Honest facts in the house

Shit happens. It's the human element of baseball. Deal with it.

Offseason hiring gets underway with the Mariners naming Eric Wedge as their new Manager.

Yes! Rangers off and running, 3-0.

Great play by Sabbathia to end the first. Guarantee he settles down and throws 5 or 6 great innings.

Could have been so much worse than 3 runs.

Yeah, big dude is athletic.

Hope Wilson holds up and throws 6 or 7 good innings.

Yankees are going to win this game.

Bases loaded, no outs for A-Rod. HOY BOY.

A-Rod will hit Grand Slam.

That still sucks.

Does Ron Washington plan on using his whole pitching staff in this 8th inning?

:nono: Texas.

Coming into the series, majority of analysts said the bullpen of Texas would determine the series and right now they are failing badly.

ESPN tried to hype up as Game 1 being a game to "steal" for the Yankees even though Yankees were the favorites and put their best pitcher. Game 2 would have made better sense to claim as a "steal".

Lol Kinsler.

Posada couldn't throw out his own Mother so there's no need to get a great jump.

<font color=goldenrod>This pretty much guarantees the Yankees will be in the World Series again.</font> :nono:

Yeah, gotta guarantee Cliff Lee is gonna be pitching 0-2 in the series.

Yeah just give Rivera a free out in the 9th. That sounds like a good idea to me.

<font color=goldenrod>I'm done with baseball this year.

Any shred of hope I had that the Rangers could maybe score an upset series win got dashed tonight, this is the kind of loss that completely fucks you the rest of the way. Lee's mind is probably already made up after that debacle.

And I have no hope for the Giants beating the Phillies after barely winning all of their games against the Braves (see: the Brooks Conrad Factor). So the 2 teams I hate most are going to be playing in the World Series yet again. Since I had no expectations for my own team this year, my only hope going in was that the Yankees or Phillies didn't win the WS. Fuck it.

See you guys once the offseason thread starts up.</font>

You'll be back.

You like the pain.

What? I stopped watching because it was like 6-0

Unbelievable.

I'm not a great baseball mind or anything, but I think this was the Rangers best chance to win the series. Beating CC would have been huge for Texas

As silly as this may sound, the Yankees absolutely need both of these games in Texas. You've gotta figure they're losing to Lee, even with Pettite on the mound, and if they lose even tomorrow's game, they'll probs be down 2-1 going into game 4.

As a Yankee fan I absolutely love the comeback, but this win does NOT mean the series is over, far from it.

I was almost sure they were done. When I saw that Texas was leading 5 -1 in the 7th I went to bed. I didn't think it was possible for the Yankees to come back and win this.

The one good thing that the Rangers can take from this game is that they proved they can hit CC Sabathia pretty well. They need to remember that if there's gonna be a game 5.

Love Phil Hughes so much. Probably my favorite Yankee after Mariano. His two starts @ Texas in his career were great. Hope he does well :)

Anybody got Cablevision? You're gonna be S.O.L if you want to watch the NLCS start tonight.

Yankees down early...just shock me...

7-1 is not the same as 5-1. Never say never, but I don't think the Yankees are going to win tonight.

If the Yankees want to win this series, they can't keep on getting behind early...just 'cause they won last night doesn't mean they can keep doing it.

(As Aguakate wrote this, Robinson Cano hits a Home Run and makes the game 7-2).

Damn.

Cody Ross > Roy Halladay

Fuck

Fear The Beard!

Why is Fox playing the football theme, or do they do this for every baseball game and I haven't noticed.

I think it's a generic Fox Sports theme. They've used it for baseball for as long as I can remember.

Yeah that's been confusing me. Dunno. Can't watch this inning, gonna pass out

Brian Wilson's beard seems so silky, yet manly.

Beautiful. Huge win

That's the great thing about the Playoffs, any guy can have a huge night, help his team win when it matters the most, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a star. It can be who you least expect it.

Great win for the Giants.

Offense has to stop sucking.

Brian Wilson's beard is terrible. It's not even funny.