Willets Point

cooby wrote: Burgess would be embarrassed to know my memory of him Are we going to let this softball on a tee pass unoticed just because cooby is a woman of good reputation?

="cooby"]I am hoping tomorrow's headline reads Tigers unsheath claws and go bird hunting Cardinal team in tatters Kind of reminds me of Sylvester and Tweety in that I always wondered why a big cat went to all that effort for one tiny bird with a big cranium. LaRussa would be the bird with the big cranium by the way.

metirish wrote: My main problem with this guy is that with the huge posting fee and then contract the pressure on him will be freaking huge..Zito has won 102 games in the bigs...I'd rather the Mets give him the big contract. It need not be either/or. The Mets rotation needs a lot of help. The Mets have a lot of $$$. Why not both?

seawolf17 wrote: Jon Stewart gave me his extra ticket; I'll be down on the field level. Cool. I'll be there with Kate Winslett and Scarlet Johansen.

Johnny Dickshot wrote: First pitch is 8:19 on your local FOX station. If we're fantasizing, it's a day game, work is canceled and through the miracle of quantum physics all 300 million Americans will be able to fit in the front row at Shea.

Current Standings: OlerudOwned 175 Nymr83 155 seawolf17 155 HahnSolo 140 Willets Point 140 Gwreck 130 Zvon 130 willpie 110 Johnny Dickshot 100 86-Dreamer 80 Metirish 65 Rotblatt 65 Transmonk 65 Yancy Street Gang 65 ABG 40 Absolutely no one picked the Cardinals to win the NL Pennant. For the final round 13 of 15 participants picked the Mets to win it all, and ABG picked the Yankees. I picked the Tigers to win the Worlds Series, so basically I'm the only one who has a chance to get 100 more points. On the whole, I'd rather the Mets win the World Series than I win this contest.

Does Basak actually rhyme with Isaac? By-sick?

Edgy DC wrote: Twenty million could buy a lot of prospects, I imagine. Or a lot of meat.

Edgy DC wrote: This church scares me. Good, scary churches make for a good voting bloc in an election year.

MFS62 wrote: Since that time, I wouldn't pee down his throat if his heart was on fire. Okay, eeewww!!!

You and your damn beards! Next year during postseason we're going the obsesively clean-shaven route. Brazilian waxing for everyone!

The pitcher who walked in the winning run in the 1999 NLCS becomes the dominant ace that leads his team to a World Series championship in 2006.

Frayed Knot wrote: ]Can we put the AL is better than the NL myth to bed now? No, because the AL beat the NL during interleague this year at rates roughly equivelent to Johnson beating Goldwater. The outcome of this series - and especially one game from the series - shouldn't be used to either erase what's gone on all season. That said, there are various over-generalizations that are going on with various fan and media types on this subject. One is this assumption that this lop-sidedness has been true for years. It hasn't; prior to this season, it was the NL which held a slight edge over the first 9 years of IL play. Another is treating the WS (or, even worse, All-Star games) as a true measure of league strength. Not only does this takes the idea a 'small sample' to an extreme but it's also just one team vs another. In-season IL play is so much better because it's ~240 games/year and pits the good, bad & ugly from each league against each other. Your facts are all dead on, but my point was more to the "AL team will win in a cakewalk" type of comments that deny the fact that there are two very good teams competing in a short series and all those interleague results, previous World Series, and All-Star Games are irrelevant. Actually, I think what you've said backs that up as oppossed to contradicting me.

Just to comment on last night... the National League team after a tightly-contested 7-game series on one day rest pitching an unreliable rookie out of desperation against the well-rested Tigers and their rookie ace in a road game won in dominating fashion. Can we put the AL is better than the NL myth to bed now? The Tiggers have an early lead on a Craig Monroe homer tonight.

Uh-oh. I have a deep foreboding about the future of this thread.

Nymr, why do you hate America?

Cardinals take the first game 7-2.

Apparently, it wasn't that the Mets offense that was failing but that the Cardinals pitching made a deal with the devil.

The Tigers need Endy Chavez.

Ernie Harwell on the Tigers broadcast. Awesome.

First matchup of rookie pitchers in a game #1 in World Series history. I thought that happened in 1997 with Jaret Wright and Levan Hernandez, but I guess that wasn't game #1.

C'mon, you know you're gonna watch. Verlander toes the mound for the Tigers and Reyes counters for the Cardinals in Game 1.