MLB 08 Season

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:37 pm

RobVarak wrote:
sportdan30 wrote:Did the Cubs really think they were going to coast in to the playoffs?
Yes. And they are.

Did you towel off with a black cat under a ladder before typing that?

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:40 pm

GTHobbes wrote:
sportdan30 wrote: I wish the Cards would stop giving me false hope.
Only 3 and 1/2 back in the wild card race, Dan...let's hope the bullpen has found what it needs in Motte and Perez to pull this off!

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True, but I believe 3 and 1/2 games is the closest they've been all year it seems like. They can never get over that hump.

It sounds like they're not going to rush Carpenter in to the closer's role. If he's not 100 percent, I'd rather they shut him down for the remainder of the year.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:54 pm

Go Jays. I still believe...

TheGamer · Post by **TheGamer** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:30 pm

WOW!!!!! Way to go Big Z!!!!!

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:56 pm

TheGamer wrote:WOW!!!!! Way to go Big Z!!!!!

Hell yeah!!! Awesome!!

I'm kicking myself for not going up for the game. If the weather hadn't been so shitty this afternoon, I probably would have. Just awesome though!!!

1972.

Another date that we can scratch off the hit list!!

TheGamer · Post by **TheGamer** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:01 pm

Astros got screwed big time. That may as well have been a home game for the Cubs. 30k fans drove up from Chicago. I wonder why they didn't play the series in Arlington, the Rangers were out of town this weekend. Magic number is 7, the way the Brewers have been playing the Cubs could have this clinched by the weekend.

Of course the Cubs will have the biggest collapse in baseball history now that I've typed that

FatPitcher · Post by **FatPitcher** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:36 pm

Amazing that Ned Yost got fired. Not that he didn't deserve it, but when was the last time a team tied for a playoff spot fired its manager, especially so late in the season?

The new manager is Dale Sveum. I remember getting a board game called All Star Baseball when I was a kid (quite inferior to Strat-o-Matic, which I already had). It was this game where batters were represented by a paper disk, with a spinner used to select outcomes printed on the disk. Pitchers weren't even part of the game. The included players were all sorts of baseball legends...like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, and...Dale Sveum.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:55 pm

FatPitcher wrote:Amazing that Ned Yost got fired. Not that he didn't deserve it, but when was the last time a team tied for a playoff spot fired its manager, especially so late in the season?

Since when Lou Lamoriello became the GM of the Brewers? Sad, definitely more of a wake up call to the players than anything else, being this close to the playoffs.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:57 am

10spro wrote:
FatPitcher wrote:Amazing that Ned Yost got fired. Not that he didn't deserve it, but when was the last time a team tied for a playoff spot fired its manager, especially so late in the season?
Since when Lou Lamoriello became the GM of the Brewers? Sad, definitely more of a wake up call to the players than anything else, being this close to the playoffs.

Yeah, this is both for this year and also last year's collapse. They didn't trade for Sabathia to blow a wild card lead. It probably won't make a difference, but the team had to do something after the awful series against Philly.

matthewk · Post by **matthewk** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:33 am

RobVarak wrote: I'm kicking myself for not going up for the game. If the weather hadn't been so shitty this afternoon, I probably would have.

Dude, we have a roof

TheGamer · Post by **TheGamer** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:35 am

I think he meant the driving in the rain and such.

matthewk · Post by **matthewk** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:39 am

The Brewers had to do something. Yost's stubborness with Turnblow in 2006 may have cost them a playoff spot that year. Last year saw a collapse in August similar to the one they are having now.

They are in win now mode, and by now I mean this year. They traded away a great prospecct for CC If they don't make the playoffs it will have been a waste because the chances of CC re-signing with Milwaukee are very slim. They will also likely lose Sheets, will surely discard Gagne, and maybe Cameron as well.

I think they'll end up 6-6 in the last 12 games and miss the playoffs by a game or two.

matthewk · Post by **matthewk** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:42 am

TheGamer wrote:I think he meant the driving in the rain and such.

So he missed witnessing a no-hitter because he didn't want to drive in the rain?

You Illinois people are such wussies

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:49 am

matthewk wrote:
TheGamer wrote:I think he meant the driving in the rain and such.
So he missed witnessing a no-hitter because he didn't want to drive in the rain?

You Illinois people are such wussies

Actually, it's not that. We can't combine the negativity of adverse weather conditions with the thought of "Oh f***, I'm in Wisconsin."

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:55 am

It wasn't just the rain.

I go to like 15-20 games a year usually, so it wasn't like I was dying to see a Cubs game so badly that I felt like braving flood and cheesehead to see them LOL Still wish that I had, obviously...

PS Plus it was my first weekend with the NFL Sunday Ticket...makes it hard to leave the couch, much less the state

nyisles16 · Post by **nyisles16** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:18 pm

RobVarak wrote:It wasn't just the rain. I go to like 15-20 games a year usually, so it wasn't like I was dying to see a Cubs game so badly that I felt like braving flood and cheesehead to see them LOL Still wish that I had, obviously...

PS Plus it was my first weekend with the NFL Sunday Ticket...makes it hard to leave the couch, much less the state

lol- had the luck of going to the single admission Mets DH this past Saturday.. Last day at Shea - gonna miss the place

Citi Field looks nice, but it's not the same..

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:38 pm

Sitting here watching Giambi bat.

Im so happy they cleaned the game up.

What a f***in joke!...Newsflash to Selig ...Bonds was not the only player doping.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:34 am

Tribe takes the first two from the Twins and has Cliff Lee going for the sweep tonight.

You're welcome, White Sox.

TheGamer · Post by **TheGamer** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:47 pm

First step complete!!!

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:53 pm

lexbur wrote:Tribe takes the first two from the Twins and has Cliff Lee going for the sweep tonight.

You're welcome, White Sox.

..Thank you kind sirs.

TheGamer wrote:First step complete!!!

Last step

snaz16 · Post by **snaz16** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:14 pm

Congrats to the Tampa Bay Rays for clinching a playoff spot. Didn't see that coming.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:18 pm

Congrats to the Chicago Cubs! Now go win the whole f'n thing!

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:56 pm

sportdan30 wrote:Congrats to the Chicago Cubs! Now go win the whole f'n thing!

It's been a great year. I really hope they make the Series at least. The way they have played compared to everyone else in the NL, it'll be a real disappointment if they don't win the NL pennant.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:12 pm

I wonder if they'd throw Zambrano in game one. He's been pretty inconsistent down the stretch.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:18 pm

Brando70 wrote:
RobVarak wrote:
sportdan30 wrote:Did the Cubs really think they were going to coast in to the playoffs?
Yes. And they are.
Did you towel off with a black cat under a ladder before typing that?

See, no worries