Open World Series Thread - Game 4 - Is This It?
by baseballgirl on Oct 28, 2007 3:25 PM PDT
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PrintWell, after the disappointing first three games of the series, the question is now here: Are the Rockies going to be swept in a dominant showing of the American League, or is there still fight left in the little team that could?
Only a baseball miracle will help the Rockies now, as they send Aaron Cook out against Jon Lester. They either win tonight, or baseball is over for 2007.
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Let's go Rockies
I'm currently watching the Niners getting killed by the Aint's at home, after catching the end of the latest Raiders stinkfest. Please, Rockies, extend the baseball season at least one more game - this is going to be a long fall and winter.
There is a part of me that hopes it ends
tonight.
Just so I don't have to see Josh Beckett's face until Opening Day 2008 against the A's.
I can never root for the end of baseball...
even if the A's have long since hit the beach. Come on Rockies, give us just one more night!
Is this it
Can't you see I'm trying?
I don't even like it. I just lied to
Get to your apartment, now I'm staying
Here just for a while
I can't think 'cause I'm just way too tired
Is this it?
Is this it?
Is this... it?
Omigod!!!!!!!!!!!
I just had a prenomition (I get those)! Super hottie Erin Cook is going to pitch a none-hitter!!!! GO ROOKIES!!!!!!!!
-Cindi
Oops. Hmm.
I'm dyslexic, so sometimes I can only predict the past.
-Cindi
Oh lord
the only thing worse than a Sux win would be a Sux sweep, and it's already 1-0.
I have it on good authority
(my mother) that the Red Sox will not score again tonight. And she's waaaaay smarter than Cindi, btw.
At least no photos of Dafur
between innings....
Let's all get excited about overspending for a Chevy. You can bet that at least $1000 of the sticker price on each vehicle is paying for the "free broadcast" of this game.
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 6:30 PM PDT reply actions
I hate Manny. He is such a douche.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:32 PM PDT reply actions
Word
Manny is such a douche, he should have a Massengill endorsement waiting after this game.
Coming from a doctor that says a lot.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:35 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a doctor of Physics
Of course, my mom used to tell me that when she was a kid, suppositories were called physics, so maybe that is appropriate.
I was at a Halloween party last night and one
of my co-worker's daughters is 3-years old and loves Manny. I am hoping she gets smarter before starting kindergarten.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I might hate Manny
but he always leaves me feeling so fresh and clean...
Fresh like a summer's eve?
Anyone ever wish that we would have hired
Francona? I know managers don't make that much of a difference but he is the one guy affiliated with Boston that I do respect.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:40 PM PDT reply actions
Hey...
The new HD scoreboard is awesome. Cannot wait to see it in person.
I've seen some stuff online and it looks pretty
cool. I'm going to the KC/Green Bay game this weekend and will definitely wander over to the K. Hopefully you can get semi-close to that area.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions
You are kidding me!
I am sitting in Sec. 114, Row 32. They were $200
each from Ticket Solutions but one of my vendors gave them to me. It pays to be in purchasing!
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmmm...
I want to have Tony Gonzalez's babies. [none / 0] Replies: 0
posted by Jennifer on 10/21/2007 07:31:10 PM PDT
attached to Open Playoff Thread: Unjinxing the IndiansI'd have his babies. [none / 0] Replies: 2
posted by Jennifer on 09/21/2007 04:37:13 PM PDT
attached to Open Thread: Game 155 - A's at Cleveland (in reference to Kurt Suzuki)I want to have Jeff's babies. [none / 0] Replies: 0
posted by Jennifer on 09/17/2007 07:21:15 PM PDT
attached to Open Game Thread: Game 152 - Mariners vs. A's (Jeff at LL)
And that's just from Page 1.
She is willing to do her part for the good of
society. I am willing to do the same if Salma Hayek is interested. It's important to diversify races to create a more harmonious world.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, sure there are
I want to have Travis Buck's babies. [none / 0] Replies: 3
posted by Jennifer on 04/20/2007 05:51:20 PM PDT
attached to Open Thread: Game 16 - A's at Texas
Just search Comments for "babies". I didn't want to go back through the whole list.
We need to have an MFK thread.
Have you ever been to the Arrowhead Club?
I got passes one time last year and the view is freaking unbelievable. Of course they kick you out of the area once the game starts unless you call the stadium early in the week to get a table reserved.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think so.
I have been in some of the tents set up outside of the stadium before the game. The Ambassador's tent and some other tent the company I went with got us in. We got free buffet and free drinks. In the Ambassador's tent, they had free Author Bryants BBQ and an open bar. Some former player let me try on his Superbowl ring... which was great. Some other player said he wanted to get me drunk and eff me in the men's room. That was a little weird. Last home game, my boss said Kevin Costner visited the tent.
It wasn't Brett Favre, we presume
by Englishmajor on Oct 28, 2007 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Broadway Joe?
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions
You are f-ing funny. That is the first time I've
laughed today. Hopefully it wouldn't be in the men's room but maybe in the backseat of a car... at the minimum.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Wouldn't Joe need to be sober himself?
BTW- It's a restaurant/bar area on the club level
that is completely glassed-in and my pre-game seats were directly on the 50-yard line. The beer was $3.50 a bottle, which isn't bad, but it's like you are right on top of the field.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions
OT- I went to Gm 5 of Cleveland/Boston and they
have one hell of a scoreboard at Jacobs Field. It was the most impressive thing I've ever seen at a stadium thus far.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm just glad
"They" being the Royals.
The new scoreboard is being billed as the largest in the world. It's 106 feet by 86 feet. We'll see.
So apparently Alex Rodriguez
won the American League "Hank Aaron Award" but was unable to attend the presentation tonight "due to a prior commitment".
Yeah, I guess Alex knew that he would stink it up enough in the early rounds of the playoffs that it was safe to make non-baseball plans for October 28.
He is too busy looking in the mirror saying
"I am God!"
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions
A-Rod and Boras
are busy figuring out how much to screw the Wankees before he decides if he's going to opt out.
The Yankees better be careful because Lew and
Billy have some plans of their own. I wish!
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Let the bidding begin
Wow. WTF is he thinking? I guess NY is not a
fun place to play for him. Imagine the backlash from Yankee-nation especially if Boston wins the series tonight. Black Sunday.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Surprising that Fox doesn't mention it and SI
already has done so. Selig probably told them to not talk about any activities that aren't related to the WS.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Glad they aren't talking about A-Rod
This game is brutal enough all by itself.
I love that Boras texted Cashman the news
AROD SYS C U KTHXBAI
by Englishmajor on Oct 28, 2007 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Therapy appointment?
Oh pam. What is ONE more game of pain?
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't worry, pam5981--
I "took care" of my mom.
I don't care if they're family - NO ONE gets a prediction wrong.
If I see another shot of the bullpen
drummers, I'm going to puke in a spaghetti sauce jar and fedex it to Fox Sports headquarters.
Why can't fans just buy a pay-per-view
for $35? I'd pay that for a silent broadcast, from a few rows up behind home plate. No commentary, just the crowd noise, camera follows the pitching, then the batted ball. Maybe a couple of replays here and there. But no "kids asleep in the stands", no wads of chaw, then dribble-spit, no dugout shots, no bullpen antics.
....just want to see baseball.
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions
It makes too much sense
and would be too popular.
Okay... let's get some runs here. Ti-i-i-ime is
not on our side. No it isn't.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:17 PM PDT reply actions
I have a familiar feeling about this game
It reminds me of early in the season - if the A's were down more than one run, it seemed like the game was over.
Four months from today...
February 28, 2008, A's vs. Brewers at Maryvale; tune in at 12:05 Pacific time as Robert Buan "describes" the action!
Me neither
I enjoy college football and college basketball, but football is closer to the end than the beginning already, and basketball just isn't a real substitute for the daily routine of baseball.
a friend of mine is a serious basketball fan
I'll probably get some chances to see Warriors games (a good Bay Area team, at least). But I'm really just a baseball fan.
Ahhhh. Maryvale is a beautiful place to watch
a ballgame.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I was wondering why Cook was allowed to hit
in the bottom of the last inning -- and when he got on base, was allowed to run -- in a game that will end the baseball season if the Rockies lose.
Now it's 3-0 -- might as well be 1-0
This weekend sucks
My three football teams lost (four if you want to count my old high school, but I usually don't because they've never been any good). The Sux are about to sweep their second series in four years. The Patsies won again.
Oh well, at least I was able to replace the front door knob and fix a leaking kitchen faucet, so it wasn't a total loss.
I know the NFL isn't Little League but I thought
the Patriots were pretty classless by continuing to pass the ball when they were winning 45-0. This is coming from a Cowboy fan who HATES the Redskins.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:40 PM PDT up reply actions
My favorite football fantasy
has Belichek getting closelined like the linebacker-prison guard in "The Longest Yard".
Perhaps Brady asked
that since the game was out of reach, could he call his own plays?
"Sure" says Bellichek. Then Brady proceeds to pass!
Hey, maybe the linemen get less banged-up when there is no piled-up gang tackling at the line of scrimmage?
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions
That "control freak" would never allow Brady
to do that.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions
World Series: boring & crappy as the Super Bowl?
Discuss.
This year?
Yes. And you can add "frustrating" to your list.
And last year, and the year before...
Seriously, I think the last exciting WS was the Marlins beating the Yankees. Since then it's been crappy games and one-sided outcomes.
Here's a ridiculous fact: starting with the 2004 Series (Boston over St. Louis) the losing team has one 1 game. Total. That's 2 sweeps and one 4-1, with this year still up in the air.
And we didn't even see Lonestar's nipples.
Often true. I would prefer to be hanging out
with a big group of friends eating two-days worth of food in a 5-hour setting. A non-Fox broadcast would improve the WS quite a bit IMO. Joe Buck is just soooo tired and overexposed.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, no to JBuck
and Tim McC as well. The TBS guys were just fine. They knew the game, but didn't make you wince (my personal experience) like Buck and McCarver.
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Tony Gwynn excepted
His voice made me dive for the mute button, or a brick to toss through my TV.
It sure doesn't help
that the Rockies are playing just their 11th game in 27 days (and the Red Sox their 14th in 28 days). It completely disrupts the rhythm that is established during the regular season. MLB and TV need to sit down and establish flexible scheduling for postseason...probably no more than one off-day per postseason series, with day games scheduled as necessary to facilitate travel, and with the next series starting the second day after the two teams are identified.
The excitement is diluted terribly by dragging it out so long.
I'm telling ya
a round-robin tournament in Las Vegas, four AL teams (only playing AL teams) and the same for the NL. No travel, and lose four games and you're out. No days off. The NL and AL winners meet in a traditional World Series....beginning October 7th!
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd go!
I feel like no one would ever vote/decide to do this for a number of reasons (no home field advantage etc etc), but I would love to have a tournament like that. I'd love to go regardless of which teams made it, though I'm sure it would be pretty impossible to get tickets haha
Yea.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:49 PM PDT reply actions
I want to thank
"I Am Legend," starring Will Smith, in theaters December 14th, for the stellar World Series moment.
Woohoo Yes!
Yay, homerun
My favorite is "I am Sparta Cust"
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn it, Hawpe with another rally-killer
John Denver
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Hopefully, this Rockies rally
won't run out of gas.
They're going down.
What's that?
Eric Gagne warming up? Say it isn't so! The Rockies may have a chance!
Ultimate sign of Boston disrespect
Gagne warming up in the bullpen.
I bet Timlin's cap smells like ass.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:02 PM PDT reply actions
Sux 6 outs from winning
I can't stand it
I wish my cable would fail.
Not sure how I feel about that one.
That little Red Sox fan looked Satanic.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:08 PM PDT reply actions
Well if you told me in March
that Bobby Kielty would hit a home run in Game 4 of the World Series, I would have been VERY excited.
nice touch
I feel the same way..
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Ronnie MAC!
if they have to win, I'm glad he got to do that.
Oh my f**king god
Kielty looks wrong with a buzz cut.
Sorry, that was not a bright spot for me.
I sort of shoved the 2007 knife in me just a little bit more.
We weren't good enough to be in the WS
On that topic
Did Ryan Christenson get a ring in 2001? He played 19 games for the Dbacks that season? Oakland let him go mid-season.
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
With WS wrapped up
now we hear about A-Rod.
Heck if anything it's just making the Yankees
look worse and the Red Sox look better.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions
More like A-Rod telling the Sux
here am I - pay me!
Jeesh, it isn't bad enough that the Red Sox
will probably sweep, we have to get news about the Yankees. This isn't even on ESPN!
"I just spoke with Scott Boras...
...and he confirmed that Bud Selig has decided that the World Series is so utterly boring and not worth a minute of anyone's time that we might as well start the A-Rod rumor mill during Game 4 so that somebody will write a baseball-related story that anyone will read come Tuesday."
word x4
Can we just hold Rupert Murdoch for ransom??
= not money. Just silence from Fox for six years.
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
If A-Rod goes to Boston
I will pray fervently for the end of the world to start with a meteor strike on Fenway park.
sheesh
I'm not even watching the game right now. Just reading everyones comments makes me want to throw something haha
I would love it
if the Yankees picked this moment to announce Mattingly as their new manager.
or Girardi since he is supposedly their new
manager.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
{disapproving look}
Bad Klown.
bad klown
That was the inside of my house earlier tonight.
I had a fire going and had two boxes sitting next to my wood burning stove. (STUPID!) They caught on fire and I luckily got them out to the back yard to put them out. Luckily I wasn't in bed when this happened but the entire house was filled with smoke :-)
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that picture
from the runaway Bozo shot at Eniwetok in 1957, or the Soviets' Petrushka blast of 1959?
No, that's from ohtobe21likehuston's living room
All kidding aside... it scared the shit out of me
and I now respect fire more than ever.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Do you have smoke alarms?
Yes. They went off but I don't have one in the
room where the fire would have happened. Maybe I should have one installed in the next room over and check the batteries more often!
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
My town's volunteer Fire Dept.
goes door-to-door once a year checking people's smoke alarms. If you have all the required alarms, and the batteries work, they give you a coupon for a free pizza from a local pizzeria. If you don't pass the inspection, they'll hook you up with free alarms.
I don't know what happens if they stop by and they find a couple of boxes on fire in your living room, creating a bizarre clown-shaped mushroom cloud in your house.
I believe they follow a strict policy whereby
they knock the owner of the home over the head with a sledgehammer. You know... to drive their point home.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I did something like that once. Was packing to
move and left the boxes next to a wall heater.
We is a couple of geniuses.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:45 PM PDT up reply actions
The crazy thing about the boxes is that one of
them was for my new firewood "rack" so that I don't have to store extra wood near the stove itself. I have forced air so that it ventilates the heat throughout the house... so I am hoping it saves me some money on natural gas this year.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Expect grover to take you to task
Everyone always expects THAT. Oh you mean
about the fire.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Good point :-)
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions
SWEET! At least it's an interesting game now.
What a rally-killer, though.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:35 PM PDT reply actions
Omigod!!!! I called it too!!!!!
RIGHT after it happened!
-Cindi
P.S. We're like "twinsies," OaklandC!!!!
4-3 now!
Kielty homer looms large.
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 8:36 PM PDT reply actions
Francona might not have let
Okajima face a righty as the tying run, though.
AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
Have I mentioned how much I despise the incessant crowd-reaction shots on Fox?
I know what a nervous fan looks like. I'd like to watch the players, if you don't mind.
Fox directors must have ADD
Can't focus anywhere for more than three seconds
The "cupped" hands over the mouth is really
played out as much as the wave.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
It is bad
but the Giants broadcasts are the worst. Of course, there's no 'baseball' on a major-league level at those games...:^)
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh ick. I'm doing the online jigsaw puzzle and
it's a picture of a miniature hearse and casket.
The banner on the casket spray says "Beloved Rockies"
Come on, Rockies
Do this for Louis.
well
3 outs away from not watching ESPN for at least a month while they butter the red sox balls...
How much different is the next month
from the previous 11?
I'm guessing the rest of the time they suck
they will have pictures and video of them
celebrating to accompany the typical bias...
I hate the Red Sox more than anything this is so depressing
Codfish balls, of course
by Englishmajor on Oct 28, 2007 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Who is the Rockies' backup C?
The morons who run KNBR 1050
have decided to run endless commercials, instead of the bottom of the 9th inning of the game.
Really? So is Fox
KNBR owns a piece of the Gnats
Therefore, they have no idea how to cover a WS win.
Hilariously
they never did rejoin the game broadcast. Still playing endless commercials as I watch the Red Sox celebrate on the field on TV. Utterly pathetic.
Maybe someone finally wized up
and pulled the plug on Miller and Morgan
Board op went out to get a sandwich, maybe
by Englishmajor on Oct 28, 2007 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Hell of a catch by Ellsbury. Dammit!
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 9:03 PM PDT reply actions
Why isn't Manny being Manny out there?
I'm going to say goodnight because as soon as I
see out #3. The tv goes off and I go take a hot bath
Just finishing up a beer
so I can smash the bottle over my TV
merde
I want to see the Nippon Ham Fighters
battle these guys for world dominance.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Oct 28, 2007 9:08 PM PDT reply actions
Yama yama yama
Yama yama yama
Boredom, boredom, boring boredom.
The bright side is
If it was the Athletics ahead 3-0 in the series with Street trying to close the ninth, he would have given up consecutive HRs and the Rockies win, then go on to defeat the Athletics, four games to three.
See all the anguish, superstition, and "what if"s we all avoided??
by One won lost won on Oct 28, 2007 9:10 PM PDT reply actions
gross
Seeing the replay of John Henry in the stands
two grim-faced Rockies fans were seated right behind him, wearing rally caps; they turned and headed for the exits as he thrust his fist in the air. I would have dumped a beer on him.
What? No Taco Bell buffet to show us in the visiting clubhouse?
This was horrible
I can only imagine how bad it would've been if I was an actual Rockies fan.
More like in '03
after Tejada and Byrnes cost us a chance to sweep Boston
Yeah that too.
I really want to be WS champs again. The last time was so great but it's a long time ago now. We need another fix!
I don't have the sound on, but
I'm guessing that Ken Rosenthal is asking Clint Hurdle, "So Clint, which one of us is more of a loser?"
I am happy for Ronnie Mac
and I always liked Francona. Pedroia's family are neighbors of very good friends of mine so am happy for them too. The Rockies did something they have never done before and I am happy for their success. Wish they would have won a couple of games to make this more interesting but the Red Sox are a damn good team.
Is it spring yet?
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