2008 World Series Thread

[Cocos Disciples]

Contrary to popular belief, there is still baseball being played. Not watching tonight (concert), but I'll definitely tune in to every other game I can.

 

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2008 MLB World Series

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:LuyIcF0iZy-dkM:http://www.allphiladelphiasports.com/buddy_icons/phillies/phillies2.jpgPhiladelphia Philles vs http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:HyUCWbJl22p1cM:http://assets.espn.go.com/i/teamlogos/mlb/sml/tam.gifTampa Bay Rays

 

World Series Schedule

Game =||= Matchup =||= Day =||= Date =||= Probable Pitchers (PHILLIES LEAD 2-1)

Gm 1 Philadelphia Phillies @ Tampa Bay Rays Wed Oct. 22 Cole Hamels (14-10, 3.09) vs. Scott Kazmir (12-8, 3.49)PHILLIES WIN 3-2

Gm 2 Philadelphia Phillies @ Tampa Bay Rays Thu Oct. 23 Brett Myers (10-13, 4.55) vs. James Shields (14-8, 3.56)RAYS WIN 4-2

Gm 3 Tampa Bay Rays @ Philadelphia Phillies Sat Oct. 25 Matt Garza (11-9, 3.70) vs. Jamie Moyer (16-7, 3.71)PHILLIES WIN 5-4

Gm 4 Tampa Bay Rays @ Philadelphia Phillies Sun Oct. 26 Andy Sonnanstine (13-9, 4.38) vs. Joe Blanton (9-12, 4.69)

Gm 5* Tampa Bay Rays @ Philadelphia Phillies Mon Oct. 27 TBD

Gm 6* Philadelphia Phillies @ Tampa Bay Rays Wed Oct. 29 TBD

Gm 7* Philadelphia Phillies @ Tampa Bay Rays Thu Oct. 30 TBD

[TheKilo]

Rays in 6.

[msubulldogs21]

Rays in 5.

 

Just curious, but who is everyone pulling for?

[See Red]

Phillies.

 

I'll side with the fans who've waited 25 years to see their city win a championship over the fans who've been fans since June.

[dreilly]

Phillies.

 

I'll side with the fans who've waited 25 years to see their city win a championship over the fans who've been fans since June.

 

Ditto that.

[Jasonbay44]

2-0 Phillie's on Utley home run.

[msubulldogs21]

Missed opportunity for the Rays there. Upton just hit into a DP with the bases loaded, his second of the game.

[Jasonbay44]

Nevermind

[Dojji]

Yeah, here they come back again.

[Dojji]

And that is why I'm glad of Youkilis.

 

EDIT: Heh. Erased.

[Cocos Disciples]

BTW, I had Rays in 5 before today.

[Dojji]

Probably still happen. If it wasn't for the prestige that Kazmir has from times when he was the only brightspot on horrible Devil Rays teams he'd probably be their playoff #4.

[ORS]

Phillies in 5. Game 1 went as expected. I think Shields gets torched tonight. He's proned to giving up the long ball, his one weakness as a pitcher, and Philly has 5 or 6 guys with 30 HR power. Moyer loses to Garza. Blanton beats Sonnanstine in a matchup that will have both sides screaming, "How the f*** does this guy get by with that slop?!?" Hamels, wash, rinse, repeat.

[Dojji]

Phillies took their best shot tonight and I'm not sure the Rays did. I'm not convinced that 2-3-4 in the Philly rotation stacks up against the Rays 2-3-4.

[ORS]

Took their best shot? Their 1-5 hitters went 4/20 to the Rays 3/20. Philly can do more, much more, than what they did last night. They just had one of the big hitters going. Speaking of which, Tampa has cooled off drastically. I think, more than anything, it was the timing of their hot hitting that undid the Red Sox. What was it, 17 homers in 7 games? That's a 390+ homer pace over 162 games. Twice as much as what can be considered a very good year for a team. And if they happen to turn it back on, Philly is one of the teams that could hang with them in a HR derby.

 

Myers / Shields is really a toss up, IMO. Myers started the year awful, but pitched to a 3.06 after the break (when he started seeing a sports psychologist). "Big Game" James will give up the tater. This will plague him his whole career with that flat fastball. Given Myers early season struggles, I could see someone awarding Tampa an advantage here, but I'm not buying. Only game 3 is a clear cut Tampa advantage. Garza is better than Moyer. I don't see how, however, anyone can call Sonnanstine vs Blanton a matchup that favors Tampa. Sonnanstine is Blanton (and Finkle is Einhorn and Einhorn is Finkle). They are the same guy who goes out there with a bucket and rosary beads. Toss up some slop, pray it's hit at a fielder.

[jacksonianmarch]

I'll take Hamels over nearly anyone in the series. But the Shields, Garza, Sonnanstine is stronger than Myers, Moyer, Blanton IMO. I have a feeling this one makes it back to Tampa at the very least.

[soxfan17881]

I said Philly in 6 the other night, so I'll stick with that prediction.

[redsoxrules]

Philly in 5 .

[riverside sluggers]

Alright Phillies! That duo of Madson/Lidge at the end of the game is money

 

Games 2-4 do go Tampa's way in terms of pitching matchups. But saying Phillies in 6, they really need Rollins and Howard to get going

[redsoxrules]

The Phils went down 1-2-3 in the first but managed to make Shields throw 19 pitches

[Cocos Disciples]

I got the Rays winning the next 3 games.

[redsoxrules]

Nice going Werth , you just cost your team 2 Runs . it should be 0-0

 

2-0 Rays after 1

[Cocos Disciples]

Shouldn't these home plate umpires know what to do by now? He just rung Baldelli up then went to 1st for the appeal, and it was overturned.

[Gom]

Terrible call by the umpire.

[ORS]

And then he goes and dances a little jig while calling Baldelli out at home. f***in' cockbiter, it's that "look, I'm part of the show too" attitude that has resulted in so much poor officiating in the first place, IMO.

[Cocos Disciples]

Rays are pretty much doing everything right tonight. Up 4-0 in the middle of the 5th, looks like they'll probably even the series.

[BoSox21]

Maddon is a pretty cocky bastard to pull Shields after 80 pitches

[See Red]

How does Kerwin Danley get to umpire the World Series?

 

And how did he miss that ball catching Rollins' jersey?

[riverside sluggers]

Danley has no business calling such big games. He missed 2 calls, Rollins's uniform getting grazed, and Baldelli's AB where he raised his arm to call a strike on the 3-2 count (Baldelli obviously swung)... then pointed down to first base

[Cocos Disciples]

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