World Series Game #1: Phillies vs. Rays, Wednesday 10/22, 7:35 CT

by Al on Oct 22, 2008 6:00 PM CDT in Game Threads Comment 44 comments

Yes, there's still baseball. And yes, it's the World Series. I'll open a discussion thread for every game... because when it's over, that means no baseball till spring.

MLB.com Gameday for World Series Game #1 -- game time 7:35 pm CT

Today's Starting Pitchers


C. Hamels Phillies	vs.	S. Kazmir Rays


14-10	W-L	12-8
3.09	ERA	3.49
196	SO	166
53	BB	70
28	HR	23
vs. TB	--	vs. Phi

Baseball-reference.com game preview

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First?

My heart says Phillies, my head says Rays.

by Carolina Cubbie on Oct 22, 2008 6:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

cubs

awarded clutch team award on espn right now

by china423 on Oct 22, 2008 6:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Idk how I feel about this

I mean I’m glad we got the award but the postseason perf is just like…. blah.

by cubsfaninatl on Oct 22, 2008 6:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Also

I’m surprised they didn’t show the comeback against the brewers with 2 out in the 9th

by cubsfaninatl on Oct 22, 2008 6:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

that was one unbelievable game!

lots of good memories from this season no matter how craptastic the ending was.

by love the ivy on Oct 22, 2008 6:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I liked the comeback vs Colorado in May

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it" -W.C. Fields

by calicubfan on Oct 22, 2008 7:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

as in...they make us clutch our stomachs or our groins when the playoffs start?

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Oct 22, 2008 6:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Isn't it our own individual faults

If we’re clutching our own groins?

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Oct 22, 2008 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm rooting for the National League...

…where nine players take the field, and nine players come to bat — the way it was meant to be!

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it" -W.C. Fields

by calicubfan on Oct 22, 2008 6:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Heh

I agree, hopefully the NL will take it…but what do you think we would say if the AL and DH had come first? I guess we wouldn’t be traditionalists…

by StevenABQ on Oct 22, 2008 6:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can't say, I'm not good with what-if's

I guess I just prefer the strategy in the NL — IMO, the DH takes a lot of the nail-biting away from the game.

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it" -W.C. Fields

by calicubfan on Oct 22, 2008 6:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Its pretty easy

We would still prefer the NL strategy…it just wouldn’t be considered as “old school”.

by StevenABQ on Oct 22, 2008 8:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I will be listening from work with another

Cubs fan dispatcher. We aren’t excited or even really interested, but like Al said, once these games are over, so is baseball until next spring. Gotta do something to counteract my exposure to crappy football while I can!

by love the ivy on Oct 22, 2008 6:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Damn.

These guys are butchering the National Anthem IMO.

by dakoose on Oct 22, 2008 7:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Only in TB

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it" -W.C. Fields

by calicubfan on Oct 22, 2008 7:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i thought there were 5 of em

2008 National League Central Division Champs!!!!!

by BradB311 on Oct 22, 2008 7:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, that was the worst I've heard in a long time

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by MrNFL on Oct 22, 2008 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I just checked out The Good Phight

the Phillies Sports Nation site and it doesn’t seem to be a very popular sight. not many comments on any of the posts. not even todays game thread

2008 National League Central Division Champs!!!!!

by BradB311 on Oct 22, 2008 7:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You must be referring to this thread:

The thread for Game 1 of the 2008 World Series.

The Good Phight game thread with nearly 300 posts thus far.

The thread that’s been up since 530 pm, and you commented two hours later.

Yeah, that one.

Dan

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Oct 22, 2008 8:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Home run Utley

2-0 Phils

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by MrNFL on Oct 22, 2008 7:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't like

Shane or Jayson. Much at all.

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by dtpollitt on Oct 22, 2008 8:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Where the hell are all you BCBers?

This is the World Series!

I miss fun game threads…

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Oct 22, 2008 8:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

It's probably similiar turnout on TV

BTW, HR Rays..3-1 PHA

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it" -W.C. Fields

by calicubfan on Oct 22, 2008 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i was watching the bulls preseason game

and old school during the commercials

by aznsensation on Oct 22, 2008 9:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Um . . . TWSS?

Probably doesn’t help, does it?

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Oct 22, 2008 10:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You FAIL, Badger!

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Oct 22, 2008 10:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So do the Badgers . . .

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Oct 22, 2008 10:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd like to see Crawford in a Cubs uniform

but it won’t happen…..

"I'm not much of a chemistry guy, you know. Chemistry to me is a pinch-hit double with the bases loaded"--Jim Frey, Chicago Tribune, 1985.

by zevkalman on Oct 22, 2008 8:56 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I was looking forward to this game

but since it started I just can’t get interested. I thought I was over the 08 Cubs but I guess not yet.

Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Oct 22, 2008 9:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That was a balk, no doubt.

And if FOX had a f-ing camera from the 1st base side, we would be able to tell WAY easier.

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by dtpollitt on Oct 22, 2008 9:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You could tell it was a balk even from the CF shot

Joe’s conversation with Welke was interesting. I would have been more upset than Joe was. I guess that’s why he’s managing in the show and I am in middle school (coaching that is, not as a student.)

Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Oct 22, 2008 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Eyre sighting

by GoCubbies34 on Oct 22, 2008 10:10 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Free Taco at Taco Bell

Next Tuesday…between the times of 2-6 (whatever your local time is)

Thanks to Jason Bartlett of the Rays…

Enjoy that Heart Dart…

"Sports are a crazy business. If there was a template, we'd all be champions, right? But there's one winner and 29 or 30 losers; one guy wins, everybody else is tied for last. That's the way it works" -- Mark Cuban

by TheRiot Police on Oct 22, 2008 10:39 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

A taco for a stolen base.

What’s next, hot dogs for balks?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Oct 23, 2008 4:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If it's a "technical balk",

do you have to have ketchup?

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Oct 23, 2008 7:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You get technical mustard with that.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Oct 23, 2008 9:19 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good game. I hope Lidge comes through.

"I'm not much of a chemistry guy, you know. Chemistry to me is a pinch-hit double with the bases loaded"--Jim Frey, Chicago Tribune, 1985.

by zevkalman on Oct 22, 2008 10:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Lidge gets the third out--2 K's and a foul out. It's his 50th straight save. Wow.....

"I'm not much of a chemistry guy, you know. Chemistry to me is a pinch-hit double with the bases loaded"--Jim Frey, Chicago Tribune, 1985.

by zevkalman on Oct 22, 2008 11:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it is safe to say that

he has exercised his Pujols Demon….

by TheRiot Police on Oct 22, 2008 11:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've only been watching the Rays the last few weeks here and there is something I don't get:

BJ Upton gets a free pass from all the media about his lolligagging way of sauntering after fly balls that are over his head or in front of him. He’s terrible in his positioning or lack of it. He can hit a ton and that’s great and he has a cannon arm but why doesn’t he play the position the way every outfielder is taught from day one: go to where the ball is going to be and then get in position to have your body moving toward your throwing target to get all your momentum in the same direction. I haven’t heard one announcer mention anything other than someone said “he’ll get better at that when he gets older.” Well Hell he’s already a starting ML CF starting in a WS. Play it like you respect it.

Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Oct 22, 2008 11:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

During the game they interviewed Joe Madden and he commented that his approach to the ball

was off some, on the play where he nailed the guy at the plate. So, when your own manager makes a comment it’s not being ignored in a significant manner. The guy nailed the runner at the plate, that’s pretty impressive if you ask me.

by DudeVf11 on Oct 23, 2008 12:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It is impressive

I’m not at all saying the kid doesn’t have talent. He just plays CF like the stereotypical attitude of someone who plays pick up basketball games in LA. I would have thought Maddon would have made some impact on that attitude by now. I’d take him for our CF in a heartbeat, assuming someone will mature the kid.

Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Oct 23, 2008 12:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know much about him...

but I believe that CF is not his natural position. I think he came up through their system as an infielder and only started playing CF on a regular basis in the ML. Maybe his approach is from lack of coaching/experience.

by TheRiot Police on Oct 23, 2008 8:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs