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  1. UMFan83
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qp8jhJSka0E/TZSmpMYr8MI/AAAAAAAACT8/AvaiA0KIVOo/s1600/red%2Bsox%2Bbest%2Bteam%2Bin%2Bbaseball%2B2011.jpg
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    Can you believe how quickly the AL Wild Card swung? At 10:54 CST, the Red Sox were up 3-2 with 2 outs in the 9th and no one on, and the Yankees had runners on 1st and 3rd with 0 outs in Tampa. The Wild Card looked to be Boston's. At 10:55 the runner on 3rd for the Yankees is caught off the bag and tagged out. By 10:59, the Rays got out of the inning and the Orioles had tied the game. At 11:02, the Orioles win on a walkoff hit. At 11:06, Longoria hits a walkoff and the Rays win the Wild Card. 12 minutes. It took 12 minutes for the entire season to shift for 2 teams.
  3. UMFan83
    Dan Plesac says the 8 teams in the playoffs played the best in September. I seem to remember a 1-9 Phillies run in September.
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    haha, that's like the greatest graph in history. grahpical porn
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    Agreed. They did a really good job with all the back and forth drama.
  6. UMFan83
    wow...Rays win the Wild Card
  7. UMFan83
    This is like the first round of the NCAA Tournament but for baseball
  8. UMFan83
    WOW!!!! RED SOX LOSE PAPELBON BLOWS THE SEASON
  9. UMFan83
    WOW another game tying hit with 2 outs and 2 strikes!
  10. UMFan83
    [expletive] now the Rays are about to blow it. What a depressing day of baseball. 2 straight years we have fantastic odds of seeing a one game playoff and we might not end up having one.
  11. UMFan83
    Dammit, way too much swinging in 3 ball counts
  12. UMFan83
    Dammit, way too much swinging in 3 ball counts
  13. UMFan83
    Pujols will definitely stay now
  14. UMFan83
    [expletive] you Carlos Marmol....why'd you have to blow that game?
  15. UMFan83
    [expletive] you braves....[expletive] you
  16. UMFan83
    Atlanta: http://www.sportsclubstats.com/MLB/National/NLEastern/Atlanta_ChanceWillMakePlayoffs.html 99.64% on August 25th Boston: http://www.sportsclubstats.com/MLB/American/ALEastern/Boston_ChanceWillMakePlayoffs.html Strangely enough, Boston's chances also peaked on the same day, when they hit 99.90% on August 25th.
  17. UMFan83
    I highly doubt the Sox will trade for Chen. Here is why. He is a FA after the season, and projects as a type B FA, the kind of FA compensation that the Royals should thrive on acquiring. So the Royals would probably require something better than a type B compensation pick. For the Red Sox, they would have to decide to give up that much for a player that would not be eligible for the postseason. Further complicating things, Chen is scheduled to start tonight meaning that the Red Sox would need to acquire him in a matter of hours, without knowing if they would even be playing a 1 game playoff. If they acquire him and don't have a 1 game playoff tomorrow, they would never actually get to use him.
  18. UMFan83
    I dont think they were going to fire him. JR would have been content for him to play out his contract next year and then going a different direction. But Ozzie forced his hand when he demanded an extension, which likely was only done because he wanted to go to Florida.
  19. UMFan83
    I have this strange feeling that he won't be fired.
  20. UMFan83
    Don't forget his Baker-esque 'gotta play my vets' attitude during August and September.
  21. UMFan83
    At the time I thought it was, and even subsequent replays look like it could be fan interference, but at the same time I don't think you could conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that it was fan interference. Its close enough that I don't mind that it wasn't called that. I mean I would have loved for it to have been called fan interference, but I'm not angry at that call.
  22. UMFan83
    I think that mindset is completely outdated. You win through the air. There is no point in running when you can't and are down big. It would be nice to have a better running game, but the problem is not that they aren't calling for it enough. It's that they aren't good enough. Yeah but they also are not a good enough team to pass 40 times a game either. They don't have a line that can block a 3-4 man rush long enough and they don't have receivers that can consistantly get open when the defense is dropping 7-8 back. You can point out that the Bears moved the ball by passing the last 2 games but at the end of the day the ended up with 13 and 17 points scored. It's my opinion that the Bears NEED at least some balance if they are to have any shot at a coherent offense. If the opponents drop back 7 guys every play because the Bears are that predictable on offense they are going to have trouble scoring points, especially when the field shortens in the red zone.
  23. UMFan83
    so the 1st 10 minutes and 5 minutes toward the end is almost half? The director grew up a Red Sox fan, and the scapegoating ties between Buckner and Bartman is what interested him in the project.
  24. UMFan83
    A lack of care plus basic human kindness. What're they gonna say anyway? "I work with Steve Bartman. We file papers together and stuff. He's really nice. He was once part of a group of people who failed to pull in a foul ball in an important baseball game, if you aren't aware." Well yeah. Steve Bartman is almost a mythical figure now seeing as there is almost no information on Steve Bartman anywhere on the internet, despite everyone wanting to hear the guys story, or hear what he's been doing since that day, etc. You'd think someone would have an encounter, however minor, with Bartman and snap a cell phone picture or write about the encounter and it would pop up online. A site like Deadspin thrives on exposing stuff like this and even they could only get a 15 year old picture of his face. Although, I do have to reconsider whether I'm overreacting to how much people want to hear from this guy when I post about this on here and read 2 different poster's first or second hand stories about him in an hour.
  25. UMFan83
    Also, I completely respect Steve for how he handled the situation once he left Wrigley, but at the same time I wonder about whether the "Steve Bartman play" would have the same mistique if somewhere around the way Bartman caved and went on TV to talk about it. If he had an interview where he told the world everything about him and who he is and how the play happened, I am not sure ESPN has the same obsession with writing about him. I'm sure there would still be an emphasis on the "Bartman play" and how it effeted the Cubs chances of winning but it wouldn't be nearly as big of a deal as it is now.
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