Baseball 2003
Posted by: ErikL on 01 June 2003
As the midway point of the season approaches (and I start to pay attention) I'm starting to hope for a few things:
- Roger Clemens is beat up in a game or in the subway, is sidelined, and is stuck on 299 wins all year (especially after donning a cocky "300" patch in his start a few days ago)... and then retires.
- The Expos, the league's best talent developer, win the NL East. Nobody but Ted Turner and his traitor/trolip Jane Fonda likes the Braves anymore.
- The Dodgers set an example, again, for ethnic harmony in America and bring another foreigner onto the team- maybe someone from India... or how about Iraq?
- Red Sox versus Sammy Sosa and the Cubs in the World Series. It would be great for baseball and for two cities of fanatical fans with long droughts.
Any other hopes or predictions?
Posted on: 09 October 2003 by matthewr
If we do -- touchwood -- get a Cubs/Sox series which of them would be the most devestated to be the loser? The Red Sox nation may turn suicidal if they not only manage to lose again but do so to the loser Cubs thus leading to a shortage of minor authors of contempoary fictino and liberal arts professors all of the US.
Matthew
Posted on: 10 October 2003 by Onthlam
GO CUBSS!!!!
Is it Woods tonight??
She asked for a Grand piano.
All I could give her was an upright organ...
Posted on: 10 October 2003 by John L
Wood is pitching tonight; also Game 7 if necessary. Do you think Fox hopes the Cubs will make the World Series? The TV ratings would be very high.
John Litwin
Posted on: 11 October 2003 by Onthlam
Cubs WIN!!!!
Its Saturday and its game 4...
HUGE GAME TO WIN.....
Go CUBS!!!!!
Posted on: 11 October 2003 by Onthlam
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???!!
ONE MORE TO GO PEOPLE!!!!JUST ONE MORE!!!
OH MY LORD!!!!!!!!!!
WILL I LIVE TO SEE THE DAY???
NO LONGER WILL IT BE C.U.B.S
completely useless beyond September...
COMPLETELY UNBEATABLE BEYOND SEPTEMBER!!!!!
OK...I'll calm down now....
Posted on: 12 October 2003 by Bhoyo
quote:
Originally posted by Marc Newman:
COMPLETELY UNBEATABLE BEYOND SEPTEMBER!!!!!
More like: ComeUppance Beckons Soon - in the form of Yankee pinstripes.
Davie
Posted on: 12 October 2003 by Onthlam
B.h.o.y.o:
Baseball has optioned you out....
Come on...Your not out of it yet..
Well, give it a few hours..What kind of fan are you? You have already given up! Rolling over like a dead fish?? OOPS! Sorry...
Its been a great series so far. The Cubs can pull another 84 on us...They were up 2 against San Diego(I think)and still lost the series...
I was at both those games.Let me tell you how that felt..
My greatest worry meeting up with the Yank-ies is not their baseball prowness. It's the bull pen beating up the grounds crew!!
But then again, all the grounds crew in Chicago carry a gun....
Here's to the best..Whoever it will be...
CUBS!!!!!!!!
Regards to all,
Marc
[This message was edited by Marc Newman on SUNDAY 12 October 2003 at 21:59.]
Posted on: 12 October 2003 by matthewr
I'd fancy my chances against that 80 year-old bench coach who took a swing at Pedro though.
Posted on: 12 October 2003 by Onthlam
True..
Pedro knew that Popeye was an old man.OK,just let his own mometum carry him to the ground.DAMN! That old man is fiesty..
I'm not sure that many know that Zimmer was once hit in the head with a pitch and almost did not live to talk about it...With that, you can understand his emotions....
Posted on: 12 October 2003 by Bhoyo
Marc:
Well, you're correct up to this point. It amazes me how the Cubs can blow out the Marlins one night, then lose horribly the next.
Anyway, it's the Yankees year. Just for a change.
Davie
Posted on: 12 October 2003 by Onthlam
Beckett was amazing tonight!
He was the Marlins.......
Back to Chicago....
You know? Boston can still pull it off. I would rather see the Sox and the Cubs...
The Yankees are my all time favorite team to hate. What a history..Baseball-in a single name.
Posted on: 14 October 2003 by ErikL
Can't
Understand
Baker's
Stupidity
Did Prior's pitches not lose every bit of action in the 6th (or 7th?) when each out was a deep fly-out near the warning track?
Yankees over Marlins in 6.
(FYI, yes I'm bitter about tonight's game
. But I am happy that my Dodgers will likely be out of News Corp's hands.)
[This message was edited by Ludwig on WEDNESDAY 15 October 2003 at 04:25.]
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by Onthlam
I was stupified by the whole thing.
Tonight is the last supper for the cubs..
Who is dipping twice, I'm not sure....
The Cubs better have their crap together...The Marlins, after a romp like that, would have great momentum,and almost be more hungry than the Cubs going into the last game...
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by matthewr
They still have Kerry Wood though. If they can handle the pressure they will make it.
Matthew
Hiding behind sofa with everything crossed for the BoSox
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by ErikL
I'm curious to see how the Chicago crowd reacts tonight, especially if the Marlins go off early.
Ludwig, who doesn't like 1 run leads against the Yankees
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by ErikL
PS- That poor kid in Chicago, if the Cubs blow it tonight.
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by ErikL
PPS- WOW, Nixon crushed that ball!!! Matthew, did you see it or are you still covering your eyes?
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by matthewr
Crushed indeed. I am tentatively watching but still keeping things crossed. A 3-run lead is still blowable with the Bambino at work.
I don't think I can take another 4:30am bedtime though so might have to miss the Cubs Marlins finale. Then again it might be history in the making.
Matthew
PS What sort of a name is Trot?
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by ejl
So everyone's going to seven games.
Why do the semis and finals in baseball seem so frequently close, while in American football there's usually a boring blowout?
Posted on: 15 October 2003 by ErikL
Because football's l-a-m-e!
I don't really follow it, but hasn't the AFC traditionally been 10x worse than the NFC, thus blowout Super Bowls? Let's ask Matthew.
Trot Nixon is a great baseball name, but one that should be a shortstop's.
Posted on: 16 October 2003 by John C
John
Posted on: 16 October 2003 by matthewr
So *now* the Cards fan shows himself. Typical.
I can't believe the infamous Cubs fan who snatched that ball out of Moises Alou's glove is 26. He looked about 15. He also still lives with his Mum which explains a lot.
Matthew
Posted on: 16 October 2003 by Bhoyo
Dave Barry has his say
herePosted on: 16 October 2003 by ErikL
That overrated manager/mangler Dusty Baker should be taking more heat than the "ignominious" Bartman, since he had 3 entire games to orchestrate a clinching win and failed. Nice job.
PS- Wasn't there a "Do The Bartman" Simpsons song about 10-15 years ago?
Posted on: 16 October 2003 by ErikL
Matthew, did you stay up until 4:30 AM?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed those barbarians in the Bronx don't riot and maul Pedro and Manny today.
