Major League Baseball 2009

[SmoothieX]

Edit: I...shit. What the fuck else is there to say? SHIT. SHIT. SHIT.

In your pants?

Philly sure did OK with their backup plan of Lee instead of Halladay at the trade deadline. That game made you realize just how good the Phillies are.

If nothing else, Pedro on the mound at the Stadium will make for good theater tonight. I wonder if it will be the old, rickety Mets years Pedro or the rejuvenated pitcher for the Phillies this year.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

go read Supreme Admiral's post upthread.

He doesn't speak for all Yankee fans.

Or even, I would guess, any of them (except possibly himself).

Excuse me? Are you telling me that I don't speak for all Yankee fans? I do actually speak for all Yankee fans and what's on the earth why would you actually think that I don't?

Wants me to place my bare foot in the process to kicking your ass for saying that in the front of me?!

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It took these guys a little bit to figure this out, but asking if someone wants you to kick their ass goes beyond the bounds of usually accepted sports trash talking.

 

[J.T.B.]

Some notes on Lee's pitching performance last night:
- that was the first complete game in a Game 1 of the World Series since 1995.
- KO's 10, BB's 0... which hasn't been done since 1903
- Allowed no earned runs and no baserunner reached 3rd base until the 9th inning.

Two earned runs, 6 Ks, 3 BBs and 70 strikes on 113 pitches is not a bad post-season start for Sabathia. But once in a while a guy has a night where he just has it all going and nobody's going to touch him. It was reminding me of Hersheiser in the '88 series, which of course was a shutout but he had only 8 Ks and a couple of walks.

Yankee fans get a lot of shit over how our team supposedly expects to win, that we thought we already had it won this year, blah blah blah. Well, you guys won twice since '04, don't tell me that didn't make you feel at least a twinge of pride...or that you didn't gloat when we didn't even make the postseason last year.

The difference is, no Red Sox fan with even a modicum of historical perspective would ever say "We're not supposed to lose like this!" We just say, oh God, not again... Living through the '76 series, the '78 playoff, the '86 series, the '03 ALCS and so on makes for a different kind of fan. Not the same kind of fan as before 2004, but still different.

--Justin

 

[Neroon]

Oh yeah, it's not as if Sabathia was stinking up the joint. It may not have been his best effort (that's a lot of pitches for 7 innings), but it was decent.

 

[sidious618]

It took these guys a little bit to figure this out, but asking if someone wants you to kick their ass goes beyond the bounds of usually accepted sports trash talking.

Well played, sir.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Derek Jeter received the Roberto Clemente Award: linky

Congrats, dude.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

I didn't want to be too obvious and use the pic from the Angels game.

So if the Phillies repeat, and there's a lot of baseball yet to be played before that happens, does that further validate the build a team through your farm system as being more successful than buying a team and outspending everybody else?

 

[bigdaddy]

OH MY GOD!!! THE YANKEES ARE LOSING!!! I'M GOING TO DDDIIIIEEEEE!

*heads to the closest bridge*

 

[sidious618]

I didn't want to be too obvious and use the pic from the Angels game.

So if the Phillies repeat, and there's a lot of baseball yet to be played before that happens, does that further validate the build a team through your farm system as being more successful than buying a team and outspending everybody else?

I don't think so considering the Yankees have the best record in baseball. It just means they weren't playing good ball during this series.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

OH MY GOD!!! THE YANKEES ARE LOSING!!! I'M GOING TO DDDIIIIEEEEE!

*heads to the closest bridge*

Do not losing that faith in Yankees! They're fighting back now!

 

[bigdaddy]

I didn't want to be too obvious and use the pic from the Angels game.

So if the Phillies repeat, and there's a lot of baseball yet to be played before that happens, does that further validate the build a team through your farm system as being more successful than buying a team and outspending everybody else?

I don't think so considering the Yankees have the best record in baseball. It just means they weren't playing good ball during this series.

Umm... this series is the only one that matters. It's like Pats fans saying "We won 18 in a row!", but you lost the one gaem that really matters!

 

[sidious618]

Umm... this series is the only one that matters. It's like Pats fans saying "We won 18 in a row!", but you lost the one gaem that really matters!

No shit, but statistically the verdict is in regarding farm vs. high payment.

 

[T'Bonz]

Nothing I like better than to see the Yankees LOSE. I hate 'em. They suck the talent from small market teams with their bags of money. I can't stand teams that don't build, but flash their dollars and buy teams and championships.

I feel the same way about some of the other big city teams but NY is the worst.

GO PHILLIES.

 

[sidious618]

Nothing I like better than to see the Yankees LOSE. I hate 'em. They suck the talent from small market teams with their bags of money. I can't stand teams that don't build, but flash their dollars and buy teams and championships.

I've never understood that argument. They have a lot of fans who buy tickets and thus have a lot of money and can afford the big players. Any team will do that if/when they can.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Nothing I like better than to see the Yankees LOSE. I hate 'em. They suck the talent from small market teams with their bags of money. I can't stand teams that don't build, but flash their dollars and buy teams and championships.

I've never understood that argument. They have a lot of fans who buy tickets and thus have a lot of money and can afford the big players. Any team will do that if/when they can.

If the smaller market teams don't have the money to woo the big players, then, well, tough shit. Players go where the money is. Now maybe some of these guys are asking for too much, but that's hardly any team's fault, is it? The Yankees (or any team) make money, they have the near absolute right to use it as they see fit.

And the Yanks are using the money well - they put the money right back into the ball club, spending it on players, the stadium, etc. It's not like the Steinbrenners are on a yacht somewhere.

Way to go, Tex! About time *somebody* hit a home run. Sound off like you got a pair!

Guys, about last night...I gotta be honest with ya, I hardly remember posting at all. Don't know what was wrong with me, honestly I don't. I'm trying to keep a level head tonight.

I was wondering what happened to us. Yanks were playing so well during the ALDS and ALCS, and they all of a sudden start floundering. But at least they're starting to make an effort now. Even AJ's doing well.

 

[sidious618]

I love how they keep playing Pedro's douchebag behavior between innings.

 

[Scout101]

Kinda a mixed bag, though. One of his biggest "douchebag" moments was throwing Zimmer to the ground, yes? In the replay of that fight, from every angle, Zimmer was running straight for Pedro with his right fist cocked back to punch him. What would anyone else have done, in that situation? Isn't that one kinda on Zimmer?

Not sure what else Pedro could have been expected to do there. Punching Zimmer would have been worse, and running away from a 70-something year old man in a fight isn't a much easier option to swallow. And then he'd have heard about that for just as long. If you're running at a guy with your fist cocked back to punch someone, you pretty much deserve whatever you've got coming...

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

And Zimmer could have had old man crazy strength going on and kicked Pedro's ass.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

At least Zimmer apologized the next day. I thought they had that whole thing put behind them. But then Pedro goes and starts making up shit about how Zimmer supposedly insulted his mother...

Well, it looks like this is the Yankee baseball I remember! Jeter's rather inexplicable decision to bunt, and another example of possibly questionable umping, notwithstanding.

 

[bigdaddy]

Son of a BITCH! Get your asses in gear, Phillies! This is fucking insane!

Ah, shit! DAMMIT, Phillies! What the FUCK is wrong with you?!?!? We came all this way, and you're fucking BLOWING IT!

This is not good. Not good at all. I'm ashamed to be watching this shit right now. It's an embarrassment to all of baseball!!!