MLB Playoffs

[doctoroxygen]

How about those Yankees?

 

[TheVirtualMind]

You mean "how about those over priced, 1 year past their prime" Yankees? I hope the Tigers win the first round so George can't buy a World Series for another year.

 

[seanchai]

You mean "how about those over priced, 1 year past their prime" Yankees? I hope the Tigers win the first round so George can't buy a World Series for another year.

How bout those "over priced, 1 year past their prime, POSSIBLY THE GREATEST OFFENSE OF ALL TIME" Yankees?

 

[doctoroxygen]

You mean "how about those over priced, 1 year past their prime" Yankees? I hope the Tigers win the first round so George can't buy a World Series for another year.

Which of the hitters in the lineup is overpriced?

I'll never understand why Steinbrenner is so hated for WANTING THE TEAM HE OWNS TO WIN. I guess it's jealousy; I'd sure love the owners of my Mariners to spend commensurate with the amount of money they make. Steinbrenner goes above and beyond for the Yankees. Every other owner has the money he has to spend, they just choose not to spend it and complain about the Yankees instead.

 

[RedPill]

The Yankees get killed in the playoffs every year now because they have an average pitching staff, and they play very tense from the enormous expectations on them. That, and there never seems to be any sort of that team chemistry from which legendary teams are born. Their bench always looks like a bunch of hired guns that are there to do a job and then go home. In Game 2 their whole dugout had this look on their faces as if to say "I don't get it, we have better batting averages," as if that matters in the present moment.

If anyone should be hated on, it's Major League Baseball for not forcing a firm salary cap. But then again, I'm a Tigers fan, so fvck the Yankees. :box:

 

[doctoroxygen]

There's no reason for MLB to impose a salary cap. Salary caps are designed to improve parity in sport, but leagues with salary caps (the NFL and NBA) have less parity in their championship teams than MLB does. A lot can be done with a little money (see: Florida Marlins 2006). The fault isn't with the overspending of teams like the Red Sox and Yankees, but with the front offices of small market teams: they're just less competent with a built-in excuse.

WHERE DID THAT PERFORMANCE FROM KENNY ROGERS COME FROM?! WOW he was great last night. Hats off to him; he's too good of a pitcher to be thought of as a choker.

I wish Torre would play Melky. They didn't need Matsui and Sheff for the whole season, and they don't need them on the field now. The Yankees are the only team where when one guy doesn't show up, they ALL don't show up. Pathetic.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

The Yankees get killed in the playoffs every year now because they have an average pitching staff, and they play very tense from the enormous expectations on them...

The Yankees can't choke nearly as well as the Twins! :woo:

 

[GaryUranga]

Randy was pitching good stuff yesterday yet he allowed 3 runs, piece of crap, Kenny Rogers did an awesome job too, the yanks need better RPs.. anyways, lets go yankees lets go

 

[TheVirtualMind]

Yankees fans, go back to crying about A-Rod!

 

[adpreston1988]

**** The Yankees!!

Tigers All The Way!!

 

[KillaCam]

The Tigers are a feel good story alright. Blue-collar bozo's hunting down the New Yorker's in their Armani suits.

In retrospect, it ain't over. Those A's are sizzling. I am absolutely in awe of their pitching staff, no let-up whatsoever.

To my Dodgers, love being back in the post-season, even if getting sweeped by the Mets was our fate. It's all building blocks for the future. James Loney has quality written all over him.

Mets and Oakland series. Oakland in 5

 

[seanchai]

The thing about being a Yankees fan is that we're not biased. We say "fúck the Yankees" as much as non-Yankees fans do the first week of October.

 

[Bible_Belt]

St. Louis vs Detroit, Game 1 tonight.

This World Series will sell a lot of beer.

 

[doctoroxygen]

I think Detriot is poised to take the series.

Haha, understatement of the year. I think the Tigers are going to annihilate the Cards.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Yeah, Detroit is the favorite. Getting swept by the Red Sox a couple years ago is haunting the Cards.

I think the Cardinals' best chance is momentum - they have it and will be hoping that the Tigers come out looking cold and out-of-synch.

Who wants to give a lesson in what these numbers mean? I do not understand it very well. I have tried reading about it but the concepts are still not clear.

http://www.islandcasino.com/Lines.asp?IdLeague=5&IdSport=MLB

_______$ Line___Total___RunLine
901 STL +170 o8½-115 +1½-128
902 DET -190 u8½-105 -1½+108

 

[KillaCam]

7-2 to the Cards, bottom of the 9th.

National League pride! Fight those odds baby!

 

[eminence]

well of course the tigers have had a week off from playing, and the cardinals are fresh out of a series and have some momentum going. this was expected...detroits gonna take the series 4-2

 

[KillaCam]

well of course the tigers have had a week off from playing, and the cardinals are fresh out of a series and have some momentum going. this was expected...detroits gonna take the series 4-2

Could look at it in retrospect, Detroit has had ample time to prepare and freshen up, the Cards are straight out of a draining 7 gamer against a quality Mets side, albeit short on pitching.

Still, it's the "World" series, anything can happen huh? I'm with the Cards, but like you said, 4-2 to the Tigers is more than reasonable. Let's hope it's still a cracker of a series.