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The Road to the World Series: MLB Playoffs Thread!
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All Hail C-Webb
Hailing from the Chill-Web
Mussina + Lieber = best 1 2 punch in baseball
Rivera = best closer in baseball
1-5 of the Yankee lineup = best hitters in baseball
Yankees = best team in baseball
Rivera = best closer in baseball
1-5 of the Yankee lineup = best hitters in baseball
Yankees = best team in baseball
lieber is proving himself to be a big game pitcher. he was sick today, silencing the "best offense in baseball". rivera...well he was rivera. yanks are sitting pretty getting through schilling and pedro with wins but again, the red sox at fenway are scary. i wont feel comfartable until the yanks have won 4 games in this series. for the sox to win they would have to win 4 of the next 5 games which is very do-able for them. i dont have much confidence in brown at fenway but he could very well prove me wrong.
Lieber pitched a great game...Williams got shellacked...Pedro struggles...finally hitting 100 pitches and gives up the close game soon after. Backe pitched a great game....but he probably should have stayed in...but this is nothing but Arm Chair Managing in the 10th inning.
Our bullpen is horrible...not that it's anything new.
Press conference time.
BBL
Our bullpen is horrible...not that it's anything new.
Press conference time.
BBL
IF Schilling can pitch game 5, and that's looking like a if, The sox have a legitimate chance of sweeping at Fenway.
Then again, we don't know if Duque is gonna pitch. Brown and Vazquez are very beatable.
Wakefield has pitched the Yanks good too. BUT, Sox MUST win with Arroyo. If not, it's curtains.
But if Schilling can't and it's Lowe, the best the Sox could hope for is a game 7 in NY. Then again, they could pitch Pedro on 3 days if they must.
Game 3 is the series. If Boston wins it's wide open. If they lose, it's all over.
Then again, we don't know if Duque is gonna pitch. Brown and Vazquez are very beatable.
Wakefield has pitched the Yanks good too. BUT, Sox MUST win with Arroyo. If not, it's curtains.
But if Schilling can't and it's Lowe, the best the Sox could hope for is a game 7 in NY. Then again, they could pitch Pedro on 3 days if they must.
Game 3 is the series. If Boston wins it's wide open. If they lose, it's all over.
Kuroyume said:
no, 3 in boston. i meant a 3 game sweep. heh, i guess i shouldn't have said game 7 in NY...where else would it be.
arroyo/wakefield should win games 3/4, lowe will lose/schilling should win 5, who knows who will be pitching 6 for boston. depends on the series score and if schilling pitched game 5. they could save pedro for a game 7 if it's 3-2 boston at this point and go with arroyo
Very good game on both sides. Luckily, the Yanks had a great outting from Leiber.
Friday's game at Fenway scares the SHIT out of me. It is the most important game of the series. I hope Brown takes his vitamins. I really do think that Boston could do alot of damage at home, I think the series hangs in the balance of how they play there. The real Sox are bound to show up there.
But one game, Friday's game, is where the Yankees really need to win! C'mon Yanks!!! GO YANKS!
Friday's game at Fenway scares the SHIT out of me. It is the most important game of the series. I hope Brown takes his vitamins. I really do think that Boston could do alot of damage at home, I think the series hangs in the balance of how they play there. The real Sox are bound to show up there.
But one game, Friday's game, is where the Yankees really need to win! C'mon Yanks!!! GO YANKS!
brooklyngooner
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Eminem said:
What exactly do you base this certainty on? Arroyo is very good at best, but with an over 4 ERA. Brown may have been hurt, but there's a far higher ceiling for him than Arroyo, and I don't think even the most jaded Sox fan would want Arroyo over Brown in a playoff situation down 0-2; the advantage certainly is NOWHERE near as in the bag as you make it sound. Brown has thrown big postseason games and done well; Arroyo has never thrown a game this big before. Wakefield pitches very well against the Yanks, but he's a knuckleball pitcher, which makes his performance less predictable than others, and its likely Duque starts game 4. As for Schill, even if he does pitch, he's nowhere near 100% with a torn tendon for 5.
Much as it pains me to say it, it's as likely there's a sweep as there is the Sox take games 3 and 4.
brooklyngooner
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theo said:
Sox fans should pray for a rainout (possible) Friday night so that Pedro can go game 5 on short rest. He couldn't do it on three, but four *might* work, even though on regular rest he can't go more than 100 (that Olerud homer was #106 btw).
Joe said:
More on Jorge stomping the cameras at the New York Daily News
Darn, back to ant's eye view again.
Bill Simmons works in an ECW reference!!!! and his Game 2 diary = awesome!!!
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/041014
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/041014
bob_arctor
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No one's really mentioned it yet, but the Yankees look damn good. This is the most focused I've seen them all year. And Boston has to be mentally devastated right about now--coming in w/ the swagger and silliness, coming off a sweep, Vegas naming them favorites. Never would they have guessed 0-2, ever. Combine that w/ their losing culture and Schilling being a horse all year until now (and against their mortal enemy no less), Pedro's complete inability to beat us anymore and the total reversal of fortune from the 1st round against Anaheim, and well, you know. Everyone that's honest w/ themselves about this rivalry knows.
evil solrac v3.0
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what's with posada lately? anyways, lieber sure pitched the game of his life yesterday. but now that we're done talking 'bout the yanks, let's talk about them astros. what's with garner not getting the bullpen ready in time? he could have held this game in check but he showed a bit too much faith...... oh, i fully expect to se schilling out there (they're not tricking me yet...)
evil solrac v3.0
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Miguel said:
there will probably be drizzles but not heavy rain.
evil solrac v3.0
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Miguel said:
wait, you want to rain? where's your swagger? huh? it's goner already? huh?! *pfft*
evil solrac v3.0
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Miguel said:
no other options?
brooklyngooner said:
oh don't get me wrong, when a team is down 2-0, they have absolutely no advantage.
all i'm saying is based on their more recent outings, Brown and Vazquez are very susceptible to what should be a pumped up sox team at Fenway.
ugh, Lowe is gonna get destroyed.
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