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World Series Game 1 Open Thread

Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard answers a questions before a practice session for the Major League Baseball World Series Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in New York. The Phillies play the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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24 days ago: Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard answers a questions before a practice session for the Major League Baseball World Series Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in New York. The Phillies play the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Okay, 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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“Or confiscate their belts and shoelaces.” haha.

I’m predicting Yankees in five.

by StringTheory on Oct 28, 2009 7:39 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

Yankees by a long shot

New Yorkers have given up on the Knicks for now

by Dale S on Oct 28, 2009 8:24 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Going with the shock pick

Phillies in 5. Love the way they are playing.

by rook34 on Oct 28, 2009 8:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

are there a lot of baseball fans in memphis?

cause there are a lot of empty seats for a season opener.

yankees in 5 btw

by MackAveKurt on Oct 28, 2009 8:27 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Phillies in 6.

but not if they squander as they did in the first. And I have a working laptop now!

by NCDee on Oct 28, 2009 8:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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!

by Dale S on Oct 28, 2009 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Looking on the bright side

I have two whole new rosters of player name puns…Hmm, where to begin?

by Dale S on Oct 28, 2009 9:23 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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.

by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 9:23 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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.

by Dale S on Oct 28, 2009 9:25 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Miller is fantastic.

He remembers that baseball is supposed to be fun.

Why so serious, McCarver?

by rook34 on Oct 28, 2009 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

CRAM IT HAWK

I miss saying that.

by rook34 on Oct 28, 2009 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wow y'all.

These umpires suck.

by wepri31 on Oct 28, 2009 9:37 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Okay, I'm officially confused

Was that a major baserunning error by the Yankees, or…?

by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 28, 2009 9:37 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I think Rollins fooled him

into thinking he had dropped the ball

by Dale S on Oct 28, 2009 9:38 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

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.

by demondeaconsbaseball on Oct 28, 2009 9:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Once again....

I’m hoping Randy Macho Man Savage shows up with a foldign chair and lays our Giuliani.

by rook34 on Oct 28, 2009 9:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That should read...

folding chair…and lays out Giuliani.

Sorry.

by rook34 on Oct 28, 2009 9:46 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

that catch was hilarious.

doot doot, pop up in the world series, I got dis

by allikazoo on Oct 28, 2009 10:04 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

poor phil hughes.

I like him. I think he’s gonna be good.

by allikazoo on Oct 28, 2009 10:33 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I will head up to the Bronx now

with a plate of milk and cookies

by Dale S on Oct 28, 2009 10:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

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

by allikazoo on Oct 28, 2009 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

Probably not a bad play there.

Ibanez is not hitting as well as Werth.

by rook34 on Oct 28, 2009 10:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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.

by Elfuego51 on Oct 28, 2009 10:48 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Nice

Hitting a base hit with 2 outs and the bases loaded, what a concept.

by Elfuego51 on Oct 28, 2009 10:50 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

Awesome

Exclamation point!

by Elfuego51 on Oct 28, 2009 10:53 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Filthy

Cliff Lee is nasty.

by Elfuego51 on Oct 28, 2009 10:56 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

haha

I guess it happens to every team at some point. not usually in such an unfortunate way though.

by allikazoo on Oct 28, 2009 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Go Phillies, stomp the Yankees.

And, give Lee credit. Lee has been lights out in the playoffs.

by 13194013 on Oct 28, 2009 11:14 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

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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by ahtrap on Oct 28, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

Pedro was like that for me in Boston.

I loved watching him pitch but hated his team.

by 13194013 on Oct 28, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

I'm just saying give him some credit.

He won a Cy Young for a reason. Hopefully the Phillies sweep!

by 13194013 on Oct 28, 2009 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

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   0 recs

Ah.

I have the game on mute. Sorry for the assumption.

McCarver is an idiot.

by 13194013 on Oct 28, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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!

by 2008Philz on Oct 28, 2009 11:54 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

no prob!

personally I’ve never had anything against them and I’m a pretty big fan of a few team members. good luck!

by allikazoo on Oct 29, 2009 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

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   0 recs

g'nite

hopefully, I’ll actually get to watch the game tomorrow, rather than via gameday whilst working…

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by ahtrap on Oct 29, 2009 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs


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