Rhett Miller
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 05:19 PM UTC
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Rooting for the Yankees is like going to a casino to root for the dealer.
BookerT
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 05:55 PM UTC
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if the stathead revolution continues, i can see abreu getting some serious HOF consideration when all is said and done. he's the kind of player who should age gracefully, so he should still have at least 5 or 6 more solid seasons left in him, which should give him 300 hr/300 sb, maybe around 2,500 hits, .300/.400/.500 career line. if he stays with the yankees past next year that will help his counting stats and he might get a ring or two. he's never been the best player in the league, which will hurt him, but he's been in the top 10 a lot.
and jeter's obviously overrated, but i think it's gotten to the point where everyone says he's overrated and after a season like this one, maybe he's underrated.
Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
What about Abreu would make him a borderline hall of famer?
And if Jeter didn't play on the Yankees, would anybody pay him any attention? If he were on Tampa Bay, he'd be Carl Crwaford.
Originally posted by BookerT:
looks like the a's might actually advance. wait, 2-0 lead means nothing with them, i forgot…
anyway, everyone needs to come to terms with the fact that there is NO CHANCE the yankees don't win the world series. they will do it quite easily. they are trotting out perhaps the best offense ever right now. damon, jeter, abreu, sheffield, giambi, a-rod, matsui, posada, cano – their #9 hitter hit .342! two shoo-in HOFers in jeter and a-rod, two borderline HOFers in abreu and sheffield, four perennial all-stars and then cano, who may well become a perennial all-star. it's disgusting. just accept it now and you won't be as upset when it happens.
sonickteam2
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 07:50 PM UTC
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its always funny to watch A-rod strike out with the bases loaded :)
ratioci nation
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 08:17 PM UTC
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why does Chris Berman still have a job, it is painful listening to him call a game
vansmack
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 08:26 PM UTC
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Originally posted by pdx pollard:
why does Chris Berman still have a job, it is painful listening to him call a game
It's gotten to the point where I listen to MLB radio over the net with the TV on mute for any game Berman broadcasts.
Venerable Bede
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 08:49 PM UTC
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by pdx pollard:
why does Chris Berman still have a job, it is painful listening to him call a game
It's gotten to the point where I listen to MLB radio over the net with the TV on mute for any game Berman broadcasts.
speaking of mute, that's what i do with any joe buck/tim mccarver called game. . .really, what dirt do they have on rupert murdoch that allows them to keep calling games.
surely someone can figure out a way to get bob costas back into the booth, pair him with someone like al leiter. . .
ugh, i really can't stand joe buck and tim mccarver. . .
ratioci nation
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 09:26 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
speaking of mute, that's what i do with any joe buck/tim mccarver called game. . .really, what dirt do they have on rupert murdoch that allows them to keep calling games.
surely someone can figure out a way to get bob costas back into the booth, pair him with someone like al leiter. . .
ugh, i really can't stand joe buck and tim mccarver. . .
not a mccarver fan, but dont mind joe buck, i heard him so much as a cardinals fan, just be glad you never have to hear al hrabosky, easily worst ever
Rhett Miller
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 09:29 PM UTC
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I say fire them all, and bring back Cosell.
Venerable Bede
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 09:55 PM UTC
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Originally posted by pdx pollard:
not a mccarver fan, but dont mind joe buck, i heard him so much as a cardinals fan, just be glad you never have to hear al hrabosky, easily worst ever
the mad hungarian. . .he has one of the more famous error cards from the 1982 donruss set, if i remember correctly.
i would also love to have al michaels back doing baseball. . was it the sports guy that did the list of memorable sporting events that were broadcast by al michaels?
sweetcell
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 10:02 PM UTC
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Originally posted by le sonick:
Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
What about Abreu would make him a borderline hall of famer?
And if Jeter didn't play on the Yankees, would anybody pay him any attention? If he were on Tampa Bay, he'd be Carl Crwaford.
that would be confusing to have a Carl Crawford and a Carl Crwaford both on the same team.
yeah, while pronounciation of the two would be similar at least the spelling is different.
vansmack
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 05, 2006 at 11:29 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
was it the sports guy that did the list of memorable sporting events that were broadcast by al michaels?
August 2005 Mailbag:
Al did play-by-play for the greatest sporting event of all time (the 1980 Olympic Hockey game); the greatest gambling moment of all time (the Music City Miracle, when Wycheck lateraled to Dyson to beat the Bills); and the most incredible sports moment of all time (when the first-ever Bay Area World Series was postponed for a week by a devastating earthquake that happened moments before Game 3 in San Fran, the odds of which had to be 10 billion to 1 if you added up all the different variables). I always thought that was amazing. If Michaels had just found a way to announce Hagler-Hearns, the Artest Melee and the Shawn Michaels-Bret Hart "Screw Job" match in Montreal, he would have gone down as the Forrest Gump of announcers.
But of course he was wrong on one of them, and forgot that he did do the Hagler-Hearns fight! August 2005 More Cowbell:
I made two significant screwups in the Al Michaels section of yesterday's mailbag…
"As a diehard Bills fan and the Throwback being the most frustrating moment of my sports life, the Titans/Bills playoff game was definitely called by the ESPN guys, not Al Michaels."
"Al passed up on that Music City Miracle game to broadcast the Miami vs. Jacksonville game (where Marino was down like 63-0 before he realized the game actually started)….Boomer admitted that he wanted to do that game, but Michaels wanted to broadcast the Miami game instead because it was probably Marino's last playoff game and the call was up to Al (he really blew that one)."
Yes, I screwed up. But here's the crazy thing – somehow I forgot this, and mainly because ESPN Classic never, ever, ever shows this fight, but guess who did the call for Hagler-Hearns? That's right, Al Michaels! I totally blanked on that one.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 06, 2006 at 12:34 AM UTC
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Originally posted by pdx pollard:
why does Chris Berman still have a job, it is painful listening to him call a game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_with_me%2C_leather the absolute worst is the home-run derby
nhaskins
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 06, 2006 at 01:38 AM UTC
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Let's go Tigers!!! Two in a row at home!!!
BookerT
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 07, 2006 at 11:54 PM UTC
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Originally posted by BookerT:
anyway, everyone needs to come to terms with the fact that there is NO CHANCE the yankees don't win the world series.
to borrow a line from the sports guy … the lesson, as always – i'm an idiot.
terry
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Re: MLB Playoffs
October 08, 2006 at 12:21 AM UTC
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Ugh, my belove-ed Yankees down in 4 games. I may actually have to root for the Mets for the remainder of season, but only because Willie Randolph is their manager. It's the closest to the Yanks I'm going to get at this point.