For the hitty-runny fans.

Originally posted by vansmack:

At first I was pissed at the Evil Empire for making the move, but then I thought to myself, after Kevin Brown gets hurt.
Take Anaheim alone: Seriously - Bartolo Colon, Jarod Washburn, Kelvim Escobar, Ramon Ortiz, Aaron Sele/John Lackey with Brendan Donolley, K-rod and Troy Percival in the pen - and that's just the pitching staff! The only other thing Anaheim did was add 30 HR hitter Jose Guillen and some guy named Vlad Guerrero to join Garret Anderson, Troy Glaus, Adam Kennedy and Darin Erstad.
The pitching in NY is only marginally better than what A-Rod had in Texas. They can score more runs in NY, but they sure as hell are going to have to.
A big YAWN to the move. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. [/QB]

Ok first if your gonna talk about whats gonna happen if Kevin Brown gets hurt then you have to wonder whats gonna happen to Anaheim when Vladimir get hurt, chances are he'll go down before Brown does then they have nothing. Well they have last years team. As for the Yankees pitching staff being marginally better than Texas? I cant see Chan Ho Park comparing to any of the Yankees starters……even in Columbus.

i have four words for you Guiny

Schilling, Wakefield, Martinez, Lowe

ok?

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
i have four words for you Guiny

Schilling, Wakefield, Martinez, Lowe

ok?

I have two words for Wakefield…..Aaron Boone…ok so he's hurt but it was still fun to say. Also the Yanks have great success against Pedro, can you say Enrique Wilson….LOL…..As of right now Schilling has the Yanks number but he's not getting any younger. If Lowe becomes the Lowe of two years ago then that staff could be very, very dangerous. I'm still not convinced Wakefield will have another good year.

Also i'm surprised you havent rubbed the Bruins win over the Maple Leafs last night in yet :D

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:

Also i'm surprised you havent rubbed the Bruins win over the Maple Leafs last night in yet :D

Ahh, yes. 5-2 was very nice. Don't worry, you're still in first and until the Bruins take the division lead, i will keep quiet.

(does anyone else find it wierd that I am from Toronto, Guiny is from New England and we are routing for the wrong teams?)

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Well they have last years team. As for the Yankees pitching staff being marginally better than Texas? I cant see Chan Ho Park comparing to any of the Yankees starters……even in Columbus.

well, i think chan ho park has thrown more pitches the last two years than lieber and contreras. lieber was a good pitcher, but the first season back after tommy john surgery. . .he's not gonna be the workhorse he once was. contreras is another cuban pitcher who suckered a team to pay alot for him. brown is gonna blow out something, and mussina will be the only one left standing at the end of the year, as he moves 20 wins closer to 300.

i'm with smackie on this. . the yanks do not have the pitching to get them through the playoffs this year. i'm really looking forward to watching the entire al east beat themselves up, while the west sees seattle fold in september and a's rise up glorious, once again. :)

but i think the nl is gonna win the series again. . .be it philly, houston or chicago. a yanks/cubs series would be fun because you have the ultimate fantasy teams facing each other. . .one built on pitching and one built on hitting. . .

Red Sox over Philadelphia this year.

or i am really going to start hurting people.

i just hope we either win the WS or go 79-85!!

i can't handle another playoff series like last years.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
(does anyone else find it wierd that I am from Toronto, Guiny is from New England and we are routing for the wrong teams?) [/QB]

I was thinking the exact same thing….Well not why i liked Toronto but how you became a hated Boston fan. ;)

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
i'm with smackie on this. . the yanks do not have the pitching to get them through the playoffs this year. [/QB]

You seem to forget the power of George Steinbrenner's wallet, Mike Mussina will NOT be the last starter standing. We'll have at least two more starters by the time the trade deadline is over……LOL…….

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
(does anyone else find it wierd that I am from Toronto, Guiny is from New England and we are routing for the wrong teams?)

I was thinking the exact same thing….Well not why i liked Toronto but how you became a hated Boston fan. ;) [/QB]

I can't imagine why anyone would support Boston, period….Boston or Philly. HATE EM BOTH!
:mad: :mad:

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
(does anyone else find it wierd that I am from Toronto, Guiny is from New England and we are routing for the wrong teams?)

I was thinking the exact same thing….Well not why i liked Toronto but how you became a hated Boston fan. ;) [/QB]

Actually, it is easy, one half of my family lives in Massachusetts and if you dont remember, Toronto SUCKED bad for a long long time (80s and 90s) and Boston was damn good. So, to spite my buddies and have a winning team, i routed for Boston. Cam Neely, Terry O' Reilly, and Ray Borque were MUCH more fun to watch than Rob Ramage and Doug Gilmour!

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
i'm with smackie on this. . the yanks do not have the pitching to get them through the playoffs this year.

You seem to forget the power of George Steinbrenner's wallet, Mike Mussina will NOT be the last starter standing. We'll have at least two more starters by the time the trade deadline is over……LOL……. [/QB]

Guiny, you run your mouth a lot for guy who doesn't have one starting left hander in the rotation….NOT A SINGLE ONE. Forget about it! You've only got one lefty on the entire staff! (And don't think I don't pray every day that the Halo's don't trade Washburn to New York) And Kevin Brown is 38 years old for christ's sake! He hasn't thrown into October in since the mid-90's.

And as for Vlad, he's playing on natural grass now in warm weather, just what an aching back needs.

As much as I could watch Game 6 of the 2002 World Series over and over again, I will forever tell my kids about the 5th inning of the Division Series like Luke Skywalker crushing Steinbrenner, I mean the Emperor, Leah and Han beating up every storm Trooper with the help of the little Monkeys, I mean Ewoks, and Lando and friends blowing up the Death Star!

Go ahead, build a bigger, stronger Death Star every year Guiny, and hopefully someone will step up every year and crush it. Well, except Boston, because thet are still afraid of you. You can see it in their fans and in the press. Everytime the Yankees make a huge move, it's the folks in Boston you hear crying the loudest and that's because they are afraid. They need on inning like THE INNING and they won't be afraid either.


10/05/2002 9:51 pm ET
It will be forever etched: The inning
Bust-out frame may have been the end to The Curse
By Doug Miller / MLB.com

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Maybe years down the road, when Angels fans ponder the history of their team, they'll forget for one minute about the misery brought on by Dave Henderson.
They'll let the year 1995 just roll by without even a sneer.

They'll look up at the sky and maybe even smile while thinking of Donnie Moore.

One thing's certain: They'll never forget The Inning.

Angels fans, conditioned to practically Pavlovian pessimism, convinced of a curse, reduced a packed Edison Field to a library-like hush Saturday.

The Yankees led Game 4 of the American League Division Series, 2-1, going into the bottom of the fifth inning.

David Wells was cruising through their lineup with a low pitch count, and the team charter was probably rolling from the hangar out to the tarmac.

"Start spreading the news," thought Angels fans. "They're leaving today."

Leaving for a certain Game 5 showdown in a Yankee Stadium packed like a 56,000-seat subway car of adrenaline.

Leaving their plucky, unlikely season behind in another one-and-out playoff series scenario.

Then came The Inning.

Shawn Wooten led off by hammering a Wells offering over the center-field wall to tie it at 2-2 and wake up the crowd.

"I got to 2-and-0, I saw a good pitch to hit, and I put a good swing on it," Wooten said. "I guess that kind of got things rolling."

Indeed. After Bengie Molina flew out to right, the barrage began.

Benji Gil singled to center, David Eckstein singled to right, Darin Erstad blooped a single to center, Tim Salmon singled to left-center, Garret Anderson singled to right, and all of a sudden the Angels led, 5-2.

There was a brief pause in the avalanche while Troy Glaus flied out to right, and then the roll continued.


Scott Spiezio singled, the Yankees took out Wells and put in Ramiro Mendoza, Wooten singled and Molina doubled.

The Angels led, 9-2, and the American League Division Series was, for all intents and purposes, over. The curse had been lifted. For the first time in their history, the Angels had advanced in the playoffs.

The Angels scored eight runs and banged out 10 hits before the Yankees could get three outs.

"It's kind of been the club all year long," Salmon said. "That's been the trademark of this club. A guy gets on base, a base hit, first and third. Before you know it, I mean, it was like every time there's a hit, it was first and third. We've had innings like that where things kind of come together. It was just awesome."

That seemed to be the operative word.


"It was awesome to be a part of it," Gil said. "We started the inning just saying we needed focus, having just gone down, 2-1. We knew once Woot hit that ball and the game was tied that if we could get something going, this could be a huge inning."

Gil didn't realize how huge it was. It was the first time a team got 10 hits in a postseason inning since the Philadelphia A's accomplished the feat in Game 4 of the 1929 World Series.

The Angels also set ALDS records for most batters and at-bats in one inning (13), most singles in one inning (eight), and most runs in an inning (eight). It was the first time the Angels recorded 10 hits in an inning this year.

So what do they do for an encore?

Get back to work, according to drenched-in-champagne closer Troy Percival.

"We're ready to move on, whether it's Oakland or Minnesota," Percival said. "You've got two very tough teams ahead of us. I think our celebration will be over here in about 30, 40 minutes. The guys are already starting to focus in on the next series."

But they'll never forget The Inning.

I'm pretty sure that the only time I've seen Guiny he was wearing a Colorado Rockies shirt.

When did you become a Yankees fan?

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I'm pretty sure that the only time I've seen Guiny he was wearing a Colorado Rockies shirt.

When did you become a Yankees fan?

Steinbrenner bought him.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I'm pretty sure that the only time I've seen Guiny he was wearing a Colorado Rockies shirt.

When did you become a Yankees fan?

Steinbrenner bought him.

George may want to consider a trade.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Actually, it is easy, one half of my family lives in Massachusetts and if you dont remember, Toronto SUCKED bad for a long long time (80s and 90s) and Boston was damn good. So, to spite my buddies and have a winning team, i routed for Boston. Cam Neely, Terry O' Reilly, and Ray Borque were MUCH more fun to watch than Rob Ramage and Doug Gilmour! [/QB]

Oh i remember the days of Toronto sucking, i had to live thru about ten years of it, but i stuck with them like a true fan should. :roll:

Don't forget the days of Rick Vaive, i believe that was his first name.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
if you dont remember, Toronto SUCKED bad for a long long time (80s and 90s)

90s?? are you forgetting 1992 and 1993??? you'd think back to back championships would keep people at bay, at least for a little while. also, the made the alcs in 1985, 1989, and 1991.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
if you dont remember, Toronto SUCKED bad for a long long time (80s and 90s)

90s?? are you forgetting 1992 and 1993??? you'd think back to back championships would keep people at bay, at least for a little while. also, the made the alcs in 1985, 1989, and 1991.

i think me and guiny were referring to the Maple Leafs. no one, even in toronto, likes the Blue Jays.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
i think me and guiny were referring to the Maple Leafs. no one, even in toronto, likes the Blue Jays.

ahhh. . my bad.

btw, i am a huge fred mcgriff fan. . .just found my mcgriff blue jays jersey again.