2009 NLCS: Los Angeles Dodgers V. Philadelphia Phillies - Phillies Win NL Pennant 4-1

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

A Yankees and Phillies World Series would be kind of ironic. Two northeastern teams playing baseball in November. It'd be like the Snow Series.

[Beef]

I googled irony

[FishFanInPA]

Go Yankees.

Y'all are also acting like the Angels are done. They gon win tomorrow and tie the series up.

Anyone but the phucking phillies. Every FB status is "omg lyke Rollins iz cool"

[Beef]

Well then I win for not having facebook and for not being an Eagles fan

[Bobbob1313]

Not necessarily "over" but if they're tearing the thing down, there's no reason to hitch your wagon to a kind of overrated CF.

It's not like Grady and the pittance they got for Martinez and Lee is going to help them on their road to recovery. Either push all your chips into the center and tear it down or keep the player(s) central to your success, don't go halfway.

They have a pretty cool outfield with 27 year old Grady Sizemore (who has been awesome every year before this year) and a pretty awesome Korean Adam Dunn who steals bases in RF.

Fun Fact: Grady Sizemore's career OPS is higher than Martinez's. And Martinez is basically a half time 1B at this point, and that's only going to get worse as he ages.

He's a 27 year old CFer who had put up .830+ OPSes every year before last season. He's probably overrated defensively, but he's certainly an extremely valuable player. If Cameron Maybin ever becomes what Grady Sizemore is, we might be a perennial WS contender.

Is he a franchise cornerstone like Hanley?

No, but he's under contract until 2012 for no more than 10.5 million in any year (and only that in the final year if he wins an MVP). He's pretty cool to have to put guys around and build a team. I'm not sure you realize how good he is.

Getting rid of an aging catcher who can't play more than half his games at catcher is a good move if you want to rebuild. Getting rid of a 26 year old CFer who had a three year run from 06-08 with an OPS of .879 and who has a reasonable contract is a bad move if you want to rebuild.

[Namaste]

To sort of get this thread back on track..........


I was really hoping for a Dodgers miracle this year. As some of you may or may not know, the LA Times reported that 2010 will more than likely be Vin Scully's final year as Dodgers broadcaster.

This year is his 60th year with the organization (He called games for the Brooklyn Dodgers). If Broxton had gotten 1 more out, it's a 2-2 series and they would have had a chance to make it to the Series for Vin.

I'm still annoyed.

[CrimsonCane]

Spelling FAIL.

[Beef]

To be fair, ESPN hires the aliens from the Denver Airport and you can see how something with a hand like this:



could easily miss the C with one finger and hit the N with another

[FishFanInPA]

ETHER!

(purposely misspelled it)

[Ramp]

why

[Namaste]

So there could be 50 HRs hit in the 2009 World Series.

So sick.

[flamarlins3]

One of the better baseball games I've ever been to. A Phils/Yanks series should be all sorts of fun.

[Madman81]

A Phils Yankees world series will have me rooting for some sort of strike or natural disaster.

[Party]

Girardi needs to pull a 1904 and refuse to play the Phillies because they are from the clearly inferior league.

[Chewford]

Ewww, Phillies in the WS again. Guess I'll have to pull for the Yankees, or the league folding or something.