It's called "real baseball."

You should thank the Cubs for allowing your pathetic team to play a meaningful game in September last night. Don't expect that to happen again for a while.

Enjoy Barry Bonds next year...

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This was such a fun season. Before June 16, I probably watched about 10/66 games. I got DirecTV and the extra innings package after that and watched approximately 88 of the last 96. I missed 4 when I was on vacation and I missed the Saturday Fox games a few times. Damn, I watched a lot of baseball.

Win it all one time for Shabi, Baby!!

Freaking Phillies are killing me here. Up one game with 2 left to play, and now going into the last game of the season.


If the Phils pull it off and get to play the Cubbies, I'll gladly bet you every game of the series.... that would make it way more fun.

I got a ticket to Game 2 on Thursday night. I'm going to drive down and stay with a buddy, who's also a huge Cub fan. We've known eachother since 7th grade. Played HS hoops together and went to Purdue together too. Traditionally, our luck with the po pos is quite dog shit, so wish us luck.

It's gonna be a wild night, but I'll rep Cub Nation proudly! Altogether, it'll probably be about 24 hours for me in PHX.

good luck, being that i hate everyone else in the playoffs i guess ill pull for the cubs. it would be a cool site to see the cubs hosting a world series game back in chicago again!

I hate the po pos. Looks like you'll have a good time. Too bad I just can't root for the Cubs :p but hope you have fun.

Here's to a Sox/Cubs world series game 7!!

:cheers::cheers:

That's awesome, have a blast! Go Cubs!!

Let's Go Cubbies! The journey starts tonight. Let's hope it's a long one!!!!:cheers:

Looks like I'll be at the biggest game of the season for my Cubbies tomorrow night (almost today).

I believe.

"Real" in what way? All sports evolve. The original rules of baseball required that the pitcher ask the batter where he preferred the pitch to be thrown. In fact, as late as the beginning of the 20th century, major league owners tried to ban the curveball and all other "attempts to deceive the batter." As originally designed, the pitchers job was to enable the batter to put the ball in play, not try to get him out.

So if you don't believe baseball should revert to that, the "baseball purist" argument goes out the window. You tacitly accept that an evolution of the rules makes sense. No pitcher makes an NL roster because of his bat. No manager ever says, "Smith will give me more innings than Jones and have a better ERA, but Jones is my 5th starter because we need his bat in the lineup every 5th day."

The pitcher is a defensive specialist. Logic says putting an offensive specialist in the batting order instead of the pitcher makes the game better.

Lou Piniella once said managing in the NL was easier because 2/3 of all pitching changes are automatic. 6th inning or beyond, tied or behind, you pinch hit. No skill there. No stress there. The hardest decision a manager has to make in a game is deciding when the starting pitcher has had enough. In the NL, that decision comes into play much less than in the AL.

I'm not that much of a baseball fan anymore, but I have to go with Kurn here, and 90% of pitchers' atbats are just a sad, sad spectacle anyway.

Though I do gotta say, how about dem Rockies? :D

I was happy for them to win their playoff game (despite the game winning bad call), but come on now - enough is enough. GO PHILS!

not looking to good, pray that pshabi doesnt kill any diamondback fans tonight!

I wouldn't mind. Fuck them.

Our teams suck.

If we can go a combined 6-0, we can have the Cubs/Phils games I've been hoping for. :mad:

Can you imagine a Cleveland v. Arizona WS?? Who would watch that outside of Northern Ohio and Phoenix?? Bah.

I think if you're a baseball fan, you watch the WS regardless of who plays.

Even so, I imagine it's like hockey. The more history the teams have (age and with each other) the more interesting it is.

go cubs ha :) I love it... same shit different season, should of just let the brewers have a shot in the playoffs.

oh well till next year

I'm not a baseball fan, I'm a Cubs fan. I make no special arrangements to catch a World Series game. I may watch a few innings here and there, but generally I have no interest.

BTW, the road trip was fun and sucked. :(

If it were the Reds in the playoffs(hard to imagine anytime soon), and THEY were down 0-2, nobody would say shit to you. Not cause were nice, but because no one gives a flying fuck about the Reds.

Pre the last strike and pre-Barry Bonds and all the steriod mess, I would have.