World Series Tampa Bay Rays VS. Philadelphia Phillies

[Steve Graham]

Re: World Series Tampa Bay Rays VS. Philadelphia Phillies

I would have to disagree a bit there, the series was great until the fucking weather debacle, lol.. very anti climactic at the end unfortunately, but I couldnt even be mad or upset the Rays lost.

The Phillies deserved it, had an answer to everything the Rays did, excellent scouting AND not only that but being able to apply it..it was probably somewhat helpful that one of their scouts is the former Rays GM, but still, you can scout a team all you want, if you cant execute it means fuck all... congrats to them!

hell of a season for Tampa. I have a feeling that after the battle to win the division then go through Chicago, then the 7 game series against Boston (none of which were meant to happen) really took the emotional wind out of their sails. But to be honest at the beginning of the season if someone had said the Rays will finish above .500 I would have had a hard time believing it. It will be very interesting to see how next season plays out in the AL East.. you know NY and Boston will be revamping big time, NY more so than Boston, plus the way Toronto came on at the end of the season.

I'm definitely going to some games next year =)

[i!!ustrious]

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ya the weather was a drag mate! i'm just being novel and high spirited!

[Steve Graham]

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hahaha, I gotcha.. yeah, as I said, I'm not even really bummed. I was ready for it, and just glad we beat the Red Sox and finished WAY ahead of the yankees

[88Mariner]

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my gf lives in downtown philly. we're on the phone. it's so fucking loud i can't even hear her shouting into her own phone in her own apartment.


sick.

she's telling me the cops greased up the lamp poles

[Jibgolly]

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i'm happy for the Rays making it this far, even though i'm not a fan, but from Tampa, i wanted them to win so the bay area could get a boost of baseball moral.

there's always next year!

[thesightless]

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over/under on fires started in philly?

[88Mariner]

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how about over under on deaths?

I'm putting 5 down. Any takers?

[thesightless]

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ill go over 5.

[day_for_night]

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yes, i would not want to be a business owner in downtown philly right now. hope they boarded up the windows!

[Steve Graham]

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hopefully next year the WS will be in a city that doesnt have to deal with such crap weather. Kinda sucked that 2 out of the 5 games you really had no idea when they were going to played, as I am sure it sucked for the players too

[chuckc]

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Its too bad they couldnt get it back to the trop. The stress seemed to get to them...Normally Rocco would have made that catch in the oufield and Aki would have made the overhead catch....and would never had made those two errors he had in that other game.

It didnt help that the umpires had a strike zone for the rays and a seperate strike zone for the phillies. They obviusly wanted the series to end and the phillies to win (ie the check swing called strike by hinske or kaz's special strike zone, . Its a shame the game cant be called fairly

[Steve Graham]

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true, but there was also the mystery check swing strike/walk given to the Rays.. bad officiating all around imo.. both teams had to overcome adversity and Philadelphia won, end of
and Kazmir better get on the good side of the umps for next season, right or wrong they clearly held a grudge against him.

my only real gripe is the 2-3-2 set up.. it really gives the home field advantage to the team with 3 games in a row at home..
2-2-1-1-1 seems a more fair set up. I mean in a 7 game series, if you are playing a game 5 thats a HUGE game and the team the EARNED the home field advantage gets screwed.. in the case of this series game 5 would have been at the Trop and wouldnt have taken 3 days to play which would have counter acted the debacle of game 4 starting after 10pm and ending at 2am

[chuckc]

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my only real gripe is the 2-3-2 set up.. it really gives the home field advantage to the team with 3 games in a row at home..
2-2-1-1-1 seems a more fair set up.

^^very good point

Correct me if I am wrong but wasnt that the old set up? ....Rays kind of got screwed on the 2-3-2 deal

maybe they eliminated it becuase of the extra traveling...and time

oh well..hope they can get back to that point again...we all know the yanks/sox will spend even more money now that the rays took them out...

wouldnt doubt it if the yanks or sox pick up sabathia....

[Steve Graham]

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manny to the yanks
cc to the sox
rays win the al east

its always been 2-3-2
someone brought that up on the radio a few weeks back and they looked at previous WS' and it was all 2-3-2 , I guess for travel reasons which only really matters if the two teams playing are on opposite coasts