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MLB 2009 Season
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Imagine if they hit a home run right now.
I was nearly puking thinking of that with Lidge yet to pitch. So now I'm recovering from that, and trying to regain my composure.
Ok. Phils are in. I can sleep tonight, and begin the nausea routine all over again in a few days.
Ok. Phils are in. I can sleep tonight, and begin the nausea routine all over again in a few days.
They don't look very excited actually. Rather routine.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an embarassment to baseball!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10-4!
dodgers deserve a big facepalm.....
This is an embarassment to baseball!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10-4!
dodgers deserve a big facepalm.....
hey, hey, hey.....the angels are still in it.............
The Angels have one of the worst scenarios going into their next game. I would hope it would be any other team they are to face, but if they can pull off this series, then can beat the Phillies in the World Series.
It has to be one game at a time.
Perhaps the Yankees are overconfident right now, and only if the Angels can get their second win. If the Angels don't snap the Yankees momentum, then the Yankees might become a runaway train and run all over the Phillies.
I don't expect the Angels to make a miraculous comeback, especially due to who they are facing, but they could stop the Yankees' momentum and it can be a different Yankees going into the World Series than the one who came into the ALCS.
To all you Yankee fans " Be Careful What You Wish For"
I don't know what you mean. Yankees fans dreamed of going to the World Series and playing Torre and the Dodgers. As for the Phils, well they have some excellent hitters we don't hit/pitch like the Dodgers.
I'm not sure who'll win the series but from a talent perspective the Yanks are superior in most ways. The Yanks have at least 3 first ballot HOF on the team and almost their whole lineup has been an All-Star. All that and Sabathia will be pitching three times in the series.
We ain't the Rays, remember that. This won't be a cake walk for you like last year was. You get to face a real team.To all you Yankee fans " Be Careful What You Wish For"
CC,Burnett and Andy P are going to have their hands full with " The Broad Street Bombers"
Fixed that for you.
You're right, the Rays never blew a 3-0 series lead.
It could be but I doubt it at this point. Look at how the Yanks are playing.
If the Yankees get in, they will take the WS in four or five. I think if the Yankees are who we have seen the past few games, then it's just another one sided season and post season. There are just too many years in baseball past where the Yankees are going to win it all, most people know it, and all the games up to that point are just exercises in filling up time.
Who really wants to root for a team with too much talent in all positions, basically bought by big money. They have years where their team racks up more home runs than the other seven teams combined in the post season in October. And they have even had years where their squad has more home runs on their team than the rest of the American League combined. Over baseball history, recent and overall, they are no different than an Olympic basketball dream team. Boring if you ask me. And remember that from '96 to '00, they won the WS four of those five years. And the Yankees of old, well they win two, three, four, or more WS rings each decade going all the way back to Babe Ruth. By contrast the Phillies have also been around since baseball's early days (over 100 years) and have just 2 rings. The Angels are in their 50th season, and have just 1 ring. Why would anybody outside of NY root for the Yankees?
Though neither are my teams, I will go with the team (Angles) that wins 1 WS ring every half century in the current ALCS. The Phillies, right now win a WS ring every 60 years, historically. The damn Yankees, as they have been called since before the lightbulb or agriculture or the discovery fire, win a ring on average every four years. I am not going to waste my time hating the Yankees anymore, since money bought their team. It's kind of like hating Microsoft and being a Mac user.
This year is just for the Yankees to lose. Go Angels, whether it's just one game or the whole ALCS, and of course, go Phillies!
That was pretty disappointing. Obviously the Phillies outplayed them in every way (except maybe fielding), but I wish the Dodgers had put up more of a fight than last year. On the one hand, two straight NLCS finishes is far better than they were several years ago, they have a lot of young talent, and the future looks pretty good. But I'm wondering whether the Phillies just have their number or they just look good during the regular season against a relatively weaker NL.
Last year the Rays were better than the Yankees. Remember that? It's OK. You can admit it. Last year the Phillies did face a real team and they beat them soundly. Why can't Yankee fans just admit that other teams legitimately win championships?
The two things that the Dodgers completely failed at were: (1) neutralizing the Phillies' lefty sluggers, and (2) walking too many batters. Those two things combined for way too many two- and three-run homers. No way to keep pace with a team when you let that happen. How much confidence do you have in the Yankees rotation right now against a team that's hitting great? With a lineup that has lots of left-handed power? With a short porch in right in NY? Or at that bandbox in Philly?
I'm not saying the Yankees would struggle against them, but I wouldn't assume that it will be a cakewalk either. That's a series that could easily go six or seven games.
BTW, has anyone noticed that it's been six years since a World Series went more than five games?
Last year the Rays were better than the Yankees. Remember that? It's OK. You can admit it. Last year the Phillies did face a real team and they beat them soundly. Why can't Yankee fans just admit that other teams legitimately win championships?
The two things that the Dodgers completely failed at were: (1) neutralizing the Phillies' lefty sluggers, and (2) walking too many batters. Those two things combined for way too many two- and three-run homers. No way to keep pace with a team when you let that happen. How much confidence do you have in the Yankees rotation right now against a team that's hitting great? With a lineup that has lots of left-handed power? With a short porch in right in NY? Or at that bandbox in Philly?
I'm not saying the Yankees would struggle against them, but I wouldn't assume that it will be a cakewalk either. That's a series that could easily go six or seven games.
BTW, has anyone noticed that it's been six years since a World Series went more than five games?
If the WS goes to six or seven, that will be great, and even better if the Phillies win. I think the whole country will be rooting for the Phillies if it's the Yankees they go against.
If, for some miracle, it's the Phillies vs. the Angels, do you think uncommitted fans will root for the team that won just last year? I think the Angels need a second ring so nobody out there calls them that hapless team that happened to win one year. With high hopes with multiple all-star selections like Carew, Ryan, and Jackson, the Angels have been the ultimate choke team in the last half century of baseball.
Just like the Red Sox needed a second ring over a short time span, that second ring three years later showed everybody that the curse was in fact dead and that Boston can and will be a threat in the American league.
If not this year, both the Angels and Phillies need to be seen as legitimate long term threats and not just a footnote in baseball history. The Yankees, even in bad years, are still the legendary Yankees and nobody is surprised when they rally and salvage a bad season and end up doing well.
The Yankees do well whether they lead early in the season, have a long bad slump, or revive themselves after mid-season. It's what they do facilitated by stealing the best players from other teams.
This goes without saying, but the Yankees need to be defeated in quite a few more ALCS series in the future, and World Series. Some years I am hopeful, but this year is not one of them.
We ain't the Angels either...
Peace
I think the Angels are a better team overall. All the Dodgers proved was that the N.L. is pretty weak.
CC,Burnett and Andy P are going to have their hands full with " The Broad Street Bombers"
That's ok. The Phils don't even have one pitcher on Burnett and Andy Pettite's level and that is not considering Sabathia (who will pitch 3 times) and Rivera (greatest reliever of all time). Oy yeah, our hitters are pretty good too.
We aren't comparing the 2008 Yankees to the 2008 Devil Rays. Yes the Rays were a better team, that year. This is comparing the 2009 Yankees to the 2008 Devil Rays. Seriously, can you really compare those two teams? There is one team who most don't even know who's on it. The other team potentially has the all time saves leader, the all time HR leader, and the all time hits leader.
Because Yankees fans are the most arrogant and cocky fans of any team in baseball. Every Yankee fan I have ever met is like that. Arrogant and cocky, and they believe that the Yankees are entitled to the World Series trophy just because they're the Yankees and have more money than god, not because they're a better team.
It's even in this thread. A couple weeks ago a Yankee fan said the championship is going back to New York where it belongs. No, it doesn't belong to New York. It belongs to the team that wins 4 World Series games.