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[SoxSport]

It's more than luck or short series. It's which teams are hot the last two weeks. A hot team which just makes a wildacard the last few days is very dangerous. Like the Cardinals or the Rays. the Rays almost beat the Rangers, and won the first game in Texas about 10-0.

 

When your hot, the ball bounces for you.

 

The best a manager can do whose team has sewed it up the last month (like the Phillies) is to make sure his veterans and walking wounded are rested. And pay no attention to anything else. That means games with teams contending for a wildcard.

[a700hitter]

It's more than luck or short series. It's which teams are hot the last two weeks. A hot team which just makes a wildacard the last few days is very dangerous. Like the Cardinals or the Rays. the Rays almost beat the Rangers, and won the first game in Texas about 10-0.

 

When your hot, the ball bounces for you.

 

The best a manager can do whose team has sewed it up the last month (like the Phillies) is to make sure his veterans and walking wounded are rested. And pay no attention to anything else. That means games with teams contending for a wildcard.

i've discussed that both the Tiger and the Rangers made some very key valuable acquisitions at the trading deadline. Similarly the Brewers and the cards made key acquisitions.

 

Brewers: KRod and Jerry Hairston

Cards: Edwin Jackson, Dotel, and Furcal

 

The remaining four teams reinforced their rosters. It's no accident that they are where they are.

[OriginalUsername]

It's more than luck or short series. It's which teams are hot the last two weeks. A hot team which just makes a wildacard the last few days is very dangerous. Like the Cardinals or the Rays. the Rays almost beat the Rangers, and won the first game in Texas about 10-0.

 

When your hot, the ball bounces for you.

 

The best a manager can do whose team has sewed it up the last month (like the Phillies) is to make sure his veterans and walking wounded are rested. And pay no attention to anything else. That means games with teams contending for a wildcard.

 

The Tigers in 2006 blew the division on the final day and won the Wild Card and were slumping and yet still beat the Yankees. The Twins in 2009 finished 22-4 and yet were swept by the Yankees. We get it. Whenever the Yankees get beat in the playoffs it's bad luck, or bad format, or whatever. The excuses for the Yankees are a mile long.

[SoxSport]

The Tigers in 2006 blew the division on the final day and won the Wild Card and were slumping and yet still beat the Yankees. The Twins in 2009 finished 22-4 and yet were swept by the Yankees. We get it. Whenever the Yankees get beat in the playoffs it's bad luck' date=' or bad format, or whatever. The excuses for the Yankees are a mile long.[/quote']

 

The hot team last year was the Giants. They went all the way. This year, nothing.

 

I think the 5 game series really throws it up for grabs. A lot of teams which didn't make the playoffs could win a 5 game series against any of the playoff teams.

[Emmz]

The Twins just s*** themselves when they face the Yankees. There are lots of epic battles that go extras or whatever, but then Gardy puts in some guy who has a ERA in the double-digits to face A-Rod and Tex. Wasn't Guerrier's line vs A-Rod and Tex like 8/12 with like 6 home runs or some s***? I've never seen one team bully another team for years and years, but even since I've watched the games, I've seen the Twins beat the Yankees maybe 10 times. Like once per year maybe, usually they get swept.

[a700hitter]

The Twins just s*** themselves when they face the Yankees. There are lots of epic battles that go extras or whatever' date=' but then Gardy puts in some guy who has a ERA in the double-digits to face A-Rod and Tex. Wasn't Guerrier's line vs A-Rod and Tex like 8/12 with like 6 home runs or some s***? I've never seen one team bully another team for years and years, but even since I've watched the games, I've seen the Twins beat the Yankees maybe 10 times. Like once per year maybe, usually they get swept.[/quote']Gardenhire always manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Twins-Yanks games alway follow the same script. The Twins lead after 5 or 6 innins and trhen Gardenhire starts mixing and matching out of the bullpen until he finds some combination to blow the game. I won't watch them play anymore, because it is like watching a bad movie over and over hoping that the end changes.