a couple of Angel fans gloated over Morales' homerun off Street, to which an A's fan nearby responded with "Let's go Red Sox!"  And I said "yeah!" while my niece looked at me as if I was crazy. It was a knee jerk response, but told me once and for all who I hated most.

as I hate the Yankees.  Or as much as I'm growing to hate the Angels.  So... Go Red Sox and Go Indians!  And then Go Indians again!

that all 4 NL teams in the playoffs are different from last year's entrants

If the Angels lose, I'll be happy, if for no other reason so Rev Halofan can shove his panther where it will do the most good.

If the Red Sox lose, at least we will avoid the Yankees/Red Sox circle-jerk, plus there is nothing better than seeing Red Sox fans watch their team lose.

If any AL team not from Cleveland advances to the World Series, I will become the world's biggest NL fan, even if the NL team is the Cubs with their annoying fans. I will praise the NL style of play while stressing the necessity of "manufacturing runs", and how the DH has ruined the game, and how players that walk a lot are selfish and just clog up the bases.

Win a few for Steve Goodman.  Hey, Chicago, whaddya say?  The Cubs are gonna win today.

And I read an interesting interview with Theo Epstein in the Boston Globe today.  He would not discuss any non-baseball items with the reporter, including what's on his iPod.  What has he got to hide?  But, go Sox, for this round anyhow.

Red Sox Win
Indians Win

National League... Meh. Don't care.

rockies over phillies
d-backs over cubs
indians over yanks
red sox over angels

rockies over d-backs
indians over red sox

indians over rockies

actual predictions:

phillies
cubs
yanks
red sox

phillies
red sox

red sox

Cubs with 99 years of futility, and the Indians with 59 years.  The Phillies' 27 years only seems like forever, what with all the resounding boos.

Go Phillies!

In the past few days, I have realized that this season was like a really bad hook-up. Oh, the first of the season was looking good. Real Good....you start to think "Oh, this could be going somewhere that's really fun". You go on a few more dates, not real sure if you're into this or not, but decided "Well, why not? What's the worst that could happen?" Next thing you know you can't find your underwear, you have a weird rash and the Halos and Sux are in the ALDS......and Frank Thomas is doing pre-game commentary?

Red Sox sweep the Angels
Indians beat the Yankees
Indians beat the Red Sox

Cubs over the D'backs
Rockies over the Phils
Cubs over Rockies

Cubs over Indians

baseball!

I don't think the Rockies announcers are unbiased ;-)

doesn't appear to be broadcasting this game...and mlb.com is not offering it for free (not that I really expected it, but getting the game on Monday for free gave me some hope...)

well, that means I'll get more work done...

I have a TV in our work area, and it's perfectly okay for me to have the game on as long as the sound is not up, but I can't see the screen from my desk. Would it be a breach of etiquette for me to get the building guys to rewire our space so I could move the TV -- given that I'm only here for another week?

A young phenom, hard-throwing righthander, slightly built, had a number of injury problems early in his career...finally gave up the notion of being a starting pitcher and has had quite a long, successful career out of the bullpen.  Wow, he's almost 40.  Anybody see a parallel to a certain Athletic here?

I can see beating Cole Hamels on the road in Game 1 having a similar effect as the A's beating Santana in the Metrodome last year.

No appearance by Jorge Julio today.

What a nightmare.

I actually have no trouble whatsoever routing for the BoSox. My grandpa was from Salem and was a huge, lifelong Red Sox fan.  So it's kind of in the blood.

I hope they sweep the damn Halos.

and home runs.

You know, "refined" is probably the last adjectie I'd imagine using in connection with Lackey.

Anyone notice that with Figgins stealing 3rd and Vlad chopping it to Lowell in the 1st how eerily similar it was to a play earlier in the year?  Only difference was that he only stepped toward Figgins instead of diving at him and busting up his shoulder.

...keep giving up hits...

It's 1 am here and I've got to catch an 8:15 train tomorrow morning.

Have fun routing the LAAAAAAs to defeat!

I'd prefer neither win, but I actually hate the RedSox more than the Angels.  

I started typing a message that basically said "it feels like Boston is going to rip this open right now"

cheered for Big Papi without even thinking about it. Lackey looked pissed...LOVE IT!

to wake up from my nap to.

(Go...Boston? REALLY!?!)

manager complains too much. Apparently he was serious. Typical crack smoking Angel fan.

So I can root against the winner in the next round without feeling like I have to go to confession for choosing a team in this round.

Unless the Yankees make it, of course, then we get a full seven game series of deciding who we can't stand more.

Looking forward to it already.

Please Cleveland spare us all, and I swear I won't mention "The Drive" or Michael Jordan ever again. (But I can't promise to keep Mike Davis in '81 from escaping my lips every now and then).

why I was yelling HA HA SUCK IT LACKEY YOU BITCH while they were watching something on C-SPAN in their cubicles.

Nice to see Lackey getting the balls beaten outta him

but I'd like to see the Angels take the lead so F-Rod can come in and blow it.  3 frigging games straight.  That would be fun.

Go Indians!

Angels in 1st place since April 25

Dane Cook will spend eternity watching episodes of Frank TV over and over and over again.

and absolutely hate the Angels.  Did anyone see this quote from Alyssa Milano today?

And you never wanna see a pitcher like Tom Glavine go down that hard.

Yeah.  I know that I am pretty immature.

Nice to Lackey go down really hard (on Satan's pecker).  

tough one...I can't stand either team. But in the end I found there was no way that I could root for the Rux...and especially not in Fenway Park.

Flip a coin?

I think I'll go with Chicago just for the drought factor.

Lackey getting a loss.

but i did root for the Angels (Angles?) against the Giants in 2002. We all did right?

The winner in Game 7: Lackey

I am now taking a cheese grater to my face.

WE'RE ALL GONNA LIVE!!!!!!

But, boy howdy, this time of year, the angle of the light, the divison playoffs...and Nico's recent thread where he brought up the Byrnes fiasco...that ruined my session with the hypnotist that I do every late September to keep me from thinking about that.

for the aversion therapy.

More announcers with direct A's connections.

Oops 6-0 in the first.

Thanks Gil. You too Terrence.

playoff game tomorrow, hey why don't you out to the bar tonight and have some fun, let it all out, Boston has some great establishments.

Next up:  Teddy Ruxpin reading A's playoff "highlights" while vacuuming.

interleague play.  I was driving through a tornado but my XM was coming through clear as a bell.

Outrageous. I was looking forward to that.

since he was on the A's.

Shouldn't Dick Stockton being doing Magic-Bird games?

Ah when shorts were shorts.

TV crew went through the umpire introductions too fast for us to get good "oh no!"s into it...

I hope Directv gets it patched up.

this Dane Cook thing isn't funny. Fuck Dane Cook. Fuck you, Fox. Fuck you, TBS. Fuck you, ESPN. I can't take this. Honestly, I can't.

Blame of the Game:
L I N K - T O - H U B R I S

hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

(I actually like Byrnes, but I'm rooting for HRs at the plate, and hilarity in the field.) 1/2 so far.

muffing the play.

Why did we only get those uncreative little towels?

Ramon's beautiful bunt to beat Boston.  Ahhhh.

The first time in all of my years when I was there for the clinching of a playoff series.

for what seemed like an hour in the Boston series, derisively chanting MAN-NY, MAN-NY.  

Stephen Drew homers, Arizona 1-0

illogical event allowed Arizona hit a HR.

commercial.

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