Youk Of The Nation
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I am completely on board with that. 7-game series are always preferable, especially between two teams like these. Both of them are so much fun to watch. Between Toronto's lineup, KC's balance between offense and pitching, and the Met's rotation and Daniel Murphy, I don't really have too much of an issue who wins the ALCS. All I know is this is the most excited I've been about a World Series without the Red Sox in it.
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I have no idea what that means. My technical knowledge with regards to how the site works is next to nil.
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Too late, I've already been to Maine and I love it. I plan to move there someday. I have to agree with the original premise of this thread, by the way. Obviously I wasn't alive to witness this series, but from everything I know it is definitely one of the best. However, I know I may be in the minority here, I think the 1991 Series is the best. Followed by 75 and then probably a bunch of others all tied for third. I wish I could put 2004 up there, but it just wasn't a great series of baseball games. The historical nature of the win is all that really distinguished it. No incredible pitching performances, extra inning games, or hard-fought, dramatic wins. Sweeps are rarely memorable as individual games. After the 2004 ALCS, the World Series was almost anticlimactic.
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Of the three teams left, I'd lean towards the Royals anyways. Besides the fact that their last championship was before either of the others (though it only preceded the Mets by one year), they also have only one, while the Jays and Mets both have two.
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You were lucky. Usually, if you're in a motel in a small Maine town that most people have never heard of, it means you're in a Stephen King novel and about to be murdered or sucked into another dimension.
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I was hoping someone else would notice this. It's beautiful, isn't it? In a revolting sort of way; like watching an autopsy or an episode of Jersey Shore.
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Seeing Bartolo Colon still pitching well, in the postseason now, just fills me with an unspeakable rage.
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I'm trying to, but when I do I start twitching and my hands seem to draw themselves towards the nearest instrument of self-destruction.
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Really grasping at straws, aren't you?
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I didn't say it was likely, I just said it would be great. Let's be honest, Mets or Yankees, do any of us really want a New York team to win the World Series?
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Wouldn't it be great if the Cubs, in the midst of their own 2004-Sox like World Series drought, came back and won 4 in a row? People would go nuts.
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Daniel Murphy is as on fire as you can be without literally being on fire. Which, I admit, would be a detriment to playing baseball. So I guess figurative is working for him.
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Yeah, they've already shown that they can win three consecutive games against a good team in the postseason, so I'm not going to count them out just yet. However, they are definitely at a disadvantage. Should be fun, though I am surprised. Between the two LCS', I was sure this would be the one to go to 7, and I figured it would be 2-2 after four.
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Toronto looked like they were running away with it, but Kansas City came close to making it a game.
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The Blue Jays have banned beer in cans in the upper decks of the Rogers Centre. Apparently due to all of the fans throwing beer cans from the upper decks when the umps ruled on that off-the-bat return throw in the DS. I would have expected more from Canadians. Hockey I understand, but I would think they'd be a little less riotous during a baseball game.
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Well, getting to the postseason is important as well. Clayton Kershaw has been basically Byun-Hung Kim in the postseason, but I'd still want him on my team.
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I've seen it, but only once. There is only so much of Jennifer Tilly's voice I can handle.
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The Royals. As I've mentioned several times before, once the Sox are out of the playoffs, I will default to whomever has the longest WS drought. I'm pulling for the Cubs to win the whole thing, but as far as the ALCS, I'd rather it be the Royals with a chance to win the WS than the Blue Jays, since the Royals' WS winless streak is almost a decade older than Toronto's.
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It's insane that McClain was never banned from baseball for running a goddamn bookmaking operation, while one of the best players in the history of the game is still being kept out of the Hall of Fame. Ted Williams himself hated McClain, yet that wasn't enough of a sign that he should be kicked out. On the other hand, the universe was so at odds with Pete Rose's ban that the vengeful hand of fate struck down Bart Giamatti a week later. READ THE SIGNS PEOPLE
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This is one of those rare instances where I can understand both points of view. Yeah, Bautista deserved that bat flip, that was a hell of a shot in a big spot. On the other hand, there has to be a classier way to bat-flip and admire a home run. He just looked like a giant douche when he did it. His body language and facial expression didn't convey "I just hit an important home run for my team! Awesome!", they said "I'ts about time I hit that, it was obviously going to happen because everyone sucks but me". He didn't even smile, he just stared out at the home run like it was a disappointing child leaving home for the first time.
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Actually, I think by all measures of offense, the 2013 Sox were even better than 03-04. And I'm not sure the Royals starters are as bad as you're making them out to be. Cueto can be shut-down, even when he's not at his best, as he proved last night.
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It should have been three. Charging that second one as a throwing error on the 1B was generous.
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That return throw glancing off of the bat was the funniest thing I've ever seen, especially the catcher's reaction. He makes a routine throw back to the pitcher but f***s up and hits the bat, then looks around the field and at the runner with body language that implies he didn't understand what was going on. You f***ed up, man. That's what's going on. Don't look at everyone else like they're crazy.
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I want the Cards out only because I want a WS winner who hasn't won in a while. I don't care too much about who wins other than the Cardinals, though I'd like it to be the Astros, Rangers, or Cubs, because their droughts are the longest.
