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6192. wabbit - 10/16/2008 3:37:15 AM I actually don't mind losing to Tampa, they've got a good team and they've worked really hard this year. They have earned their shot.
And while this isn't strictly speaking a sport, perhaps it could be. I could dig up a video like this pretty much every day.
6193. jexster - 10/16/2008 7:55:33 PM Tampa's great. I always love it when low budget teams do well.
I hate their ballpark. Still I was for the Phillies in the post season from the start more so after Palin's reception at the Flyers game....got nothin here in the Bay Area in any sport (cept the Sharks maybe) for the forseeable future so I am now ALL PHILADELPHIA
Gimme a Pat's Cheesesteak STAT or a Geno's...or whatever
They're lovin Manny in LA
Wonder if they'll keep him. They're not a low budget org. 6194. jexster - 10/17/2008 5:11:44 PM Holy Moly Wabbit...rumors of the Big Poopies deaths were premature. I popped in a movie and when I saw the headline "Red Sox Monster Comeback" I thought it was a joke article 6195. wabbit - 10/17/2008 6:21:50 PM From SI:
…Down 7-0 with seven outs left in their season, the Sox rallied for the biggest postseason comeback in 79 years, denying the Rays a win in their first try at the World Series and sending the crowd at Fenway Park into a delirium. J.D. Drew provided the pièce de résistance, punching a 3-1 pitch from J.P. Howell over the head of right-fielder Gabe Gross for the game-winning hit…
Doesn't mean they'll win the ACLS, but they sure are entertaining. And it was nice to see Ortiz smack one. I had just turned the tv on and went to the 11pm news, and a reporter was standing outside Fenway with all hell breaking loose. Pretty cool.
I gotta say, though, these 1:00am games are killing me.6196. jexster - 10/17/2008 6:33:09 PM I missed EVERYTHING. I so dislike listening to Buck and McCarver that watching a 7-0 ballgame in the late innings is just too much to endure 6197. jexster - 10/17/2008 6:33:50 PM I don't like what they say..I can't even abide their voices 6198. wabbit - 10/17/2008 6:53:39 PM I agree. I turn the volume down and just watch the game. I used to listen to the radio announcers, but watching the game in silence is just fine. 6199. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/18/2008 12:09:01 AM What a nice surprise this morning to feel resurrected after going to bed condemned to relive the frustrations of the old days. 6200. wabbit - 10/18/2008 1:04:28 AM You betcha!
she says resignedly… 6201. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/20/2008 5:52:57 AM From worst to first--good for them! 6202. wabbit - 10/20/2008 2:37:57 PM  Carl Crawford and the Rays beat the defending World Series champion Red Sox in a tight, well-played Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday, capping an incredible worst-to-first season with a 3-1 win that was, in many ways, a perfect and fitting finish to their season. With the win, the Rays go from a team that, before this season, averaged 97 losses a year for the first 10 years of its existence to hosts of Game 1 of the World Series here on Wednesday night. If they get past the National League champion Phillies to win the Series -- and, at this point in their incredible journey, no smart person would bet against them -- they'd be the first team ever to go from last place to a World Series title the next season.
Now, the Rays have a couple of days off to regroup and ready themselves for their unexpected trip to the World Series. A lot of people, even before this season, expected the Rays to compete this year. But few, pressed further, expected them to win 97 games and the AL East, to make the playoffs and to beat the defending World Series champs.
The Phillies, the losingest team in pro sports history with only one championship to their name, vs. the Rays, sad sacks since joining the majors with Arizona in 1998 with the worst record in baseball last year. I'm hoping the WS will be as good as the ACLS was.
MLB news
6203. OhioSTOPAS - 10/21/2008 1:29:20 AM (sob)
6204. jexster - 10/21/2008 1:31:23 AM Don't you have some precincts to canvass? 6205. jexster - 10/21/2008 1:31:48 AM GO PHILLIES
GO FLYERS
6206. OhioSTOPAS - 10/21/2008 1:42:23 AM We'll get our revenge when the Rays' young players have been in the league long enough to be eligible for free agency. 6207. jexster - 10/21/2008 4:56:40 AM Congrats Cutie
Lincecum wins big award
The Players Association announced this morning that Tim Lincecum was voted by his peers as the National League's Outstanding Pitcher, beating out fellow finalists CC Sabathia of the Brewers and Brandon Webb of the Diamondbacks.
You can see the official announcement and interview with Lincecum here.
This is a big honor for which Lincecum should be proud. However, it should not necessarily be viewed as a precursor to the Cy Young Award. As we all know, players and writers do not always think alike. For what it's worth, two Cy Young voters came up to me at the NLCS and said they voted for Tim. 6208. wonkers2 - 10/26/2008 2:00:51 AM Hydroptere 6209. wabbit - 10/27/2008 4:16:26 PM 
The two-day Breeders' Cup festival, which encompassed a record 14 races for the first time. Nine were contested on Saturday and the day's results highlighted the international flavor of the event. In addition to the Classic and Juvenile Turf, Europeans won the Turf, Mile on turf, and the inaugural Marathon, which is run on the main track. The Classic lost the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner to injury, and it almost lost its other big draw - defending champion Curlin - to Santa Anita's new synthetic surface. The most radical change to the Breeders' Cup in the last 25 years was tested Friday in five races exclusively for females that opened the two-day, season-ending championships.
The $2 million Ladies' Classic was billed as one of the glamour matchups of this year's Breeders' Cup, pitting the undefeated Zenyatta against Ginger Punch, last year's champion, along with six other quality opponents. It turned into a one-horse show as Zenyatta roared to victory with a scintillating last-to-first sweep to extend her winning streak to nine. Ginger Punch, who won last year at New Jersey's Monmouth Park when it was called the Distaff, was never a factor, finishing sixth. Zenyatta has to be a serious contender for Horse of the Year.
Ventura won the $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint; Maram won the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf; Stardom Bound captured the $2 million Juvenile Fillies; and Forever Together took the $2 million Filly & Mare Turf.
6210. wabbit - 10/27/2008 4:16:43 PM Curlin was upset in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Saturday, demoted to a fourth-place finish behind 13-1 long shot Raven's Pass from Britain. Neither reigning Horse of the Year Curlin nor Raven's Pass had ever raced on a synthetic surface. But Raven's Pass trains on something similar, and European horses used to running on turf often make an easier transition to synthetics. Raven's Pass capped a day of long-shot upsets at the season-ending championships, with European-based horses winning five of nine races. Seven of the winners at Santa Anita were long shots.
Goldikova was particularly dazzling in the Mile, and enabled her trainer, Freddy Head, to become the first person to both ride and train a Breeders' Cup winner. Head rode Miesque to victories in the Mile 1987 and 1988. Midnight Lute became the first two-time winner of the Sprint, and only the eighth horse to win two Breeders' Cup races, joining Bayakoa, Da Hoss, High Chaparral, Lure, Miesque, Ouija Board, and Tiznow. Ireland-bred Conduit won the $3 million Turf by 1 1/2 lengths in an upset. Desert Code, a 36-1 shot, won the $1 million Turf Sprint; Muhannak captured the $500,000 Marathon at 12-1 odds; and Britain-bred gelding Donativum won the $1 million Juvenile Turf under Dettori.
Garrett Gomez was the riding star of the day, doubling his career win total at horse racing's richest weekend, picking up a record four wins, including a record-breaking three Saturday. The 36-year-old Gomez piloted Midshipman (Juvenile), Albertus Maximus (Dirt Mile), Midnight Lute (Sprint) and Ventura (Filly & Mare Sprint) to victory over the sun-splashed track. Bob Baffert won two races, the Sprint with Midnight Lute, and with Midshipman in the Juvenile. Among owners, Darley Stable claimed three victories, with Princess Haya of Jordan sharing in two, including the Classic. 6211. wabbit - 10/27/2008 4:17:07 PM  Sergio Garcia picked up his first European win in over three years on his home course Sunday and immediately dedicated the three-shot victory in the Castello Masters to the hospitalized Seve Ballesteros. Garcia closed with a 4-under 67 for a four-day total of 20-under 264 at the Club de Campo del Mediterraneo golf course where he has played since childhood and his father is the club professional. Sweden's Peter Hedblom (66) pulled even early but settled for second after a late bogey.
Garcia immediately turned the attention to Ballesteros, who remains in a Madrid hospital following brain surgery Friday to remove a malignant tumor. Ballesteros remains in stable but serious condition in the intensive care unit of the La Paz hospital.
Alexander Noren of Sweden took third after a closing 65 left him at 15-under and five behind Garcia, whose last European win was the 2005 European Masters.
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