World Series

[FJReady]

Ok, dogpile- I'm from Boston- I can take it.

My condolences to Cleveland fans. Lord knows they could use a championship. I really thought they were going to take the ALCS. The Sox looked weak early in the series.

 

[ionbeam]

Troll!!! After watching part of last night's game I think Daisuke owes the Sox a $102 million refund.

How is Sarah doing?

 

[odot]

dice k's laughin' all the way to the bank.

 

[stormrider]

I am not much of a baseball fan but the Rockies are consistent and hot.

I will be rooting for them

 

[sonicspeed]

my 3 favorite teams

1. st louis cardinals

2. whoever is playing the yankees

3. whoever is playing the red sox

 

[juniorfjr]

One of the talking heads last nite said, "Good pitching always beats good hitting" and the rockies have been winning with pitching. Gonna be fun to watch, by the time they get to Colorado there could be a foot of snow.

 

[Tim]

My son who lives in Portland, Maine has tickets to game #2. He is a Sox fan. I wanted cleveland. Oh well.

 

[protondecay123]

GO SOX!!

:yahoo:

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

Speaking as a man who grew up in Boston (on the green line a couple miles from Braves Field and Fenway) and sporting a Red Sox tatoo on my arm after 2004.......... I ALWAYS hope the Red Sox will win, and STILL expect them to loose. Sorry, ever since the Tigers beat them 9-2 on opening day in 1968 (My first game seen from the bleachers back when you could sit in the "Triangle" in center) I have been conditioned to expect the worst. But I love those damned guys.

Having said that, The Rockies look really really hot -- especially in the snow! :blink: Time will tell.

 

[Wyosteve]

Supposed to be in the 60's here this weekend. Go Rox!!

 

[Fred W]

Sox win in 5.

Sorry, the Rockies are an upstart team that came from nowhere at the end of the season.

The Sox, OTOH, have it all. Good pitching, great offense, peppy rookies bringing a big spark, experienced veterans that won't be crapping their pants when the chips are down, funky ball park that they will play in 4 of the 7 games...

I know that the CR's took the interleague season series. Means exactly nothing. The real baseball STARTS NOW.

The nonsense about Matsusaka's big contract is just that. To begin with, he has not been getting pummeled in important games (unlike that POS Gagne who I will admit was a big mistake). And nobody in their right mind would expect he would come over here and become the best pitcher in the league in his rookie year. They paid the big $$ for a reason, he is a proven comodity in world baseball. It just takes some adjustment time and that will become clear over the next several years.

And please, if anyone uses those putzes that Fox passes off for "game announcers" as references for anything, puh-leeze. I really prefer to just turn the sound down. They are so full of bull it isn't funny.

PS - Sure, I expected the Indians to pull it out. It's because I am an OLD Sox fan, and have been burned so many times before.

 

[FJR_pig]

Ok, dogpile- I'm from Boston- I can take it.

No dogpile here. Pulling for Boston all the way. The last three games of the ALCS have been great to watch! Especially last night with the rookie takin' it to Cleveland. That was sweet. Can't wait for the WS to start - I love this time of year.

That Colorado pitching looks scary though...a combined ERA of 2.05 for their starting rotation? Are you kidding me? Dayyyyammmn...

 

[snikr]

GO SOX Only bad thing is I work 2nd shift (3PM till 11 PM) so I'll not get to "see" the games. Thank God for radios!

Tom

 

[FJR_pig]

Wow, so much for the Colorado pitchers' combined ERA! What a beat down the Sox handed them tonight. That was awesome. Go Sox!

 

[Fred W]

Wow, so much for the Colorado pitchers' combined ERA! What a beat down the Sox handed them tonight. That was awesome. Go Sox!

Yeah, nice start. But that is just one game. Lots more excitement ahead, I expect...

 

[FJR_pig]

But that is just one game.

Fred, your glassis half empty! Not just one game - it was a taste of the next three. Red Sox in 4.

 

[twowheelnut]

What the hell was that abortion last night? Did the Rockies even show?

 

[snikr]

I think there "RUST" showed last night. GO SOX!

Tom

 

[markjenn]

If you do a satitistcal analysis on baseball schedules, scores, and teams, you see that the wide variance in score margins has very little to do with the teams and how they play but instead is simply normal random variations of coin flipping. If two playoff caliber teams were to play a 1000 game series, one team would win by about 525-475. And 5% of the games would have a 10+ point difference. Last night was just one of those 5% games. Nothing to do with team goodness, rust, or anything else.

Baseball is nice drama, but with the best teams having winning percentages of 60% and the worst teams 40%, no game is decided by random chance to such a high degree.

- Mark