Official 2010 Baseball Season Thread

ugh. Reason number 3,729,348 why I hate the Yankees

If Satan himself assembled a team of mass murders and child molesters to play the Yankees I'd be rooting for them.

Dammit! I hate the fuggin Yankees! I figured Texas was safe with a 5-run lead after 7...

Cody Ross FTW!

Great matchup right now with Halladay vs Lincecum.

Giants win. They can win the series at home now.

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I realize every now and then someone gets to Doc but it always seems so weird and unusual when it actually happens.

Oh, and RANGERS WIN!

The Rangers are really taking the Yankees to the cleaners!

Good!

I have tickets for Game 4 of the World Series. Now I just need the Rangers to close things out with the Yankees.

See, the Rangers is one of those teams that I've never particularly liked or disliked because for one I am not from Texas and two I have always been more of a National League kinda guy.

But right now, there's a whole lot to like about the Rangers!

Who told the ALCS game 6 home plate umpire to drink heavily before the game? That's the worst strike zone I've ever seen. Two thirds of his called strikes are outside the zone, and half the pitches in the zone he doesn't call strikes. The umpire's zone seems to be from about eight inches inside to a righty to halfway across the plate. Abominable.

As long as it results in a Yankee loss, I'm willing to overlook it.

Yankees lose! Yankees lose!
There is a God!!!!!

The Yankees lost because they stunk. They barely hit in this series; they got one good pitching performance (Pettite, Game 3), one really lucky pitching performance where the Rangers were hitting everything hard and getting on base all the time but that somehow didn't translate into lots of runs (Sabathia, game 5), and four mediocre-to-awful starting pitching performances; and they had a manager who--while not quite as numbskulled as the opposing manager, who never met a sacrifice bunt he didn't like and whose bullpen management was historically absurd--didn't exactly do a good job either. The umpiring, while truly awful (at least tonight), didn't have much effect.

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Yankees haven't had a 7 game series where they were so throughly dominated in all aspects in the game in my lifetime. Probably have to go back to the 76 World Series to find one like this from front to back. The 2003 World Series and 2004 ALCS don't count in this regard to me because there were times in those series where the Yankees actually looked like the better team. It's amazing the Yankees managed to win two games considering they never in any of the games, with the exception of one inning in Game 1, looked like the better team in ANY phase of the game. It leaves me wondering if any of the players played themselves out of town. Swisher was downright awful in the 2nd half of the season and the playoffs. I can't imagine most of the bullpen is on the team next year either.

The only bright spot of this seres is Andy Pettitte is going to end his career on a tremendous start. The two 1st inning runs he gave up were flukey. Andy won't get into the Hall of Fame, but that kind of start is the one I want to remember him by.

Perhaps if you were born in 2002.

2001 World Series wasn't a very good one for the Yankees either. The Diamondbacks won DECISIVELY in three games (9-1, 4-0, 15-2), came from behind in their fourth win. In each of the three Yankees wins, they won by one run, and they were low scoring affairs in any case (2-1, 4-3, 3-2). Two of them were come-from-behinds in the ninth inning!

That series should have gone five games with the Diamondbacks taking it 4-1.

That did cross my mind, but really, it went seven games. The Diamondbacks bullpen was god awful in that series, so they didn't dominate all phases of the game anyways. Also you seem to forget the Yankees were 3 outs away from outright winning that series. That series was more akin to the 1960 World Series, but if the Pirates had not won.

Well, you DID specify seven game series, so I don't know how "but really, it went seven games" is a factor. They were out-hit and out-pitched in just about every way. I don't know what more you could ask for.

The Diamondbacks "bullpen" was not "godawful", you had ONE, and I mean ONE pitcher that failed to deliver. Replace him with someone else, and the Diamondbacks utterly crush the Yankees in five games.

And, if you really want to break it down, ultimately the Yankees lost the WORLD SERIES to a fourth year expansion team. Seriously!

Still, you can't get past that the Yankees were three outs from winning that series. The two series just don't compare. Like I said, that was more akin to the 1960 World Series.

The Diamondbacks were also two outs from winning the series before the Yankees ever had a chance.

Duck, dodge, and weave all you want. But for ONE relief pitcher, the Yankees were thoroughly power fucked in the 2001 Series.

I'll be happy to watch this year's Series, since I don't have to worry about seeing douchebags like this in the stands:

At least if the Giants lose this World Series, they won't lose to the Yankees.

I'm just happy the Rangers are in the World Series. I've waited for this since I was about 5 years old and watched every game with my Grandpa. If we lose it's not a big deal because just being here is a victory. Don't get me wrong. I really want to win. I've got tickets for game 4 in Dallas too.

Now that's what I call messin' with Texas.

3-1. Bumgarner and Wilson are unstoppable. Lincecum vs. Lee should be one hell of a battle.

Tough break, mis amigos tejanos. I was pulling for the Rangers in this one. But hey, it's a good start. You can never be ashamed of making it to the World Series, right?

You know what? I'm still happy tonight. Last night I got to mark attending a Texas Ranger World Series game off my bucket list. Quite honestly after roughly 24 years of sports conscious rooting I was having my doubts that even getting to the World Series would ever happen for us. It was an incredible ride and it gives me hope for a bright future.

Philadelphia, 1983, where the Phillies fans booed their own team at home as the Orioles were kicking their butt in that World Series. But I expect more class out of Rangers fans.

It's been said that the sound of a strike pitched by Brian Wilson hitting the glove of Buster Posey is exactly the same as the Brown Note... but only in Texas.