AYO GIMME A MOHAWK 2008 World Series - Philadelphia Philies vs. Tampa Rays

fuck the phillies

rays in 4

AL DOMINANCE

phils 6

rays in 5

no one knows what the fuck their talking about
prediction: this will be a classic series
will go six games minimum

Rays in 6.

rays in 5

Rays in 5

(wau, sanskrit surfaces for sumthin besides a Mets bash)

Man this is tough.

I'm an NL guy, but I can't really stand the Phils. But the Rays are Obama. Rays in 7.

Rays in six

Rays in 5, will be no more competitive than other recent World Series.

rays in 5

I think the Phillies are better than people are giving them credit for -- 13-3 to end the season and 7-2 in the playoffs is impressive (yeah, 2007 Rockies, weaker league and all that). And the Rays offense isn't nearly as good as it looked against Boston.

Rays in 6, but I think the Phillies will surprise a lot of people in this series.

only if Ryan Howard has a September-type week.

obama in six

And the Rays offense isn't nearly as good as it looked against Boston.

elaborate pls.

if the phils win i will boycott baseball forever, no hyperbole.

They hit 16HR in 7G vs Boston, and no team is that good. Same goes for BJ Upton's 8HR/11G in the playoffs so far. They scored 43R against a very good Boston pitching staff, even though they were just 9th in the AL in scoring. They're bound to cool off.

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I disagree with the strength of Boston's pitching staff:

Game 2: Beckett is obv hurt and Timlin sucks.
Game 3: Lester has never pitched 230 innings in his life and was bound to fatigue w/o extra days of rest.
Game 4: Wakefield sucks as do the mop-up guys.

I think Tampa's offense exploited Boston's flaws.

the only phil i like is old man moyer but i don't like him enough to hope for any outcome other than the rays humiliating the phillies. RAYS IN 5!

Pitchers always wear down late in the year, so it's basically a given that a lot of pitching staffs aren't as reliable in the playoffs as they are in the regular season. So saying that "team X's pitchers are tired and team Y exploited that" doesn't really get us anywhere.

Okajima and Papelbon being untouchable more than made up for Timlin sucking (and it's not like Timlin was expected to pitch high leverage innings anyway, extra-inning slugfests excepted).

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The only pitcher i said was fatigued was Lester.

Beckett is straight up injured. There ain't no amount of braided Phiten necklaces gonna heal what he's got going.

Every other pitcher I mentioned is not good.

You say Tampa's offense if overrated, I'm countering that Boston's pitching is overrated. Hey, let's call the whole thing off.

But following that logic, if the Rays offense was so hot vs. the Sox' supposedly vaunted pitching staff, that means that the Rays will decimate the Phils more inferior starting rotation, right? Right?

depends if the phillies pitching staff breaks down as badly as the sox did in games 2-5

Even if the Rays' bats cool significantly, it's not like the Phillies bats tore up the Brewers and Dodgers (40 runs in nine playoff games). Several days off should not help (see recently: '07 Rockies, '06 Tigers).

NPR reported today that 6 members of the Rays joined Obama on stage at his Rally in Tampa. Not sure which 6 it was.

Rad.

I bet they'll get way more shit than Curt Schilling ever did

It was actually 8:

David Price
Fernando Perez
Carl Crawford
Cliff Floyd
Jonny Gomes
B.J. Upton
Edwin Jackson
Jason Bartlett

http://s.wsj.net/media/Tampa_Bay_art_400_20081020135306.jpg

who's third douche from the left?

still, way cooler than joe thomas and brady quinn shilling for mccain

That's Jonny Gomes, motherfucker.

faggy gay-mes

He's probably still high on e and champagne from last night's festivities. They probably all are...

I really have a hard time accepting that yet another cheapskate Florida expansion team is in the WS, though that fact is mitigated by never having beaten the Giants.

the hell? my post vanished!!!

Don't even try it. Don't even think it. Because if you even think it, you're missing the point.

Don't you understand what's happening here?

The Greatest Team Turnaround Story in the History of Modern Sports.

That's what.

(Stark, not Omar Plaschkebom)

that's suprising. i'd definitely have pegged gomes for a mccain guy.

the really little dude has to be bartlett, right?

I really have a hard time accepting that yet another cheapskate Florida expansion team is in the WS, though that fact is mitigated by never having beaten the Giants.

They do have a Giants connection - the Giants were on the verge of going to Tampa Bay in 93 before the deal got cancelled at the last minute. The Rays franchise was a consolation prize in some ways.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Picking Rays in 6.

Vegas Odds:
TBA -$135
PHI +115

can you put that in English

Rays in 5

TBA = you bet $135 to earn $100 if Tampa wins.
PHI = you bet $100 to earn $115 if Philadelphia wins.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-10-20-rays08-mets69-chart_N.htm

Brigg (PA): What's your stance on the Phillies "Why Can't Us?" slogan? Stupid; hilarious; something in between?

Rob Neyer: (12:36 PM ET ) Hilarious. And more memorable than "Cowboy Up."

"Why Can't Us?", WHA???

I can't believe how anticlimactic this feels.

We need Bowa & a bottle of Bushmills STAT.

The fans will do a Brett Myers on Lidge if this lead is blown.

....and Maddon brings in a guy with a 69 career OPS+ to pinch-hit.

Jason Bartlett: Series MVP

And now he is pinch-hitting for THE TEAM MVP

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GONNA GO TORCH ME ONE OF NEM WAWAS

2008 World Series: http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/handball.gifhttp://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/images/smilies/emot-dong.gif

brad lidge is gonna replace my tug mcgraw pic now ...

At least we were spared THE HANGING CHAD FEELING amirite

AYO GET ME A FUKKIN TASTYCAKE

i hope to GOD someone got a pic of lidge on his knees after he got the strikeout

i knew no team named after a body of water could ever win the world series

ayo get me some fucking Kaopectate

Three one-run games = worst WS ever

uhhh I'm sure they did xp

also, thank god this fucking season is over

Seemed like a fairly tepid celebration.

itd be pretty compelling if a guy died at the bottom of that pig pile

"I've never been so happy to be hit by a big guy in my life!"

Thank you Joe Maddon for tomorrow's columnar deluge which will probably feature all of the following storylines:

1) Rays = inexperienced, overrated, nervous kids
2) "AL better than NL my ass"
3) Phillies winning playing "small ball" and "doing the little things"

OH YEAH THE ROCKY THEME GETTING RAW EGGS NOW

oh and:

4) Ryan Howard = best Philly ever!!!!1!

LOL Philly booing Selig after winning a championship.

^this is why we root for philadelphia

OH YEAH THE ROCKY THEME GETTING RAW EGGS NOW

i agree -- THERE ARE OTHER PHILLY SONGS OUT THERE, FOX!!

Like the Rocky II theme!

Phils in 5 1

step up, smartypants

or "eye of the tiger," even ...

it would be too much to expect Ween or Schooley-D from Fox, though ;_;

or

http://llnw.image.cbslocal.com/6/2007/02/02/320x240/CIMSB3.jpg

and cause we're corny indie fuXors:

c'mon, "escalator of life" at least

now you dunnit ... time to unleash Smash Police on yo' azz:

smash PALACE, even :-)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/102908_win2_600.jpg

2) "AL better than NL my ass"

http://www.smilies.our-local.co.uk/index_files/nodding.gif http://www.smilies.our-local.co.uk/index_files/nodding.gif http://www.smilies.our-local.co.uk/index_files/nodding.gif

lol @ bandwidth-leeching fan of 8th-place pitcher hitting

haha

another year we coulda done 2 outta 3 and been done with it

2008 Philadelphia Phillies Tampa Bay Rays 4-1
2007 Boston Red Sox Colorado Rockies 4-0
2006 St. Louis Cardinals Detroit Tigers 4-1
2005 Chicago White Sox Houston Astros 4-0
2004 Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 Bad Dream

[00:15] me: welp, that's it
[00:15] me: never watching baseball again
[00:16] mets fan: what if Los Bravos win it next year?
[00:16] me: hm
[00:16] me: that would prob make up for it
[00:17] me: i was just thinking actually, the only way i care about baseball again is if the front office goes apeshit and spends a billion dollars to create some unholy phillies-destroying machine
[00:17] mets fan: i was hoping a different front office would do exactly that~
[00:18] me: and by phillies-destroying machine i dont mean build up a team, i mean i want them to fill a bus with C4 and drive it into the hotel they're staying at
[00:18] mets fan: hahaha

Homage to "Fire Joe Morgan"

U GUIZE

phuck this Series (and you Maddon, for yr o-so-timely use of Price)

http://phillyfixmycar.blogspot.com/

Shastatacular

"What a year, 2008," said shortstop Jimmy Rollins. "I know a lot of people made a big deal about the numbers '80 and '08, and I think there's something special about that. A lot of things were made in the offseason, we can talk about the New York Mets. They brought in that great pitcher, Johan Santana, but they forgot that it takes more than one player to bring home a championship."

May the Mets disembowel the Phillies next year.

^^^^

this ws was almost too boring for me to be pissed off at that

fuck you, philadelphia

Jimmy Rollins, frontrunner.

We brought in that great reliever, Brad Lidge, but we forgot that we wouldn't have even MADE the playoffs had he blown just four saves that led to losses."

ILOVEBASEBALL

WE R FAIR N BALANCED:

Comments by the Marlins and Phillies since the final weekend of the 2007 regular season have pointed to the Mets' on-field celebrations as factors in their dislike for the Mets.

"When you're the better team and you celebrate every little hit and home run, other teams don't like that," Easley said. And he acknowledged that, "I probably saw some more intensity" from opponents the Mets had offended.

On-field celebrating became an issue during the final week of the 2007 season when the Marlins thought the Mets were excessive. Some Mets had the same sense. They addressed it with Lastings Milledge, who had been a most conspicuous and animated celebrator.

Jose Reyes, often the leader of the Mets' choreographed responses to home runs, said in Spring Training said he would cease and desist with such antics. But, urged by some teammates, he abandoned the lower key in May.

"Jose has to be himself," Easley said, echoing the words Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado spoke after Reyes had reverted. "If that's what he needs to do to get more out of himself, then he should do it. When he did ... I think I saw more vigor in the way we played.