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Lucky Grand Master

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The headline in the LA Times: Dodgers lose Ugly to Phillies. Pitcher Hiroki Kuroda just couldn't find the strike zone, and the Dodger batters couldn't find the runs. I had been hoping for a Yankees-Dodgers World Series, but thye have to do better than they did last night.

Their pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, is quite a hottie, but he had troubles too. I know there is a big Dodger fan here in Hooville, so maybe he can get them to pick it up in time to beat the Phillies.

 

(Of course, there is also a big Phillies fan here, so maybe it will be a stand-off!)

 

As for my Yankees, so far, so good, The five hour game Saturday night was a real thriller, played in some torrential rains at times. Butt-boy Alex Rodriguez is so far the series hero. Alternate butt-boy Mark Texeira is looking limp against the Angels, but he still spreads his legs better than anyone.

 

Tonight my favorite Andy Pettite goes against the Angels in sunny LA. Surely the Angels can pull one out today, because if they don't, they are history for this year. The Yankees won't blow a 3 game lead.

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Cooper Grand Master

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Dogers vs Yankees?

 

Lucky, Here in NY the headlines read: "Phillies Crush Dodgers".

 

It's no secret that many New Yorkers would like to see the Yankees and Dodgers in a World Series. The return of Joe Torre to NY sporting a Dodger's uniform could only be viewed as a sweet revenge. :rolleyes:

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The return of Joe Torre to NY sporting a Dodger's uniform could only be viewed as a sweet revenge. :rolleyes:

 

Depends on the outcome, does it not? I admit I would love to see that series & suspect lots of Yankee fans like me would be conflicted. :confused:

 

Lucky says, "The Yankees won't blow a 3 game lead." Never again! ;)

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What should a series between the Phillies and the Yankees be called? The artic series? The Amtrak series? The immigrants vs. the peaceniks? :)

 

Whatever happens, it should be interesting. The only thing I do not like is cold weather baseball. I can think of several remedies.

 

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KMEM

Lucky Grand Master

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Now it's Joe Girardi that blew it. He took out a pitcher who was doing well, and then the new guy had no stuff. Yet another extra inning game, this one going to the Angels. The poor Angels, though, don't have a cute guy on the team! What fun is the locker room?

whipped guy Grand Master

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Now it's Joe Girardi that blew it. He took out a pitcher who was doing well, and then the new guy had no stuff...

 

Totally agree... Up until now Girardi's decisions seem to have been almost inspired, but today things unfortunately got out of control... like putting in Joba who up until now had somehow been able to pull things off. However, it wasn't an easy win for the Angels... so there is still hope that the Yanks can win a game or possibly even two in dreaded Anaheim.

Charlie Grand Master

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I grew up in an age when choosing between the Dodgers and the Yankees was as important for a New Yorker as choosing one's gang colors is in East LA. We were a Dodger family. The only time my father would set foot in Yankee Stadium was during a World Series, to cheer for their opponents. He was there when Don Larson pitched his historic perfect game in the 1956 Series, but it brought him no pleasure: Larson was a Yankee. When we went to Ebbets Field on Saturday afternoons, I always bought the flannel pennants of the opposing National League teams to hang on my bedroom wall, but my Dodgers pennant was always on top. When they finally won a championship, my junior high yearbook named it the most significant event of 1955.

 

Then they betrayed me. Tired of being losers, they announced they were moving to sunny Los Angeles, just like the daughters of our neighbors on both sides, whose young husbands were transferred to the southern California offices of their national corporations. The Giants left for San Francisco at the same time, so there would be no more afternoons at the ballpark. I vowed I would never forgive the Dodgers.

 

By the time the Mets arrived in New York to challenge the Yankees, I had grown up and moved to Philadelphia, where I became a loyal fan of another perennial losing team, the Phillies. When the leagues expanded to two divisions and the Phillies finally started winning the eastern division in the 70s, they were always eliminated by the Dodgers in the playoffs. Finally, the Phillies made the World Series and won against another set of losers, the Kansas City Royals; I still have my red and white "World Champions 1980" t-shirt (though I can no longer squeeze into it).

 

Now I, too, live in southern California, but my heart is still with the Phillies. Unlike the media tycoons hoping for a Dodgers-Yankees series, I want a Phillies-Yankees series, to seek revenge for the debacle of 1950. But what if the Dodgers and Yankees do win the playoffs? Who can I root for? It would be like choosing sides in a war between Iran and North Korea.

 

Maybe I could watch hockey.

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Don't you think A-rod is the top? Think of the machismo factor; think of who smiles the easiest. Isn't an "easy smiler" usually a bottom? :)

 

Charlie-

 

I remember the 55 series. Even in TN is was almost illegal to be a Dodger fan. Much shock and some dismay when they won. :)

 

I think this year will be the artic series; Philly vs. NY.

 

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KMEM

whipped guy Grand Master

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Confidential to Phillies:

 

Enjoy the champagne, for it will be the last time this year that you do!

 

Well, I know that we are both counting our chickens before we have even bought any eggs... and as a famous Yankee has said "It ain't over till it's over...", but I hope you are right.

 

As for the Dodgers loosing, could it possibly be the "curse of Don Mattingly"??? I know that for some it is probably a sacrilege to imply such a thing... but all those years with the Yankees and they never went anywhere.... Of course in those years lots of other factors were involved, but it is still something to consider... However, there could be a "Manny curse" from the Almighty at work as well...

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Unlike some years, I think the NL team actually has a chance this year. I think someone remarked that the Phillies have the offense of an AL team. Obviously, I thought that an interesting remark.

 

(Yes, I realize PHL won it all last year, but many years (lately) it seems the NL is just there for the "glory" but not the brass ring.)

 

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KMEM

whipped guy Grand Master

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Think positive! We're not going to be whipped!

Yes! I am sending positive thoughts and energy out to Anaheim!

I think you may have positive and negative confused for whipped guy.

Now I am positively confused but won't be negatively affected...

 

Still, if the Yanks had to get whipped in any manner I would positively be willing to stand in as a whipping boy if it would get the Bronx Bombers to and through the World Series...

Lucky Grand Master

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Those damn Yankees will have to win it in the Bronx, if at all.

 

It'll be nice to see the Yankees win the playoffs in front of their own fans.

But tonight's game went from a snoozer to electrifying with those 6 runs.

whipped guy Grand Master

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Hopefully Saturday...

 

It'll be nice to see the Yankees win the playoffs in front of their own fans...

 

Yes it will! And incidentally, Yankee fans won't need special "contraptions" that are handed out by the management to wave around to try and build up phony excitement as was done in Philly and Anaheim. To me that is so silly and distracting when watching a game... I would think it would be even more aggravating in person to see all this superfluous nonsense as those silly objects are whipped around. I wonder how many fans got thrashed inadvertently. There is a time and place for everything...

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Superfluous YES

 

Yes it will! And incidentally, Yankee fans won't need special "contraptions" that are handed out by the management to wave around to try and build up phony excitement as was done in Philly and Anaheim. To me that is so silly and distracting when watching a game... I would think it would be even more aggravating in person to see all this superfluous nonsense as those silly objects are whipped around. I wonder how many fans got thrashed inadvertently. There is a time and place for everything...

 

"Superfluous Nonsense" is Grown Men swinging a Piece of Wood at a Round Object being thrown towards them and getting PAID MILLIONS for it! :eek:

 

Even IF they don't HIT the Damn thing! Now that's Superfluous Nonsense! :D

 

I Personally would rather hear the" Fat Lady Sing"..which when she does all this silliness will be over! :rolleyes:

Lucky Grand Master

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That billion dollar stadium will be showcased in the following days. Here's an excerpt from today's Times:

 

The concrete pedestrian ramps at the brand-new $1.5 billion city-subsidized Yankee Stadium have been troubled by cracks, and the team is seeking to determine whether the problems were caused by the installation, the design, the concrete or other factors, according to several people briefed on the problems.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/23/nyregion/23stadiumrready/articleInline.jpg John Dunn for The New York Times

The new Yankee Stadium was one of the city’s signature construction projects.

 

 

 

The ramps were built by a company accused of having links to the mob, and the concrete mix was designed and tested by a company under indictment on charges that it failed to perform some tests and falsified the results of others. But it is unclear whether work performed by either firm contributed to the deteriorating conditions of the ramps.

Read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/nyregion/24stadium.html

Lucky Grand Master

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Rain

 

Testing the patience of baseball fans in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and points unknown, tonight's game with the Yankees v. Angels has been postponed to tomorrow night, Sunday, at 8:20 pm E.T.

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My patience was tested Thursday night. Now, that the series MUST resume in NY, I am fairly content for its' time to arrive whenever.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

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