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I can’t help but wonder if all the steam went out of the Yankees after the Bosox were eliminated. I expect your “monkey” will still be on the job next friday.
Meanwhile, my Cardinals are playing out in San Diego. I think game time is something like 3AM. I gotta go to bed now so I won’t be falling asleep during the game.
Oooohhh, you’re talking about baseball.
Presumptuousness isn’t such a bad thing… you just need to make reasonable presumptions. For instance, I’ve already purchased my tickets for the ALCS here in Anaheim.
No more Yankee my Wankee! Like Boston they are done.
when the only country ever to use atomic weapons and used these weapons on civilian populations, that is cities full of women and children…and then spends the next fifty years playing who’s got the biggest bomb with another country that wants too have the biggest bomb…with the result that the taxes
spent and still being spent on military equipment is more than all other national concerns and still can’t fight a war with an enemy manufactured by a pr firm within the whitehouse…there comes a time of reflection…who are these morons and who are the morons that enabled this fiasco…the voters that put the small minded goals of idiocy and flagrant religion ahead of the truth and security of our nation…all this bs about how the voters are divided 50/50 is crap…59,000,000 in a country of nearly 300,000,000 is not a majority…noting the rape of the us treasury by the common thieves now in charge must bring the
war profiteering trials we need to restore honor to the
whitehouse and balance to our policy abroad…wake up fools…
the posture shown by the uninformed rightwing and the reality of the misled at the mercy of the liars in charge bode poorly for the republicans in 2006 mid term elections…how many will bail out and then claim to have been alarmed at the terrible way we were lied too and try too become lost in the crowd of right thinkers not rightwingers…fools…
I watched last night’s game. The Yankees deserved to lose. You could see when they laid down. Sure, they’ve still got a couple of old-school players who play it all the way out, but these are not my Daddy’s Yankees…
In related news, the Rockies were just mathematically eliminated from the 2006 playoffs.
I think the Rockies could win the West next year.
No kidding.
They’ve got a very good starting lineup, a good closer, and a very underrated starting pitching staff.
Here’s what I think we’ll be looking at:
Clint Barmes SS
C Sullivan CF
Todd Helton 1B
M Holliday LF
B Hawpe RF
G Atkins 3B
J Gonzales 2B
D Ardoin / T Greene C
A decent bench, too, depending on what they do in the offseason: Sheely, Piedro, Miles, Mohr, Bigbie
Starting pitchers:
Aaron Cook
J Jennings
J Francis
Zach Day
S Kim /BH Kim
What the Rockies need is a reliable lefty setup man.
But don’t sell them short. They had a great second half and played close to .500 ball after June 1.
I think the T-shirt in that link should read, “The empire strikes out!”
“I think the Rockies could win the West next year.
No kidding.”
I don’t doubt it. Of course that’s more of a condemnation of the NL West than anything else. The Dodgers look set to cut payroll… again, the Giants have an average age of approximately infinity -1, the DBacks are just clueless, and the Padres don’t scare anyone.
“Normal”?
I love Jeff, but this is the problem with him. You get two Guiness’ into him on a Saturday night and within seconds he’s telling you how good the Rockies are.
Sad.
“Normal” is a lost soul. Sucks to be him.
I don’t know. Normal looks like one of those fancy pants generators to me – or maybe a Yankee fan.
Houston Astros take a 2-1 lead in the series against Atlanta baby! I can already feel it coming. Get ready, world, another NLCS defeat is headed to Houston!
Shut your mouth, Beck (he said, politely).
My Buckeyes got roasted by Penn State today, and I have to have someone to root for, so the ‘Stros it is/are.
Dispense with your inane rantings and your benighted pontifications, Oh Ignorant Ones. All of it is needless dawdle.
Here me now, Seekers of Truth! There shall be only one Champion, and it shall be the St. Louis Cardinals!
/shedding the voice of Tim
I have been known, once in a blue moon, to follow up a flagrant trollage by bringing up baseball, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen someone follow up comments about baseball with trollage.
I give it a 4.2
Got to hope ‘Normal’ comes from some other time zone–I’d hate to think any person was so besotted by politics as to be drunk already by 4 in the afternoon.
Roger Clemens rules.
Longest post-season game in history.
And there for a second, I thought it was 1986 all over again.
What a helluva game. An unscheduled double header, with the second game being, well, a bit boring, though intense.
Roger Clemens does, in fact rule. I hope it matters in the NLCS.
While I sincerely tip my hat to both Atlanta and Houston for a hard fought game, last night’s contest was an anemic display of baseball talent from both sides (and yes, I watched the whole thing). The fact that it went that long – especially for Houston who fell, and inexplicably stayed, behind at home – with little or no effective offense shown by either side for the amount of innings played, is staggering for a pair of winning, habitual playoff teams. Both sides had to use virtually every pitcher on the roster and the game end not on an RBI-scoring single or double from a determined push, but with a walk-off home run. That speaks volumes for what’s in store for Houston in the match-up with St. Louis. There was no demonstration of baseball fundamentals (a.k.a. “small ball” in media parlance) shown by Houston. It was a total reliance on power hitting and it nearly failed them. Yes, power ball will win a game, or maybe even two, against STL, but it will not win a seven game series. STL is a far superior team, as evidenced by the fact that they owned Houston in regular season match-ups 11-5.
What happened last night is not a good omen for Houston, but they think it is. St. Louis’ bullpen is rested and ready, compared with Houston’s who is battered and used. Case in point, the 43-year old Clemens, who threw 44 pitches (nearly half a game!) mid-way through is rotational rest, now has to get on a plane and travel to STL and pitch with only two day’s rest. STL’s rested starting pitching rotation is the finest in baseball and the bullpen overall has the lowest ERA in MLB. There is a good question to be asked about STL’s middle relievers, but the closers are as effective as ever.
Bottom line: Houston will not be able to generate enough sustained offense against STL’s bullpen to counter STL’s fundamentally superior batting order.
CN: I’d take issue with the assertion that the Cards are superior because they won head-to-head 11 of 16.
Instead, I’d suggest that they’re superior because they’re just the best team in BB right now, and frankly I thought they were last year, too.
The mystery, which continues to draw me to the game, is whether that’ll matter. Just like last year.
Oh, and I agree – last night’s game wasn’t a plus in any way other than the ultimate result.
Cardinals Nation: Two things.
1) You’re absolutely correct.
2) GO ‘STROS!!!