for comparison's sake which of these teams would be expected to win a series. . . NYY minus Wang & RJ DET minus any 2 of Verlander/Rogers/Bonderman MIN minus Santana & Liriano or Bonser OAK minus Zito & Harden or Haren NYM minus Pedro & Duque LA minus Penny & Maddux STL minus Carpenter & Weaver or Suppan SD minus Peavy & whoever picthed their 3rd game Seriously, losing your ace and # 3 guy cripples any team to the point that the word "historic" in regards to an upset isn't valid. No team is going to get by when they have to pitch their # 4 and down starters in 4 games out of 6 or 7.

Why let a guy who can't walk bat down 2 with 1 out in the 9th? Even if he laces a ball down the line you have to pinch run for him and he'd be on first. Randolph does some stupid shit sometimes just out of loyalty. John Maine will be our Jaret Wright (aka the worst starter available in an elimination game) tomorrow night. Big ups to that HoFer Glavine for handling the pressure so well tonight. No wonder the Braves only won 1 title in 14 tries.

Who cares if 3 thru 10 or 11 are equal in the Big 10 and Pac 10, when the top two in the Big 10 are the two best teams in the whole country?

Congrats to the Cardinals for capitalizing on the mistakes the Mets made in Games 2 and 5. With Carpenter missing at least game 1 and possibly 2 of the WS Detroit should pummel them in 4 or 5 so it's not much of a reward. Now if only the Mets can ensure that they won't end up seeing half of their starters tear calf muscles right before the end of the year they should be fine.

Did you totally ignore the part where it was said that the computers only make up 1/3 of the score. OSU wouldn't drop that far in the human polls if they lost a close game to Michigan. Obviously, if they get blown out they'd take a big hit.

I think if Michigan and OSU are still undefeated going into their game, and Michigan wins by 4 or less you might only see OSU drop to # 2 in the BCS rankings.

My guess is that Niki's the proverbial "dancer/stripper/fill in blank" with a heart of gold who is only doing it to makes ends meet for her son. Obviously, she doesn't enjoy what she does but her alter ego however has no morality. She could have killed those two guys at her house without gutting them like fish, but chose to make it as gruesome as possible (I'm guessing she gets off on taking men twice her size down). Without any moral code to deal with, she chose to beat the guy in the elevator and then go fuck Petrelli just because she could. I don't know if the alter ego has super strength or is just completely heartless. I guess the best thing I could go with is the little angel/devil on the shoulder type thing we used to see in the old cartoons. Mirror Niki is depraved and ruthless, the regular one isn't. My gut says Mirror Niki gets more and more "TV time" in future episodes. As for Future Hiro's wardrobe, it looked very Samurai-ish to me which makes sense given his ethnicity and desire to be a real hero. The only things I didn't like about last night's episode were how quickly Simone & Peter hooked up, and any scene with Niki's kid in it. I don't know why the little bastard irks me so much, but he just does. The alley scene was great and the painter is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. I can't wait for next week's episode.