Official SPL/MLB Divisional Series Thread...

If I were a ballplayer, the Rockies are the last team I'd want to face right now.

As a Phillies fan, the Rockies were the last team I wanted to face in a Best of 5 series right now.

If your fucked up team would have dropped two more games like they were supposed to, you wouldn't have had to worry about it.

Have the Phillies fans stopped jizzin' all over themselves just because they backed into the playoffs yet?

No, I suspect that should happen at approximately 3:18 local time, right after the Rockies take a 3-0 lead in the first inning.

Here are my filters for the baseball playoffs.

Top priority: Yankees not only lose, but they choke.

Teams I like alot: Phillies, Red Sox, Indians

Teams I have no like or dislike for: Rockies, Angels, D-Backs.

The X Factor: The Cubs. I haven't felt any attachment to them this summer, but I have in the past. If they start winning, then I will jump on the bandwagon.

Now that I have tickets for 3 Championship Series games, I'm red to go.

If Beckett pitches well tonight, good sign. Not feeling good about Dice K and Schilling.

As long as Yankees lose, I will be okay.

Rooting for the Phillies. Hot chick in college loved them and Tug McGraw. Fond memories of that WS.

Great analysis, qunte.

That's never going to get old.

Tug McGraw was an ass hole.

MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

There is one team that will be victorious and it is from New York, and I can't wait to hear you sissies when you come up with these gems - "Oh, with their payroll they just did what they were supposed to do", "It's not fair", "The Yankmees suck", etc, etc.

They will win it for George this year - you know, that owner that all you dicks wish you had, and the one that actually reinvests his money back into the team.

You seriously think that? You are Nuckin' Futs.

Which part - that they win it for George or that you all wish George owned your team?

Actually, I seriously think both.

What a dick.

Hehehehehehe - loser, and a sore one at that.

Loser?
I didn't lose anything. I'm not a member of the NY Mets. The team sucked, they tanked, they blew it. I'm disappointed. But I take no responsibility, nor do I rise and fall on what the Mets do.

Just like if the Yankees win, you'll still be a dick.

I think what I quoted pretty much lays that out for you.

Or lose, don't forget that part.

I am damn near properly ossified for this event. Only happens (what seems like) once every generation around here.

How so?

Well that was fun while it lasted.

And you expected...?

I was an inning off.

That guy in the white t Shirt looked alot like Hazy

Nope, not me. Sitting in my living room with my close dear friend Miller.

Get 'em tomorrow (I sure as shit hope).

One down, two to go...I wonder if Chase will manage to put the ball in play in Game 2: ouch! 4 Ks

Just in case I need to use them before your pussy ass decides to edit.

It is a good question.

I'll try to limit my trash talking strictly to baseball...one doesn't even need to
get started with the Eagles

This isn't a football thread and for the most part if you took the time to read those, I agreed with most of the stuff said regarding the local football squad.

It is a damn fine question, so what is the problem with quoting a cunt before he could change it?

I didn't know he was a cunt. Sorry.

How about other games tonight? I'm going with Boston and the Cubs

For the sake of our members with more delicate sensibilities, we've adopted the euphemism qunte.

Much obliged.

He isn't. I am just a tad aggravated and he posted. If he keeps it up, I will lock his Yahoo Hockey team

Sox and D-Backs. D-Backs had been playing pretty well until the middle of last week, after that I think the Cubs take the series.

It isn't mine and I have still not gotten any royalty check for 'Fucktard'.

I was pissed when I saw the lineup...

When Utley broke his hand, Burrell got hot...Charlie decided it was a good idea to move Burrell to the 3 hole.

So when Utley returns, he bats Utley 2nd against lefties and Burrell 3rd.

Today the lineups are announced and I see he has Utley in the 3 spot with Burrell batting 6th.

If it wins you a Division Title, why fuck with it?

Now, the home plate umpire, was he not just awful for both sides, or what?

He wasn't great in the bottom of the 9th for the Phils, no

I am not usually one to go off on that shit, but the 3rd strike to Howard was horsecrap. That being said, he probably would have swung and missed at the next pitch anyway.

If Rollins doesn't do anything early this team is cooked. Rockies did a nice job of keeping 1-4 locked down today, deserved it and we'll just try and get it back tomorrow.

Still think this thing is gonna go 5.

The socks design on the infield at Fenway looks kinda faggy.

When doesn't it?

Play nice.

Dammit.

You're the one with the fag in it!

Beckett is on fire...

neither is you in front of a tv rooting for a city other than ny in the playoffs

he did.
i saw that as well in the 9th inning, screaming like it was tied, instead of down by two with no one on and two outs.
maybe it was dave?

I knew Beckett was good, but when did he become this good?

When he started using K-Y Jelly for his blisters.

Poor wittle Hazy.

nice avatar

Sox Win. Nuff said.

Thanks for the update qunte; don't know what we'd do without you.

A lot more than we're doing now?

Webb's got a nashty sinker

When he has that pitch going he is nasty. Well pitched game so far, enjoying it.

The Geico commercial with the kid Go-cart racer is friggin' HI-larious

"I'm not saying I wouldn't go fishing with the man, but if he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall"

Was he not the 2003 WS MVP?

Yeah, just the start I was looking for today.

Somewhere Joebaby is smirking.

Did they move the walls in 100 feet? Guess the shadows are not an issue.

That's a meaningless stat overall. Quite a few mediocre players have won this.

Shadows will be an issue in about a 1/2 hour or so.

Always.

But not him

Just for fun, look at this list of mediocrity from 1963-1980


1980 Mike Schmidt
1979 Willie Stargell
1978 Bucky Dent
1977 Reggie Jackson
1976 Johnny Bench
1975 Pete Rose
1974 Rollie Fingers
1973 Reggie Jackson
1972 Gene Tenace
1971 Roberto Clemente
1970 Brooks Robinson
1969 Donn Clendenon
1968 Mickey Lolich
1967 Bob Gibson
1966 Frank Robinson
1965 Sandy Koufax
1964 Bob Gibson
1963 Sandy Koufax

His left handed power is down and in

Don't throw it down and in

Dohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Told ya.

I still don't understand the pitching change.

Good Call.

Does the mediocrity start in 1981?

Whats up with this new and improved Hazy. Damn I was expecting at the very least an FU.

Nah...I halfway sort of expected to get swept.

Speedball...
Your baseball posts the last few days have sucked. If someone woke out of a time bubble and read your posts they would think that no wild card team has ever won a playoff series and that there was no World Series MVP after 1980.

Here's the rest of the list...

1981 Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, Steve Yeager Los Angeles Dodgers
1982 Darrell Porter St. Louis Cardinals
1983 Rick Dempsey Baltimore Orioles
1984 Alan Trammell Detroit Tigers
1985 Bret Saberhagen Kansas City Royals
1986 Ray Knight New York Mets
1987 Frank Viola Minnesota Twins
1988 Orel Hershiser Los Angeles Dodgers
1989 Dave Stewart Oakland Athletics
1990 Jos? Rijo Cincinnati Reds
1991 Jack Morris Minnesota Twins
1992 Pat Borders Toronto Blue Jays
1993 Paul Molitor Toronto Blue Jays
1994
No World Series
1995 Tom Glavine Atlanta Braves
1996 John Wetteland New York Yankees
1997 Liv?n Hern?ndez Florida Marlins
1998 Scott Brosius New York Yankees
1999 Mariano Rivera New York Yankees
2000 Derek Jeter New York Yankees
2001 Johnson, Schilling Arizona Diamondbacks
2002 Troy Glaus Anaheim Angels
2003 Josh Beckett Florida Marlins
2004 Manny Ram?rez Boston Red Sox
2005 Jermaine Dye Chicago White Sox
2006 David Eckstein St. Louis Cardinals

Care to argue that Scott Brosius, or even Ray Knight to dispel any notion of favoritism, is a stellar player?

Now I know why he stopped after 1980.

God fucking damn I said just for fun. Even you could have figured I was cherry picking a list to piss you off.

Guess not

WTF is a time bubble? Even if they did, before they went in, there was no such thing as the wild card so there.

Oh and 2 mediocrties out of the 25 years there. Oh, you WERE right. Shit, I'll even give you Yeager, Eckstein and Borders

Well, those towels they give away at the games can be used to dry those tears, or to give to Mesa after the fans dump their beers on him.

Good ole Joe Table........

Some awards count and some don't.
Some just make sense...
Like when Cy Young won the Cy Young award and when Lou Gehrig contracted the disease that had been named after him.

Or like when the Padres were trammelled in '84.

Uh oh, Hazy

I hope they use plastic knives at Hazy's work.

Remember when you were a suck-ass manager of the Sawx back in the late 80's to early 90's?

Looks like he'll be eating KFC for lunch next week

That's quite an award Gehrig contracted

Philly looks like they've rolled over and died...of course, the announcers aren't helping. It sounds like they're commentating on paint drying. TBS is awful! And so are those Dane Cook commercials...couldn't he go sell out somewhere else?

The only thing I like about TBS is the HD feed is very good and when they show what a batter has done in the game they use the score card style graphic.

I know TBS isn't the greatest...but have none of you ever watched a Braves game on this channel before?

Ya'll seem like these announcers are total aliens to you

That and Bobby Cox are the reason I don't watch Braves games

Ugh!

Still don't know why he took the starter out (you can save the he sucks stuff)

Still don't understand why Joe Table was on the post-season roster, much less the regular season roster.

Well it was a fun year and we kept the Mets out of the play-offs, for that the Phils should be thanked, sort of, maybe.

Safe to say that the deposit for my Season Tickets will be in the mail from the Phillies a little earlier this year.

UGH!

Keep hope alive

Keep hope alive

Derek Jeter...

.000 so far.

2 down...

Because of the manager?

Shit he ain't even on the damn field

Yah, will do.

How far ahead are the big bad Yankees?

That home run siren at the Jake has to be the most obnoxious thing in baseball...
Against the Yanks, I love it.

Beautiful job by Sabathia pitching himself out of that jam.

Oh STFU and go play golf with your team. Be useful and get me a Rangers score.

I get the distinct feeling the Yankmee$ are going to have some difficulty in this series.

That's only slightly less than what Jose Reyes did in September

Once the bats start up they'll be fine. It's early in the series.

You know I thought the same thing after yesterday.

Ohlendorf? Excellent.

Wait till the Yankee batters experience the shadows tomorrow. 5:00 start at the Jake in October, the ball can not be picked up from the pitcher's hand until its right on the plate. Factor in that Fausto will be on the mound, Yankees will be walking back to the dugout shaking their heads in disbelief all night.

Nice one, Yigba.

So Yigba, kellyclub....
Who's being more clutch tonight, Jeter or ARod?

7 game lead with 17 to go.....they are the Amazins!

Brilliant!

Hey Muckinyigba, you're supposed to change names back to the recognizable one before you act like you know me.

Schmuck.

They're both clutching their throats

There's many people here who have the right to say shit tonite. Sorry, you're not one of them - you didn't get invited to the party this year, little boy.

Muckinmeyer ?

That's what I've been calling tiny voiced Tony "no shit, Tony" Gwynn all night.

His voice is a combination of a Fucking Munchkin & Neidermeyer..

Muckinmeyer is a term coined by Art Carney on the 'Honeymooners'. It was the name he gave his sewer boss, Jim McKeever.
'Ol' Muck and Myre'.

Settle down, little boy.

I thought a 2 hundred million dollar payroll was supposed to buy a championship? I guess it only buys old, overrated talent.

blah blah blah blah

2 million, huh? Stick with the football threads.

Shit...2 million doesn't buy the gold plated jock straps that A-Rod requires in his contract.

Yeah, I know. 2 million, 200 million. Oh, well. I wish I could say I'm rooting for the Yankees to rally, but then I'd be lying.

How much does Favre get paid? And why?

I had to leave for a while. Did the Yankees rally to win?

good answer

Petite is pitching a real gem tonight.
Looking forward to seeing how Jaba will do
when the pressure is on.

Are we buggin' you, Jobo? Didn't mean ta' bug ya'.

What's with the fucking gnats?

Joba rules!

I don't know, but they are sure "bugging" that Yankee pitcher. I love it.

Gee, I think I just might take that job in Cleveland.

Those bugs show up for maybe a half dozen or so night games per year. Warm weather tonight brought them out for one final fling.

We luv 'em.

I hear fall is beautiful in Cleveland.

It kills me that none of the Indians seem affected at all, but the Yanks are all fucking freaked out.

Do they go into hiding when Cleveland is playing D?

Fausto knows how to deal.

Aren't bugs usually attracted to decaying flesh?

We shall see.

One down.

No, really, the meerkat thing is creepy.

Watch the show. You will love it.

Two down.

Looks like Dewek is afwaid of the wittle buggers.

They have names? Creepy.



Too slow.

Damn

A-Rod, dealt again. Where the hell has that kclub dupe been hiding, anyway?

Amazing he can look so bad at times.

You mean, like, playoff time?

ur jelus. u dont no baseball.

Don't worry....those aren't bugs on Matsui's face, they're just moles.

First, bugs. Now moles?

Jeter would have gone into the seats for that one.

Please, don't get Yigba started.

Garko is going to make them pay.

Whats happening? The new Meerkat Manor episode is almost over with

We need another wild pitch. Where'd those damned bugs go?

Doesn't look like Garko made them pay

The guy hit him intentionally. He'll make them pay next at bat.

This is a little late, but of course they pitched to A-Rod. 0-for-15 in post-season, and wasn't he 0-for-21 or something at 499 homers? It's embarrassing that with 2 outs, a man on second with first open, they still pitched to him.

Duncan might pop one out

It's moxie. Cleveland has it, and the Yanks haven't been able to match it.

or he might not

Gotta love Yankee fans. They think every second rate bench warmer on their team is Bucky Dent.

This is my kind of playoff game. Every stinkin pitch is important.

I introduced my kids to Moxie while we were up in Maine. Priceless.

Moxie is about to bare her teeth.

Bwahahaha....loading the bases for the home team in extra innings with one out when you're already down a game isn't moxie, it's idiocy.

For chrissakes, can any frickin' Indian drive in a run?

Patience Travis. Patience.

This is it

Fucking A!

Travis. Hafner.

That's 2.

Just for Yigba...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Fantastic game.
Another tough luck pitching performance by Petite tonight.
We find out tomorrow if signing Roger for 28 million was worth it.

DiceK sucks.

We shall see.

You keep saying that.

His eyesight is 20/20 I'm sure

I feel for petteat.









not

Let's see. I'm trying to do the math here. The Yankees spent $200 million on payroll this year. And they are down 0-2 in the series. How many dollars per win is that this series?

Just got back from the game...

Did anybody catch my box o' bugs gag in the 8th ?

Matsusaka is now going to take a cold shower and lose face.

Glad to see you escaped alive.

Post of the week.

No, your nailing Spirit in the Sky was the post of the week.

No touchy

No re-touchy

No you won't find that out until Sunday.

BTW, how does Torre not let Mariano pitch another inning? I don't get it.

But, shouldn't this picture have its own thread?

Where's kellyclub to tell us how piece of shit Rod is the greatest player in the world when he couldn't get a hit in the 9th that his team desperately needed, and that would have erased his past 3 postseason failures in an instant? That fucking douchebag. May he rot eternally in Hades.

"What would have happened if there had been no bug infestation, I guess we'll never know." John Sterling, 10/5/07.