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Ned Easterwood · 10-02-2008, 06:02 AM

See personally I don't give a

about the Angels.
I just want Boston out.

Hex Blackthorne · 10-02-2008, 08:07 AM

I used to like you.

Mereille · 10-02-2008, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ned Easterwood

See personally I don't give a

about the Angels.
I just want Boston out.

You *could* hope for a Boston sweep instead. A warm, happy, cuddly Mereille is much much better than an upset, touchy, petulant Mereille.

Ned Easterwood · 10-02-2008, 08:49 AM

And then there's the ALCS and maybe the World Series. And what happens then? Hmmmm?

Mereille · 10-02-2008, 09:08 AM

If Boston wins?

Um.. First

and this

Followed by

and this

even

and then more

Vertigo Paris · 10-02-2008, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ned Easterwood

See personally I don't give a

about the Angels.
I just want Boston out.

YOU ARE DEAD TO ME!

Natalie P. · 10-02-2008, 10:09 AM

You get a pass this time, Ned, but only if the Cubs don't make it to the Series.

Ned Easterwood · 10-02-2008, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mereille

If Boston wins?

Um.. First

and this

Followed by

and this

even

and then more

And what do I miss in-between, huh?

Personally, I was glad when Boston won a while back, so we don't hear all of that belly-aching about the "Curse of the Bambino" any more. Gads, that was tiresome.

If the Cubs win, then we wouldn't hear any more about the "Curse of the Billy Goat" or whatever other lame excuse Cubs fans are for that bunch of losers in Wrigley Field. (You think the Lions are screwups - at least it's only been 50 year since they won anything.)(And yeah, I know who the Cubs beat in 1908 - and 1907. The Tigers got 'em back in '34 and '45.)

I am an old-fashioned sports fan - I root for the home team and the underdog. It looks like the biggest underdogs out there are the Brewers, so I hope they win. But I really don't give a damn.

Beau Perkins · 10-02-2008, 10:24 AM

Why would you hate this years Boston team? They fought through injury all season long. 2/3's of the current team is all home grown players and not free agents and they are a fun group of guys.

It is a team of true grit.

Vertigo Paris · 10-02-2008, 10:29 AM

Personally I am thrilled that the Yankees aren't even a factor this year and that the Beantown Boys are still going strong. I would love the Red Sox to go to the World Series but just them having made it further then the Yankees make me quite content.

FlipperPA Peregrine · 10-02-2008, 10:30 AM

Man, Boston really has The Angels number when it comes to the playoffs.

I find the Angels silly. Here's what they call themselves, officially:

"The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim."

Translate that all to English and you get this:

"The The Angels Angels of Anaheim."

It is almost as silly as the fact that in the NFL, New York City is actually located in New Jersey.

Regards,

-Flip

Ned Easterwood · 10-02-2008, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vertigo Paris

Personally I am thrilled that the Yankees aren't even a factor this year

I'm a Tigers fan. Hating the Yankees is second-nature - sorta like hating Notre Dame and U-M as a Michigan State alum.

Beau Perkins · 10-02-2008, 10:36 AM

Flip, I am hoping for a Philly - Boston series. I think it is unlikely but I think it would be a very exciting series....at least for us east coasters it would be. The rest of the country many not have a desire to watch it.

Brenda Connolly · 10-02-2008, 11:52 AM

I really don't care who wins in the AL, Tampa Bay would be good for the story I guess. I almost always pull for the NL, the only exceptions were in 96 I was thrilled to see the Yankess scalp the Braves, and in '04 I did pull for Red Sox. As far as the NL goes, I am behind the Cubbies right now, with the Dodgers as my 2nd choice.
If the worst case does come to be, I will grudingly pull for the Phillies.....*sigh*

Natalie P. · 10-02-2008, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ned Easterwood

" or whatever other lame excuse Cubs fans are for that bunch of losers in Wrigley Field.

You have made a powerful enemy this day, Easterwood. *slaps you with a catcher's mitt* Baseball bats at dawn!

Yes, yes, I know nobody chokes in the clutch like my Cubbies. But only Cubs fans get to talk about that!

Ned Easterwood · 10-02-2008, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Natalie P.

You have made a powerful enemy this day, Easterwood. *slaps you with a catcher's mitt* Baseball bats at dawn!

Yes, yes, I know nobody chokes in the clutch like my Cubbies. But only Cubs fans get to talk about that!

Brenda Connolly · 10-02-2008, 11:56 AM

The Angels have a big ghost to excise if they can beat the Sox, going back to 1986. *Feels warm and fuzzy thinking about that year*. If they can pull it off, maybe poor Donnie Moore can rest in peace.

Mereille · 10-02-2008, 11:58 AM

Go easy on poor Ned. He's a little (lot?) upset that I turned on the game last night while we were cuddling in our pool.

It was an unthinking, selfish thing to do. I think I am directly responsible for his sudden Angels fandom.

Beau Perkins · 10-02-2008, 01:13 PM

Tampa does not deserve a World Series. The night they clinched, the stadium was only filled at 33% capacity.

Beau Perkins · 10-02-2008, 01:51 PM

Cool write up on MLB.

Welcome to October: Enjoy the ride | MLB.com: News

Quote:

So this is October.

James Loney will hit a grand slam, and a party crowd will fall silent.

Brad Lidge will throw 35 pitches, but he still won't blow a save, and his best pitch will ring up a red-hot Prince Fielder in a pressure-packed ninth.

Manny Ramirez and Jason Bay will show why their teams acquired them.

You will pay the price for walking too many runners, misjudging fly balls, baserunning blunders and gaffes to capitalize when a guy like Jon Lester is in trouble early.

The CNA tower in downtown Chicago will be lit up at night in a way that makes a giant "GO CUBS" sign on one side and "SOX" on the other.

Rays fans will be beside themselves at the mere fact they are playing. And then they will remind you that they want more than that.

Ramirez will start to walk out of the interview room, and then suddenly walk back to the microphone and say, "I just wanted to say that I changed my name to Dave Roberts."

You will spend the next several minutes trying to figure out what it means, and indeed, what it all means on the first day of a postseason.

The playoffs are under way, and if you were like most baseball fans, you probably were glued to TBS all day and night, immersed in worldseries.com, going through your own emotional highs and lows and just thinking how happy this day makes you.

So this is October.

You will laugh as Dennis Eckersley takes some good-natured abuse from his colleagues at the TBS studio desk, when he is reminded that the last time the Dodgers won a Game 1 was, um, 1988, when, um ...

Then he will remind himself: "I am in the Hall of Fame" (and Kirk Gibson is not).

Cheeseheads will have a serious baseball crush to keep them occupied at a time when they normally would be all about the Packers.

Angels fans will go "uh-oh." The Red Sox kind of own them in the postseason. They swept the Angels in three to start both of the 2004 and '07 title runs. Fans will be reminded that the A's once had Boston's number like that -- winning a combined 10 in a row if you include the 1988 and '90 American League Championship Series, as well as Games 1 and 2 of the 2003 AL Division Series.

Red Sox fans will note that the Red Sox won the next three of that 2003 series, and after a little problem with Aaron Boone that month, their fortunes changed for the better. Angels fans can find solace in knowing things can turn around like that.

You will be reaching for Game 1 trend stats like these: Teams that win Game 1 on the road are 6-7 in the ALDS; teams that win Game 1 at home are 10-2 in the NLDS; and teams that win Game 1 on the road are 13-1 in the NLDS.

Cubs fans will remember not the way Carlos Zambrano had to be removed early in that start at Arizona in the 2007 NLDS -- but rather the way he threw a no-hitter recently. They will hope for that Big Z when Game 2 of this NLDS begins on Thursday.

You will remember the first time you felt the importance of October baseball, whether it was decades ago with a transistor radio in your ear or earlier this decade when Derek Jeter made a backhand relay toss to the catcher or just last year when a Jacoby Ellsbury emerged as an October sensation.

You will watch Ellsbury make a stunning diving catch and then later flash remarkable baserunning instincts to set up a key insurance run on a David Ortiz RBI single. It will feel a little bit like 2007, and you will wonder if perhaps this might be the year that Major League Baseball finally has a repeat world champion for the first time since the 2000 Yankees.

So this is October.

Jim Belushi will lead the Wrigley Field denizens in the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch, and you will wonder if there is anything in the world better than that moment right there if you're in the crowd.

Those same fans will try hard, very hard, to absolutely ignore that statistic that says Atlanta's 1999 team was the only one to lose Game 1 at home and win an NLDS.

Someone will remind you that Daisuke Matsuzaka is 9-0 on the road this season. And that he is starting the next game against the Angels.

Derek Lowe will look like he's been here once or twice before.

So will Dodgers manager Joe Torre.

The White Sox will have the luxury of a day and a half of mostly rest following that high-pressure survival act to make the postseason. Then they will be the opponent as a TBS audience eagerly looks on to see just what this thing is called Rays playoff baseball.

It is pretty much what you expected it to be after one day of the playoffs: Unpredictable. Dramatic. Stomach-churning. Filled with costly mistakes and dominating performances. Satisfying, meeting your annual need at this time of year.

Wrigley will be hard to walk away from as the cleaning crews are doing their thing in the twilight hours. It will be beautiful to see, especially in October, when the ivy is just about to start changing its colors on the wall.

Eight teams will do everything possible to be among four teams and then two and then one.

A Tiffany-made World Series trophy will just wait to be held and kissed.

Legends will be made. There will be a Loney.

This is October. It is back, and it is good.

10-02-2008, 03:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ned Easterwood Mereille's Guy Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Detroit, Mi. Posts: 9,181 SL Join Date: 5/4/2007 My Mood:	Go Angels __________________ Ned Take 'er easy for all the sinners of the world, dude. Abide. And amen. http://www.dudeism.com/ My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Claymore of Loving Kindness Unitarian Jihad

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Natalie P. lol wut Have a fhtagn day! Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 986 SL Join Date: 11/2006 My Mood:	You get a pass this time, Ned, but only if the Cubs don't make it to the Series. __________________ "Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted." - Jane Austen Validate me, dammit!

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Beau Perkins Is a sickly peach color I'm a heretical Jew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: CT Posts: 5,963 SL Join Date: 12/24/2003 My Mood:	Why would you hate this years Boston team? They fought through injury all season long. 2/3's of the current team is all home grown players and not free agents and they are a fun group of guys. It is a team of true grit. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me -John Lennon.

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FlipperPA Peregrine Evil Incarnate! Recursion is beautiful! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 5,225 SL Join Date: 2003-11-14 Business: Peregrine Salon SLShopper Ads: 1 My Mood:	Man, Boston really has The Angels number when it comes to the playoffs. I find the Angels silly. Here's what they call themselves, officially: "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim." Translate that all to English and you get this: "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim." It is almost as silly as the fact that in the NFL, New York City is actually located in New Jersey. Regards, -Flip __________________ Peregrine Salon: Flip & Jenn's thang.

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10-02-2008, 06:02 AM	#3 (permalink)
Ned Easterwood Mereille's Guy Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Detroit, Mi. Posts: 9,181 SL Join Date: 5/4/2007 My Mood:	See personally I don't give a about the Angels. I just want Boston out.

10-02-2008, 08:07 AM	#4 (permalink)
Hex Blackthorne second reality psychonaut Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 294	I used to like you.

10-02-2008, 08:49 AM	#6 (permalink)
Ned Easterwood Mereille's Guy Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Detroit, Mi. Posts: 9,181 SL Join Date: 5/4/2007 My Mood:	And then there's the ALCS and maybe the World Series. And what happens then? Hmmmm?

10-02-2008, 09:08 AM	#7 (permalink)
Mereille Senior Member Happily spoken for Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,040 My Mood:	If Boston wins? Um.. First and this Followed by and this even and then more

10-02-2008, 10:29 AM	#12 (permalink)
Vertigo Paris The Chaotic RadioRadio DJ Now Hiring Minions Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Displaced Bostonian living in hotter than Hades Texas! Posts: 4,065 SL Join Date: 11/22/2006 Blog Entries: 1 XBOX Leaderboard: 25^th SLShopper Ads: 2 My Mood:	Personally I am thrilled that the Yankees aren't even a factor this year and that the Beantown Boys are still going strong. I would love the Red Sox to go to the World Series but just them having made it further then the Yankees make me quite content.

10-02-2008, 10:36 AM	#15 (permalink)
Beau Perkins Is a sickly peach color I'm a heretical Jew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: CT Posts: 5,963 SL Join Date: 12/24/2003 My Mood:	Flip, I am hoping for a Philly - Boston series. I think it is unlikely but I think it would be a very exciting series....at least for us east coasters it would be. The rest of the country many not have a desire to watch it.

10-02-2008, 11:52 AM	#16 (permalink)
Brenda Connolly Konichiwa, Bitches I'll Be Back Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Nu Jerzee, USSA Posts: 4,426 SL Join Date: January 2007	I really don't care who wins in the AL, Tampa Bay would be good for the story I guess. I almost always pull for the NL, the only exceptions were in 96 I was thrilled to see the Yankess scalp the Braves, and in '04 I did pull for Red Sox. As far as the NL goes, I am behind the Cubbies right now, with the Dodgers as my 2nd choice. If the worst case does come to be, I will grudingly pull for the Phillies.....sigh

10-02-2008, 11:56 AM	#19 (permalink)
Brenda Connolly Konichiwa, Bitches I'll Be Back Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Nu Jerzee, USSA Posts: 4,426 SL Join Date: January 2007	The Angels have a big ghost to excise if they can beat the Sox, going back to 1986. Feels warm and fuzzy thinking about that year. If they can pull it off, maybe poor Donnie Moore can rest in peace.

10-02-2008, 11:58 AM	#20 (permalink)
Mereille Senior Member Happily spoken for Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,040 My Mood:	Go easy on poor Ned. He's a little (lot?) upset that I turned on the game last night while we were cuddling in our pool. It was an unthinking, selfish thing to do. I think I am directly responsible for his sudden Angels fandom.

10-02-2008, 01:13 PM	#21 (permalink)
Beau Perkins Is a sickly peach color I'm a heretical Jew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: CT Posts: 5,963 SL Join Date: 12/24/2003 My Mood:	Tampa does not deserve a World Series. The night they clinched, the stadium was only filled at 33% capacity.