Baseball discussion thread

[Zerakon]

The Red Sox had one of the highest team slugging percentages in history (.491).

Yep, that's not just one of but THE highest team slugging percentage ever!, beating out the mighty 1927 Yankees (Babe Ruth .772 that year, Lou Gehrig .765). The Sox of course have no sluggers in that stratosphere but they have a lot of guys who can swat the ball, with 6 guys (Ortiz, Ramirez, Nixon, Mueller, Garciaparra, and Varitek) over .500.

Anyway, I'm excited for the Red Sox (yes, my team), and hoping for a series against the Yankees that is exciting as the Sox-A's series. Last night's game was just so intense, it was a great game to watch. I think I read that it was the first time that two Cy Young pitchers ever faced each other in a decisive game in the playoffs!

 

[BOZ]

so... predictions on cubs-marlins and red sox-yankees?

 

[Zerakon]

so... predictions on cubs-marlins and red sox-yankees?

Yankees over Red Sox in 7 after Sox have 2 game lead. Game 6 will feature a new Bucknerish play, and game 7 will just be a sad blowout. (Yes, I am a Red Sox fan and obligatorily hate the Yankees but this is my prediction.)

Cubs over Marlins in 5.

 

[BOZ]

i like.

 

[Dimwhit]

The Marlins will play the Yankees. The Marlins will win it all.

Why??

Because the Marlins are the one team no one is talking about.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

The Marlins will play the Yankees. The Marlins will win it all.

Why??

Because the Marlins are the one team no one is talking about.

Maybe no one's talking about them outside the Bay Area. Around here you hear their name muttered quite often, usually prefixed by an expletive.

I would looooove to see a Cubs/Sox World Series, with the Sox winning it all. Two reasons: Deny Dusty Baker the Series win he couldn't get here in SF (yeah, we carry a grudge here), and to finally shut up all of this "Curse of the Bambino" garbage.

 

[dreamthief]

boy what a grinder of a game. got to credit the marlins for pulling it off.

 

[BOZ]

that was one hell of a game.

 

[Storm Raven]

Not going to bite on the "I don't pay attention" line, but Lowe won 17 games...with an ERA higher than any of the A's (or Yankee, for that matter) starters. Can you say "run support"? And if there is one thing that baseball teaches us, good pitching and defense always beats good hitting in the end. Yanks advance...Sox go home. But how is that different than any other year?

No, the rule is that good pitching beats good hitting, and vice versa.

And if you think the Yankees have "good defense" you haven't been watching the collection of immobile zombies the Yankees have been running out there all year. Jeter is slow, Williams should be in left field, he can't cover center any more. Matsui and the various guys they run out the right are adequate fielders at best, and Giambi has become a slow, poor fielder even by standards applied to first basemen. The only player on the team who is actually fast is Soriano, and he can't cover the whole field by himself.

And Yankees pitching is no great shakes either. Both Pettite and Wells have ERAs over 4.00, and Clemens isn't that much better.

 

[Gnome Berzerker]

Last nights Cubs/Fish game was something else. Tonight, the Fish will wake up when they have to face Prior, and they'll be down 2-1 after Wood mows them down in Florida.

The sCrubs are built a whole lot like the '01 D-Backs. 2 aces and a decent lineup. If both of those guys just win their games, the team will be lifting a 95 year old curse.


Anyway, harking back to pages 1 and 2:

Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker.

GO YANKEES!

Not that I really care about baseball, but after growing up in the late 70s in NY, how can I not want the Yankees to take it all?

No offense CL, but growing up and living in NY myself, you either love that team, hate that team, or just bandwagon on when one of them is good. And NY has been crawling with bandwagon Stankee fans for way too long.

In the immortal words of Yogi Berra,

It ain't over until it's over.

Ya know Mr Berra uttered those words when he was the manager of the Mets, right?



In closing, I couldn't be happier if the BoSox swept the Evil Empire, and I could watch a historic World Series between Chicago and Boston.