Running Baseball Postseason Thread No. 2 Take 2: Wish You Were Here, Derek Jeter

[imjustagirl]

As BYH brought up on the last incarnation: Does ANYONE avoid the sweep here?

I just hope it's not the Rays that blow it.

 

[buckweaver]

Angels are cooked.
Sox are cooked.
Cubs can win tomorrow, but ... probably won't.
Brewers can win tomorrow. I think they will.

 

[KevinmH9]

Re: Running Baseball Postseason Thread No. 2 Take 2: Wish You Were Here, Derek J

I give my vote to the Cubs.

 

[KP]

Did Kevin approve you starting this thread?

 

[imjustagirl]

Yes.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Again, Chip Caray needs to quit with the whole "J.D. Drew has Mickey Mantle power" garbage.

 

[mike311gd]

Why? He's clearly the modern day Mickey Mantle.

 

[DanOregon]

I can't handle Chip Carey's voice. He just sounds so fake, so insincere. He needs to start smoking about a carton of cigs a day for a year.
I will say the games so far seem to move along at a pretty brisk clip. I'll look away for minute or two and see three runs score. Thank goodness for GameCast.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Re: Running Baseball Postseason Thread No. 2 Take 2: Wish You Were Here, Derek J

Drew is an excellent player. But the only way to compate to Mantle is as far as playing time goes, Drew makes Mantle look like Lou Gehrig.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

As BYH brought up on the last incarnation: Does ANYONE avoid the sweep here?

I just hope it's not the Rays that blow it.

It's not only that all four series are headed for sweepville..... Yesterday was the first of eight games that had a bit of drama.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Re: Running Baseball Postseason Thread No. 2 Take 2: Wish You Were Here, Derek J

Dearest spinited and Angola!

Suck it!

Signed... the "average" outfielder in Boston

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Dearest spnited and Angola!

Suck it!

Signed... the "average" outfielder in Boston

 

[hockeybeat]

Until further notice, there's no reason to take the Angels seriously.

 

[Freelance Hack]

A Boston-Philly World Series would be awesome. I'm sure Drew would feel the brotherly love showered upon him by the Phillies fans.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

A Boston-Philly World Series would be awesome. I'm sure Drew would feel the batteries of love brotherly love showered upon him by the Phillies fans.

Fixed.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Someone explain this scheduling logic to me.
For Sunday, the Packers have a 1 p.m. home game, the Eagles have a 1 p.m. home game.
So what time do they schedule Game 4 of the Phillies-Brewers for? You got it 1 p.m. Why schedule with that conflict?
Why not make Phils at Brewers the 4 p.m. game while the Rays at White Sox game is at 1?

 

[EStreetJoe]

I think the Phillies will complete the sweep today.

The Brewers are going to be pumped for the home crowd, overanxious and way out in front of Moyer's 80 MPH fastball.

 

[casty33]

Sorry, Cubs fans, but I am now officially a Dodgers fan. No. 1, Joe Torre is an old friend, and No. 2, the longer he stays in postseason play, the more Hank and Hal will suffer. That can't be a bad thing.

 

[imjustagirl]

My dream championship series:

Phillies-Cubs
Rays-Angels

Sadly, I'm probably only getting one half of each of those matchups.

I don't think I'm surprising anyone on this thread when I point out that I have seriously drifted away from baseball. I found it boring, and when you have no rooting interest, it's a sport I can't watch just to watch it like I can college basketball. But partly because of people on this board (hi pallister, BYH, zeke, et al) and the ability to watch every game being played at any given time, I've watched more. So a personal promise: I will do more on these threads when I post than comment on how jawdroppingly sexy Ryan Howard is (though it doesn't make that fact any less true).

I want to pick up baseball-posting chops!!!

 

[spnited]

Things IJAG needs to know to pick up "baseball-posting chops:"

The Mets choke in September; the Cubs choke in October.
Jason Bay is good but he's no Manny Ramirez.
Ryan Howard might strike out 200 times and hit only .250 but he is still the NL MVP.
That the Red Sox have beaten the Angels 11 straight games in the post-season is probably because of the Curse of Donnie Moore (but only idiots believe in curses).
The Twinkies would have put up a better fight than the White Sox
against the Rays.

And, of course, the Yankees suck.