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I predict...
…a Sox win today.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
by MPH73 on Oct 2, 2008 10:03 AM CDT 0 recs
Didn't you see that Vazquez is pitching?
He’s been horrible the last two starts.
Old Style is the nectar of life.
by Mordecai on
Oct 2, 2008 10:06 AM CDT
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Just a gut feeling
n/t
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
by MPH73 on
Oct 2, 2008 10:07 AM CDT
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Gonna disagree with you.
The Sox have just won three elimination games in a row — real emotional. They have a tough time winning in domes — they were 2-14 indoors this year (and got swept at Tampa, just like the Cubs did).
I can’t figure out how the Rays did it this year either, but somehow they keep winning. The Sox could get swept.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on
Oct 2, 2008 10:10 AM CDT
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Common sense...
…would agree with you, but I just have a feeling they will win today, but will not win the series.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
by MPH73 on
Oct 2, 2008 10:46 AM CDT
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I can see
the Sox sweeping. Just took the last three games to get into the playoffs, kinda reminds me of the Rockies last season. Went on a nice streak to get in and continued throughout the playoffs. Forgot what happened in the WS though…. didn’t they come close to winning?? :)
"What a great call! Your doing a fantastic job, but people expect me to come out here and be upset. So I'm gonna kick some dirt, you understand?" - Lou Pinella
by Lou In Blue on
Oct 2, 2008 1:36 PM CDT
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If a 4-0 sweep is "close to winning"
Then yeah.
by SuperContext on
Oct 2, 2008 1:46 PM CDT
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I would agree if anyone else were starting
but Vasquez + big stage = blow-out for the Rays.
by SuperContext on
Oct 2, 2008 10:10 AM CDT
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im calling it
Rays 3-2 over the Sox : Sox don’t play well in domes
Brewers 4-2 over the Phillies: Sabbathia continues to give every NL GM reason to beg his owner for a chance to give this 100+ million next offseason.
---AC 00 00 00 - Believe
by mjk83 on Oct 2, 2008 10:43 AM CDT 0 recs
I agree with this
basically (I usually don’t worry about predicting scores). The Sox are going to lose, the Brewers should win with CC on the mound. Only one team has beaten CC since he came to the Brewers and their name rhymes with stubs, not willies.
"That’s the great thing about baseball, you never know what’s going to happen till you get the final out." — Lou Piniella
by drewishdrewid on
Oct 2, 2008 10:49 AM CDT
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The Reds beat CC on Sept 20
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN200809200.shtml
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
by flachimesa on
Oct 2, 2008 1:15 PM CDT
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hey!
don’t mess up my great rhymes with facts! :P
"That’s the great thing about baseball, you never know what’s going to happen till you get the final out." — Lou Piniella
by drewishdrewid on
Oct 2, 2008 1:37 PM CDT
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Hey it sounded right since he is 11-2 with the Brewers
and the Cubs did beat him in two starts.
We had him beat in his first start but the Brew Crew tied the game after CC left. Howry gave up a HR to Branyan to blow the save. Go figure!
Torres took the loss.
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
by flachimesa on
Oct 2, 2008 3:37 PM CDT
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Lets go Rays and Lets go Brew Crew
I want the other NLDS to go to at least 4 games, as ours better
The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.
by sanantonecub on Oct 2, 2008 11:02 AM CDT 0 recs
Phillies look like a team that is going to have special postseason...
I also take contrarian view and think the White Sox will pull upset and dispatch of the youthful Devil Rays in a 3 game sweep.
Oh please let this dubious bullpen be good enough in the playoffs...
by MDBNIU on Oct 2, 2008 11:21 AM CDT 0 recs
After getting swept there earlier in the year?
Not a chance.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on
Oct 2, 2008 11:37 AM CDT
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Predicting that Javy Vasquez comes up huge today...
Don’t underestimate the Sox. They are not the best team on paper but for some reason I think their trials and tribulations over this season will serve them well in the playoffs.
Oh please let this dubious bullpen be good enough in the playoffs...
by MDBNIU on
Oct 2, 2008 12:14 PM CDT
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go Phillies, right BlueMike?
"That’s the great thing about baseball, you never know what’s going to happen till you get the final out." — Lou Piniella
by drewishdrewid on
Oct 2, 2008 1:38 PM CDT
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I don't care much about the Sox and usually
want them to have a good season. I even believe the Sox making the playoffs and going far is good for Chicago.
All that said, I’ve realized I want them to lose today. Real bad. Has nothing to do with the Sox organization or players. I just don’t want to listen to their fans. My friends and co-workers who are rabid Sox fans are too quick to use Sox success to degrade the Cubs. I don’t want them to have any ammo and I want to focus on the game tonight.
Can’t imagine the Sox will win today, let alone the series.
Disposable dixie cup drinkin... I'm hiding out in the big city blinking...
by N Oakley on Oct 2, 2008 11:22 AM CDT 0 recs
im with you
for the most part I don’t care what they do but for mental well being itd be fabulous if they lost this afternoon..
---AC 00 00 00 - Believe
by mjk83 on
Oct 2, 2008 11:27 AM CDT
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I mostly support the Sox
because I have so many friends that are Sox fans, and I want them to be happy…Same goes for them with the Cubs…
But notice I say SUPPORT. I don’t go out of my way to cheer for them…
The Missouri Tigers (4-0) begin defense of their 2007 Big 12 Conference North Division title Saturday on the road, as they take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-1) in Lincoln, Neb.
by PurpleLineToWrigley on Oct 2, 2008 11:54 AM CDT 0 recs
My thoughts
I think the Brewers/Phillies game today will be a close one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Phillies won. I saw some stats yesterday that showed that, despite popular belief, the Phillies have actually hit better against left-handed pitching this year. Of course, most left handed pitching isn’t CC Sabathia.
Rays/Sox game…..gotta go with the Rays. They play very good baseball down there in Tampa this year.
by rambler19 on Oct 2, 2008 11:59 AM CDT 0 recs
I think CC is going to wet the bed this afternoon
And plunge the Brewers into a 0 – 2 hole.
CC is not very good in the playoffs.
by Galvan316 on Oct 2, 2008 12:17 PM CDT 0 recs
Agreed...
If I had to pick a team with the best chance of winning the World Series honesty would prevail me to say the Phillies. I know that team doesn’t have the greatest depth of starting pitching but something tells me that team is going to be unstoppable no matter who they play. They will dispatch of the Brewers quickly.
Oh please let this dubious bullpen be good enough in the playoffs...
by MDBNIU on
Oct 2, 2008 12:25 PM CDT
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I think I'll boot up my Gameday audio...
…for the Sox-Rays game.
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on Oct 2, 2008 1:45 PM CDT 0 recs
I just did
but I can not STAND Ed Farmer. The ESPN Nat’l broadcast won’t work.
Go All In and Enjoy The Ride.
by Jayo525 on
Oct 2, 2008 1:48 PM CDT
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Yeah, I'm going to suffer through the Farmer/Stone broadcast, too.
Well, at least the “Livin’ the High Life” commercials come through.
“Bistro? What’s a bistro?”
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 1:49 PM CDT
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Without being judgemental and "bleeding" over into other posts about the Wrigley crowd last night...
the crowd at the Rays-Sox game already seems more animated, relaxed, loud, into it than we ever did last night and that started with the first White Sox batter in the top of the 1st. Just an observation; not a criticism of anyone in Tampa or Chicago.
Tommie Agee was out.
by Weeghman Park on Oct 2, 2008 1:47 PM CDT 0 recs
I remember some of the Rays players being a little baffled
at how the stadium was only about half-packed for the entire season for home games. They spend the majority of the season in 1st place, and only now do they get their stadium filled to capacity in the postseason?
If that isn’t a band wagon fan, then I don’t know what is.
by NittanyCub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:19 PM CDT
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Anyone hear they were passing out
Cow Bells for the Rays fans? And you thought the Human Air Raid Siren was bad…..
Go All In and Enjoy The Ride.
by Jayo525 on Oct 2, 2008 1:49 PM CDT 0 recs
One thing that stadium does NOT need is more cowbell.
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 1:50 PM CDT
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And apparently the reason they did is
bc the GM is a huge fan of the Walken skit. I shit you not.
Go All In and Enjoy The Ride.
by Jayo525 on
Oct 2, 2008 1:55 PM CDT
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I'd guess it's a "team unity" thing.
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 1:54 PM CDT
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If they were already a "team" why would they need those?
Just seems sort of high school-ish.
Tommie Agee was out.
by Weeghman Park on
Oct 2, 2008 1:56 PM CDT
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Kind of like all the Wolves sporting
their best Fu Manchu during the playoffs last season.
Go All In and Enjoy The Ride.
by Jayo525 on
Oct 2, 2008 1:56 PM CDT
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BJ Upton started it
and it caught on with the rest of the team.
Hey, it's a new century!
by cowsarecool220 on
Oct 2, 2008 3:58 PM CDT
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There's the Javy Vasquez I know and love
At least he hasn’t walked anyone yet….
by SuperContext on Oct 2, 2008 1:59 PM CDT 0 recs
Probably already said,
but Longoria is so awesome. I hope the Rays win today, both because they’re playing Chicago and that what they’ve done this year is nothing short of incredible.
I still can’t believe the Rays locked up Longoria for 6 years and 17.5 million. Rodriguez makes more in one year than he will in 6 years. Incredible management.
by NittanyCub on Oct 2, 2008 2:03 PM CDT 0 recs
I see a contract re-negotiation in Longoria's future
No way he sticks with that money for SIX years.
by CubFaninNY on
Oct 2, 2008 2:10 PM CDT
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If he has a similar season to 2008,
I don’t see how there couldn’t be. 17.5 million for 6 years!! I looked up some numbers, and Rodriguez actually almost makes two times(32 million) as much as Longoria’s whole contract, in 2009. I don’t know what to make of that, to tell you the truth.
by NittanyCub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:13 PM CDT
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Heading to the Phils/Brewers game in
a hour. My dad called a few days ago with an extra ticket.
When the Phils swept the Brewers at the Bank, C.C didn’t pitch. He will pitch well but it’s all up to Myers for the Phils. Myers pitched great coming back from the minors but has pitched poorly the past few times on the mound.
Hopefully by the time I get home tonight, the Cubs will be way ahead of the Dodgers!
by PhillyCub on Oct 2, 2008 2:13 PM CDT 0 recs
My dad's job
gets him tickets to every sporting event, if he wants them, in Philadelphia. He’s high up in the administration (works in finance) at a university in the Philadelphia area. He deals with contracts and one of them is for who runs the food service at the university. The company that runs the food service at his university is the same one who runs the concessions at the Bank, Linc and Wachovia Center. So this company gets him tickets as a courtesy.
by PhillyCub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:22 PM CDT
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Damn, that's really cool
Especially if your dad is a Philly-based fan. Well, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous.
by NittanyCub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:27 PM CDT
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My dad is a really big sports fan
He enjoys his job. He says it’s much better than working in the corporate world. He used to work for Aon so he would go out to Chicago a lot. The CEO of Aon is Pat Ryan, who owns part of the Bears and donated all the money for Northwestern’s rebuilding of their athletic facilities.
If he wants to go to any game, he calls up the guy he deals with at the food service company and gets the tickets.
He still can’t believe I’m a Cubs fan.
by PhillyCub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:37 PM CDT
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Just turned this game on...
…after getting chinese food. Were those EMPTY SEATS I saw in the upper deck? like, almost whole sections!?
The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.
by sanantonecub on Oct 2, 2008 2:14 PM CDT 0 recs
Sox up 3-1 on a HR
The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.
by sanantonecub on Oct 2, 2008 2:18 PM CDT 0 recs
Unbelievable.
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 2:19 PM CDT
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Felix Pie?
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 2:19 PM CDT
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Yes.
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 2:20 PM CDT
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he's in the PTBNL
The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.
by sanantonecub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:19 PM CDT
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How many of you remember...
… the homer that Wise hit on October 1, 2004, off Kerry Wood, that put the final nail (mathematical elimination) in the Cubs’ coffin that year?
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on
Oct 2, 2008 2:24 PM CDT
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I think I'm gonna be sick
Anyone think he resembles Michael Tucker?
Go All In and Enjoy The Ride.
by Jayo525 on
Oct 2, 2008 2:25 PM CDT
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No, he just hit a home run.
Disposable dixie cup drinkin... I'm hiding out in the big city blinking...
by N Oakley on
Oct 2, 2008 2:27 PM CDT
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That coffin was already nailed shut.
By the Mets and Reds earlier that week. Of course, losing two more to the Braves didn’t help, but they were relying on the Cubs running the table and the Astros losing out. Wasn’t gonna happen.
by CubFaninNY on
Oct 2, 2008 2:27 PM CDT
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Oh, yeah.
He’s from the Chicago area, right?
The Chicago Cubs: 2008 Central Division Champions
by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 2:29 PM CDT
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I think you're thinking of Victor Diaz
He also stuck a dagger in the Cubs hearts that week.
My next sig line quote will also be from Lou Piniella, and the first word will be either "Look", or "Listen", followed by a comma.
by JohnM on
Oct 2, 2008 2:40 PM CDT
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That's right...
…he was on the Mets.
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by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 2:45 PM CDT
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wheels coming off the Rays....
Inexperience showing.
by CubFaninNY on Oct 2, 2008 2:20 PM CDT 0 recs
Weren't we up 2-0 at this point yesterday?
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by sanantonecub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:21 PM CDT
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Don't remind me.
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by dat cubfan daver on
Oct 2, 2008 2:21 PM CDT
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Right.
And the Angels were up 1-0 early too. That was the last run they scored.
by CubFaninNY on
Oct 2, 2008 2:22 PM CDT
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Weren't the Rays
up 1-0 first?
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by Jayo525 on
Oct 2, 2008 2:26 PM CDT
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Exactly!
As were the Angels at home. As were the Cubs at home. They BOTH lost.
by CubFaninNY on
Oct 2, 2008 2:28 PM CDT
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Well, today is a new day
So there!
The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.
by sanantonecub on
Oct 2, 2008 2:28 PM CDT
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Amen!
Nobody would like to see it change more than me.
by CubFaninNY on
Oct 2, 2008 2:29 PM CDT
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Dewayne Wise with his 468 total career at-bats
is making the Rays Inexperience show?
Amazing!
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Oct 2, 2008 2:26 PM CDT
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