Why build a team that can only produce in the regular season. It is kinda stupid when the idea is to win in the post season.
I really hate short 5 game series, they don't give time for a team to get moving.
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P-p-p-playoffs! '08
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I really hate short 5 game series, they don't give time for a team to get moving.
I surprised with all of the negative comments about the Cubs. I understand the St Louians with the rivalry and all... But I always thought that the Cubs were pretty much universally loved by everyone, no matter what city you're from.
Anyway, I'm a Northsider yet I'm still happy if the Sox win too. And the Sox are our last hope this year, apparently.
Anyway, I'm a Northsider yet I'm still happy if the Sox win too. And the Sox are our last hope this year, apparently.
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Erick Aybar's 0 for 13 is now 1 for 14 with a GW RBI.
Erick Aybar's 0 for 13 is now 1 for 14 with a GW RBI.
No wonder no one outside of Chicago likes the Cubs
I think that's incorrect in two ways.
1) The Cubs don't generate much hate because they never beat anyone. So many teams have lost to the Yankees over the years that of course people hate them. But why hate the Cubs unless you're a longtime division rival like the Cards?
2) There are many Cubs fans all over the country. I've been to some Dodgers-Cubs during the dog days of summer that didn't sell out and there were quite a few Cubs fans in the crowd. It's safe to say that they didn't all make the trip from Chicago to see the game.
Awesome that you got to go. My girlfriend didn't understand my excitement watching on TV, even after I explained that it was their greatest success since I wasn't old enough to shave.
They did show it on TV. During the postgame coverage while the studio talking heads were jabbering, they showed Russell Martin high-fiving the fans in the left field corner, then hopping up in front of the left field pavilion. It looked like a great time.
Easy for a Yankee fan to say. When you have the budget to (usually) amass the players to make the playoffs, it's easy to fault other teams for building their teams wrong.
The whole concept of building a team for October is kind of ridiculous anyway. For one thing, it's all for naught if you don't make the playoffs first. It's really not the makeup of the team that wins games in October vs. during the regular season. It's how well the players are producing in the most pressure-filled situations and exploiting mismatches between teams. A great team can lost three of five or four of seven games in the middle of the season and still be great. The same team can't do that in October. It comes down to making the plays in a very small number of games, something that a team with a lesser regular-season record is easily capable of doing. We've all seen it happen. That's why October matters so much.
The Cubs were the better team on paper, but head-to-head they didn't have the lefty bats to challenge the Dodgers' righty starters and didn't pitch, hit or field when they really needed to. The Phillies, on the other hand, do have the lefty bats. Who will make the plays? We find out starting Thursday!
October is so much more fun when your team is still in it. It's been so long.
October is so much more fun when your team is still in it. It's been so long.
You're telling me!
For the record, I sat next to some Cubs fans on Saturday night. They were pretty glum throughout but I will say they congratulated me before they left. I guess Cub fans have learned to be gracious in defeat.
I also have tickets to NLCS home game three on 10-15.
I wouldn't exactly hold the Yankmes as the bastion of October teams recently. They haven't won a postseason series since 2004.
Meanwhile, I guess I should turn my loathing of the Phillies into props to the Dodgers for being the only team to finish it off in game 3.
Erick ****ing Aybar.
As I said, the Yankees have had the budget to buy the players to get them into the playoffs. But no amount of money can guarantee that a team will win three of five games. Or 11 of 19.
Yeah but they still get there... unlike the some of the other teams. But hey what are you going to do.
Cubs down, phillies are next! Bring it on.
woot!!! we're in round two and about to pound the snot on whoever's next. we're not going away!! 9=4!
okay, it's time for the evil empire to go down, you took down the yankees four years ago, now your reign is over...time for the rays to take over.
HA!
And Kotsay can flash some leather!
Whoa whoa whoa. The evil empire went down in 04, and the Sox still have about 72 years left.
So did the Angels.