Andy

I'm rooting for the Cardinals, mainly because they have the best chance to beat the Sox and I do NOT want to hear about a White Sox title all winter.

All this proves is that we should have been in the playoffs and not watching them at home. Yeah, it's something to playfully diss the fans of these teams about but it is not something to make us feel better.

No. Well, yes, but the team hasn't come close to playing a good full 4 quarters since week 1 against Ohio. And MSU has? They blew a 21 point lead to ND and needed OT for the win and just this week had OSU beaten with 5 minutes left until they blew it after recovering Troy Smiths fumble. This will be a serious shootout. NU has a very good chance of winning this game. State's loss in Columbus was a huge letdown. Has NW played OSU yet, or will they? If they play that could be a great one and believe it or not it could be for the Big 10 title.

He doesn't know anyone's names. He refers to everybody as 'the pitcher' or 'the batter' or 'the 3rd baseman'. Also he mistakenly said he still managed Tampa during one broadcast. He's miserable. Please put Brenly with Buck and McCarver in the Series instead of Lou. (Wow I never thought I'd be begging for more Brenly...)

So your statement is that the 03' Cubs, mid-90s Yanks, 03' Fish, and 04' Red Sox succesful playoff runs did not rely on or have anything to do with very good pitching and nearly error-free defense. I am sorry, but if that is your point, than I completely disagree. No, I'm not saying that they didn't do any of those things. I specifically mentioned before that quote that I was talking about Guillen's out-wasting antics on offense. Smartball is stupid, and I hate that it's receiving praise for relying on an unreal pitching staff to have success. For all the BS about smart ball, the Sox have SEVEN fifteen home run hitters this season. Is that small ball?

I'll be at the ND/BYU game. It's going to be really boring, quiet and probably overall sad after the events of last week.

My current away message says: Congratulations on the White Sox winning the 2005 AL pennant. Now don't say a word to me about it or I'll punch you in the face.

06- Indians. Keep with the AL trend. EDIT: So their WS-victory streak isn't as long as the two Soxes and the White Sox haven't won it all yet, but details... His point was that the three longest WS droughts possibly ending in reverse order. But it's not going to happen. I don't believe in destiny at least where sports are concerned, and I don't think the Cubs will win it all next year, and unless we have a great offseason this year we won't win it in 07 either, making the drought a century. I love this team and I'd never stop being a Cub fan... but... it's just hard sometimes. Like now.

May said ND would start 0-6. Of course he would say that it wasn't the best game of the year. He's got to cover his own stupid ass. I was there. It was the best college football game at the very least since ND/Miami 1988. In doubt the entire time, great plays made by great players everywhere. Leinart didn't look solid but he made the one great throw that he had to make on a 4th and nine...on which the stadium was louder than I have ever heard it, including when Shane Walton picked the game winner against UM three yrs ago, which I also saw. What you saw was two great teams out on the field, including four of the ten best players in the country in Brady Quinn, Jeff Samardzija, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush. Bush won himself a Heisman on Saturday running for 160 yards and 3 touchdowns. The Leinart fumble call was the correct call but it the refs screwed it up. They were focusing on where to spot the ball and let the clock run down letting the ND students think the Irish had won. The first priority in that situation is making sure the clock is correct first. That was mismanagement on the refs' part. You want a prediction? This will be the last game Notre Dame loses until the fall of 2007. The replay showed the refs signaling to stop the clock as soon as the ball went out of bounds. The person who runs the clock made the mistake, the refs did it correctly on the field. One thing that is really starting to upset me is people saying ND got screwed by the non-call on the last play of the game. This game was too good and both teams played too well to have it negated by people blaming the result on a missed call. Did you watch gameday at all. I thought that was awesome. It doesn't compare to being in the stadium, of course but it was cool to see. I have never heard the stadium that loud-ever. I don't remember the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of ND did nothing to impress him, they still are just an average team who hasn't beat a team with a winning record (guess Michigan doesn't count), and they should not be considered amongst the top programs in the nation. He also said that the game was not that good, and ND lost, just like he said they would. Holtz and Davis were just laughing the whole time May talked. I really don't hate many people, but Mark May is one of them. Holtz also asked him if he had ever been whipped by a 5'10" 150 lb. old man. I was there on Gameday. I watched everything and the place exploded when Kirk picked us. Lee got soundly booed -- him, Mark May and former ESPN employee Trev Alberts must be buddies who just sit around trashing the Irish. The stadium has never been that loud. I've been to eighteen Notre Dame home games, twelve wins, all six home games of the Return to Glory season, a bunch of great comeback wins, an overtime win, and it has never once been as loud as it was Saturday. I may not even have my voice all the way back by the time I go to the BYU game this Saturday (which will probably be just as boring, not to mention cold, as the 2002 Rutgers game in terms of the all-around sense of disappointment that will probably be around the campus). I lost all respect for Mark May when he made the argument that ND wasn't worth anything because Pitt lost to Ohio. Then when ND was 2-0 going into the MSU game, he predicted they'd be 3-2 after five, after already being wrong about ND being 0-6. May is an idiot, plain and simple. You've gotta love those anti-ND fans who can never accept when we're actually good. Credit ESPN with hiring guys like Digger Phelps and Lou Holtz to offset the ND hatred that literally oozes from some of the on-air employees there.

I'm not watching the Series unless the Sox are down to the ninth inning and are about to be eliminated. I won't be able to stand watching their bandwagon fans and the stupid talk about Shoeless Joe and how good their starting rotation is when ours is better as long as we aren't taking line drives off the elbow...this is terrible. If the Sox win it all, I don't know what I will do.

Thank you! I was wondering if I was the only one who could have given two sh*ts about the Sox in 2003. I was concerned with what might happen in the Series or how it would feel if the Cubs actually did pull it off.

No, because bad luck doesn't happen to this team. It hasn't all year and it isn't going to now. The Sox will probably just throw four more complete games and sweep HOU/STL.

It's not good for the city if the Sox win. It's good for the 10 percent of the city that likes the South Siders, but it isn't good for the city as a whole. The Sox are a good team. They earned it. But I'm still rooting against them no matter who wins the NLCS. And I'm probably not watching the Series. Because I know the Sox will win and I won't be able to watch them break the Chicago drought first.

Holy crap, for the second time in three years, MLB has announced a blackout in the middle of the playoffs. The season is over. I can't believe it.

Because the umpires of the ALCS are doing just a dandy, quality job. :roll: I don't know why I'm still watching.. After Game 2, I expected the Halos to be getting every make up call in the book and the Sox to be hosed the rest of the series. Instead the umps have been squeezing Angel pitchers and giving the Sox any strike zone they want. Typical White Sox. The umps help them out then decide they haven't done enough.

May said ND would start 0-6. Of course he would say that it wasn't the best game of the year. He's got to cover his own stupid ass. I was there. It was the best college football game at the very least since ND/Miami 1988. In doubt the entire time, great plays made by great players everywhere. Leinart didn't look solid but he made the one great throw that he had to make on a 4th and nine...on which the stadium was louder than I have ever heard it, including when Shane Walton picked the game winner against UM three yrs ago, which I also saw. What you saw was two great teams out on the field, including four of the ten best players in the country in Brady Quinn, Jeff Samardzija, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush. Bush won himself a Heisman on Saturday running for 160 yards and 3 touchdowns. The Leinart fumble call was the correct call but it the refs screwed it up. They were focusing on where to spot the ball and let the clock run down letting the ND students think the Irish had won. The first priority in that situation is making sure the clock is correct first. That was mismanagement on the refs' part. You want a prediction? This will be the last game Notre Dame loses until the fall of 2007.

Vince Young has thrown for over 600 yards fewer than Brady Quinn and Matt Leinart, and he has rushed for 377 yards -- not enough, IMO, to make up for the spectacular differential (120 yards a game!!) in passing yards, especially since Brady Quinn has himself rushed for over a hundred yards this season, and also since Brady has put up his numbers against much better defensive competition. I think Vince is a great QB, but due to Media Michael Vick Syndrome, Young is getting more pub than he probably deserves.

I'm more interested to see the reaction to a certain White Sox catcher.

Wow I didn't think they were that close either. Whoever wins tomorrow's game instantly becomes the front runner for the Heisman. If the Irish win Saturday, it's more than possible that Brady Quinn will be a Heisman winner with UT as the only remaining tough game on the slate. He came into the season as a sub-.500 quarterback. Such is the Weis influence.

I am pretty neutral but if you make me pick one I will take the Cardinals just because STL is a better baseball town than Houston.

He would have been up in July because he was the best batter to call up. We still wouldn't have seen Greenberg in the bigs if it weren't for Pie's injury. After all how is Pie ever going to become a decent major leaguer if he never plays in the bigs??

I think that was game 4, which we lost anyway. We actually won Game 4, and I think that was the Lofton catch game because didn't Ramirez hit the grand slam a short time later? Ramirez hit his Grand Slam in like the second inning of an earlier game I thought. I'm positive the Grand Slam was in Florida, and I think that Lofton's catch was back in Chicago. You guys are thinking of game 4 of the NLCS, not the NLDS. Lofton's trap catch was in Chicago against Atlanta, and it was in game 4. ARam's grand slam was in the 1st inning of Game 4 of the NLCS off of Willis. Correct. Aram's bomb gave us the lead we would need for a 3-1 series advantage against the Marlins. Then the playoffs were cancelled for the year. Yes, Yes, I remember that quite clearly now. Thanks for helping me get everything straight. Too bad the playoffs were cancelled we had a good shot at winning it all too...

I think that was game 4, which we lost anyway. We actually won Game 4, and I think that was the Lofton catch game because didn't Ramirez hit the grand slam a short time later? Ramirez hit his Grand Slam in like the second inning of an earlier game I thought. I'm positive the Grand Slam was in Florida, and I think that Lofton's catch was back in Chicago. I think Ramirez's GS was in Game 4...I'd have to look it up though. Unless someone happens to remember which game D-Train started because that's who he hit it off of. Lofton's catch, I think you are right...might have been Game 2, which we won...or it might have even been early in Game 6...I don't really remember.

I think that was game 4, which we lost anyway. We actually won Game 4, and I think that was the Lofton catch game because didn't Ramirez hit the grand slam a short time later?

Calls being the key word. Again....the ball was rolled BEFORE the ump put his hand up. And again, if he hadn't put his hand up there would have been plenty of time for Escobar to throw the runner out. And as Tim pointed out, in a raucous playoff atmosphere stadium, the signal trumps the verbal call, and the signal was clearly out. If it was so loud why did the pitcher and manager of the Angels say they heard the ump say the batter was out? It's not just the umps that are contradicting themselves. Escobar and Scioscia both said the ump called the batter out, but I think they are just referring to the signal. Scioscia especially would have no chance to hear the ump say anything. Neither one of them heard anything but they saw something. The fist that meant Classless One was out.