Open Thread: 2007 Playoffs, Day Two

AJ would be a lock to beat out Lackey, playing or not.

it was just an excuse to write "Pronk."

... so that mikeA could vote his conscience.

Bonds:HollywoodOz::Clemens:monkeyball

Per wikipedia:His nickname, "Pronk", was given to him by former teammate Bill Selby during spring training of 2003 when people would sometimes refer to him as "The Project" and other times "Donkey" for the way he looked when running the bases.

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I don't know if this is the game or not, but I found it...thank you Wichita!

while sitting in dugout.

but I found a game where the starters combined to get 12 outs.  Andy Pettitte got 11 and Gil Heredia chipped in with 1.

Our first ugly playoff moment of the 2000s

but omar vizquel deserves all the credit:

"The eyes of the world were focused on every move we made. Unfortunately, Jose's own eyes were vacant. Completely empty. Nobody home. You could almost see right through him. Not long after I looked into his vacant eyes, he blew the save and the Marlins tied the game."

started wearing one in the wake of Mike Coolbaugh's death.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/s...

he may go limp before long.

/OK, I'll grow up some day.

at LetsGoTribe right now (took me a minute to figure out who LBJ referred too - I didn't think they were doing some kind of Vietnam flashback).

if I was an Indians/Cavs fan.

...if he was a front-runner for liking the Bulls, Cowboys and Yankees, he said (paraphrasing) "Well, the Yankees haven't been doing too well the past couple of years, so we'll see..."

On behalf of fans of teams who haven't been to the playoffs 12 straight years, I say to Lebron: "SHUT UP NOW."

Posada strikes out, Matsui pops up.

And how about that un-clutch A-Rod so far, as compared to Mr Yankee Jeter.

tears streaming down kendall's face, is that even possible?

...it's not.

where i think 95% of baseball announcers just need to die.

...but now I'm picturing Lou Holtz in an A's uniform.  Do they make unis that small?

Of course, if he became bench coach, he'd eventually become manager, which would make for some interesting press conferences.

...like Yankees-Indians did while Rockies-Phillies finished up.

has made me very confused as to how Lilly managed to have an excellent year in a hitter's park.

and Byrnes RBI triple.

I love AN, just as I love the A's, as much as anyone here.  But as a lurker over the past few days, I've actually been pretty impressed with the level of conversation over at Purple Row.  They're a smart group of fans in their own right, and their game threads for the one-game playin with the Padres, were fan-friggin-tastic.

Again, I don't say that to demean AN or anything of the sort, I just want to give equal props to the Rockies and their fans.  In many ways, they remind me of how Mariner fans looked during the heady postseason of 1995.  From any vantage point, Seattle is a true blue baseball city.  The Mariners' run in 1995 is a large reason why this came to pass.  And while I know that the Broncos exert a heavy pull, it wouldn't surprise me to see Denver become a pretty dedicated baseball city over the next few years.  They're a solid fanbase, it just takes them a bit more time to jump into active threads than it takes AN. :)

does not share your enthusiasm at the prospect of a Colorado-Arizona NLCS, when they could have Chicago-Philadelphia instead.  I think it will be fascinating if it happens, though.

with Alfonso Soriano.

Harden reaches for a ball, basically ends his season

Steve Ontiveros just struck out with some woman in a seedy bar and went home alone.