ZOMBYWOOF!

[Oeditpus Rex]

The MaxiPads just lost!

:woohoo:

We need some runs, dammit! :bounce:

[Zomby Woof]

1. This is driving me NUTS!

Only 2 more games after tonight to rectify this... x(

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Yeah, but it's a GREAT nuts!

And we're only a run down.

:woohoo: :bounce:

GAWD, I love baseball!

[Zomby Woof]

3. Here we go...

Now we just need a HR.

I am worried about Nomar's injury flaring up after that last AB.

[Zomby Woof]

4. fuck fuck FUCK

I am prepared for the worst...

[sir_captain]

5. As a former NY team

I am totally rooting for you guys. I'd *love* to see a Yankees-Dodgers series.

And is there something in the DU kool-aid tonight? Is it just me or are people even crazier than usual?

[Zomby Woof]

6. Naw

I have been here forever, and the craziness is a constant. :D

[sir_captain]

8. I never thought I'd find someone

here who didn't believe in the scientific method--it's enlightening.

I really think you're going to take the division--the NL race the last week has been totally amazing. And with the Mets reeling, it's a completely open run to the series!

[Zomby Woof]

7. TIED!!!!!!!!!!!

:bounce:

[sir_captain]

9. And threatening!

[Zomby Woof]

10. SWEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!

WILD PITCH SCORES THE GO-AHEAD RUN!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

[Zomby Woof]

11. Saito to close!

Oh pleeeeeease close it!!!! :bounce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Oh, shit

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit.




JEEEEEEBUUUUUUUUSSS, I love this! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[sir_captain]

13. There's really nothing better than an exciting baseball game

is there?

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Not unless

you're having really great sex at the same time.

:evilgrin:

[sir_captain]

34. Hehe

I'm not sure I could concentrate enough on either of them to enjoy them fully :-)

[Zomby Woof]

14. I was wondering where the hell you were!

Thought maybe you fainted after that wild pitch! :D

1 OUT!

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. I've been pacing!

I can't sit still! :bounce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. GAH!

Fuckin' ground ball with 20/20 vision. x(

[Zomby Woof]

17. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Great play by Martinez!

One more. One more. One more. One more.

[Zomby Woof]

19. My gastrointestinal system is taking a beating

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. You can fart all you want now!

YES!!!

Fucking AWESOME slider!

TIED FOR FIRST WITH TWO GAMES LEFT!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Zomby Woof]

22. Oh, I already do!

:evilgrin:

Jebus, it feels like the playoffs already!! :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. I know!

I don't think I'm gonna survive the weekend.

But what a way to go! :bounce:

WHERE'S THE FUCKING HIGH-FIVE SMILIE?!??

[Zomby Woof]

20. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS A HUGH SERIES WIN!!!11

[sir_captain]

23. Have you seen the site coolstandings.com?

[Zomby Woof]

24. Nope

:-) But I sure am liking the standings in any form right now! :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. They need to update it

Because we're fucking TIED!!!

:woohoo: :bounce: :woohoo:

[sir_captain]

26. hehe

i think you're in pretty good shape regardless

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Yeah

Worst-case scenario, we tie for the wild card and have a one-game playoff Monday.

I don't want to settle for the wild card, though. It's like getting honorable mention.

[sir_captain]

30. hey, a bunch of teams have won the series as the WC

I'm not much of a fan of it, myself, but you've got to take advantage of the rules, right?

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. Three, to be exact

I think.

But, still... I go back to the '60s, when it was just two leagues. You either won the pennant or you went home.

Hard to let go of some of that stuff.

[sir_captain]

32. Preaching to the choir, man

I don't get as far back as you do, but I'm a real student of the game. I've got some Jackie Robinson rookie cards in my closet. I'd much prefer things with no wild card, no astroturf, no DH and no divisions. I guess we'd have to contract some teams, but the level of the competition would be so much better...

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. The wild card's the one change I'm okay with

If they had to expand again, making two divisions unwieldy, the wild-card format was the logical solution.

OTOH, I don't really see a problem with two eight-team divisions. After all, baseball had two eight-team leagues for decades, followed by seven or eight seasons, depending on which league, of two 10-team leagues.

But of all the things they've done in the relentless pursuit of Mo' Money, the wild card is the least damaging to the game.

IMHO, o' course.

[sir_captain]

35. Yeah, and it's sure made them a lot of money

The thing that pisses me off the most is that there isn't a rule mandating that the money that the teams like the yankees and the red sox and the mets and the dodgers send to "small-market" teams (like billionaire Twins owner Carl Pohlad) be reinvested in the teams rather than simply being pocketed by the greedy owners.

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. I didn't know that

You'd think there would be.

But then, since the owners make the rules...

[Zomby Woof]

37. The NFL has revenue-sharing

Which is socialism, if you look at that way. Ironic, considering how rife with freepers pro sports, and especially football, is. :-)

It would be interesting to see if the same practices in baseball would alter the postseason landscape. There have been teams with small payrolls making it far, but they are the exception and not the rule.