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Stuart · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: The World Series thread!

GO CARDS

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moviegeekjn · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

Cheers for that first post!!!

TAP · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: The World Series thread!

Stuart · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject:

...and bring that ridiculously ugly trophy back to the NL Cool

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moviegeekjn · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: The World Series thread!

TAP · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

Puuuuuuuuuujols with the 2-run bomb. 4-1 Cardinals! Very Happy

Oden · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject:

Pooh holes getting it done. The guy is amazing even when hurt. He just scored another run.
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TAP · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

Anybody else notice the 7th inning stretch American Idol commercial that was just on? The scoresheet in their graphic said Mets vs. Tigers. Some ignorant doofus at FOX assumed the Mets were going to be in the series and FOX was too careless to notice their error and fix it before telecasting it to an international audience. Shocked

David B · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: The World Series thread!

shoewizard · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject:

I watched part of tonights game from a bowling alley....LOL

Havn't bowled in 4 years, but rolled a 185 tonight.... Razz

TAP · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: The World Series thread!

David B · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

Hey TAP, I was actually watching the game...until Brandon Inge managed to single handedly make two errors and turn off 10 million television sets on one play.

TAP · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

McCray · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject:

wow, nothing beats running out of your painkillers while at work being yelled at by your boss, with a migraine and a thrown out back, all while the tigers revert to their normal sucky selves on a tv in the background.

yep, today sucked. oh, and i had money on the tigers to sweep.

fuck st louis.

Evil or Very Mad

(sorry for grouchiness, just a really shitty day and my team playing really, well, shittily will do that to you.)
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TAP · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject:

McCray · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject:

he is a retard. all the other people who work with me are great nice people. but he's the guy who signs my check, and he's the only asshole there.

goddammit.

well, tomorrow i'll get lit up at jim's house while we all watch the tigers stomp the crap outta st louis. that'll be nice. Very Happy

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TAP · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:25 am Post subject:

JAY MARIOTTI ASKS WHY KENNY ROGERS WASN'T EJECTED FOR CHEATING

...and I wondered the same thing during last night's game.

McCray · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:57 am Post subject:

okay a couple things:

first, as a former docterer of baseballs, the thumb isn't really where you put your pine tar reserve. you put that on the glove or on your belt. sometimes, sometimes, on a wrist band, but not usually.

second, it is my understanding (and i'd love to be proven wrong here if i am) that there's a chain of events here. 1: the batter notices weird movement. 2: batter complains to manager. 3: manager complains to umpire, and, IIRC, must request that the pitcher be checked for substance. 4: if the ump feels there's a reasonable case, he checks the pitcher. 5: evidence of the usage of the illegal substance must be recorded -- if it's a corked bat, the ump needs a shard of the bat, if it's pinetar, the ump needs the pitcher's glove with the substance on it. 6: the ump ejects the player, and has the evidence brought to the umpire's locker area and secured.

the kenny fucking rogers thing either didn't seem that important to larussa or to the ump. and, if kenny fucking rogers has thrown his 1,746 scoreless innings this postseason or whatever, and he's doing it because he's got pinetar on his thumb, then larussa and torre and macha should be up in arms about this, screaming to the rooftops. that they aren't makes me think this is all a big bunch of nothing.
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shoewizard · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:01 am Post subject:

I wonder how long it will take for people to go back and study the game tapes of the previous games and look for the same "dirt"

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McCray · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:13 am Post subject:

shoewizard · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:14 am Post subject:

Dude....who cares how YOU gunk up the ball....

he has the shit on his hands in the exact same spot in Game 3 of the ALCS, according to the pictures you posted.....

Coincidence?

dirtygary · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:36 am Post subject:

That's kinda what I was thinking. It had to be some pine tar or something, cuz you heard the way he answered the Q's about the cold after the game - something about the ball being like a rock and not being able to get a grip on it.

I don't think he was trying to juice the ball, but there sure as hell was a substance that was causing dirt to stick to that part of his hand. But if the Cards weren't protesting then, I could see the umpires telling him to wash it off, and moving on.
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McCray · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:48 am Post subject:

yeah, i think it was to hold the ball. and, tlr doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to just let something go if he thought rogers was cheating.

also, it hasn't seemed like there's more break to his pitches now than previously this season. i really really don't think he's junking the ball. i think he's trying to grip it. and it isn't as if the ball looked any different in flight after he washed his hands, either.
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moviegeekjn · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:50 am Post subject:

On a human level, I'd bet that TLR didn't want to have a real cow over the issue... with Jim Leyland in the opposing dugout. Had it been another manager that he doesn't regard highly, he might have been more adamant.