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This post-season has been almost nothing but blowouts. Very dissapointing.

Holy shit this inning is still going? I ate a burrito, read a couple threads here, watched some Hellraiser on AMC and switched back and it's still bottom of the fifth with 2 outs. When was the last out, 20 minutes ago?

I like the idea of remaking bad old movies into something better more than remaking good old movies into something worse.

Kid looks like he'll never recover but it was worth it.

I say Sox in 6.

Yeah I meant Dawn of the Dead, good catch. A long sustained action shot is not something you see in movies much these days. Also I like John Carpenter's Vampires, but I'm a sucker for John Carpenter.

I live in Boston but I'm rooting for Cleveland...blargh...

He was safe but it was still a bad play to run into the non-out. Edit: Oopsie. I'd have to see a replay that showed the whole field to see if holding Lofton made sense.

Manny plays the wall very well, Indians should really know that and not run into the first out of an inning.

I don't have any IM programs... Cleveland is lucky they aren't losing by 8.

Yeah that scene was the highlight of the movie, kind of reminiscent of the first few minutes of the Day of the Dead remake. I thought it was pretty good overall and was happy to see a horror movie that wasn't a remake, slasher flick, torture porn or sequel.

It may be a crapshoot but having the starting pitching raises your chances dramatically. I bet if you measured the number of true #1 starters on a team vs. success in playoffs they would correlate very strongly.

Sorry, what I wrote must have come out wrong. I meant they weren't huge from a resources angle, I didn't mean they weren't important moves. Those guys represented good trades and signs because they got great value without paying a fortune. I was trying to compare those to things like Giambi and Tartabull, who were vastly overpaid for what they did.

"O'Neill, Martinez, Nelson, Stanton, Brosius, Knoblauch, Curtis, Raines, Girardi, Key, Clemens, Wells, El Duque, and on and on" Most of those guys were not huge signings. (Unlike say Danny Tartabull...) Key, Clemens and Koblauch are the only guys there you could call big signings I thinkg. Poblem has been Yankees overpay for one-dimensional, injury prone or aging players on the decline, especially in the pitching staff.

Yeah that sounds right, but it's the same idea. Jogging on what was at marginal shot at a homer.

Obviously he was not going to accept a huge pay cut, not that he needs the money but it's an insult, a subtle way of telling him they didn't want him back. On a team like the Yankees or Red Sox the main job of the manager is to babysit and deal with egos, not to manage the game. Torre was good at that, as is Francona. (Neither is a good in-game manager) A guy like LaRussa would be horrible, he does not have a good touch with his players. Dusty Baker probably wouldn't be bad if he wasn't horrible at actually managing. Teams like the Yankees need a "player's manager." The real problem with the Yankees has been how they have built their team. How much you can blame on Cashman and how much on the Boss is anyone's guess, but between them they've sucked.

This reminds of the Mets vs. Yankees world series when a guy hit a ball he thought was a homer and jogged around the bases. I don't understand why you wouldn't run on a ball that if it is going to be a homer it will be by inches. It's one thing if you crush it 500 feet, but if you hit a big pop fly that will be out by a foot at best you might want to at least jog.

A lot of the Red Sox success this year was due to the decline of other teams and moves they made in previous years. A lot of major teams regressed this year in the AL - Yankees, White Sox, Angels, Tigers. In addition Beckett and Pedroia blossomed while Lowell continued to perform well above expectations. If you look at who they acquired last season they've made almost no difference. Okajima is the only new player you can point to that made any impact above a decent replacement player.

For the people wondering above I think Taj in Superman Returns was one of the the guys crushed by the big falling rock pillar at the end.

I like watching all playoff baseball but I'm waking up at 6 tomorrow so bedtime for me. Cleveland had similar luck against the Yankees, a lot of 2-out hits and a fair number of bloops and such.

Dbacks aren't exactly helping themselves. Dumbass baserunning mistakes, key errors...they really deserve to lose.

Wow the Dback baserunning is atrocious.

First time I've seen a ball hit a runner in a long time.

Dallas looks like a legit good team but NE looks like a legit great team. I can't take much away from Dallas other than to say that NE is flat out better. The NE defense is not the best but the combination of offense, defense and special teams is pretty scary.

Dallas is doing surprisingly well. After their debacle last week I thought they'd be exposed this week, but they look to a be the real deal win or lose.