MLB Postseason 2009

[jon abbey]

so many things I hate about postseason baseball, let's name a few:

the dreadful national baseball broadcast teams, who invariably know less about the teams they're watching than the bulk of their fans watching at home.

the inane scheduling times, so that fucking TBS can show every game without any overlapping (which never works anyway). 6 PM local time for games sucks, partly because of the strange sun setting effects going on most places in that time range, partly because there's much less atmosphere in the stadium than there would be for a 8 PM start.

way too many days off in between games, so that teams can go to a three man rotation, four tops.

so, yeah, whoopee. here we go.

[Jesse]

The Twins/Tigers play in on Tuesday is on TBS at 4 pm. Nice going for the 9.8% unemployed, everyone else, suck it!

[Noj]

The Dodgers get a red hot St. Louis Cardinals squad with horses on the mound and a mean lineup anchored by Albert The Great. Meanwhile, Manny's been awful for two months and everyone else has been stinking it up for about two weeks until finally mixing in a few RBIs to clinch the NL West and stave off a complete choke for the time being. If I were a betting man, I'd have my money on the Cards, who won 5 of 7 meetings against the Blue crew this year. It was play the redbirds at home or let the Rockies win and get the Phillies in Philly, so I guess home field makes this the better of the two scenarios. The Dodgers don't look like they'd beat either of them. Hopefull Torre can get the boys swinging the bats again and the pitchers find a way to stymie all those tough Cardinal hitters.

[jon abbey]

oh, and how can I forget home field advantage in the World Series being assigned by the All-Star Game?

who will break their division series losing streak first, Torre (4 in a row) or the Yankees (3 in a row)?

[Noj]

oh, and how can I forget home field advantage in the World Series being assigned by the All-Star Game?

That is retarded, and whoever thought it up should be forced to drink a spittoon.

[Harold Baines]

oh, and how can I forget home field advantage in the World Series being assigned by the All-Star Game?

That is retarded, and whoever thought it up should be forced to drink a spittoon.

Right. Because "every other year" was so equitable....

[jon abbey]

oh, and how can I forget home field advantage in the World Series being assigned by the All-Star Game?

That is retarded, and whoever thought it up should be forced to drink a spittoon.

Right. Because "every other year" was so equitable....

no, that was stupid, and this is stupid. if you can't just use the best record between the two WS teams (this works just fine in the NBA), then the league with the better overall record in interleague play should get it.

[jesus marion joseph]

oh, and how can I forget home field advantage in the World Series being assigned by the All-Star Game?

That is retarded, and whoever thought it up should be forced to drink a spittoon.

Reminds me of a joke:

a guy bets his buddy (in a barrroom, of course) $200 he won't drink the contents of a spitoon. Second guys says "okay", puts the spittoon up to his mouth and starts drinking. First guy get grossed out and says "stop, I'll pay you the fucking money, just stop", but second guy keeps chugging. When he's finished the first guy says "Jesus Christ, you didn't have to finish it, I said I'd pay you the money", and the second guy says "Yeah, I wanted to stop, but it just came out in one big glop".

[Enforcer]

Cabrera. Wow. What a dumbfuck. That fat drunken fuck better hit tomorrow.

Assuming everyone has already heard about this, but in case it's been mostly local: http://www.freep.com/article/20091005/S ... ith-police

[Jesse]

Bad timing.
What a dumb fuck.

[jon abbey]

yeah, that's unbelievable. that makes tomorrow's game much bigger for his future career in Detroit, I think. if they lose and he goes 0fer again, the local press and fans will not soon forget it.

[jon abbey]

umpire crews announced for the series today, here is the one for Boston/LAA.

Joe West (crew chief), CB Bucknor, Eric Cooper, Greg Gibson, Brian Gorman and Dan Iassogna.

and here is Curt Schilling on SOSH about that crew, pretty funny:

"FWIW that might be the worst umpiring crew in the history of post season baseball. Bucknor, Gibson AND Merriweather? Oh and Joe West, the umpire who is well known to hate the Sox as much as any man ever.

At least in Joe's defense he's a decent ump, albeit one who has stated EXPLICITLY on the field he holds grudges and gets even, CB, Gibby and Chuck just suck, no two ways about it. Chuck's at least a nice guy though. He feels bad when he blows calls. CB has never been good enough to ID a bad or missed call and as far as Gibby knows he's NEVER MADE a bad call.

Direct quote from Greg Gibson during a game "Do you know you are arguing with the best young umpire in the game right now?"

Dead serious when delivering it too...."

[Harold Baines]

It was via Joe West that I saw Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.

I will always love Joe West.

Schilling is whining about Merriwether, but I don't see him in the list.

At least Phil Cuzzi isn't there.
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[jon abbey]

yeah, I corrected him on that, Meriweather is on the NY series.

[MRS]

Bucknor might even overtake Angel for the ocean floor.

[jon abbey]

the dreadful national baseball broadcast teams, who invariably know less about the teams they're watching than the bulk of their fans watching at home.

Chip Caray blew that exciting Punto/Raburn play just now, not once but twice. first he called the ball a base hit, then he said the throw was offline. um, no and no.

[jon abbey]

pitching matchups for NY/Minnesota shaping up like this (all have been officially announced except Baker in game 4 for Minn):

Gm 1 Duensing @ Sabathia Wed Oct. 7 6:07 PM TBS
Gm 2 Blackburn @ Burnett Fri Oct. 9 6:07 PM TBS
Gm 3 Pettitte @ Pavano Sun Oct. 11 TBD TBS
Gm 4* Sabathia @ Baker Mon Oct. 12 TBD TBS
Gm 5* Duensing or Blackburn @ Burnett Wed Oct. 14 TBD

[bostontricky]

inane scheduling times, so that fucking TBS can show every game without any overlapping (which never works anyway).

Games at Boston and at Minnesota on Sunday, let's see how badly they can screw up the start times due to the NFL. 6:07 and 9:37? Later?

[jon abbey]

strong winds here today, up to 35 MPH gusts, we could see some crazy stuff this afternoon (into early evening).

[surfer]

ALDS:
New York Yankees over Minnesota Twins in 4 games
Boston Red Sox over Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 5 games

NLDS:
Colorado Rockies over Philadelphia Phillies in 5 games
St. Louis Cardinals over Los Angeles Dodgers in 5 games

ALCS:
New York Yankees over Boston Red Sox in 6 games

NLCS:
St. Louis Cardinals over Colorado Rockies in 6 games

World Series:
New York Yankees over St. Louis Cardinals in 6 games