The Yankees Lose!

[Valen]

[quote:81d9309fcc]How many of the great yankees won only one world series?[/quote:81d9309fcc]
Don Mattingly wants to know if you have anything better to talk about.

I was disappointed to see the Tigers win. Beating them with Verlander will be a much tougher assignment than beating the yankees would have been. A repeat trip to the world series just got a bit rockier. :lol:

[macnole]

[quote:38df013598="treyomo"][quote:38df013598="macnole"]Any season where the Red Sox miss the playoffs is still a great season ;)
Good job to the Tigers. I guess you [i:38df013598]can[/i:38df013598] win with a 4 range at ss...[/quote:38df013598]

We'll see if the Brewers can advance with a 5 at SS. My buddies and I invented a drinking game for Brewers fans:

- Take a drink for every pop up (fair or foul) Betancourt hits
- Take two drinks for every Betancourt first pitch out
- Take 3 drinks for every Betancourt first pitch pop out
- Take a drink for every Carlos Gomez overswing
- One drink for every Casey Mcgehee weak ground ball
- Two drinks for every Casey Mcgehee weak ground ball double play
- One drink for every Corey Hart feeble swing at a low outside breaking pitch

We had to stop after the 4th inning.[/quote:38df013598]
:lol:

[macnole]

[quote:fca8f9ffd9="djmacb"][quote:fca8f9ffd9="macnole"]You have to admit this is funny:
All in good fun--Detroit really doesn't have that kind of baseball rivalry so maybe this is foreign. New Yorkers have this relationship and it's normal.
:)[/quote:fca8f9ffd9]
Yep, only New Yorkers know about rivalries. Michigan-Ohio State and Red Wings-Avalanche in the '90s-'00s were nothing.

Awaiting your next bitter-Yankee-fan patronizing response.[/quote:fca8f9ffd9]

Once again, I was responding to being called a monomaniac for being happy the BoSox lost and being told that was not right.

So I dont know if that's patronizing, and trust me there's no bitterness (which I think is what bothers people), but to quote a guy not so well known for smart quotes:
"they drew first blood.. not me."

cheers

[macnole]

[quote:fe6d21f733="Valen"][quote:fe6d21f733]How many of the great yankees won only one world series?[/quote:fe6d21f733]
Don Mattingly wants to know if you have anything better to talk about.

I was disappointed to see the Tigers win. Beating them with Verlander will be a much tougher assignment than beating the yankees would have been. A repeat trip to the world series just got a bit rockier. :lol:[/quote:fe6d21f733]

It's true. And Mattingly should have been the skip. That was a slap to a great professional.

The Tigers will be tougher because of their starting staff. Yanks bullpen was better in the middle innings because they had to be, since they only had one big horse. But the Tigers are in great shape there and are built to do well in this scenario with Benoit/Valverde.

[Hack Wilson]

Thank God both the Yankees and the Red Sox are out of it. :D

[JohnnyBlazers]

Im a Yankees fan and the truth is they overachieved this year with that pitching staff - but Im a baseball fan first and it's great to see teams like Detroit with a passionate fan base move on. How can you not root for a Don Kelly or admire the brilliance of a Verlander or how Leyland outmanaged Girardi? The Cards have a great baseball tradition and Carpenter threw one for the ages last night. The D Backs played their hearts outJ and the Brewers haven't won anything since Harveys Wallbangers-great drama. Just like in Strat, the playoffs are a crapshoot at best - anything can happen

[PotKettleBlack]

Tips cap to Detroit.

Yankees out scored you massively in the series, but you won all the close ones.

Your manager had class in all of his comments. I liked that winning it at Yankee stadium meant a lot to him, not out of hate but out of respect.

I want you to beat Texas.

-Third Gen Yankee Fan

[PotKettleBlack]

[quote:4878450822="hack wilson"]Thank God both the Yankees and the Red Sox are out of it. :D[/quote:4878450822]

I gather you don't work for Turner or Fox.

No AL East team in the ALCS. Two NL Central Teams.
AL East widely considered best division.
NL Central widely considered mediocre.

[gkhd11a]

[quote:0c7a60c971="macnole"]Well the facts over his postseason career say otherwise. 282/389/506 is a pretty good BA/OB/SLG line and he had a monster 2009. He was injured much of the year.

Tonight they didnt execute--includes Cano, Tex, Jete, etc. The beauty of baseball is on any given night, that can happen.

Not so much in other sports--a physically overmatched team typically loses.[/quote:0c7a60c971]

You take 2009 playoffs away from AROD and his playoff OPS, which even with that is 100 pts under his regular season average, would be about 200 pts under his OPS. He has hit under .200 in 4 series - 2005, 2006 2010 2011 that they have lost so it is pretty hard to call him anything but lucky for his performance in 2009 which is a postseason outlier for him. And I could care less about the Yankees one way or the other.

Actually in Chicago we have a player this year who looked like AROD in the playoffs all year long - Adam Dunn

[PotKettleBlack]

[quote:58d29ac7be="gkhd11a"]Actually in Chicago we have a player this year who looked like AROD in the playoffs all year long - Adam Dunn[/quote:58d29ac7be]

Everytime I hear about offense being down across baseball this year, I have to ask: Did they remove Dunn's drop off from the model, and if they did, would it look better for hitters?

I don't care what it costs, but ARod and Kate Hudson need to get back together. Yankees should have given her a playoff share in 2009 for keeping ARod head in the right place. Seriously, a Kate Hudson dating ARod is worth the money and more.