Yes, there's still baseball. And yes, it's the World Series. I'll open a discussion thread for every game... because when it's over, that means no baseball till spring.
MLB.com Gameday for World Series Game #1 -- game time 7:35 pm CT
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First?
My heart says Phillies, my head says Rays.
Carolina Cubbie - October 22, 2008
cubs
awarded clutch team award on espn right now
china423 - October 22, 2008
Idk how I feel about this
I mean I’m glad we got the award but the postseason perf is just like…. blah.
cubsfaninatl - October 22, 2008
Also
I’m surprised they didn’t show the comeback against the brewers with 2 out in the 9th
cubsfaninatl - October 22, 2008
that was one unbelievable game!
lots of good memories from this season no matter how craptastic the ending was.
love the ivy - October 22, 2008
I liked the comeback vs Colorado in May
calicubfan - October 22, 2008
as in...they make us clutch our stomachs or our groins when the playoffs start?
santoswoodenlegs - October 22, 2008
Isn't it our own individual faults
If we’re clutching our own groins?
Shanghai Badger - October 22, 2008
I'm rooting for the National League...
…where nine players take the field, and nine players come to bat — the way it was meant to be!
calicubfan - October 22, 2008
Heh
I agree, hopefully the NL will take it…but what do you think we would say if the AL and DH had come first? I guess we wouldn’t be traditionalists…
StevenABQ - October 22, 2008
Can't say, I'm not good with what-if's
I guess I just prefer the strategy in the NL — IMO, the DH takes a lot of the nail-biting away from the game.
calicubfan - October 22, 2008
Its pretty easy
We would still prefer the NL strategy…it just wouldn’t be considered as “old school”.
StevenABQ - October 22, 2008
I will be listening from work with another
Cubs fan dispatcher. We aren’t excited or even really interested, but like Al said, once these games are over, so is baseball until next spring. Gotta do something to counteract my exposure to crappy football while I can!
love the ivy - October 22, 2008
Damn.
These guys are butchering the National Anthem IMO.
dakoose - October 22, 2008
Only in TB
calicubfan - October 22, 2008
i thought there were 5 of em
BradB311 - October 22, 2008
Yeah, that was the worst I've heard in a long time
MrNFL - October 22, 2008
I just checked out The Good Phight
the Phillies Sports Nation site and it doesn’t seem to be a very popular sight. not many comments on any of the posts. not even todays game thread
BradB311 - October 22, 2008
You must be referring to this thread:
The thread for Game 1 of the 2008 World Series.
The Good Phight game thread with nearly 300 posts thus far.
The thread that’s been up since 530 pm, and you commented two hours later.
Yeah, that one.
Dan
dtpollitt - October 22, 2008
Home run Utley
2-0 Phils
MrNFL - October 22, 2008
I don't like
Shane or Jayson. Much at all.
dtpollitt - October 22, 2008
Where the hell are all you BCBers?
This is the World Series!
I miss fun game threads…
dtpollitt - October 22, 2008
It's probably similiar turnout on TV
BTW, HR Rays..3-1 PHA
calicubfan - October 22, 2008
i was watching the bulls preseason game
and old school during the commercials
aznsensation - October 22, 2008
Um . . . TWSS?
Probably doesn’t help, does it?
Shanghai Badger - October 22, 2008
You FAIL, Badger!
dtpollitt - October 22, 2008
So do the Badgers . . .
Shanghai Badger - October 22, 2008
I'd like to see Crawford in a Cubs uniform
but it won’t happen…..
zevkalman - October 22, 2008
I was looking forward to this game
but since it started I just can’t get interested. I thought I was over the 08 Cubs but I guess not yet.
Weeghman Park - October 22, 2008
That was a balk, no doubt.
And if FOX had a f-ing camera from the 1st base side, we would be able to tell WAY easier.
dtpollitt - October 22, 2008
You could tell it was a balk even from the CF shot
Joe’s conversation with Welke was interesting. I would have been more upset than Joe was. I guess that’s why he’s managing in the show and I am in middle school (coaching that is, not as a student.)
Weeghman Park - October 22, 2008
Eyre sighting
GoCubbies34 - October 22, 2008
Free Taco at Taco Bell
Next Tuesday…between the times of 2-6 (whatever your local time is)
Thanks to Jason Bartlett of the Rays…
Enjoy that Heart Dart…
TheRiot Police - October 22, 2008
A taco for a stolen base.
What’s next, hot dogs for balks?
Al Yellon - October 23, 2008
If it's a "technical balk",
do you have to have ketchup?
Shanghai Badger - October 23, 2008
You get technical mustard with that.
Al Yellon - October 23, 2008
Good game. I hope Lidge comes through.
zevkalman - October 22, 2008
Lidge gets the third out--2 K's and a foul out. It's his 50th straight save. Wow.....
zevkalman - October 22, 2008
I think it is safe to say that
he has exercised his Pujols Demon….
TheRiot Police - October 22, 2008
I've only been watching the Rays the last few weeks here and there is something I don't get:
BJ Upton gets a free pass from all the media about his lolligagging way of sauntering after fly balls that are over his head or in front of him. He’s terrible in his positioning or lack of it. He can hit a ton and that’s great and he has a cannon arm but why doesn’t he play the position the way every outfielder is taught from day one: go to where the ball is going to be and then get in position to have your body moving toward your throwing target to get all your momentum in the same direction. I haven’t heard one announcer mention anything other than someone said “he’ll get better at that when he gets older.” Well Hell he’s already a starting ML CF starting in a WS. Play it like you respect it.
Weeghman Park - October 22, 2008
During the game they interviewed Joe Madden and he commented that his approach to the ball
was off some, on the play where he nailed the guy at the plate. So, when your own manager makes a comment it’s not being ignored in a significant manner. The guy nailed the runner at the plate, that’s pretty impressive if you ask me.
DudeVf11 - October 23, 2008
It is impressive
I’m not at all saying the kid doesn’t have talent. He just plays CF like the stereotypical attitude of someone who plays pick up basketball games in LA. I would have thought Maddon would have made some impact on that attitude by now. I’d take him for our CF in a heartbeat, assuming someone will mature the kid.
Weeghman Park - October 23, 2008
I don't know much about him...
but I believe that CF is not his natural position. I think he came up through their system as an infielder and only started playing CF on a regular basis in the ML. Maybe his approach is from lack of coaching/experience.
TheRiot Police - October 23, 2008
Enjoyable game to watch.
Should be a close series.
DudeVf11 - October 23, 2008
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