2009 World Series IST

[Elster88]

Utley owns Sabathia. Solo homer chases CC.

I predict that Howard's going to strike out to end the inning. I also predict that the sun will rise tomorrow.

[Frayed Knot]

Interesting. What would Bizzarro Chan Ho's name be?[/quote:3kv6rp4f]

Chan No Parking after Midnight

[Frayed Knot]

This suxxx. The Phils hit three ropes and have one run to show for it.
Yanx, meanwhile, score twice on a walk and 3 dinky pieces of shit.

Also six HRs for Philly this series -- all of them solos.



I know that's just baseball and there's nothing that can be done about it but I have no intention of being rational at this point.

Edited November 1, 2009 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

And now Posada needs a mound conference for Marte's third fucking pitch!!

[Fman99]

Interesting. What would Bizzarro Chan Ho's name be?[/quote:2joenwxe]

I have given this some thought, actually, and I always come back to "The Simpsons" on this point. They had an episode where Krusty the Klown, in a Woody Allen parody, was starring in a TV movie and facing a legion of adopted foreign kids in which his Mia Farrow marriage is on the rocks...

Krusty: Chan Ho, your mother Mia and I are getting a divorce.
Chin Ho: Chan Ho is over there. I am Chin Ho.
Krusty: Whoever you are, just pass it along, kid.

So, hence, Chin Ho Park.

[Elster88]

Chamberlain was throwing 97-98 in the playoffs two years ago instead of 94. But then that was the same gun that had the dude from the Tigers hitting 103.

[Elster88]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

Who's shutting down the side in the 8th? .... not the whiskey drinkin' Indian.

[Elster88]

Don't you walk ARod there? Or at least pitch around him?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Freakin' Lidge.

[Frayed Knot]

Why couldn't Lidge have picked last season to be a fuck-up?

[Met Hunter]

Typical how McCarver and Buck glorify the steal of third, when the real play was the at bat. That at bat by Damon will haunt Phillie fans like the O'Neill ab haunts me. Prick.

Joba rules nothing.

A message to Phillie fans:It couldn't have happened to a bigger bunch of dickheads.

I'll retool that thought to MFY fans if Philly mounts an unlikey comeback and beats them:It couldn't happen to a bigger bunch of dickheads.

OK, MFYs, wrap it up in Philly so your asshole fans don't get the nauseating celebration at the house that Ruth had nothing to do with.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I hat them. Both.

[smg58]

I turned it off after seven, thinking Rivera was coming in and that was it. But evidently that wouldn't have been sufficient torture.

Look at it this way. The Phillies have gone from the team that made two improbable comebacks at the Mets' expense to being the team that let somebody steal two bases on one pitch. Oh, and kudos to Brad Lidge for refusing to get the third out.

I understand Rollins shading over to second to anticipate a double play, but if you can't get back to a routine grounder hit to where you're normally positioned, especially with a righthanded batter up, aren't you overdoing it?

I got really annoyed at McCarver complimenting Cano on running through a stop sign. Ruiz had the plate blocked, and the throw by Werth beat him there -- or would have, if it was accurate.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm tired of Johnny Damon and his ugly one-handed swing and worthless pop-gun arm continuing to somehow be quality.

[metirish]

I went to bed when the score was 4-3 and Marte did his job.....what happend after that....what was Lidge doing in the game?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Believe me Irish, you don't want to know. Spare yourself the anguish and frustration. Being a Mets fan, you've endured enough for one season.

[MFS62]

I'm tired of Johnny Damon and his ugly one-handed swing and worthless pop-gun arm continuing to somehow be quality.[/quote:1q36spul]

A non-athlete like any umpire on the field could have overtaken Damon and tagged him out before he got to third. Why couldn't one of the Phillies?

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Well, if there's one thing Damon can still do well it's run. Problem was that, with the shift on, it was Feliz taking the throw and not Rollins, so the fact that Damon got two steps on him meant he wasn't going to be caught.
At first I thought that Damon thought the throw had gone into CF and got himself trapped. Pretty smart play all around for a guy who one Boston sportswriter once described as being "a very uncomplicated person" -- a diplomatic way of saying that he's basically as dumb as a sack of rocks.

Overall though I suspect that play is destined to get more than its share of credit for the win. With an HBP and back-to-back doubles following it he obviously was going to score from 2nd anyway (or from 1st for that matter). So it then becomes a game of trying to "credit" the double-SB for Lidge not being able to retire any of the remaining batters he faced (he only got out of the innings when Posada ran into an out) and that is the classic 'outcome proves the cause' argument that will be accepted as fact since it can never be proven false.

[MFS62]

I'll forever consider it a heads-up play by Damon and a heads-up-their-ass play by the Phillies.
But, you're right. It will be given far more historical credit than it probably deserves.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

I'll forever consider it a heads-up play by Damon and a heads-up-their-ass play by the Phillies.
But, you're right. It will be given far more historical credit than it probably deserves.[/quote:2o6f0ith]

It just occurs to me that the last time I saw that play tried (actually it was a ground-out but it was still a runner from 1st trying for the unoccupied base on 3rd due to an over-shift) it was Jeter about 6 years ago. That time, however, the catcher (Toronto backup Kent Huckaby) was wise enough to hustle over and cover the base. As things turned out, runner, ball, and catcher all got there at the same time at which point Jeter's head-first slide brought his shoulder into the business end of Huckaby's shin guard and St. Derek spent the next 5 weeks on the DL.

The kicker to the story is that the Yanx tried to paint Huckaby's play as, while not quite dirty, at least a bit on the dangerous side, at one point terming it "reckless". Reckless, of course, was probably the same thing your mother told you when you and your brother were playing ball in the living room and the possibility existed of you breaking her favorite lamp wasn't worth whatever game you were playing. In this case the possibility of Jeter getting hurt wasn't worth the Jays actually trying to win the game.
Translation: Huckaby wasn't a good enough player to injure Jeter therefore he was playing too rough and it's all fun and games until someone gets their shoulder put out.

[MFS62]

We should name an award after Huckaby.
Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Suck it, Gay Jay. Whammo.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Chase Utley, ladies and gentlemens. George W. Bush's favorite player.

Let's keep pouring it on, National Leaguers.

[Frayed Knot]

Chase Utley, ladies and gentlemens. George W. Bush's favorite player.[/quote:1r5q1nls]

For his baseball skills or for the quart of Texas-drilled 40-weight in his hair?

[metirish]

Chase Utley, ladies and gentlemens. George W. Bush's favorite player.[/quote:c74ghx1l]

For his baseball skills or for the quart of Texas-drilled 40-weight in his hair?[/quote:c74ghx1l]

LOL.....it's hard not to notice his hair alright...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Tom McCarthy: "I've gotten a chance to watch him (Jorge Posada) a lot this series, and you know what, Sarge?"

Gary Matthews: "What's that?"

Tom McCarthy: "He is not a good catcher."

[Guest Kong76]

Well, this ain't going as planned for me and I'm checking out.
There's no way I'm watching one pitch from Yankee Stadium for
the final two if this isn't it ... no more baseball until spring.

[Guest Edgy DC]

More, Phillies, more!

[Frayed Knot]

Tom McCarthy: "I've gotten a chance to watch him (Jorge Posada) a lot this series, and you know what, Sarge?"

Gary Matthews: "What's that?"

Tom McCarthy: "He is not a good catcher."