World Series Game 1 Open Thread
by Ian Casselberry on Oct 28, 2009 7:30 PM EDT
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PrintOkay, here we go. After seven months of baseball, it's finally down to the last two teams. And it probably worked out the way it was supposed to. The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees probably are the two best teams in baseball. This series should be a battle.
If you know any Cleveland Indians fans, you might want to be kind to them. Or confiscate their belts and shoelaces. Game 1 shouldn't be easy for them. Tonight's starting pitchers are Cliff Lee for the Phillies and CC Sabathia for the Yankees. The last two AL Cy Young Award winners, both former Indians, now starting for different teams in the World Series.
The Good Phight and Pinstripe Alley are your SB Nation sites to follow this evening.
So what are your predictions for the series? Here at BYB HQ, we say Phillies in six games.
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Big League Stew elaborated on that today
With a writer from Let’s Go Tribe. He really kills Sabathia.
(via Mack Avenue Tigers)
by Ian Casselberry on Oct 28, 2009 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you think more NY fans
Watch the Yankees tonight or the Knicks?
by Ian Casselberry on Oct 28, 2009 8:07 PM EDT reply actions
Hey NCDee!
I can’t help it, as devastating as the game-that-shall-not-be-named was, I still love this time of year. Whoever wins…let there be 7!
Good evening
I was listening to the game on my way home, and I never thought I’d see the day where I’d welcome Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, but after so much Joe Buck and Tim McCarver (not to mention Chip Caray), that is exactly what happened.
And to reiterate, I don’t like the Phillies.
Have to disagree
I like Miller, but Joe Morgan (or has he officially changed his first name to HalloffamerJoe?) is insufferable. I keep waiting for Miller to just slug him.
Oh, usually I can't stand either of them
But I’m so sick of the Fox guys I’ll take almost anyone (Keyword “almost.” There’s a certain Chicago-area broadcaster I would NEVER prefer).
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I think Rollins wanted to do what I remember Polanco doing once (thanks to watching a video clip of it yesterday)
Letting it short-hop instead of catching it in order to get a double play, and then for some reason he didn’t do it. I wonder what the initial call at second was or why time had not been called.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Yanks in 6
But I wouldn’t be surprised to see Phils in 6 either.
President, Vice President and Secretary of the Casey Crosby Fanclub.
Once again....
I’m hoping Randy Macho Man Savage shows up with a foldign chair and lays our Giuliani.
All of a sudden, this game looks like it's on film
(Not watching on HD)
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 10:09 PM EDT reply actions
Welcome to the postseason, aka Bizarroland
Where the Phillies bullpen switches places with the bullpen of whatever team they’re playing.
The natives at Yankee Stadium are getting restless. They’re almost as trigger happy as Tigers fans.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 10:36 PM EDT reply actions
Surely I can't be the only one rooting against the Phillies?
Pretty please?
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 10:42 PM EDT reply actions
Actually, I'm here, there, AND over at TrueBlueLA (where several of them are rooting against the Phillies)
You guys are still the best, even though I can’t understand your preferences right now. :-)
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
it's just the rules
root for your favorite team, and always root against the yankees**.
**except when they are playing the twins less than 24 hours after the twins shattered your heart
Hee hee
If it was the Dodgers facing the Yankees, I’d be rooting for the Dodgers. If it was the Rockies, well, going into the postseason I’d’ve said I’d root for the Yankees, but now I’d probably root for the Rockies. If it was the Cardinals, I’m not sure what I would’ve done (probably not cared who won; just enjoyed watching some baseball). Besides, my favorite Tigers keep getting traded to the Yankees.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Another generous call for the Yankees
Usually if the catcher is lined up outside, the ump won’t give the borderline inside corner. Can’t miss by the full width of the plate.
If the Yankees bullpen could throw strikes, it would've saved them a whole lot of trouble
And I seriously thought that was gonna be a ground ball to second. I thought the Phillies were supposed to have the worst bullpen of the eight postseason teams?
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Cliff Lee. Meh.
Verlander’s April start against the Yankees was more impressive.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 10:58 PM EDT reply actions
I guess in terms of entertainment value
Verlander’s start was exciting. Cliff Lee’s kinda lulling me to sleep.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh my God, I looked at Brian Bruney and initally thought I was looking at Nick Swisher
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:00 PM EDT reply actions
Replying to above.
I’ve been a closet Yankee fan this postseason.
by StringTheory on Oct 28, 2009 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Yay, that makes two of us (though I only did that once the Dodgers were eliminated)
Right now I just wish the Yankees’ ’pen would stop sucking.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Hmmm....Sound familiar?
From a Yankees fan at Pinstripe Alley:
It feels like our offense is in one of those slumps where some guy on the Athletics could be making his 4th career start with a 12.94 ERA and shut us down for 7 innings.
By the way, you guys may hate the Yankees, but their SBN fans have come up with some funny stuff tonight.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:13 PM EDT reply actions
geez, does the good phight not believe in overflow threads?
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they're up to 1400+ on their open thread and lagging badly
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Well...at least I got a new laptop
That’ll probably end up providing me with much more pleasure than the World Series.
And, oh yeah, the Phillies may have a shaky bullpen, but that doesn’t matter if you can’t get the damn starter out of the game.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:20 PM EDT reply actions
And to think, two years ago, Lee was hurt, and some thought he was finished
Gotta give the guy credit for coming back from that, a lot better than he was before those struggles.
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Yeah, I suppose you're right
It’s not his fault he pitches for a team that rubs me entirely the wrong way
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:34 PM EDT up reply actions
The Phillies' middle infield has made some horrible throws to first in the postseason
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Enough of the Cliff Lee mancrush
That was certainly boring. Hopefully tomorrow night’s game is exciting (though with AJ Burnett going, I’m not optimistic).
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:31 PM EDT reply actions
I was aiming that comment at Tim McCarver
And I want a seven-game series because this is the last baseball I’ll get until April.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions
But if the Phils keep winning, it won't be a seven-game series :-)
And I guess I should point out that if it were the Red Sox in the WS instead of the Yankees, I would totally be rooting for the Phillies.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions
haha, I wish I had come up with the idea for the post to begin with
but once I saw that my friend referenced the 2007 indians I had to do it :)
I remember someone on BYB saying that of all the players on the eight postseason rosters, 18 were former Indians
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I heard that on the radio and threw it out at one point, dunno if it was here or at twinkietown
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Hello, SabreRose tiger!
Why are you anti-Phillies? Is it because they are national league? I would think a Detroit fan would not want to root for the Yankees. Hopefully you were not swayed by the people on the Dodgers’ blog site!
Well, at least there are some Phillies supporters in Detroit ;)
Thanks for the support!
no prob!
personally I’ve never had anything against them and I’m a pretty big fan of a few team members. good luck!
Hello, 2008Philz
I don’t hate the Yankees, and I have never hated the Yankees. My reasons for this are numerous and complicated (I mentioned some of them to Alli earlier). I generally root for the AL over the NL (unless the Red Sox or Indians are representing the AL), though the three NL teams that I like are the Dodgers, Rockies, and Marlins. Since obviously my team is in the AL, the NL is a bit more fluid in terms of teams I dislike. About fifteen years ago, I HATED the Braves (this is, in turn, one of the reasons why I don’t hate the Yankees). That has pretty much subsided into neutrality. Right now, the Phillies keep beating teams I like. I rooted for the Rays in the 2008 WS. They beat the Rockies this year, and they beat the Dodgers this year and last year (and as far as the Marlins are concerned, which is a team I kinda/sorta like, they’re the division rival that presents the biggest threat). I guess it’s a case of “familiarity breeds contempt,” in a way. It’s actually more complicated than that (and it’s not at a level where I’ll shut the Phils off entirely…after all, I totally went along with the whole “Bran-Torino” thing), and really hard to explain, and I just did a horrible job of doing so.
However, I am nice to fans of any team as long as they are not trolls or idiots. You appear to be neither, so welcome to BYB if this is your first time here, and I hope you enjoy your stay and that we can agree to disagree. :-)
Okay, now I really am going to bed.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 29, 2009 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Well, 7 AM comes real soon so good night
Sorry if I seemed kinda cranky tonight. Work’s been stressing me out the last two nights. Hopefully I will be much more pleasant tomorrow night. I’ll see you guys then! :-)
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 29, 2009 12:08 AM EDT reply actions
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