Wild Card Races Thread

trwi7 · Post #141 » by **trwi7** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:12 am

DrugBust wrote:I don't even care that the Cards got in. Would rather a hot team like St. Louis play Philly than a dead team like Atlanta.

Atlanta wasn't going to play Philly.

UWM_Brew_Buck · Post #142 » by **UWM_Brew_Buck** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:13 am

Wow what a night for the MLB.

WEFFPIM · Post #143 » by **WEFFPIM** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:15 am

DrugBust wrote:I don't even care that the Cards got in. Would rather a hot team like St. Louis play Philly than a dead team like Atlanta.

While you're wrong about the Braves thing, the Cards might be Philly's worst nightmare in the first round.

Post #144 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:15 am

There was like a 2 minute difference between the Sox loss and the Rays win.

Kinda fitting that the teams that sucked down the stretch missed the playoffs.

http://www.last.fm/user/DPF55 · Post #145 » by **Buck You** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:23 am

Dodgers blowing it again btw

up 7-0 to start the ninth, gave up 5 runs so far.

NeedsMoreCheese · Post #146 » by **NeedsMoreCheese** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:28 am

Buck You wrote:Dodgers blowing it again btw

up 7-0 to start the ninth, gave up 5 runs so far.

Relevance?

trwi7 · Post #147 » by **trwi7** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:35 am

http://www.nesn.com/2011/01/2011-red-so ... story.html

NeedsMoreCheese · Post #148 » by **NeedsMoreCheese** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:37 am

trwi7 wrote:http://www.nesn.com/2011/01/2011-red-sox-will-challenge-1927-yankees-for-title-of-greatest-team-in-major-league-history.html

That and this make me lawlz
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview/2 ... xpertpicks

Kerb Hohl · Post #149 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:37 am

trwi7 wrote:http://www.nesn.com/2011/01/2011-red-sox-will-challenge-1927-yankees-for-title-of-greatest-team-in-major-league-history.html

chuckleslove · Post #150 » by **chuckleslove** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:43 am

Kohl Is A Mome wrote:
trwi7 wrote:http://www.nesn.com/2011/01/2011-red-sox-will-challenge-1927-yankees-for-title-of-greatest-team-in-major-league-history.html

That and this make me lawlz
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview/2 ... xpertpicks

Steve Berthiaume should be fired for picking the Astros to win the Central

trwi7 · Post #151 » by **trwi7** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:45 am

chuckleslove wrote:
Kohl Is A Mome wrote:
trwi7 wrote:http://www.nesn.com/2011/01/2011-red-sox-will-challenge-1927-yankees-for-title-of-greatest-team-in-major-league-history.html

That and this make me lawlz
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview/2 ... xpertpicks

Steve Berthiaume should be fired for picking the Astros to win the Central

Had a few picking the Cubs to win the division.

chuckleslove · Post #152 » by **chuckleslove** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:47 am

Which is also absurd but the Astros were far and away the worst team all season.

beyond_the_arc · Post #153 » by **beyond_the_arc** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:49 am

chuckleslove wrote:
Kohl Is A Mome wrote:
trwi7 wrote:http://www.nesn.com/2011/01/2011-red-sox-will-challenge-1927-yankees-for-title-of-greatest-team-in-major-league-history.html

That and this make me lawlz
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview/2 ... xpertpicks

Steve Berthiaume should be fired for picking the Astros to win the Central

The Brewers won more home games than the Astros won games period. :lol:

WEFFPIM · Post #154 » by **WEFFPIM** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:52 am

I think the biggest thing to take out of that was how many people (myself included) thought it was the A's year this year.

El Duderino · Post #155 » by **El Duderino** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:53 am

humanrefutation wrote:There was like a 2 minute difference between the Sox loss and the Rays win.

From a Red Sox forum

I've gone completely numb, this is unreal.

I'm going to cry...

Orioles win. Epstein just threw up.

This is a funeral. I'm not staying to watch them put the body in the ground.

The Red Sox blow. They deserve to go home for the season. Bye Bye Tito.

I can't believe what I've seen today.....

This is probably the worst moment I've experienced as a sports fan... this hurts bad..

I'm off to drink myself to sleep and hopefully to death.

The worst choke in History for the Red Sox.

I'm absolutely heartbroken.

The levels of jubilation and heartbreak Boston fans had to feel tonight been epic.

1. See the Rays down 7-0 through seven innings

2. See Boston clinging to a 3-2 lead late

3. A rain delay comes so Sox fans and players see the Rays score six runs in the 8th inning to make it a game and then with 2 outs and 2 strikes, watch a scrub pinch hitter jack a game tying homer for Tampa.

4. Then in the top of the 9th with only a 3-2 lead Boston has runners on 1st and 3rd with nobody out and Ortiz/Gonzalez the next guys do up, but no runs score.

5. Bottom of the 9th and Boston twice is one strike from winning and instead back to back doubles tie the game. Next batter bloops in a game winning single that the Red Sox new 145 million dollar toy in LF can't get to.

6. A few minutes earlier the Yankees fail to score in the top of the 12th with 1st and 3rd nobody out and then in the bottom of the inning Longoria goes yard about five minutes after the latest Boston collapse to steal the playoff berth, while also forever cementing the Red Sox in baseball history for one of the biggest if not the biggest September choke jobs ever.

If it was almost any other fan base besides Boston/NY/Cubs/Cardinals, i'd actually have a bit of sympathy for the utter and massive kick in the balls torture that tonight had to have been. I'd be in the fetal position right now if that had happened to the Brewers instead.

It was Boston though so i decided to fire up a nice dooby of kind bud and a shot of Jager in honor of this epic Red Sox collapse and the state of complete shock there fans must currently be in. :rock:

Post #156 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:57 am

WEFFPIM wrote:I think the biggest thing to take out of that was how many people (myself included) thought it was the A's year this year.

Well...speaking of which...

viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1102891

Post #157 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:57 am

El Duderino wrote:It was Boston though so i decided to fire up a nice dooby of kind bud and a shot of Jager in honor of this epic Red Sox collapse and the state of complete shock there fans must currently be in.

That sounds like a helluva party.

Kerb Hohl · Post #158 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:59 am

Yeah, if the A's were healthy in their pitching staff they very well could have been in this Wild Card race. But we were wrong for sure.

Post #159 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:16 am

El Duderino wrote:
humanrefutation wrote:There was like a 2 minute difference between the Sox loss and the Rays win.

From a Red Sox forum

I've gone completely numb, this is unreal.

I'm going to cry...

Orioles win. Epstein just threw up.

This is a funeral. I'm not staying to watch them put the body in the ground.

The Red Sox blow. They deserve to go home for the season. Bye Bye Tito.

I can't believe what I've seen today.....

This is probably the worst moment I've experienced as a sports fan... this hurts bad..

I'm off to drink myself to sleep and hopefully to death.

The worst choke in History for the Red Sox.

I'm absolutely heartbroken.

The levels of jubilation and heartbreak Boston fans had to feel tonight been epic.

1. See the Rays down 7-0 through seven innings

2. See Boston clinging to a 3-2 lead late

3. A rain delay comes so Sox fans and players see the Rays score six runs in the 8th inning to make it a game and then with 2 outs and 2 strikes, watch a scrub pinch hitter jack a game tying homer for Tampa.

4. Then in the top of the 9th with only a 3-2 lead Boston has runners on 1st and 3rd with nobody out and Ortiz/Gonzalez the next guys do up, but no runs score.

5. Bottom of the 9th and Boston twice is one strike from winning and instead back to back doubles tie the game. Next batter bloops in a game winning single that the Red Sox new 145 million dollar toy in LF can't get to.

6. A few minutes earlier the Yankees fail to score in the top of the 12th with 1st and 3rd nobody out and then in the bottom of the inning Longoria goes yard about five minutes after the latest Boston collapse to steal the playoff berth, while also forever cementing the Red Sox in baseball history for one of the biggest if not the biggest September choke jobs ever.

If it was almost any other fan base besides Boston/NY/Cubs/Cardinals, i'd actually have a bit of sympathy for the utter and massive kick in the balls torture that tonight had to have been. I'd be in the fetal position right now if that had happened to the Brewers instead.

It was Boston though so i decided to fire up a nice dooby of kind bud and a shot of Jager in honor of this epic Red Sox collapse and the state of complete shock there fans must currently be in.

I think you and I are the two around here with about the same level of contempt for Boston teams and fans. Tonight has been absolutely euphoric.

beyond_the_arc · Post #160 » by **beyond_the_arc** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:23 am

humanrefutation wrote:
WEFFPIM wrote:I think the biggest thing to take out of that was how many people (myself included) thought it was the A's year this year.

Well...speaking of which...

viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1102891

Damn, I remember stepping out on a limb with my prediction expecting guys to get on my case, but I was damn close aside from the Twins turning into an epic ****.