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Major League Baseball: World Series pics (pg. 4)
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| TigerClaw |
| Florida Marlins will dominate the Cubs, I expect Game 1 will have the Marlins shut out the Cubs tonight, I gota suport the home team, So Marlins all the way! :D |
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| Magnetonium |
OOhhhhhhhhhhhhh, man .......... I am so sick and tired of seeing Braves go out of playoffs early year after year. Thats it. I am switching my allegiance. Since '97, when I first heard of Braves, I didnt see them have a single great playoff year (maybe 99?). After this year I will have a new favourite team. After all, what are the odds of Braves winning a 13th consecutive division title? Its over. This year it was the power batting, and after this year it will change as some key players will be open to the market. I dont think Braves management will give guys like Sheffield a raise after seeing their NL best power shut down in these playoffs by some lowly Cubs, who Braves smoked in the regular season ... Ugh.
I now strongly support the motion of making the Division Series a best-of-7. Cause the lower seeded teams were 22-13 since this system was introduced in early 90s, including 4-0 last year and 3-1 this year! Thats horrible. So what they are going to chop off 2 regular season games ...
From now I am strongly cheering for Marlins (die Cubs!!!! no WS for them for another million years! aaaaaaa) and Yankees and maybe Boston (I knew they'd beat A's in 5, I never doubted them). :whip: :o |
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| dj2kTA |
How crazy was the Cubs and Marlins game? Triples and homers all over the place. It was a nail-biter till the end. Even better than the last Boston-Oakland game.
Glad to see the Marlins on top. Everyone but me is going Cubs crazy. My White Sox didnt make it so I'm bitter.
This should be a good series if the first game is any indicator. Prior and Wood next two games though. Gonna be tough for the fishies. |
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| PhloTron |
Ahh...hehe...a much better cubs game this evening. Nice to see Prior Dominate once again...Let's hope that gives more confidence to the rest of the pitching staff and the hitters more confidence in bashing the crap outta the ball. This series could go all the way...but Cubs will prevail..they have the better pitching. :D :D :D
Both games have been great...imo.
but hockey season started tonight...so my attention was drawn away...because there are simply more important things in life...lol |
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| Disney |
Sweeet!!!
BoSox won game 1!!!
Great stuff and a nice HR by Ortiz :D |
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| Magnetonium |
Looks like the Cubbies have a tight grip around the neck of Marlins, though I still think Marlins could come-from-behind 3-2 series and win.
As for Yankees/Red Sox = all the fights and rivalry ... I expect that series to go the distance (7 games), but the dam Yanks will find their way. After all, since about '61 or so they only lost one ALCS, and that was in '80, when they lost to then great Kansas City Royals (WOW, did Bobby Cox coach that team? :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: |
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| AussieTrance |
Yankees will win, fur sure...
But the Cubs - Marlins; it could go either way, although Marlins have the momentum now - that fan cost the Cubs the game, he should be shot :whip: |
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| Vlad |
These pics are pathetic... after the Marlins beat the Giants - they were my pic to face the Yankees in the WS and loose to the Yankees.
Only right for Clemens and Wells to get rings in their last season in the MLB. :D |
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| Magnetonium |
WOW ..... Cubs vs. Marlins in game 7 of NLCS. I am going for the Marlins, though i like neither ,,,
Yanks have their hands on the throat of the Red Sox ...
I should've picked Yankees to go all the way, but the stupid Braves had to go down in the playoffs early yet again ....:whip: |
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| whiskers |
| man, if yanks beat sox today, i smell major riots and even more hate towards yankess... that does not sound good. |
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| dj2kTA |
bottom of the ninth the Red Sox are on track to win 9 to 6. :D
The road for either isnt easy with Wood pitching the Marlins and Clemens against the Sox. I have confidence in em though.
As much as I dont want the Cubs to win(White Sox fan yes), I feel bad for the fans cos of the 8th inning. My gf being one of the Cubs fans.
I hope the it ends up Red Sox vs. Marlins. |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Add a meddling fan and a shortstop's error to the Chicago Cubs' long history of misery and dashed hopes.
The Cubs were five outs from their first World Series in 58 years Tuesday night when one of their own fans got in the way.
It started a series of ugly plays that resulted in Florida's eight-run inning and an 8-3 victory for the Marlins in Game 6 of the NL championship series.
"It has nothing to do with a curse," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said. "It has to do with fan interference and a very uncharacteristic error. ... History has nothing to do with this game, nothing."
After taking a 3-1 lead in the series, the Cubs have lost two straight going into a decisive Game 7 on Wednesday night.
"It makes you think a little bit," Marlins manager Jack McKeon said. "You guys keep talking, I think it might happen."
Especially after the wacky turn of events Tuesday. Mark Prior held the Marlins to three hits over the first seven innings, and seemed to get stronger as the night went on.
But after Juan Pierre doubled with one out in the eighth, the fates turned.
Luis Castillo hit what appeared to be a very playable foul fly down the left-field line, and Moises Alou was in position to make the catch. Alou jumped and reached into the stands, but just before the ball dropped into his glove, a male fan who appeared to be in his 20s deflected the ball away as he tried to make the catch.
"He said he had it perfectly timed," Baker said.
The ball dropped into the stands as Alou screamed. Despite vigorous protests from the Cubs and their fans for interference, it was simply ruled a foul ball, and Castillo went back to the plate.
"The ball was in the stands," McKeon said. "Whether Alou could have caught it or not is questionable, but the ball was in the stands. And when the ball is in the stands, the fans have a right to catch it."
One pitch later, he drew a walk.
Other fans tossed beer at the fan and shouted profanities and threats at him. A handful of security guards quickly escorted him from his seat, his face covered with a sweater as he walked to a security room.
Some fans were yelling, "Kill him!" and "You cost us the World Series!" as he was being led away.
"He possibly cost us the pennant, and I want to know if it was worth a $20 ball? What a loser," said Sean Henning, who was sitting about five rows back.
And it got worse for the Cubs. Ivan Rodriguez followed with an RBI single, cutting Chicago's lead to 3-1. And it would get worse for the Cubs.
Miguel Cabrera hit a two-hopper to shortstop that Alex Gonzalez dropped. Normally one of Chicago's best defensive players, Gonzalez tried to backhand the ball. But it ricocheted off his glove and back down into the dirt for an error.
He grabbed at the ball but had no play, loading the bases with only one out.
"For whatever reason, I didn't catch the ball," Gonzalez said. "It seemed like the spin on the ball ate me up. I didn't think it would get to me that fast."
Derrek Lee tied it with a two-run double, Jeff Conine hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly and little Mike Mordecai hammered a three-run double off the ivy in left-center.
Suddenly it was 7-3, and Cubs fans were left heartbroken again.
"This isn't over by a long ways," Baker said. "We've got Kerry Wood going tomorrow and we're still at home. As far as I'm concerned, we're still in very, very good shape."
As for that fan, Cubs security chief Mike Hill refused to give out any details about him. But Hill did say the team gave him a new coat and led him out a different exit after the game so no one could recognize him.
"He was scared to death more than anything," Hill said. "He just wanted to get out of here."
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Ohh, if I ever will be going to Chicago, I'll make sure not to talk about baseball. This is just brutal treatment by the Cubs fans. No way I am ever gonna be a Cubs fan or go to Chicago to watch a Cubs game. Period. I personally think that ball could've been caught, but the umpires made the right call. Congratulations, Marlins!
Dam, Yankees might not win over Red Sox after all .... game 7 tomorrow ...:nervous: :nervous: |
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