Simulator: Rockies 51.85%
Vegas: Red Sox 65.16%
Log5: Red Sox 64.67%

One of these things is not like the other...

vr, Xei

Opening rout may not carry to Game 2

Yeah, that's my understanding of the rules, too.

The blurb about the Taco Bell giveaway available at participating locations reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke, "If I owned a McDonalds, I wouldn't participate in SHIT."

I saw one of these when a team was down by over 15.

Yeah, because the way that produced Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and Metallica really sucked.

I think wins above or below Pythag are partially luck, and partially managerial acumen/hustle/poise or other bullshit terms.

Remember the manager who supposedly said, "Hold 'em there, I'll think of something!"

Former Red Sox great
Former manager of Red Sox' biggest rival
Old Guy on the visiting team
Young Guy on the visiting team

....and Al Oliver.

But there are a lot of people going to it.

And some friends and I did come up with some great names to throw out the first pitch- Roberto Mejia, Alex Cole, Jayhawk Owens...

I was partial to Howard Johnson, Charlie Hayes, Dale Murphy, or Greg Harris.

Dante Bichette can be added to that list I would imagine.

* 3-time All-Star (1978, 1981, 1987)
* 8 Gold Glove Award (1976, 1978-79, 1981-85)
* 4-time Top 10 MVP (1981-82, 1987-88)
* Led league in On-base percentage (1982)
* Led league in OPS (1981 and 1984)
* Led league in Runs and Extra-Base Hits (1984)
* Led league in Total Bases and Home Runs (1981)
* Led league in Walks (1981, 1985 and 1987)
* Led league in Runs Created (1981 and 1984)
* Led league in Times on Base (1981 and 1982)
* 2,606 Games (34th All-Time MLB)
* 8,996 At Bats (61st All-Time MLB)
* 1,470 Runs (65th All-Time MLB)
* 2,446 Hits (95th All-Time MLB)
* 4,230 Total Bases (53rd All-Time MLB)
* 483 Doubles (59th All-Time MLB)
* 385 Home Runs (49th All-Time MLB)
* 1,384 RBI (65th All-Time MLB)
* 1,391 Walks (25th All-Time MLB)
* 1,570 Runs Created (54th All-Time MLB)
* 941 Extra-Base Hits (41st All-Time MLB)
* 3,890 Times on Base (43rd All-Time MLB)
* 77 Sacrifice Flies (87th All-Time MLB)
* Hit for the cycle (1984)
* 4-time hit a home run on opening days in his career, including one on the very first pitch of the season. The one he hit on the very first pitch was also in the first MLB game of the season, thus giving him the record for earliest home run hit in a season, which for obvious reasons can never be broken.
* Has the 10th most career Home Runs hit by an American League right handed batter (385).
* Appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1988.
* In the 11th inning of Game Six of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, Evans made a spectacular running catch deep in the right field corner near Pesky's Pole, robbing Joe Morgan of a home run, then doubled Ken Griffey, Sr. off first. The Red Sox then won the game in the 12th on Carlton Fisk's famous walkoff home run.
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Theres a really good fun fact about his batting stance on Wikipedia.

I will defend Eric Byrnes's honor by any means necessary.

(At least here. Is it on there now?)

JD brings out the best in most baseball fans.

Although, personally, I tend to listen to bare naked ladies also. Though you usually can't hear them, because the music is too loud.

C'mon, Jimenez!

Are they saying Oooobaldo?

There are suites that are numbered 4 and 6, but not 64.

It's a zen thing.

Does he have a movie coming out like Paul "Bart's son" Giamatti?

Hey, I had that SI with Hurdle on the cover.

Hawpe could have gotten to that ball a bit sooner

I wonder if Tim checked with Stats, Inc on that one?

FREE TACO!

For AL teams, the Mariners lead with 12.

The Giants were second in the NL with 7.

I hereby invite you over to Bronx Banter to discuss whether Torre was treated fairly.

The 3-1 pitch took some balls to throw.

One, anyway.

I feel not so good.

I have a story about Herges, too. I tried to draft him in a tabletop league, only to find out that he was already taken. A few rounds later, because I'm an idiot, I tried to draft him again.

Cite examples when relevant.

C'mon Rockies, don't fall apart here!

Darnit, I have to leave for a soccer game in a few minutes.

I miss the spitter.

I CANNOT TAKE THE BELLS ANYMORE

PLEASE

167 I had stuff to do!
Yeah, yeah.
Actually, I'm expecting another tie. But I do hope Travis Henry does well. While he's still a free man.

Taco Bell CEO, I hate you. Royce Clayton, for shame!

Don Draper never would've let this one go through. This must've been Pete's harebrained scheme.

Ciao.

I didn't know who to place my anger to, thanks for the tid bit.

(not really)

And he went 0 for 11 against Robb Nen.

LOL

I don't think he's gotten a hit yet in the fall classic.

But Aikman was someone I loved, and now he's a Red Sox Fan for no particular reason. He has no ties to Boston whatsoever.

I don't know who Aikman is but I guess he's a big deal judging from you anger/frustration. Football player??

Does Lugo still beat his wife?

On my one and only visit to Fenway, one of the locals objected to me wearing my A's cap. At a Sox-Pirates game.

They take their headgear seriously in the Fens.

he probably just wanted to be at peace with the Natives.

I wear Sox gear into New York City (admittedly not to the Stadium) and don't get anything more than a wiseacre remark.

then he's a bandwagoner & should be treated as such, I would have gone neutral.

I wouldn't expect anything worse than heckling, though, even if I did.

That story in SI broke me into several pieces.

He's an above average hitting player.

Helton's a great player, but Youk is no slouch.

LOL!!!

when he throws a curve or something slow he softens his arm motion some what. He doesn't do that when he throws his fastball, it's a small thing but I'm sure some hitters can catch that.

If you haven't suffered through a few 80-82s, though, you're not a real fan in my book. Everybody likes you on prom night.

"Oh no, someone's going to cut our power! That's... inconvenient. Oh well, at least we're not going to get nuked. Grab a candle."

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2007/10/my_nolonger_lov.php

I'm not watching this year.

I can guarantee there won't be any cougars.

If it weren't for sports, I might not even own a TV.

Jeepers. That wasn't even close.

Matt Holiday, I'd like to introduce you to Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth, this is Matt Holliday.

Only it doesn't. The Rockies haven't given away outs on offense or defense for weeks and now they are. Not so good.

...like you've never heard that before.

Although the Rockies played well, they made the mistakes in this game. That hadn't been the case for some time in a close one.

But he'll have a big game Saturday.

I'd like to take Bee Movie, FrankTV and Taco Bell, put them on a leaky dinghy and shove them all off to sea.