27-09-2004 02:37									#391
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...if Brown were to have broken his pitching hand before the game, do you think anyone would have noticed?

Schilling allowed 1 hit but 4 walks, which is uncharacteristic of him. And unless I'm reading the Gameday report wrong, Pedro Astacio got ejected three times...

	27-09-2004 03:24									#392
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quote: Ejections: Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Astacio by HP umpire Jim Wolf (8th); Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Astacio by HP umpire Jim Wolf (8th); New York Yankees pitcher Brad Halsey by 1B umpire Tim McClelland (8th); New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre by 1B umpire Tim McClelland (8th); Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Astacio by HP umpire Jim Wolf (8th); New York Yankees pitcher Brad Halsey by 1B umpire Tim McClelland (8th); New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre by 1B umpire Tim McClelland (8th).

Someone must be asleep at the stat station.

	27-09-2004 04:19									#393
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he allowed 4 walks because he didnt wanna lose his no hitter, so he pitched around the big three, then got stung by posada and then didnt care, so made beter pitches.

a no hitter woulda put him right back into cy young contention.

	28-09-2004 02:04									#394
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heres to a twin sweep of the yanks.

	28-09-2004 02:11									#395
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quote: My prediction: Sox take 2 of 3. You've got Pedro and Shilling going in this series. Pedro's not gonna suck again. Shilling is en fuego. This leaves Wakefield, who we really should pound. Of course, my logic on the last series (Yanks should win game 1, game 2 tossup, lose game 3) didn't exactly work out! -Arrian

Right on the # of games, wrong on which ones. Never woulda thought Pedro would lose again (not to mention cry about it ).

True, A-Rod was out at 3rd, but I think I can understand why the Ump missed it.

-Arrian

	03-10-2004 12:16									#396
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i guess americas team will be facing either the twins or the angels. either way, its tougher than facing the As. playoffs start wednesday right?

	04-10-2004 09:06									#397
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sox v angels - why we dont have homefield is weak.

	04-10-2004 09:22									#398
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You are the WILDCARD... just be lucky you were even allowed to be in the playoffs. If it was up to me you wildcards would be on the outside looking in .

	04-10-2004 09:25									#399
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'Stros

Even the MLB skewing results in the Cub's favor left and right can't save them. Losers.

	04-10-2004 09:32									#400
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I've yet to see proof of this MLB skewing results in Cubs favor. Oh... is this the fabricated they-are-picking-on-us stuff that usually is directed at the Yankees? .

	04-10-2004 09:37									#401
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quote: You are the WILDCARD... just be lucky you were even allowed to be in the playoffs. If it was up to me you wildcards would be on the outside looking in

what does that mean? if it was up to you? if it was up to me, the yankees would be contracted.

	04-10-2004 09:39									#402
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quote: what does that mean?

That means suck it up your whiner . Under the old playoffs, you fellas would be gearing up to play golf. So you'll go on the road and you'll like it .

	04-10-2004 09:41									#403
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui I've yet to see proof of this MLB skewing results in Cubs favor. Oh... is this the fabricated they-are-picking-on-us stuff that usually is directed at the Yankees? .

Kerry Wood gets 3 warnings...Roy Oswalt gets 0. Come on.

	04-10-2004 10:01									#404
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How many 'warnings' does Roger Clemens get? Face it, it isn't the Cubs, it's the bigger names. If Clemens is an unheralded rookie, he gets tossed more than a few times.

	04-10-2004 10:03									#405
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui You are the WILDCARD... just be lucky you were even allowed to be in the playoffs. If it was up to me you wildcards would be on the outside looking in .

Since you brought up the wild card... any ideas on how to replace it? If I had to replace it, I'd favor bringing back the two-division system and adding two teams to the AL. We'd be going by the pre-1993 alignments as closely as possible, of course, though a bit more sensical, i.e. none of this Atlanta in the NL West, Chicago in the NL East crap. Schedule would be 14 games against each divisional opponent, 8 against each team in the other division, for 14*7+8*8=98+64=162 games. No interleague play.

If we did that this year, the Cardinals would have run away with the NL West, the AL West would have been a four-team race, the NL East an easy Braves win, and the AL East would have had a nice two-team race.

Alternatively, KEEP the wild card, but the WC team only gets to play if it has a better record (tie-breaker based on head-to-head record, then on pythag) than the other two divisional champs. If it doesn't, the best team in the league gets a bye.

	04-10-2004 10:09									#406
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That's far too complicated.

Personally, I'd rather have it be like Football...3 winners, 3 wildcards, 2 top teams have a bye...then again, the postseason would probably end up running through mid-November.

	04-10-2004 10:15									#407
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quote: That means suck it up your whiner . Under the old playoffs, you fellas would be gearing up to play golf. So you'll go on the road and you'll like it

under the old playoffs, we woulda won the AL seeing how our record against teams whose record is above .500 is like 55- 40 and the yankees play under .500 against teams with winning records. both teams woulda seen less O's, J's and Rays and more A's, Twins and Halos.

	04-10-2004 10:18									#408
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quote: Since you brought up the wild card... any ideas on how to replace it?

Keep the three divisions (too many teams to go back to two) and give the #1 team a bye.

quote: No interleague play.

As long as the abomination of the DH is around, interleague play just further messes us the league competition.

quote: Personally, I'd rather have it be like Football...3 winners, 3 wildcards, 2 top teams have a bye

Bah, the only reason football has it because 16 games is too short to play everyone in the league. 162 games will get you all the games you need against league teams (just NL or just AL). And all those games played should MEAN something, so a team that finishes 2nd in a division shouldn't win the championship over a team that wins it.

Oh and bring back the AL and NL presidents. None of this combining leagues ****.

	04-10-2004 10:21									#409
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quote: under the old playoffs, we woulda won the AL seeing how our record against teams whose record is above .500 is like 55- 40 and the yankees play under .500 against teams with winning records.

Bull. You know the Yankees would have found a way to beat you. They always do .

Btw, both the Red Sox AND Yanks play the O's, J's, and Rays the same amount. As well as everyone else (except interleague). Are you saying the Sox suck that bad against teams below .500? And the A's, Twins, and Angels would be in the West, and thus they really wouldn't play them that much more at all.

	04-10-2004 10:27									#410
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Btw, LOA:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings/grid

NYY was:
4-5 vs. ANA
4-2 vs. MIN
7-2 vs. OAK

14-5 vs. BAL
15-4 vs. TAM
11-7 vs. TOR

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BOS was:
5-4 vs. ANA
2-4 vs. MIN
8-1 vs. OAK

9-9 vs. BAL
14-5 vs. TAM
14-5 vs. TOR

Frankly I don't see that much of a difference.

	04-10-2004 10:29									#411
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quote: Bull. You know the Yankees would have found a way to beat you. They always do

WRONG AGAIN!!!!!! nobody beats the sox, they beat themselves.

quote: Btw, both the Red Sox AND Yanks play the O's, J's, and Rays the same amount. As well as everyone else (except interleague). Are you saying the Sox suck that bad against teams below .500?

thats right, i am saying. Sox beat teams with loosing records around a .660 pace. yanks beat them at a .700 pace.

twins would be in the east, and with no interleague play, there would be more interconference play

	04-10-2004 10:31									#412
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quote: nobody beats the sox

LOL! No, a lot of people beat the Sox.

quote: twins would be in the east

Actually, under the old system, Minnesota was in the West.

Btw, look at the stats I just posted about the teams you claimed would make a difference .

	04-10-2004 10:31									#413
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btw, you missed yanks vs. sox record. also, these are final records, not the records the teams had at the time of play, also you dont include a lot of the games.

	04-10-2004 10:32									#414
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btw, i just did

	04-10-2004 10:35									#415
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quote: you missed yanks vs. sox record.

The Sox won the season series... 11-8 (not that big a deal). It's on the link

quote: also, these are final records, not the records the teams had at the time of play

So? That means jack.

Btw, when you say that the Red Sox had so and so a record against teams over .500 are you counting final statistics or if they were .500 at the time the Sox played them? I doubt it was the latter, so don't pull that BS with me.

quote: also you dont include a lot of the games.

Because those were the 6 teams you mentioned that would make a difference. The stats show they wouldn't.

	04-10-2004 10:40									#416
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quote: I doubt it was the latter, so don't pull that BS with me.

im sure it was the latter.

anaheim abused their rotation getting into the playoffs, and their game 1 starter is washburn, game 2 is colon on three days rest. :wow:

	04-10-2004 10:46									#417
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quote: im sure it was the latter.

No, I seriously doubt it was. Those stats are VERY intensive and people don't really bother because of the effort of calculating the number of wins against teams that were above .500 at the TIME of the game rather than at the end of the year.

And you said the Red Sox record against teams whose record is above .500. That means presently, not at the time.

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Like .

Yeah, just be glad you don't get the Twins in a 5 game series. Perhaps it was a good thing you didn't win the division .

	04-10-2004 10:52									#418
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I concur. Angels and Yankees I'm OK with. Santana...

	04-10-2004 11:53									#419
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God, if only we had one three or four more games, over the course of the whole year... :shakeshead:

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Yay Tanyon Sturtze. Seriously, Torre has Quantrill AND El Duque at his disposal, and Sturtze is the first man out of the bullpen after Rivera?