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  1. Sammys Boombox
    The NFL is a sham this season. Replacements or not. Packers get screwed. AGAIN!
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    The Packers should be a 4-1 team. The officials have made them a 2-3 team and very nearly a 1-4 team. The NFL sucks.
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    I agree with you other than the replay decision. That was an easy overturn. The PI was either offensive or neither because of an uncatchable ball (not defensive like it was called), and the unnecessary roughness has a chance of being the right call, but very likely wasn't. The ball can touch the ground if the player has control and keeps control. He did.
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    Third week in a row the Packers have been screwed. Ridiculous unnecessary roughness negates a fumble on the IND 12, ridiculous PI leads to points for IND, bad replay decision negates a Packers INT and leads to IND points.
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    2 runs on 0 hits. Not surprised.
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    I think I would have left Latos in the game there.
  7. Sammys Boombox
    Speaking of, where is Harden these days?? Is he officially out of baseball? Or is he hurt again trying to come back? I think he's a rehabbing FA this year from what I could find online.
  8. Sammys Boombox
    Scheduling postseason games so they don't overlap causes ridiculous start/end times for some teams, but the new format has the potential to make it worse (and has this season). Any time you have 5 ET teams in the playoffs and one in each LDS it's going to cause problems, but now both of the ET/PT matchups are on the same dates. In years past they would have scheduled so that did not happen, but now the format is locked in because of the Wild Card game. Now you have 9:30 pm start times for the Reds and 9:00 am start times for the A's. I would imagine the worst case scenario would be for both central division champs to be in the ET and the WC winners and West division champs be in the PT. could you imagine them trying to schedule 4 ET/PT series at once?
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    This is my biggest beef. I don't think it should have been implemented this year because they didn't have time to do it the right way. I think at the very least it should be treated like a double-elimination tournament where the Braves would have had to win only one game and the Cardinals would have had to win two both in Atlanta. If you get a true tie like you did in the AL then it just reverts back to a one-and-done like it's always been.
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    I hate them so much that I literally can't watch any playoff game they're involved in. I don't want to see the next stupid [expletive] that will win them a game they didn't deserve. Like this one. They didn't deserve to win the game? The call was highly questionable, or perhaps flat out bad, but the Cardinals were winning by three runs....with no guarantee that the Braves score any if the infield fly wasn't called. By being the second WC, I can buy that the Cards don't deserve to be in the playoffs....but they played better than the other team in the wildcard game and deserved to win. The cards are still 5 back after last night, this whole thing is a joke. But, Selig will get applauded for it. We need more wild cards. That way we can get a sub .500 champ soon. The debate's been had. I prefer 4 teams but would be happy with 6. I hate 5.
  11. Sammys Boombox
    I have never seen 6.05(l) invoked and hope I never do: Basically, when you see the SS or 2B knock down a line drive on purpose so they can turn two, it's supposed to be a dead ball and the runners return to their bases and the batter is out and there is basically an infield fly rule with a runner just on first base or on first and third. It's tweaked a little, but the overall idea is still the same.
  12. Sammys Boombox
    This. That may be the intent, but that's not how the rule is written or practiced. In both the letter of the law and the way it is normally practiced, it was the right call. It just looked stupid as hell. By the letter of the law he had the right to make the call, just like a plate ump has the right to call a pitch 4 ft outside a strike. That doesn't make it the right call. It is not how it is normally practiced.
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    I hate them so much that I literally can't watch any playoff game they're involved in. I don't want to see the next stupid [expletive] that will win them a game they didn't deserve. Like this one. I just hate it because it sours the whole postseason for me. Not to mention, I was really looking forward to watching the Nationals in the postseason and now I don't want to watch.
  14. Sammys Boombox
    I've been in a wedding with that woman. She was a bridesmaid. I was an usher. The rehearsal was the day the Cubs traded for Grabow and Gorzelanny. She was the Pirates beat writer then. I got the story from her before it broke.
  15. Sammys Boombox
    The Cubs have won one postseason series in any of our lifetimes, including Fred. Two if you want to count the WC tiebreaker game in 1998. Today's game could be the Cardinals' 10th in the last decade. Oh, and they haven't lost 90+ since 1990, though their farm system mysteriously hasn't shriveled up and died as a result. The Cardinals have had back-to-back losing seasons once in my parents' lifetime. 1994-'95 (and '94 doesn't even really count). Before that you have to go to 1958-'59, 1954-'56, 1918-'20 and then they sucked at the beginning of the century. How is that even possible? Do you know how many different owners, GMs, styles of play, racial integration, etc. have happened over that time? 2003-'08 was probably the best stretch the Cubs have had in my grandparents' lifetimes and they had back-to-back losing season in 2005-'06. Of course, the Cardinals would have had a losing season if they were in any division but the NL Central in 2006 and they won the WS...
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    It's a Cardinals world and we're all just living in it.
  18. Sammys Boombox
    Of course they do. Looking for any excuse to end the game because their bullpen is trying to blow up. What they don't want to do is uphold a protest and make them replay the rest of the game from this spot. I guarantee you even if the play could be upheld, they won't do it because of the chaos it would cause. Oh yeah there's no way that would happen. Listening to Mike Shannon describe the whole thing was one of the most mind-numbing experiences of my life. What a moron. Yeah, and Joe Buck and Tim McCarver were wondering if they would let the Phillies win the WS on a rainout. Must be a St. Louis thing.
  19. Sammys Boombox
    As a Packers/Cubs fan if I was given the option of which one I could overturn, I would overturn this one. I can enjoy the rest of the Packers season. I can't enjoy postseason baseball when the Cardinals are still alive. Of course, ask me in 3 months when the Packers are a WC instead of a division champ because of that call and I'll give you a different answer.
  20. Sammys Boombox
    The Cubs have won one postseason series in any of our lifetimes, including Fred. Two if you want to count the WC tiebreaker game in 1998. Today's game could be the Cardinals' 10th in the last decade. Oh, and they haven't lost 90+ since 1990, though their farm system mysteriously hasn't shriveled up and died as a result. You might be mixing up cause and effect; how many inexplicable seasons were fueled in large part by unexpected contributions from their farm system? How many times did the Cards make shrewd trades because they had the pieces to offer? St. Louis hasn't exactly been a big FA market player, with most of their high profile acquisitions and central figures (McGwire, Edmonds, Rolen, Holliday, Wainwright, Mulder, Walker, Kile, Renteria, etc. etc.) coming via trade. Most of their stars (Pujols, Molina, Morris) and the cavalcade of overachieving role players came directly from the system. St. Louis has won consistently in primarily because their maintenance of their farm system enabled it. They have been a very shewd franchise that has taken a measured approach, to great success. All this is true and frustrating. They also drill holes in their opponents' gloves before playoff games.
  21. Sammys Boombox
    Free runs from sure-handed fielders. Calls that nobody else gets.
  22. Sammys Boombox
    See: Dunn, Adam. 222 K. 105 BB. Lots of pitches taken equals deep counts and lots of BB and K.
  23. Sammys Boombox
    I'd be pretty happy if the Cubs were facing a team that had to play a one game playoff (which by the way may be on the road) What if you were the 2 seed?
  24. Sammys Boombox
    I would have called myself out on the 2-3-2 format in the LCS... Although I did not state it well, my real issue is with the potential of the lower seeded team having more home games in such a short series. Home field advantage or not you all would be much more angry if this was 2008 and the Cubs were starting the first two games of the playoffs on the road.
  25. Sammys Boombox
    What do you mean you don't agree? The lower seed would have more home games in a 3-game series. That's home field advantage. It's not a 3-game series. Are you really that dense? My problem is that the lower-seeded team should never have a chance to host more games in a series (especially a short one like a 5-game series) than the higher-seeded team. It looks really bad when the higher-seeded team finished 10 games ahead of the lower-seeded team. That would be the case if the Cardinals win today. The argument was to make the division championship mean more this year, and it did in the AL. But the potential is there to take all of that away just because a team that finished much lower in the standings wins ONE game against a team other than the Nationals. The same situation stands if the Braves win. The Nationals beat them over the course of 162 and so they have to go play the first two games of a short series in Atlanta's park?
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