MLB Game Chatter

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Are we going to have a OAO thread for the Sox/Yanks this weekend, because I like having it seperate.

Agreed. And if you people can't appreciate baseball outside of Yankees/Red Sox, it's your loss. The rest of us get to see Vlad Guerrero, Francisco "K-Rod" Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Adrian Beltre, Eric Chavez, and a hell of a lot of other good players. Take the Yankees/Red Sox talk to the other thread.

[Hektik 0]

You know, after seeing these responses and responses in other threads, I am hoping far a Twins/Angels ALCS. It would be a nice change of pace, forcing Fox and ESPN to follow a small market club like the Twins and the bastard child of LA, the Angels.

 

I've watched a few of the Sox/Yanks games this season, mostly to hold me over until the Gent's game started. Yeah, they get a sick amount of attention, but they're fun to watch.

At this point, though, the only thing at stake is determining which team's fans have bigger dicks.

Has there hatred really gotten to the point were they have to compare the size of their genitalia.

[Guest Anglesault]

Are we going to have a OAO thread for the Sox/Yanks this weekend, because I like having it seperate.

Agreed. And if you people can't appreciate baseball outside of Yankees/Red Sox, it's your loss.

I do. Doesn't change that Yankees/Sox is infinitely more important than any other series this weekend.

[Brett Favre 0]

Wait, so just because the Yanks/Sox series is more popular, they don't deserve to be in this folder? That's horrible.

[Guest Anglesault]

Wait, so just because the Yanks/Sox series is more popular, they don't deserve to be in this folder? That's horrible.

Don't apply logic to it. Just nod, smile and walk to our cage. Let them deal with the earthshaking Angels game.

[strummer 0]

I would have been A LOT more into the Red Sox/Yankees Series if the Red Sox would have won last night.

[Guest Staravenger]

I've noticed a few trends over the past few weeks...

 

1.) Stating how horrible the Cubs have been

 

2.) Pissing and moaning about the Red Sox

 

3.) Pissing and moaning about the Yankees

 

4.) Sudden hatred for Barry Bonds

 

If people post here that are fans of other teams, then maybe it wouldn't seem so horrible, but I noticed that the folder is dominated by Yankee and Red Sox love, as well as some Cubs fans and that outweighs the other fanbase of other teams.

 

I try to watch other games, but NYY/Boston is probably the most important "feud" in baseball, and growing up watching it makes it hard to reverse. Besides, what other fans of two teams have more things to bitch about than us?

 

When it's time for the Playoffs I'll probably watch as many games as I can, which I do almost every year. Just because I preffer watching the Yankees and the Red Sox doesn't mean I don't watch anyone else, it's just the other teams I usually watch I'm not "hardcore" about (I tend to watch Atlanta now and then on TBS when nothing else is on, as well as Chicago (NL) on WGN and whoever is on ESPN)

[Big McLargeHuge 0]

Are we going to have a OAO thread for the Sox/Yanks this weekend, because I like having it seperate.

Agreed. And if you people can't appreciate baseball outside of Yankees/Red Sox, it's your loss.

I do. Doesn't change that Yankees/Sox is infinitely more important than any other series this weekend.

To you.

 

Wait, so just because the Yanks/Sox series is more popular, they don't deserve to be in this folder? That's horrible.

 

Who cares? You get your own special thread everytime they meet. What's the problem? And the games are meaningless now, anyway.

[Brett Favre 0]

Wait, so just because the Yanks/Sox series is more popular, they don't deserve to be in this folder? That's horrible.

 

And the games are meaningless now, anyway.

The games are never meaningless. They're were just as exciting when the Yankees were 8 games up. In fact the...ah forget it. I'll just going back to my cage, and watch some Main Event Baseball.

[Guest Anglesault]

And the games are meaningless now, anyway.

Is the division clinched? No?

 

Not meaningless.

 

I shall retreat to the cage.

[Guest Smues]

Yeah, and I'd snatch 'em but you have to legally give up your right to keep a Bond's homer or something like that. Contract and everything. The Guy is determined for some peice of history.

I'd take a ticket, and if I somehow caught a Bonds ball would do my best to "accidentally" knock it back onto the field or into another section not owned by that guy.

 

As for tonight espn can eat it, I'm watching TBS and hoping Atlanta can clinch tonight. Oh and Seattle plays tonight so I'll probably flip over and catch some of that to see if Ichiro can get some more hits.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I love how some are trying to write off the Cards' amazing season. I mean, I'm technically supposed to hate them and while I certainly haven't been thrilled to watch them this season, I can give them their just dues. You don't win 100 games by mid September just because you play some bad teams. Every team does, even the bad ones.

 

The Cards had some easy teams to play (i.e. the Royals), but they've also had tougher competition in their own division. The Cubs, while having injuries all season, were going neck and neck with the Cards until the last couple series of the season; the Astros laid absolute whoopings on the Cards before their bats went anemic a couple months into the season; the Pirates, while not a great team by any stretch of the imagination, have been a team that couldn't buy a win at times and seemingly couldn't be defeated other times (the Cards happened to run into them a couple of times when the latter was true).

 

I don't want to downplay the success of the Yankees or Sox, but they've had the honor of playing teams like Baltimore, Tampa Bay and Toronto in the midst of battling each other. Aside from Tampa's hot streak in the middle of the summer, all three teams have been downright horrid.

 

So as much as it may pain me to say, what it all boils down to is I'd rather see the Cards succeed than the Yanks or Sox, simply because despite having an incredible record, it's all about Boston and New York because of their habit to break out the childish bullshit every series they have with each other.

[mike546 0]

I'm probably wrong, but I'll ask anyway.

 

The Yankees and Sox both have six games left. The leads 4 1/2 now. If we win one game in this series, the lead would go down to 3 1/2 games with three games remaining for both teams.

 

So don't the Yankees clich the division if they win one game against the Sox?

[Guest Anglesault]

I'm probably wrong, but I'll ask anyway.

 

The Yankees and Sox both have six games left. The leads 4 1/2 now. If we win one game in this series, the lead would go down to 3 1/2 games with three games remaining for both teams.

 

So don't the Yankees clich the division if they win one game against the Sox?

The magic number is six. We clinch if we sweep.

 

We also have more than three games after Boston. I believe we have six.

 

Now go back to the cage and wait.

[mike546 0]

Thats odd.

 

If you look at the schedule at Yankees.com, theres a week break after the Yankees play the Twins to when the Yankees play Toronto.

[cabbageboy 0]

It was funny above when it was stated that the Twins vs. Angels in the ALCS would be a nice change of pace...it was just the ALCS 2 years ago and no one cared aside from whatever fans those teams have.

 

Let's face it, the money playoffs are a combo of Yankees/Sox in the AL and Cards/Cubs or perhaps Cards/Braves.

 

Hypothetically speaking, let's say the Sox somehow emerge from the AL. Who on earth would take them in a series against the Cardinals, given their WS history since 1918? That isn't to say the series wouldn't be good, it'd probably go 7 actually...with the Sox doing something really stupid to lose the series (like a Manny Ramirez error).

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Corey Patterson and Derrek Lee picked a hell of a time to fall into awful slumps. Patterson is back to averaging at least two strikeouts a game and Derrek Lee has (no lie) about two hits this week and well over 10 strikeouts. Not exactly the kind of production you should have from your one and two hitters.

[Slayer 0]

Santana with a no-hitter through 3, for what that's worth

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I'm going crazy over here. After finally tying the game (via the home run, of course), the Cubs load the bases with one out thanks in part to horrible Mets defense and the next two hitters proceed to strike out. Absolutely inexcusable. They can hit flyballs till the cows come home in every other situation. Why not when they actually need to? Looked like they were prepping to bring in the Farns, too. Kill me now.

[Slayer 0]

No more no-no for Santana

 

Minnesota is still whipping Cleveland though

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Cubs totally lucked out. After hitting like utter shit for nine innings, they finally get the go-ahead run in the 10th, thanks to luck. Grudz got a lead-off walk, Patterson's swinging bunt (after two failed attempts) moved him over and then Lee got jammed on a ball that wound up falling into center to score Grudz.

[strummer 0]

It was laughable to try and see the Mets "hit" the Cubs pitching tonight. Benson pitched great and Looper was unlucky, but the offense has NO CHANCE against the Cubs staff. It should make for some good comedy when Prior and Wood pitch the next 2 days

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I do. Doesn't change that Yankees/Sox is infinitely more important than any other series this weekend.

 

On what logic. A series between two teams who are 4 1/2 games apart is more important than two series which involve teams two or less games apart?

 

Don't apply logic to it. Just nod, smile and walk to our cage. Let them deal with the earthshaking Angels game.

I shall retreat to the cage.

Now go back to the cage and wait.

 

Fuck off. Seriously. We are all sick and tired of your baseless arguing, ranting, and whining about every damned thing the Yankees do. If you don't care about the rest of the games, you have your wish. A separate thread where you can worry about the Red Sox/Yankees games, unencumbered by those troublesome division series on the West Coast. It's not a fucking cage, and if you don't like it, then don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Bored 0]

A's jump out on Escobar in the first for three runs.

[Guest GreatOne]

Ichiro has two more knocks tonight, what's that leave him, about 10? Hell he'll get it if he gets pitched to--which was my only concern and reason he wouldn't.

[mike546 0]

I'm interested in the West race.

 

I just wished I could actually WATCH the west coast games.

[Guest Staravenger]

Ichiro has two more knocks tonight, what's that leave him, about 10? Hell he'll get it if he gets pitched to--which was my only concern and reason he wouldn't.

Wouldn't that knock it down to 8? I think I mentioned it in the previous MLB thread, but I mentioned he needed 1 hit per game, plus an additional one for the remaining 9.

[Guest Anglesault]

I do. Doesn't change that Yankees/Sox is infinitely more important than any other series this weekend.

 

On what logic. A series between two teams who are 4 1/2 games apart is more important than two series which involve teams two or less games apart?

 

The two best teams in the American League are battling it out, not only for first place, but for homefield advantage and the preferable first round opponent.

 

If the Red Sox would have swept, the Yankees would have had only a 1 1/2 game lead, going into a series with Minnesota, with Boston having won the season series.

 

If you don't care about the rest of the games, you have your wish

 

Who said I don't care about any of the other games? I care. Significantly less than these games, but I care.

[Guest GreatOne]

Yep, forgot the last game against Anaheim.

[The Czech Republic 0]

You know, after seeing these responses and responses in other threads, I am hoping far a Twins/Angels ALCS. It would be a nice change of pace, forcing Fox and ESPN to follow a small market club like the Twins and the bastard child of LA, the Angels.

Okay. Number A, that was the ALCS two years ago. How is a repeat of 2002 any better than a repeat of 2003? Give me another Yanks-BoSox ALCS, by far. Number B, Fox and ESPN had to build up the Florida Marlins after they were all ready for Cubs and Red Sox. Number C, the Metrodome sucks. Your argument is weak like Johnny Damon's throwing arm.