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From Rolling NYY - BOS 2004 ALCS thread part 2: The Magic Shoe :

But what does it mean when your #3 hitter can't drive in any runs? It means he's letting the team down. If you're a run producer, you need to get the job done when your team's struggling. It doesn't mean anything if you're Manny Ramirez and you're hitting .300 with no RBIs. That's not good. That's why the Red Sox were in a 3-0 hole.[/Joe Morgan]

-- David R. (quoteidio...), October 21st, 2004 11:13 AM. (popshots75`)

But did he get any leadoff walks? B/c those are as good as home runs! [/McCarver]

-- bnw (rilke...), October 21st, 2004 11:14 AM. (bnw)

There were a few times where Derek Jeter made some great stops on Manny, reaching down between his legs for ground balls and throwing strikes to first. [/Joe Buck]

-- David R. (quoteidio...), October 21st, 2004 11:20 AM.

Walks are for sissies. Manny's supposed to be the leader of that team. His job is to swing the bat and drive in runs. And he didn't do his job this time.

You know who did do his job? Mark Bellhorn. Some people complain about the K's, but again, his job was to set the table for the big RBI men, and you can't do that unless you take some hacks. Bellhorn is a scrappy, competitive player who wants to win badly. His homer in Game 6 convinced both teams that the Sox were capable of winning on the road. In this series, Bellhorn showed why he's one of the most valuable players in the entire American League [/John Kruk]

-- MindInRewind (brune...), October 21st, 2004 11:23 AM. (Barry Bruner)

He's no Shannon Stewart, though. [/Jayson Stark]

-- David R. (quoteidio...), October 21st, 2004 11:26 AM. (popshots75`)

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 21 October 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

My cat's breath smells like cat food. I make stabby. [/Steve Lyons]

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 21 October 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

As well as ripping on our (non)-favourite baseball personalities, after the World Series, we can collect all the best comments from the playoff thread and make this into the MLB Playoffs Excelsior Thread.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 21 October 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

As always, I am open to ideas.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 21 October 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, if a big inning is like a hurricane, with all the damage on the surface of the water, then walks are like the riptides underneath. [/T. McCarver]

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 22 October 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Waiting For Boof:

When the Red Sox won the fourth game of the series, it was almost automatic. They would go to the seventh game of the series, and then blow it. Giants fans know these things; it can't be done easily. The Sox rallied for Game Five. Game Six was another classic. This set up the crushing, soul-melting denouement. My prediction on how it would end went like this:

Joe Buck: Bottom of the ninth: Red Sox 3, Yankees 2. Runner on first This is what everyone wanted. Keith Foulke is on the mound, and he'll face Derek Jeter.

Tim McCarver: Blah blah hyuk blah snarf. And I knew that was going to happen. Duh.

Joe Buck: Jeter swings at the first pitch and pops it up! Playable for Cabrera, who...and it hits a pigeon! The ball goes towards the corner! Manny can't dig it out! And Jeter, a baserunner so good, so adept, it was if he were an agent of God, placed into our hands by some divine stroke of mercy, to rouse the faith of the non-believers and solidfy those who never had doubt, scores! The Yankees win the pennant!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob Dibble:

The Big Unit, Roger Clemens, Jason Schmidt and Paul Wilson are all potential canidates for the NL Cy Young.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've noticed that Joe Buck gets a lot of stick around here but I like him, so I was gratified to see that Richard Sandomir - my favorite sports writer for the Times by a mile - does, too. Describing the way Buck has ingratiated himself with McCarver, his dad's former booth-mate, Sandomir says Buck "has learned which buttons to push on McCarver. One, greet him by offering to shake his left hand. Two, suggest that catchers can't run and aren't very smart. Three, start a statement by saying, 'Back when you played.'"

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Stone pulled that schtick and got left off the team plane.

― mattbot (mattbot), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

joe buck is nice background noise, mccarver is not. i'm sure this contrast was considered a positive by idea but it totally ruins buck's major strength for me. (i guess it's just low expectations but i generally like commentators to be a kind of white noise if they're not going to be the show itself, and at this time of year they obv shouldn't)

― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

a positive by idea??? no a positve by fox

― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Clearly, Schilling is through for the year with that bum ankle. But Roger Clemens is a HOSS! [J. Brantley]

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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