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The Road to the World Series: MLB Playoffs Thread!

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Iceman

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i dunno.. i don't think errors (in the field of play) should be called on 3Bmen.. or at least they should be called sparingly.. have you guys ever tried playing 3B?
 
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Mooreberg

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Schilling is FORD TOUGH.

Now they just need to take at least one game in St. Louis. Two would be better, though. :)
 
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Willco

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Curt Schilling pitched the last game of his season. He should win the Cy Young and some madeup Curt Schilling award for being such a badass.

I think his starts down as one of the most memorable in baseball history, and will be looked back on years from now as something amazing. Like "The Catch".
 
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Miguel

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"The SHOT Heard Round the World"

Get it right.

I DON'T BELIEVE....WHAT I JUST SAW!!!

Gives me goosebumps everytime.


And it's not "The Sock" It's "THE SAHK!"
 
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Miguel

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neptunes said:
lets get this straight.

He basically told his physicians to keep his ankle hanging from a thread?
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The tendon is already snapped off. The trouble was...the Tendon kept snapping back and hitting his bone...which caused extreme pain. The basically tied it down so it wouldn't move.

THat's about all I understand from the procedure.
 
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Matlock

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Here's a quarter
call someone who cares
 
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bob_arctor

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The Cards just need to take Pedro into deep counts, keep it close, and get him to 100 pitches (assuming Pedro has good stuff to begin with of course). The Yanks, aside from writing the book on choking, also wrote the book on how to beat Pedro (well, the non-ridiculous fastball Pedro anyway).
 
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mightynine

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neptunes said:
lets get this straight.

He basically told his physicians to keep his ankle hanging from a thread?
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They pretty much stapled it to his skin. Whether or not The Natural theme was playing in the background during in the procedure in purely rumor.
 
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Iceman

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So ironically, the Red Sox have to thank the Yankees (particularly Joe Torre) for winning them homefield advantage in the WS... prior to that stupid rule the Cards would have had homefield, right? And the Cards have been a much better team at home.
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
Willco said:
Curt Schilling pitched the last game of his season. He should win the Cy Young and some madeup Curt Schilling award for being such a badass.

I think his starts down as one of the most memorable in baseball history, and will be looked back on years from now as something amazing. Like "The Catch".
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no shit. he's been unreal.

to quote gammons:
Curt Schilling is getting close to the point where you have to ask ... is he the greatest postseason pitcher of all time?

In 15 starts in the postseason, he's allowed more than two earned runs twice -- and one of them was when his ankle tore apart against the Yankees in New York.
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ridiculous...not to mention he had to pitch over 4 errors.
 
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Iceman said:
So ironically, the Red Sox have to thank the Yankees (particularly Joe Torre) for winning them homefield advantage in the WS... prior to that stupid rule the Cards would have had homefield, right? And the Cards have been a much better team at home.
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actually, before the AllStar rule, homefield just went back and forth from AL to NL on a yearly basis, not by homefield. Why baseball did that i have no idea.
 
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Miguel

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Iceman said:
So ironically, the Red Sox have to thank the Yankees (particularly Joe Torre) for winning them homefield advantage in the WS... prior to that stupid rule the Cards would have had homefield, right? And the Cards have been a much better team at home.
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They have Mike Piazza to thank, Really.

I still think he was tipping off pitches to the Batters. That blast by Manny in the All-star game was ridiculous.
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
Yeah, why would you give home field to the team with the best record? ITS NOT LIKE THAT MAKES SENSE OR ANYTHING
 
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J2 Cool

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And with that game Schilling replaced Beltran for the best performance I've seen in the playoffs. One of the very best ever. So damn cool that the Red Sahk is winning them the world series :)
 
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Miguel

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Schilling has passed Jordan's flu game and Willis Reed in Game 7 of the 1970 Finals.

Not quite Lance Armstrong-esque, but I think I'd rank him 2nd on the list.
 
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Miguel said:
I DON'T BELIEVE....WHAT I JUST SAW!!!

Gives me goosebumps everytime.
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Was that on the radio? Mainly 'cause I remember Vinnie's:

High fly ball into right field...SHE ISSS GOONNNEE!!!!!

::a few moments later::

In a year that has been improbable, the impossible has happened!
 
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J2 Cool

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Miguel said:
Schilling has passed Jordan's flu game and Willis Reed in Game 7 of the 1970 Finals.

Not quite Lance Armstrong-esque, but I think I'd rank him 2nd on the list.
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hmmm.. I dunno. Willis Reed game I'd say he passed. Reed's was one courageous performance but just one. MJ though, when you get the flu like he had, not only do you lose your strength but also your mind. Hearing how bad he was and how he could have easily had no impact on a pivotal game.. I'd say that is still tied. You could literally see no joy or happiness on his face, just pure will on an emotionless face. Showed how MJ has something unreal inside him. Plus that exhausted collapse after seizing the moment in the 4th quarter by carrying his team, at the end of the game, when he should have no stamina left. Curt had the same thing in his starts.

Also, another great game played with an injury was Isiah Thomas in that game with the Lakers on one foot. Thing there though was there was no way he'd finish that series like that. Somehow Curt has kept going with what nobody thought he could throw a pitch with. In any case, he's just been amazing. Can't say enough
 
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Bat

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You can't compare Jordan's flu game to what Schilling has done his last two starts. Jordan was quite sick, yes, but he didn't have have a snapped tendon that needs immediate surgery. I'd take a case of the flu over an (extremely painful) stapled up ankle any day. Isiah's amazing sprained ankle game is a better example, but even he didn't repeat his performance like Schilling has. Willis Reed's game was just a sentimental performance that gave his team a moral boost, but not much else.

I mean, this guy is literally risking the rest of his career to give his team 13 great innings....that's just unheard of.
 
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MASB

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Willco said:
Curt Schilling pitched the last game of his season. He should win the Cy Young and some madeup Curt Schilling award for being such a badass.

I think his starts down as one of the most memorable in baseball history, and will be looked back on years from now as something amazing. Like "The Catch".
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Are you talking about the Mays catch in 1954?

As for Schilling, he's truly put on an amazing, in some ways, a heroic performance.
 
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Iceman

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If he had played with AIDS that would have been something.. but being HIV+ doesn't mean that you are physically incapacitated in anyway. This guy had his ankle opened several times and things stapled to other things in horribly inappropriate ways and sewn up incompletely so that they could go back in a muck around later.. yeowh.
 
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speshylives

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If it wasn't for Tom fucking Gordon and Joe Torre's inability to see how bad he was sucking, we wouldn't give two shits about Schilling at this point... he never would have had a chance to be a hero.

Fuck Curt Schilling!

Boston should be lining up all around Fenway to give head to Mark Bellhorn, Derek Lowe , Joe Torre and Tom Gordon.

Great googly moogly.

:D
 
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speshylives

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Now that I got that out of the way, it is absolutely a heroic performance for the ages. Unquestionably, a true testament to how big game Curt Schilling is. That's the guy that's worth the billions that Assrod isn't.
 
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