I Think Its Better To Win The Wild Card

[Tek04]

We would play oakland, who, i think, would be an easier team than minnesota

[yeszir]

Originally posted by Tek04@Sep 17 2004, 11:13 PM

We would play oakland, who, i think, would be an easier team than minnesota

Or Anaheim, since they face each other so much. I can't decide between homefield advantage or playing easier teams though.

 

I think its win-win. I'll take either one.

[nobeljeff]

if Minn. has better record, they have home park edge, vs. :thumbsup: the wild-card team.

 

We must , and now probably will, catch Yanks

[mosox]

This is very good point to be raised. By winning the division the Sox would face Santana twice in a short series. On the other hand with the wild card they lose home field advantage against Oakland, but they've hit Zito pretty well and Mulder is not the pitcher he was last year. Still, I think the only thing you can do is win as many games as you can and that means going for the AL East title.

[noonanberg]

Either way it will be a tough first round.

 

If we play Oakland we see a Cy Young candidate, a former Cy Young winner and a hard throwing righty (Harden). On top of that the A's have a gritty batting order who will make us work to get them out. Let's also not forget they'll be looking for some revenge.

 

If we play Minnesota we'll face the likely Cy Young winner and AL strikeout leader. Their pitching drops off after that though. But they also have a better lineup than Oakland and are a very good fielding team too.

 

If by chance Anaheim becomes are foe we will have a struggling, but still pretty good Colon and a strong bullpen. We will also face a strong lineup lead by Guerrero who has had some success against us this year.

 

The road to glory is never easy. And it certainly won't be this year

[stocker323]

Minnesota right now has the better record. But home-field advantage would be huge, not just for the division series but possibly for the ALCS.

[ahhchon]

i would MUCH MUCH rather face minnesota than oakland, are you kidding me? mulder, hudson, zito, harden. my god that is scary. i don't care how bad of a year zito is having, i'm sure he's capable of holding his own in the ALDS.

 

minnesota has santana and radke, their starting rotation after that is questionable. radke if not on his game will get ruined by the sox. i also feel that the twins lineup is not as strong as the a's lineup.

 

john

[yankeehater]

yeah i agree i would rather play minnesota than oakland. oakland is jus way to strong with thier rotation and thier due to win a series with all that talent they have (mulder,hudson,zito,redman,harden) taht is pretty tough

[empirestrikesback26]

Originally posted by yankeehater@Sep 18 2004, 05:56 PM

yeah i agree i would rather play minnesota than oakland. oakland is jus way to strong with thier rotation and thier due to win a series with all that talent they have (mulder,hudson,zito,redman,harden) taht is pretty tough

They re called the chokeland athletics for a reason. The yankees have beaten them.

[yankeehater]

the yankees wont this year especialy with ur awful pitching staff if leiber is considered good ur post season isnt gonna be long :harhar:

[empirestrikesback26]

I guess you ve never heard of el deque or moose.

[yankeehater]

el duque is even taht good the red sox would have nocked him out of the game earlier if they had some luck with their foul homeruns and mussina aint that good anymore

[Bren25x]

i would much rather play oakland instead of minnesota. Santana will go twice, Radke is a good #2. They play at the dome which is as good a home field as anywhere, and they don't give away outs. They havea very good bullpen. Whoever gets the Twins IT IS NO PUSHOVER.

 

Boston owns oakland. oakland cannot figure them out. we nullify the rotation by shutting down their offense, and get to their bullpen early they are screwed. they cant hit iwth us...just look at the last 8 or 9 times weve played them...very one sided.

[yankeehater]

i would still rather hav minnesota and it mean swe would win the division :thumbsup:

[empirestrikesback26]

and then you would get knocked out first round. Whats more imortant..winnnig the division and losing first round, or getting the wildcard and getting farther in the playoffs?

[Bren25x]

actually right now the winner of the al east will host oakland...as of now

[empirestrikesback26]

what? I thought it was the twins?

[stocker323]

Minnesota has a better record right now than Oakland so they'll face the wild card winner.

[empirestrikesback26]

Oh, keep it twinkies!

[yankeehater]

i hope u guys get the A's cuz there pitching will destroy u

[Yankeefan04]

Originally posted by yankeehater@Sep 19 2004, 07:58 AM

i hope u guys get the A's cuz there pitching will destroy u

Not true. We jumped on them last time. But with Mulder all we did was get into the pen and hit 2 homers off of Dotel .

[yankeehater]

so its a different day and that means yankees get elimated in the 1st round :harhar:

[Yankeefan04]

Originally posted by yankeehater@Sep 19 2004, 08:17 AM

so its a different day and that means yankees get elimated in the 1st round :harhar:

Nope not this year. Our team woke up after the 22-0 loss. Right now were rolling and the 14-4 loss was sweet aswell :harhar:. By the way your avatar isn't working.

[yankeehater]

yeah i know y is that?? did i do sumtin wrong?

[Yankeefan04]

Im not sure you might need to ask the admin yeszir right?

[Yankeefan04]

Originally posted by yankeehater@Sep 19 2004, 08:26 AM

yeah i know y is that?? did i do sumtin wrong?

I think I see it now. I went to properties and it showed that you had a / in jpg or whatever try getting rid of the / and then try it.

[yankeehater]

ok so try it again?

[Yankeefan04]

Originally posted by yankeehater@Sep 19 2004, 08:32 AM

ok so try it again?

Ya see if it works.

[yankeehater]

how do i get that url code?

[Yankeefan04]

You right click the picture, go to properties and highlight the url. It might not work the message board might only take a certian format of picture.