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LEW FORD :shifty:
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Vernon Wells was PapelGONE!!!! tonight when he was the tying run at the plate in the 9th |
your piece of crap team almost blew it again
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lol So they got a big lead againest the Blue Jays then the Blue Jays made a semi come back (still lost by 3 runs not exactly close) and somehow you try to turn this onto the Sox? You are probably the funniest TPWW sports forum poster
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fuck the AL East. sick of hearing about this shit.
easily the most overrated division in baseball. "oh, our 5th pitcher is better than your 5th pitcher". is that all you guys can think of? serious. Blanton and Chacin BOTH suck. last time i checked.... the reigning AL champs were still in the central. and as for the "better" pitcher arguement... Jose Contreras 5-0, 1.41 ERA, 21 K, 0.87 WHIP |
White Sox are the best team in baseball right now but why am I gonna talk about them? I don't live in Chicago
People talk about the teams they care about, so if more people care about teams in the AL East then so be it. I don't see how it is the most overrated divison in baseball though, it is a pretty tough division even though the best team resides in the central. |
I bet if you put the Baltimore Orioles in the NL they'd have a shot at the playoffs. They'll probably finish last in the AL East.
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Not to mention the number of wildcard births coming out of the AL East recently
Debatable which is the best, but I dunno how a division with the Yankees, Red Sox and the BlueJays can be seen as overrated. |
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Him and Tavarez both |
I think Pro baseball's leagues should work like this
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Not saying the Mets aren't a good team or anything. The Mets and the Cards are the only teams that would be strong enough to compete for a playoff spot in the American League. |
While I understand that the same teams getting continued coverage gets a little old, its kinda funny to complain about it. They are putting out what people watch. If they got good ratings for Indians or A's games I am sure those would be on TV a lot more.
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Stima speaks the truth
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When did I say Blanton was better than Chacin?
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True. You only have to look back to 99-00 and the Indians were on ESPN all the time. As soon as Manny, Robbie and Omar left, so did casual viewers and so, ESPN! |
See I don't mind the Yankees/Red Sox getting coverage. I mean people want to see the Yankees because most fans know every player on their team. The thing that pisses me off is when they sensationalize little things that happen with either the Yankees or the Red Sox. Like last year, there was a random series in the middle of the season, but the Sports Center before the game had like five stories about it, including one all about the bloody sock. It wasn't the first time they played, it wasn't a particularly big series, but they just blew it way out of proportion. AWFUL.
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I find over here the coverage over-does it on things that are relatively unimportant, Ie whenever there's a Cubs/WSox or Yankees/Mets interleague game.
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The one I hate is Cubs/Cardinals. Nothing exciting ever happens in that series and ESPN always hypes it up as ANOTHER CUBS/CARDINALS SHOWDOWN
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the Red Sox Yankees rivaliary never gets old to me (obviously) Maybe I am little biased here but they always seem to put on the best games. Atleast "rivarly" wise. I laughed though when I heard there was going to be a one hour pregame thing on ESPN before last Monday's game though, first thing I thought about was being complaining about the over-coverage.
You know what I am sick of though? That sports gambling shit, If I hear that Charles Barkley has lost 10 million dollars betting I think I am going to punch a baby. |
I never get bored of Yankees/Red Sox either, again probably i'm biased, but the tension always produces fireworks even when the game itself is crappy, and usually its not.
And yeah, Cubs/Cards was only a rivalry when McGwire and Sammy were both roiding and hitting 65 dingers a year. I guess because they're both midwest cities and national league they're automatically rivals :-\ Saying that you don't get two dozen Brewers/Cubs games a year with claims of it being the greatest rivalry ever. |
If I was living in Boston or New York, and the two teams were both always playoff caliber, there is no reason no to be excited about it. Then you put the No. 1 and No. 4 (i think) media market into the mix and its on all the time and the rest of the world can sometimes get bored of it.
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King Gustav 5-1 baby!
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<font color=goldenrod>Angel Hernandez should be kicked out of baseball.
--- With runners on first and third and one out, Smoltz hit a tapper in front of the plate against Jose Lima (0-1). Lo Duca fielded the ball with his right hand and lunged back in an attempt to tag Atlanta's Brian McCann. Plate umpire Angel Hernandez called McCann safe, and Lo Duca slammed the ball to the infield grass while arguing. "I spiked it pretty good, probably better than Ickey Woods, but I didn't do the Ickey Shuffle," Lo Duca said. Hernandez immediately ejected Lo Duca. Cox got tossed for arguing after Smoltz wasn't allowed to take second. After the game, both Lima and Lo Duca said that Hernandez told them that he was calling pitches farther off the plate strikes for Smoltz, but not for Lima. "When the umpire said 'I'm going to give you a couple of inches off the plate, but I'm not going to give you 4-5 inches because you're not John Smoltz,' I'm trying to protect my pitcher," Lo Duca said. --- Blatant favoritism. Don't get me wrong, I think the Mets would have lost with Lima starting anyway...but that's bullshit</font> |
LOL he didn't tag him first off, unless he got him on the heel. Lo Duca sure was pissed but from all the angles I saw he didn't tag him. Second off, is Lo Duca a moron? Just wondering because spiking a ball during a live play is pretty smart. Yeah it's blatant favoritism IF that happened, but that happens everywhere. Is Pedro Martinez going to get the same calls as John Lackey? No. It happens for and against every team. Deal with it. Thrown out of baseball? Come on.
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<font color=goldenrod>Lo Duca clearly got the tag on the heel. Don't really see why he'd get so pissed if he didn't.
And I'm aware that umps are biased all the time, but to flat out say it to the people participating in the game itself is beyond retarded. OK, banning is strict...but he definately deserves investigation and needs to be reprimanded.</font> |
Clearly? I saw three or four different angles and it wasn't clear. The announcers said they thought he tagged him, this was after the slow motion replays though. Obviously, that's why I said "Lo Duca sure was pissed", don't see why he'd throw such a little bitch fit if he didn't tag him. Then again, he threw a ball during a live play and let runners advance (should have been runners instead of the one runner to third), so he must not be too bright.
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You guys are clearly missing the big story of the day. Johan Santana 7 IP, 2 ER, 11 K MEAT
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no no no Barrry Bonds hit a HR
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Really? It's hard to keep up with Bonds these days
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Yea that Lo Duca call was a pretty tough call, I am sure he tagged him otherwise he wouldn't have flipped out like that but cmon. It's not like it was obvious and the ump missed it, I saw the replay a few times and I couldn't tell whether he got tagged or not.
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Casey Janssen with his first win of his career and looked damn good!
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Just like to say Johnny D has started out nicely for the Yanks. yea, We call him Johnny D cause he's on our team now
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Complete Game, Halladay. 3 out of 4 from the Angels. Yeah.
Now, onto Lo Duca. He overreacted so poorly. It wasn't game 7 of the world series. Relax, Paul |
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