2006 ALCS - Detroit vs. Oakland

[Willets Point]

Getting past the Yankees gossip and gloating, and the impeding Mets NLCS game #1 and rain, there is actually a series starting tonight.

Barry Zito is on the mound for the A's, Nate Robertson starts for the Tigers.

Motor City Kitties:
C. Granderson CF
P. Polanco 2B
S. Casey 1B
M. Ordonez RF
C. Guillen SS
I. Rodriguez C
C. Monroe LF
M. Thames DH
B. Inge 3B

East Bay Discount Warehouse:
J. Kendall C
M. Kotsay CF
M. Bradley RF
F. Thomas DH
J. Payton LF
E. Chavez 3B
N. Swisher 1B
M. Scutaro SS
D. Jimenez 2B

One of these teams may be playing the Mets in the near future, so pay attention!

EDIT: Fixed typo per metirish.

[metirish]

I'm looking forward to this series,should be full of great pitching..


btw I think it's Nate Robertson.

[Willets Point]

Zito's a Las Vegas native. I didn't think anyone actually came from there.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

When your parents are in show business, you have a decent shot at coming from Vegas.

[metirish]

Christ I wish they had fired Torre so Lou wouldn't be in the TV booth....

[Farmer Ted]

I enjoy watching a league championhip series where the home team has tarp over the upper deck because they have no fans.

[Willets Point]

You think they could take that off for the postseason even if they needed it for the regular season.

[metirish]

You'd think they would sell tickets for a $ just to fill the place.

[Willets Point]

I just checked online to see if I could buy tickets for tomorrow's game and it is sold out. Now I'm not about to fly across the country, but I'm sure there are folks in the Bay Area who would happily buy Upper Deck seats if they could get them.

[Gwreck]

I suspect they may take off the tarps for the WS.

It's not like those seats haven't been used for baseball before.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Is Lou Piniella senile? Or just drunk?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Detroit has a 3-0 lead in the 4th inning.

[Willets Point]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Detroit has a 3-0 lead in the 4th inning.

Eat 'em Tigers, eat 'em up!!!

[metirish]

4 to zip..Tigers are mauling them A's.

[Willets Point]

4-0 for the striped ones.

Sounds like there's about 10 people at the Collesium.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Zito's out in the 4th, down 5-0.

[Willets Point]

Zito Exit.

[Elster88]

I really miss Jay Payton.

Frank Thomas runs like a 65 year old woman. Which is pretty darn impressive since he's about 80.

Super slo-mo is fucking cool

[metirish]

Those Tigers have some great defence..

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I can see why it was so humiliating to lose to such a team

[smg58]

metirish wrote: Christ I wish they had fired Torre so Lou wouldn't be in the TV booth....

Amen.

[Willets Point]

[Willets Point]

Tuesdays with Jim Leyland.

[Guest cooby]

That tiger looks like he was eating cheezits

[Valadius]

It remains to be seen whether or not the A's have a moment of silence for Cory Lidle tonight. I would be SHOCKED if they didn't.

[Frayed Knot]

So Casey's injury last night forces the Tiggers to move Guillen to 1st and insert Neifi Perez at SS.
OK, that I can see ... but here's what I can't:

Perez: .243/.260/.316 (and just 12 singles + 1 double in 65 ABs as a Tiger)
And while Inge is hardly great, he's at: 542 ABs; .253/.313/.463 (137 hits, 58 of them for xtra bases)

So what's the problem? How 'bout Perez batting 2nd and Inge 9th!!
And I'm willing to bet it's based entirely on Neifi's supposed speed - even though he's got a career mark of 57 steals while being caught 45 times!!
I mean jeeez, Inge is a former catcher and has almost as good (read: bad) a theft ratio: 25 steals in 50 attempts

Now you realize what drives "stats nuts" nuts about "Old-Skool" managers.

[Guest cleonjones11]

No Mets No Care Rasta

[soupcan]

Do you think Lou Piniella knows where he is?

[Willets Point]

Tigers roar again, lead 5-3 after being down 3-1.

[Zvon]

Im tryin to catch this game and so far I was only looking at the TV for one pitch, and Bradley hit it out. Dont think I was even lookin--just heard the crowd and looked.
lol.

Was there a moment of silence for Cory Lidle?

Pinella is soooo bad Im really surprised his broadcasting doesnt ruin any chance he'll ever manage anywhere again.
He just, most times,(there hv been some interesting insights) sounds so dumb.

Yesterday the play by play guy goes-
"And its drilled to deep left-----deep enough--------------but its foul."
And Pinella goes(something like)_
"That was drilled.......deep to left....but it was foul."
--Like he was a freakin parrot or something.