The Pond Scums vs our Little Expansion Brothers Round 2 NLCS

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Ah just thought I get this sucker started a few days in advance

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

My 12-year-old is a Cardinals fan. I hate Roger Clemens.

Go Cards!

[Valadius]

It's a repeat of last year. Hopefully it will be just as dramatic, if not more so.

[smg58]

Gotta pull for the underdogs. An Astros win would be doubly impressive given the way their season started.

[Guest sharpie]

Astros. If the Mets aren't in it I am officially for the team that has been shut out the longest. So, Astros over Cards, Chisox over either Yankees or Angels. Chisox over Astros (Sox haven't won WS since 1917, Stros have never been so this could be a great season for both teams).

[Guest SI Metman]

At this point I'm rooting for a White Sox-Astros series. It would be similiar to the 2002 WS where both teams had a 40+ year drought.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

White Sox-Astros would be fun.

I'd be pulling for Chicago in that one. I noticed somebody in the Fenway crowd during game 3 holding up a sign reading "1917" and thought that was awfully nervy.

Let the White Sox get the monkey off their backs.

Meanwhile, I'd like to see the Cubs at least get to the 100-year mark before winning a World Series. No championships on the North Side until 2009 at the earliest. And really, I'd be happy to live long enough to see them get to 150 years. (I'd have to make it to the age of 95.)

Maybe I should settle for 140 years.

[Guest sharpie]

The possibility of a Yankee-Cardinal series depresses me.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That would suck.

[Guest SI Metman]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Meanwhile, I'd like to see the Cubs at least get to the 100-year mark before winning a World Series. No championships on the North Side until 2009 at the earliest. And really, I'd be happy to live long enough to see them get to 150 years. (I'd have to make it to the age of 95.) Maybe I should settle for 140 years.

Steve Bartman ruined it.

The books were supposed to read:

2003: Chicago Cubs World Champions
2004: Boston Red Sox World Champions
2005: Chicago White Sox World Champions.

[Elster88]

Sadly, the Yankees would've beaten the shit out of that Cub team. The reason they lost to the Marlins was named Josh Beckett.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Steve Bartman did not cause the Cubs to lose.

The Marlins --- and the Cubs themselves --- caused the Cubs to lose.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Bump for Game 1 TONIGHT!

Oh! ANNNNNDYYY! (thats taken from the Michael Kay Show's Joey Salvia's "Mandy" inspired Valentine songs to Pettitte) vs Chris "Don't call me Mr. Tool Time" Carpenter

[Zvon]

I want Houston to make it to the Big Show myself.
But watching I have to say that the Cards are such a sound baseball team fundimentally that the 'Stos work is certainly cut out for them.

I mean, the Cards just telegraphed that squeeze bunt to everyone in the world and still pull it off perfectly.

3-0 cards, in the 3rd.

[Zvon]

wowzers.
Burke just hit another post season pinch hit homer for the Asstros.
A 2 run shot puts Houston on the board.

St Loo still has the lead tho, 5-2

[Zvon]

I guess that clinching homer wasnt actually a pinch hit homer. Or was it?
Cuz he came in to run for Berkman in that game.

Does that at-bat still qualify as a pinch hit?

[Zvon]

Cards win, 5-3.

A rather boring game.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ex-Factor

Vizcaino Wheeler

vs.

Isringhausen

[Zvon]

Zvon wrote: Cards win, 5-3. A rather boring game.

I still love a boring game. Cuz its baseball.
So far tonights game is also technically boring, with Houston up 2-0 in the 6th.
But the game is never really boring to true students of the game.

[Zvon]

.....and just when I say that Edmunds makes a fantastic catch and wakes me right up.

[nymr83]

]The books were supposed to read: 2003: Chicago Cubs World Champions 2004: Boston Red Sox World Champions 2005: Chicago White Sox World Champions

2006: World Ends.

[Valadius]

Astros tie the series up 1-1.

Check this out:



Reggie Sanders looks like he's a ballet dancer or something...

[Zvon]

Valadius wrote: Reggie Sanders looks like he's a ballet dancer or something...

that was funny enuff to watch live, but that photo takes the cake.
Live I actually thought at 1st the ball hit off his head.Lol.

[Guest SI Metman]

Well the 'Stros put themselves a game better than last year when they went to the Juice Box down 2-0.

The aging headhunter goes for them in Game 3. I'm going to feel dirty rooting for Clemens.

[Guest sharpie]

While I had announced here that I was for the Astros, last night I found myself pulling for the Cardinals. The Clemens factor, plus the fact that I have a knee-jerk anti-Texas team thing seems to be swaying me. I think I'm now netural.

[Zvon]

sharpie wrote: While I had announced here that I was for the Astros, last night I found myself pulling for the Cardinals. The Clemens factor, plus the fact that I have a knee-jerk anti-Texas team thing seems to be swaying me. I think I'm now netural.

thats perfectly natural when your team is not in it.
Emotional tides can turn easily when there is no vested interest.

Clemens pitched a fine game today and Houston wins its second game of the NLCS. That was his 32nd post season career start. WOW. He's 12-8.
Lidge wasnt perfect in closing but did get it done.
It was a good game, 4-3 the final score.

The Cards are banged up.....they lost Sanders the other day and lost Nunez today, who has been playing 3rd for the injured Scott Rolin.
I would think Sanders will be back before the series is over, and I think the Cards need him in there.

[seawolf17]

Phil Cuzzi is slowly going crazy behind the plate. He threw out LaRussa in the bottom of the seventh for arguing balls and strikes, and now he just threw out Edmonds on a bad call on a 3-1 pitch (Cuzzi called it strike 2, Edmonds said something and got tossed).

The last time a manager was thrown out of a postseason game was 1999... Jimy Williams, I think.

[seawolf17]

The Cards get runners on the corners with nobody out, down by a run, in the top of the ninth. A bouncer to third, Ensberg comes home and throws out Pujols. Nobody called time, though, and Larry Walker snuck into third base without a throw. So now it's first-and-third again with one out. Heads up play by Walker.

[seawolf17]

And Mabry hits a slow roller in the hole on the right side, but somehow Eric Bruntlett gets to it, and somehow gets it to Adam Everett for one, who somehow gets it over to first to get Mabry -- who apparently must have run into a construction detour or something on the way down the line -- at first for the ol' 4-6-3 game-ending DP.

Astros up 3 games to 1 heading into tomorrow. Wow.

[Zvon]

seawolf17 wrote: Phil Cuzzi is slowly going crazy behind the plate. He threw out LaRussa in the bottom of the seventh for arguing balls and strikes, and now he just threw out Edmonds on a bad call on a 3-1 pitch (Cuzzi called it strike 2, Edmonds said something and got tossed). The last time a manager was thrown out of a postseason game was 1999... Jimy Williams, I think.

once again an ump plays a bigger role than he should.
LaRussa was tossed before he ever left the dugout and Edmunds was tossed without even any physical contact.
i guess you cant talk like a man to umps these days.....

It was a very interesting argument to watch with LaRussa, when he did come out after getting tossed, cuz the crew chief kept playin a pick on him, so he couldnt even get in the proper words with Cuzzi to make it all seem worthwhile.

A good game that becomes soiled by B.S.

I wont even get into how bad the strike calls were.......