2009 World Series IST

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

PSST: Yankee fans! Your team of merc all-stars is being largely shut down by a 38-year-old throwing 89-mph fastballs, and would be behind, but for two hung curves-- trash talk at this juncture makes you look even dumber than usual.

[Guest Kong76]

How come they didn't show the second out on a strike three call
on that nice little "pitch track" box or whatever it's called in the
top of the 7th?

Probably because it was a ball.

[Guest Kong76]

I have a feeling Pedro is gonna run out of gas and the Yanks are
gona put up a four or five spot here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

By the way, standing O to Charlie Manuel for keeping Pedro in.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Eh, we'll see. I have the same nervous KC has.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's an all-time great walking off the field. Show some respect, kids.

[Guest Kong76]

I was really gonna limit my watching of this, but I'm sucked in.

[metirish]

Can someone pass McCarver a tissue , he sounds like he is going to cry talking about how Jeter made a bad play......

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

McCarver:Jeter::SI writer Peter King:Favre


AND the umpires join the Friends of America's Enemies list.

1) Met fans rooting against the MFYs
2) Cliff Lee
3) Chase Utley
4) NNYer Raul Ibanez
5) Umpires

[Guest Kong76]

I have to sign off ... I leave with hopes that bringing in #42 so
early will blow up in the Yanks face.

[Frayed Knot]

I think that may have been the Phils' last best chance

[Guest Edgy DC]

Way to go, umpires.

Hey, Juan Acevas is up. Bring himi in, Joe.

[metirish]

Keep bringing Rivera in for two innings....it'll hopefully catch up with him

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not if the umps call strikes six inches off the outside of the plate.

[Frayed Knot]

Keep bringing Rivera in for two innings....it'll hopefully catch up with him[/quote:1cntsoj5]

It rarely does.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Pitch to Stairs, Joe?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Matt Stairs, ladies and gents.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good pitch to finish him off.

Not so much the one got Howard, though.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Flerg.

[bmfc1]

Really classy Rollins. I'm trying hard to root for your team, even if only because I dislike your team less than the other team, but you're still a 1st class jerk. It makes me want the Mets to sign Burrell, lousy fielder that he is, just to hit some homeruns against the Phillies:
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Rollins rips former teammate Burrell

9:39 PM, October 29, 2009 ? By BART HUBBUCH

Jimmy Rollins, who already put a target on his back by predicting a five-game win over the Yankees coming into this World Series, made it clear that all was not well with Philadelphia during last year�s run to the title.

Rollins didn�t mention the player by name, but it was obvious from his dig that he and his teammates are a lot happier with Raul Ibanez in left field rather than since-departed Pat Burrell.

Asked how much of an impact Ibanez has had on the Phillies� bid to repeat as world champions, Rollins said: �There were less balls falling in the outfield [compared to when Burrell was there], so that meant teams were getting [fewer] extra outs on balls that should have been outs.�

Ouch.

Rollins didn�t stop there, saying Burrell, who signed with Tampa Bay in the offseason and went on to have a terrible year for the Rays, made Rollins� job harder.

�[With Ibanez instead of Burrell], I got a little rest not having to go out there and catch as many fly balls,� Rollins said.

Rollins� blistering comments at an ex-teammate who helped him win a ring hardly are a surprise. The former NL MVP isn�t the most available player when it comes to speaking to the media, but watch out when Rollins does.

[metirish]

Much ado about nothing......Rollins likes to run his mouth....


Watching the game last night I was thinking not for the first time about the lack of athmosphere at yankee games , even without the prompting of Buck and McCarver who brought it up several times the place sounded dead.....great pitching , lot's of squeaky bum moments and the crowd had nothing.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That doesn't strike me as particularly "blistering," maybe a little impolite but above all its probably true, at least to how Rollins feels.

I kind of like Rollins as part of that fraterntity of brash, outspoken, talented black ballplayers from Oakland (Morgan, Rickey, Dontrelle, etc)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Add in Glenn Burke, inventor of the high five, and Hammer, inventor of the rap call to prayer.

[Guest jerseyshore]

it is unwatchable

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

it is unwatchable[/quote:1ot6pwx2]

Respectfully disagree. I've checked in both nights meaning just to catch an inning, and ended up staying through game's end both times. Maybe I'm a masochist, but I'm finding myself sucked in.

[Frayed Knot]

it is unwatchable[/quote:pvfnz6il]

I think it's been quite watchable so far. Good pitching, games not decided until late runs were put up.
The pace of the games are dragging at times but that's been true of WS games for years now.

Sounds like your current mood is reflected in your sig line.

[Guest jerseyshore]

the "unwatch-ability" stems from the combatants.......not the contest itself.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I haven't been at all tempted to watch either, but that's not because of the two teams who are playing, but because of the one team who's not playing.

The last two nights I went to bed without even checking the score, not because I wanted to avoid the Series, but because I've been blissfully unaware that there was even a game in progress. And that's an amazing thing, because I'm embedded in Phillies territory, but somehow I've been able to mostly tune it all out without any effort at all.

[Frayed Knot]

the "unwatch-ability" stems from the combatants.......not the contest itself.

[Vic Sage]

the last meaningful baseball game was some time in July. I'm with Grimm. Nothing to see here, folks. move along.