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Gruco · Oct 5, 2004

Seth C said:
No one is giving the Braves a chance, perfect. At least this way they can't underperform in the playoffs.

Good point! Even if they go down first round, hopefully I can avoid the "overpaid choke artists" comments this year!

Alex Anderson · Oct 5, 2004

Predictions!

NLDS

Braves def. Astros in 4
Cards def. Dodgers in 4

ALDS

Yankees def. Twins in 5
Angels def. Red Sox in 4

NLCS

Cards def. Braves in 6

ALCS

Angels def. Yankees in 6

World Series

Cards def. Angels in 5

Desperado · Oct 5, 2004

Gruco said:
Good point! Even if they go down first round, hopefully I can avoid the "overpaid choke artists" comments this year!

Umm, isn't your payroll like $95 million?

Desperado · Oct 5, 2004

Probable Playoff Roster...

Pitchers [11]::
-Clemens
-Oswalt
-Lidge
-Backe
-Munro
-Miceli
-Qualls
-Wheeler
-Springer
-Gallo
-Harville

Starting Position Players [8]::
-Bagwell
-Kent
-Vizcaino
-Ensberg
-Ausmus
-Biggio
-Beltran
-Berkman

Bench [5]::
-Lamb [may start at 3rd some of the time]
-Palmeiro
-Lane
-Bruntlett
-Chavez [starts when Oswalt pitches]

yeah I'm missing one, I dunno who else would go. Taveras/Burke aren't eligible, Everett won't be playing in the NLDS...I think Garner has lost all faith in Carlos Hernandez this year, and Oliver just sucks. If we don't take any more LHP that leaves us with...1. And Gallo has stunk against left-handed batting.

Joe · Oct 5, 2004

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Desperado · Oct 5, 2004

Joe said:
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Lol it'll be funny to see him bat without his ridiculous stance next season...

Desperado · Oct 5, 2004

jeez I can't believe the playoffs start tomorrow!! with baseball on from when I get home until 10pm...I won't be getting much done.

Matrix · Oct 5, 2004

I'm pumped and so is

! whoooooo!

ITS TIME TO TAKE CHARGE BABY!

Joe · Oct 5, 2004

bonds must have pissed sheffield off because he's opened "the vault"...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/magazine/10/04/sheffield_bonds1011/index.html

"The only thing Greg Anderson does is what Barry tells him to do," Sheffield says. "Barry ran everything. If I'm training and if he sees Greg making me do one curl too many, it's an argument: 'I told you, don't have him do no more than he needs!' So I knew Greg was a puppet. All these guys around [Bonds] were puppets."

"He said something to me [about being late]. I did not respond, because if I did respond at that particular moment, I would have knocked him out. That's how I was feeling. [But] I said [to myself], No, I'm just going to walk away, and when I say walk away I mean walk away."

i cant post anymore quotes because i'd end up quoting the entire article. just click the link and read it. its very good and very revealing. bonds is something else.

Miguel · Oct 5, 2004

Remember last year or earlier this year where sheff said something like "I never knowingly ingested steroids"

He knew damn well what he was doing.

Ninja Scooter · Oct 5, 2004

so the Yankees have TWO roiders on their team? Talk about an asterisk.

Meier · Oct 5, 2004

Pedro Gomez is a smarter than average motherfucker. Everyone else on there sucks.

Miguel · Oct 5, 2004

Watch out Atlanta....

Joe · Oct 5, 2004

let's get some tuesday predictions

twins 2 - yankees 4

red sox 6 - angels 7

dodgers 2 - cardinals 5

Gruco · Oct 5, 2004

Desperado said:
Umm, isn't your payroll like $95 million?

No sir - cheapskates in the front office cut her all the way down to 90.

Call Chipper and Hampton overpaid if you want, but really, are you trying to say the team hasn't been consistently outperforming expectations?

Joe · Oct 5, 2004

i love being banned from irc for no reason.

speshylives · Oct 5, 2004

I think the Marlins are still paying most of Hampton's salary.

Guileless · Oct 5, 2004

Twins 7
Yankees 2

St. Louis 6
Los Angeles 4

Boston 3
Anaheim 1

Lathentar · Oct 5, 2004

let's get some tuesday predictions

twins 5 - yankees 1

red sox 6 - angels 3

dodgers 4 - cardinals 7

calder · Oct 5, 2004

Predictions huh.

Twins/Yankees :: Yanks in 5

Red Sox/Angels :: BOS in 4

Dodgers/Cardinals :: STL in 3

Astros/Braves :: Braves in 3. God I hate the Braves, but the Astros used it all up just getting here.

ALCS: Bos over NYY in 5 quick and easy games. NY AM CRYING.
NLCS: STL over ATL in 6 tough games
WS: Bos over STL in 7, mainly because of the Cards meh starters versus at least 1 1/2 (maybe 2 if Pedro snaps out of it) true allstar aces in the Sox rotation.

Predictions for tonight:
twins 3 - yankees 0

red sox 5 - angels 4

dodgers 2 - cardinals 5

Tommie Hu$tle · Oct 5, 2004

Desperado said:
:lol

Braves' 13th division championship will prove to be the unluckiest.

STROS / CARDS NLCS

As opposed to....maybe you haven't seen our record. 13 divison champonships and only what 1 World Series win to our name. Maybe we would have pulled one off in 94 but that's all ifs. If anything this year is shaping up to be a better year but, they will have to get past Houston which to me is the best team in Baseball right now.

brooklyngooner · Oct 5, 2004

Well, those wheels came off quickly...

Miguel · Oct 5, 2004

:lol

Funny how the ALCS and NLCS may end up being a Divisional series! and the ALDS/NLDS won't be.

Culex · Oct 5, 2004

The Yanks WILL win tonight. Poor Twins, they got the beating of a lifetime in the last series by the Yanks.

Let the pummeling continue.

evil solrac v3.0 · Oct 5, 2004

you guys are selling the twins short. yanks can very easily lose this game. anyways, looks like the cards have started the pummeling of the L.A womans, er, i mean the dodgers.

Eminem · Oct 5, 2004

man the power of the cards bats is sick

Lathentar · Oct 5, 2004

Cardinals are putting a beat down on the Dodgers...

Iceman · Oct 5, 2004

man, only 5 homers?

You know, the dodgers have a hard time putting up anything larger than 2 up on the score column.. overkill much?

Desperado · Oct 5, 2004

calder said:
Astros/Braves :: Braves in 3. God I hate the Braves, but the Astros used it all up just getting here.

:lol I won't even respond to that.

Today's scores predictions [since I'm too late for STL/LA...]

Code:

Team        R H E
-----------------

Red Sox     5 8 0    AL
Anaheim     3 7 0    DS

Minnesota   2 6 0    AL
New York    1 6 0    DS

Desperado · Oct 5, 2004

Cards shouldn't have used Izzy today.

rc213 · Oct 5, 2004

Nice beatdown by the Cards over my Dodgers. Seems like our pitching will be our DOOM, anyways GO ANGELS! LOL

carbonbased · Oct 5, 2004

Yikes, the Dodgers got slapped around like little bitches. Let's just hope the Angels can come through with a win tonight.

Eminem · Oct 5, 2004

the SAWX up 3-0 on a millar homer.

Eminem · Oct 5, 2004

ok....sox up 5-0 and still threatening. Washburn is gone. Schilling is pitching. Just call the game now.

Mrbob · Oct 5, 2004

Angels are self destructing. Red Sox up 5-0. With Schilling on the mound game over!

Go Red Sox!

Eminem · Oct 5, 2004

wow we said like the same thing at the same time. AMAZING

:lol :lol :lol the ManRam. RAPE ALERT RAPE ALERT

rc213 · Oct 5, 2004

8-0!!!! HOLY CRAP!

Iceman · Oct 5, 2004

Okay, so who's the scarier team right now? The BoSox or the Cards?

Desperado · Oct 6, 2004

Iceman said:
Okay, so who's the scarier team right now? The BoSox or the Cards?

BoSox.

Cards don't have a Schilling or Pedro.

speshylives · Oct 6, 2004

Pedro's not particularly scary right now. Curt, however, is the boogie man.

Mrbob · Oct 6, 2004

Yanks about to receive a beatdown Santana style.

Fatalah · Oct 6, 2004

C'mon Yanks! Show em who's BOSS! HOOYA!!!!!!!

Desperado · Oct 6, 2004

Do people not realize this is stickied or what? where is everyone?

Santana looks vulnerable tonight.

GO TWINS

Desperado · Oct 6, 2004

Everett, who recently was activated from the disabled list after missing nearly two months with a broken left wrist, convinced general manager Gerry Hunsicker and manager Phil Garner that he was game-ready and did not need a full week of Instructional League.

Apparently, two games were enough.

"We talked about the pros and cons," Hunsicker said. "The question is, what are we going to gain by leaving him down there three more games? If we activate him, it gives us more versatility. If something happens to Vizcaino, Bruntlett is the only guy who can play shortstop without Adam here."

Everett will not be thrust into a starting role immediately, but Hunsicker would not object to Garner giving the shortstop a start or two during the playoffs. For now, Everett will mainly pinch-run and enter games late for defensive purposes.

"The biggest concern is how rusty he is," Hunsicker said. "The fact that he hasn't played in a couple months, what are the expectations when you're in a situation where you're facing not only Major League pitching, but top pitching? You can't wait until someone gets in a groove. You've got to hit the ground running. That's probably the biggest issue."

yeah, adam's back!

Houston NLDS Roster

Pitchers [11]::
-Clemens
-Oswalt
-Lidge
-Backe
-Munro
-Miceli
-Qualls
-Wheeler
-Springer
-Gallo
-Harville

Starting Position Players [8]::
-1B Bagwell
-2B Kent
-SS Vizcaino
-3B Ensberg
-C Ausmus
-LF Biggio
-CF Beltran
-RF Berkman

Bench [6]::
-Lamb
-Everett
-Palmeiro
-Lane
-Bruntlett
-Chavez

Matrix · Oct 6, 2004

Sweet..I <3 Adam.

speshylives · Oct 6, 2004

Frickin Posada and his love of grounding in to the DP.

Joe · Oct 6, 2004

posada is a double play machine.

2-0 twins

speshylives · Oct 6, 2004

On the bright side, Mussina looks strong despite the 2 ER's.

Eminem · Oct 6, 2004

speshylives said:
Curt, however, is the boogie man.

:lol :lol :lol :lol a rare time i actually laughed out loud for real.

speshylives · Oct 6, 2004

One of these innings, they'll hit all these shit singles at the same time and maybe score a run.

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