World Series 2009 - who you got?

by sirbed on Oct 26, 2009 8:34 PM PDT Comment 30 comments

At the begining of the playoffs I posted a prediction post on who I thought would win the World Series and as is often the case I was completely right as I predicted the Philadelphia Phillies would be in the World Series.

I was a little less right about the fact that I thought they'd lose the World Series to the Boston Red Sox but hey that still means I'm batting .500 although it is a small sample size (that's for you statheads).

So the question is real simple....who you got?

I see the Phillies making Derek Jeter lovers (Buck/McCarver/ESPN/Models/Actresses/Puppies/God) unhappy and beating the Yankees in 7 games.

I'm getting fancy this time and putting up a poll.

Poll

Who will win the World Series

(A) Yankees - the evil empire strikes back

23 votes

(B) Phillies - a new empire is born

54 votes

(C) Huh - I thought baseball ended when the A's stopped playing

17 votes

94 votes | Poll has closed

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My head says Yankees, my heart is with the Phillies b/c they are not the Yankees.

JJ Martin
The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. ~Bob Uecker

by JJ Martin on Oct 26, 2009 9:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

You an about a milliongazillion ANers!

"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." Gaylord Perry

by BERRYJO on Oct 26, 2009 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm going with my heart as well

but I really do believe the Phillies can beat the Yankees. It really should be a great World Series and for the sake of baseball I hope it’s a competitive series.

by sirbed on Oct 26, 2009 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

by DDroney on Oct 26, 2009 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Should be an interesting Series...

…but here’s my problem:

It’s now been 22 days since the end of the regular season. The Phillies have played 9 games in those 22 days, same as the Yankees. In the regular season teams usually play, what, maybe 19 or 20 games over any 22-day stretch.

If the A’s were playing, the World Series would obviously be extremely important to me. But two teams I’m not invested in…well, I’ll probably watch a good portion of the Series, but I can tell you that this coming Saturday night I’m more interested in USC-Oregon.

This issue of diluting the postseason with the addition of all the off days to suit the television networks needs to be fixed, and soon.

by Soaker on Oct 26, 2009 9:41 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs

Go Ducks!!!!!

Yeah, I know what I’ll be watching on Saturday…. :) :) :)

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Oct 26, 2009 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

&%$#ing rec'd

The length of this “new” postseason is insane, as is its effect on pitching staffs. It’s like every game is the last game of the season— who cares if you throw in everything but the kitchen sink; the next game isn’t for a week anyway.

Without going into any radical revamps of the basic structure, they could at least revert it to the pre-2007 methodology so that teams couldn’t use a damn three-man rotation.

Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving

by PaulThomas on Oct 27, 2009 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Aren't the freakin' playoffs done yet?

It seems like ages since the season ended. It’s almost Halloween. I thought the World Series was supposed to be done by now.

"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan

by iglew on Oct 26, 2009 9:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

it is done, the yankees won. move along

by Future Ed on Oct 26, 2009 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was done

three weeks ago

"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan

by iglew on Oct 27, 2009 12:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You should root for the yankees

1) If the yankees win, the red sox have to spend more. The more the two teams dump into payroll the higher luxury tax they pay. that is more money for the A’s and IFA’s.

2) the Yankees need to win the world series every few years to remind us all they are evil. If the yankees never win the WS they will just be a sad big payroll team that will ganer some sympathy at some point, like the mets.

3) Nick Swisher

4) Maybe it will end the Alex rodriguez sucks stuff

by Future Ed on Oct 26, 2009 10:39 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

You shouldn't root for the yankees

1) They suck. With the intensity of a thousand suns.

And your dream, absolve.
And your path, dissolve.

by danmerqury on Oct 26, 2009 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Since the beginning of time,

man has yearned to destroy the ~~sun~~ Yankees.

"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan

by iglew on Oct 27, 2009 12:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The only compelling argument is Nick Swisher!!

Regarding Item 2 – I’d like to see a money team NOT win just because they expect TO win since they can virtually get any player they want.

I just can’t root for the Yankees…..

"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." Gaylord Perry

by BERRYJO on Oct 27, 2009 7:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"I just can't root for the Yankees"

I’m with you there BERRY JO. I really believe the Yankees represent everything that is wrong and unfair about baseball and I will never root for them under any circumstances.

by sirbed on Oct 27, 2009 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not saying I'm rooting for the yankees

by Future Ed on Oct 27, 2009 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can't believe I'm kinda defending NY

But you do realize there are a handful of teams that do the exact same thing the Yankees do, right? Spend, spend, spend … the Red Sox, Mets, Angels, Dodgers, and Cubs, just to name a few.
Sorry, but I can’t get real mad at the team that spends the most and not “hate” on the others just the same. Let’s get real — once your payroll hits about 150 million, who’s counting?!

I needed a team so I wouldn’t turn into one of the eighty million pink hat-wearing Bud Light-drinking mulleted idiots at Fenway.

by Vacafan on Oct 27, 2009 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Number of teams with payrolls over 150M: One.

(yes, the Mets were 149M and the Cubs were 134M, but still)

They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick

by mikev on Oct 28, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yankees

I think the Yankees will sweep. I hope the Phillies take them out in seven.

Other kids may be sayin' hi-ho, but The Gooch just says yo.

by whobob on Oct 26, 2009 11:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Go Yankees!

Sorry, I’m no Yankees fan, to be sure. But anything that makes Red Sox fan miserable is alright by me. That’s why I’m cheerin’ for NY — because it pisses Boston off.

I needed a team so I wouldn’t turn into one of the eighty million pink hat-wearing Bud Light-drinking mulleted idiots at Fenway.

by Vacafan on Oct 27, 2009 8:36 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Baseball is still going on? People aren't watching are they?

Some motherfcukers are always trying to ice skate uphill - Blade.

by OldhamA on Oct 27, 2009 9:24 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I think the Phillies can repeat

they have the firepower in the lineup and if the pitching staff is on they can be lights out. It will be tough but maybe if they get beat Burnett a couple times and stay close against Pettite and CC they will have a great chance.

It’s kind of lame that the defending champs are viewed as underdogs but the Stankies definitly have some starpower on their team. It should be a good series.

You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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by micdog2001 on Oct 27, 2009 11:45 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs