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Not so much a Braves fan but a Derrick Lee fan

 

When are people going to learn how to spell his first name?

 

I don't know, but if 6.5 years as a key player on your team won't do it, nothing will.

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Look like Dusty Baker and his Reds are half an inning away from becoming the 4th straight NL Central rep to completely crap the bed and be an absolute non factor in the NLDS. 5th if you count the Brewers as well as the Cubs in '07. Maybe the NL Central shouldnt be invited to the post season for a few years.
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Look like Dusty Baker and his Reds are half an inning away from becoming the 4th straight NL Central rep to completely crap the bed and be an absolute non factor in the NLDS. 5th if you count the Brewers as well as the Cubs in '07. Maybe the NL Central shouldnt be invited to the post season for a few years.

 

Since the Cardinals won the World Series (groan), the NL Central teams are 1-15 in the playoffs. (assuming no Reds 9th inning rally. The NL Central champ will be 0-12 in that timespan. Makes me feel slightly better about the Cubs follies in 07 and 08.

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Rangers fans have to be pulling some Cub level freaking out right now.

 

i work with about half a dozen

 

some choice facebook quotes

 

TERROR WARNING: Dallas and Fort Worth area residents should be on alert for drunken, depressed sports fans driving on and around Interstate 30 near Arlington. Warning should stay in place through Tuesday and perhaps extending until the Super Bowl in February.

 

If the Rangers' offense, with starved fans in tow, can't manage to hit for them, what makes me think they'll give Cliff Lee any support in Game 5? Still sick to my stomach.

Repeating my mantra of the day....Cliff Lee should have stepped up today, told Washington that I AM YOUR MAN..THIS IS WHY YOU ARE PAYING ME...and took the ball. He hasn't have the gonads of Curt Schilling.... I don't even want to see Lee here next year..he won't be, trust me; doesn't even plan on being here...and so I hope he flops miserably in Game 5 so no one else wants to pay him what he wants to be paid either

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Look like Dusty Baker and his Reds are half an inning away from becoming the 4th straight NL Central rep to completely crap the bed and be an absolute non factor in the NLDS. 5th if you count the Brewers as well as the Cubs in '07. Maybe the NL Central shouldnt be invited to the post season for a few years.

 

Since the Cardinals won the World Series (groan), the NL Central teams are 1-15 in the playoffs. (assuming no Reds 9th inning rally. The NL Central champ will be 0-12 in that timespan. Makes me feel slightly better about the Cubs follies in 07 and 08.

 

In the Reds defense, the Cubs didnt run into Halladay, Oswalt, and Hamels in the post season, but it was nice to see Votto ground into that double play.

 

Im definitely rooting for the Yanks from here on out for Kerry Wood, but if not him, Oswalt and Halladay definitely deserve a ring too, and as much as I hate to say it, more so.

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Random observations from Game 3 in Cincinnati, my first non-Cubs playoff game:

 

- The Phillies are a [expletive] machine. Poised, deliberate and seemingly unstoppable.

- Dusty Baker is still an idiot. The Philadelphia hurlers are fantastic, but Baker's continuing refusal to recognize the value of working the count was a huge factor in the gaudy success of Doc and Hamels.

- As a detached observer with no rooting interest, the postseason's extra commercial time in-between innings is truly a shame. The players, creatures of habit for 162 games with a set-in-stone break now given extra time, are standing around doing nothing, waiting for the red lights to come on. The natural rhythm of the game is distorted. It feels all too much like seeing something like Monday Night Raw in person, which leads to ...

- The TBS intros with the waving towels are so nauseatingly bogus in person. You have the public address announcer imploring the crowd to wave the towels before an empty field like some poor sap holding up an "APPLAUSE" sign. The whole exercise is degrading to the game of baseball IMO.

- Everyone should see a playoff game in person, regardless of rooting interests or lack thereof. If you're lucky enough to have a contending team within range, go. Despite the hyper-commercialization that permeates everything, when the game is actually going on, it's awesome.

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Random observations from Game 3 in Cincinnati, my first non-Cubs playoff game:

 

- The Phillies are a [expletive] machine. Poised, deliberate and seemingly unstoppable.

- Dusty Baker is still an idiot. The Philadelphia hurlers are fantastic, but Baker's continuing refusal to recognize the value of working the count was a huge factor in the gaudy success of Doc and Hamels.

- As a detached observer with no rooting interest, the postseason's extra commercial time in-between innings is truly a shame. The players, creatures of habit for 162 games with a set-in-stone break now given extra time, are standing around doing nothing, waiting for the red lights to come on. The natural rhythm of the game is distorted. It feels all too much like seeing something like Monday Night Raw in person, which leads to ...

- The TBS intros with the waving towels are so nauseatingly bogus in person. You have the public address announcer imploring the crowd to wave the towels before an empty field like some poor sap holding up an "APPLAUSE" sign. The whole exercise is degrading to the game of baseball IMO.

- Everyone should see a playoff game in person, regardless of rooting interests or lack thereof. If you're lucky enough to have a contending team within range, go. Despite the hyper-commercialization that permeates everything, when the game is actually going on, it's awesome.

 

I wanted to go to one of the Brewers NLDS games in 2008 but there was no way I could have gotten off of work or afforded the tickets.

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I hear ya about the fakeness of towel waving. They did the same thing at the Bears Sunday Night Football games I've been to. The PA guy tells the crowd that the game is about to go live and on the count of 3, start going crazy so people across the country can see how rabid Bears fans are.
J.R. ACL Cubs

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Glaus to start tonight at 3B.

 

http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2010/10/11/conrad-out-of-lineup-glaus-at-third-base/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_braves_blog

A day after Conrad made three costly errors at second base in a 3-2 loss to the Giants in Game 3, Braves manager Bobby Cox moved Omar Infante from third base to second and will start veteran Troy Glaus at third.

 

Glaus is a longtime former third baseman, but has played the position for only three innings in two games this season, including one inning in Game 2 at San Francisco on Saturday when he came in as part of a 10th-inning double switch.

 

The Brave have been reluctant to play Glaus at third base because of his knee and ankle injuries that limit his mobility. But Conrad has made eight errors in the past seven games, and Cox decided to make a change with the Braves facing a must-win situation in the best-of-five series.

 

Oh, and it appears that they're waking up in Tampa.

 

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/oct/11/111432/game-5-tickets-rays-rangers-sale/sports-rays/

ST. PETERSBURG - For the first time this season, the Tampa Bay Rays will remove the tarps covering seats in the upper reaches of the third level for Game 5 of the American League Division Series.

 

Team spokesman Rick Vaughn said this morning an additional 5,000 seats with partially obstructed views will be available at $30 a seat for Tuesday's decisive game against the Texas Rangers.

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