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Kurt
As the Rangers sit and watch, the Tigers head to NY Thursday night.

As a Tiger fan, I really never thought I could say this...

I officially hate Curtis Granderson.

....but ya gotta admit he has one of the "fun to say" baseball names.

Curtis Guuuuurrrrrrrrrander-son-son-son-son

Bud-dy Bi-anc-cccc-a-lanana

lmao- the squirrel just wants to play too.

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Kurt
As the Rangers sit and watch, the Tigers head to NY Thursday night.

As a Tiger fan, I really never thought I could say this...

I officially hate Curtis Granderson.

You have to admire great plays. Those two catches Granderson made were, without a doubt, ALLSTAR catches. That is as good as it gets brother.

cards force a game five!!!!!!!!!

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melillo
cards force a game five!!!!!!!!!

Gonna be a good one, could be a pitching duel for the ages



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Arizona's Roberts just hits a grand slam to give the D-Backs a 4 - 1 lead.

Man I hope the Phillies lose Game 5.

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Man I hope the Phillies lose Game 5.

Me too.

How about DiamondBacks manager KirkfknGibson?
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cards force a game five!!!!!!!!!

Great!

Arizona defeats Milwaukee in the late game.


Detroit play New York tomorrow... winner moves on
Gm 5 DET @ NYY Thu Oct. 6 8:00 PM TBS

Arizona plays Milwaukee on Friday... winner moves on
Gm 5 ARI @ MIL Fri Oct. 7 5:00 PM TBS

St Louie plays Philly Friday... winner moves on
Gm 5 STL @ PHI Fri Oct. 7 8:30 PM TBS



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Just the way MLB scripted it. 3 out of the 4 series go to a game 5.My baseball predictions aren't nearly as good as my football picks. But I'll takea shot anyway.
Detroit
St Louis
Milwaukee

kerBLAMMM!!
.....kerBLAMMM!!! again....

Detroit leads 2-0 over the Yanks in the 1st inning

Which team's season is over at the end of this game?

timberrrrrrr....wait...it's not over til its over.

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timberrrrrrr....wait...it's not over til its over.

LOL

She is still drinking, but she will sing later...


game update-

If I was Detroit, I would intentionally walk
Robinson Cano, even (esp) if the bases are loaded...
yup, Robinson homered again..

Detroit leads 3-1 over NY 6th inning...
as NY brings ANOTHER relief pitcher, what is that 4 now?

yawn.....



7th inning
Detroit 3 Yanks 1

YABBA DABBA DOO..... 7TH INNING
BASES LOADED.... A-ROD AT THE PLATE, ONE OUT....

AND...... Benoit prepares to deliver the pitch... and
Benoit dilly-dallys on the mound...the crowd boos....
FUN!!!!!!....and the pitch.....
swing and a miss by A-Rod
foul tip...... ball and 2 strikes on Alex Rodriguez
2 balls 2 strikes.... 1 out... bases loaded... A-Rod at the dish
and a swing and a miss....Mr Cameron Diaz strikes out...what a girly man.
hahahha...FUN!!!!!

2 outs bases loaded.. Mark Teixeria at the plate...
2 balls no strikes.... This could be the ball game...
3 balls no strikes...... woooooooo!!!!! bases loaded...
3 balls 1 strike.....
AND BENOIT WALKS IN A RUN!!!!
SCORE IS NOW Detroit 3 Yanks 2... bases loaded...

Nick Swisher at the plate
1 ball 1 strike swing and a miss
1 balls 2 strikes
2 balls 2 strikes...
OHHHHHHHHH SWING AND A MISS!!!!!!!
leaving the bases loaded.... ouch

8th inning
Detroit 3 NY 2

Detoit goes down quietly .....

Detroits Benoit still pitching, Mariano River warming up for Yanks

Jorge Posada coming up (maybe his last at bat as a Yankee?)
0 ball 1 strike
0 balls 2 strikes
and he is thrown out at a close play at 1st bases....

1 out....
Russel Martin at the plate
foul tip
0 balls 1 strike swing and a miss
0 balls 2 strikes
1 balls 2 strikes
2 balls 2 strikes
3 balls 2 strikes... struck out looking, called strike three

2 outs... YANKEES DOWN TO 4 OUTS, unless they can tie

Brett Gardner
0 B 1 S
1 B 1 S swing and a miss, 95 mph pitch
1 B 2 S foul tip... AND A BASE HIT!!!


DEREK JETER COMES UP TO THE PLATE!!!!!
Gardner takes off from 1st ...
JETER BASHES A HIGH... LONG... DEEP... caught... pop fly out... ouch

Mariano Rivera comes in to pitch the 9th inning for the NY YANKEES

Detroit 3 Yanks 2... 9th inning.....

Mariano Rivera, the greatest close of all time
comes in and throws nothing but strikes Detroit goes down 123

Jose Valverde comes in to close the game for Detroit

Grrrrrrrranderson come up to the dish for the Yanks
0 B 1 S
1 B 1 S
2 B 1 S called strike 2
2 B 2 S
3 B 2 S pop fly to left OUT!!!!

Robinson Cano come to the plate (I would walk him)
Cano breaks his bat on the first pitch.... pop fly OUT!!!

YANKS DOWN TO THEIR LAST OF OF THE SEASON...

mr Cameron Diaz come up to the plate....
called first strike...
0 B 1 S CALLED SECOND STRIKE!!!
0 B 2 S
1 B 2 S SWING AND A MISS, A-ROD STRIKES OUT!!!!!

YANKS AND THEIR BIG FAT PAYROLL GO DOWN IN FLAMES.

DETROIT MOVES ON TO PLAY THE TEXAS RANGERS- SATURDAY NIGHT



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1-0 so far............Kids,thank your Uncle SCL for giving you free winners....Did I Mention my take Oregon give the pints prediction as well.......Yeah it's been a good night kiddies.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

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MKjan
timberrrrrrr....wait...it's not over til its over.

LOL

She is still drinking, but she will sing later...


game update-

If I was Detroit, I would intentionally walk
Robinson Cano, even (esp) if the bases are loaded...
yup, Robinson homered again..

Detroit leads 3-1 over NY 6th inning...
as NY brings ANOTHER relief pitcher, what is that 4 now?

yawn.....



7th inning
Detroit 3 Yanks 1

YABBA DABBA DOO..... 7TH INNING
BASES LOADED.... A-ROD AT THE PLATE, ONE OUT....

AND...... Benoit prepares to deliver the pitch... and
Benoit dilly-dallys on the mound...the crowd boos....
FUN!!!!!!....and the pitch.....
swing and a miss by A-Rod
foul tip...... ball and 2 strikes on Alex Rodriguez
2 balls 2 strikes.... 1 out... bases loaded... A-Rod at the dish
and a swing and a miss....Mr Cameron Diaz strikes out...what a girly man.
hahahha...FUN!!!!!

2 outs bases loaded.. Mark Teixeria at the plate...
2 balls no strikes.... This could be the ball game...
3 balls no strikes...... woooooooo!!!!! bases loaded...
3 balls 1 strike.....
AND BENOIT WALKS IN A RUN!!!!
SCORE IS NOW Detroit 3 Yanks 2... bases loaded...

Nick Swisher at the plate
1 ball 1 strike swing and a miss
1 balls 2 strikes
2 balls 2 strikes...
OHHHHHHHHH SWING AND A MISS!!!!!!!
leaving the bases loaded.... ouch

8th inning
Detroit 3 NY 2

Detoit goes down quietly .....

Detroits Benoit still pitching, Mariano River warming up for Yanks

Jorge Posada coming up (maybe his last at bat as a Yankee?)
0 ball 1 strike
0 balls 2 strikes
and he is thrown out at a close play at 1st bases....

1 out....
Russel Martin at the plate
foul tip
0 balls 1 strike swing and a miss
0 balls 2 strikes
1 balls 2 strikes
2 balls 2 strikes
3 balls 2 strikes... struck out looking, called strike three

2 outs... YANKEES DOWN TO 4 OUTS, unless they can tie

Brett Gardner
0 B 1 S
1 B 1 S swing and a miss, 95 mph pitch
1 B 2 S foul tip... AND A BASE HIT!!!


DEREK JETER COMES UP TO THE PLATE!!!!!
Gardner takes off from 1st ...
JETER BASHES A HIGH... LONG... DEEP... caught... pop fly out... ouch

Mariano Rivera comes in to pitch the 9th inning for the NY YANKEES

Detroit 3 Yanks 2... 9th inning.....

Mariano Rivera, the greatest close of all time
comes in and throws nothing but strikes Detroit goes down 123

Jose Valverde comes in to close the game for Detroit

Grrrrrrrranderson come up to the dish for the Yanks
0 B 1 S
1 B 1 S
2 B 1 S called strike 2
2 B 2 S
3 B 2 S pop fly to left OUT!!!!

Robinson Cano come to the plate (I would walk him)
Cano breaks his bat on the first pitch.... pop fly OUT!!!

YANKS DOWN TO THEIR LAST OF OF THE SEASON...

mr Cameron Diaz come up to the plate....
called first strike...
0 B 1 S CALLED SECOND STRIKE!!!
0 B 2 S
1 B 2 S SWING AND A MISS, A-ROD STRIKES OUT!!!!!

YANKS AND THEIR BIG FAT PAYROLL GO DOWN IN FLAMES.

DETROIT MOVES ON TO PLAY THE TEXAS RANGERS- SATURDAY NIGHT

LOL thanks for this run down....
Nice to see the yankees payroll not pay off.
Maybe A-Rod will take that huge portrait of himself as a centaur hanging over his bed down. This is what a former friend of his saw, said it was ridiculous.

A-Rod strikes out to end the Yankees season. It does not get any better than that!!!!!!!!!! How much money do the Yanks have to pay that egotistical ass over the next 7 seasons????

'I officially hate Curtis Granderson.'

- how can you hate granderson? as a lifelong tigers fan i have nothing but respect for the guy; classy act and fabulous ballplayer. just wish he was still a tiger. lol. inarresting how the guy who replaced him in center filed, austin jackson, scored the winning run on a hit to center that granderson bobbled. the new york bankees and their $200 million payroll felt they were entitled to win, whereas the tigers earned the win. nothing better than seeing pay-rod go down swinging at about $10 MILLION a swish! this game was one of the best examples of playoff sports I have ever seen. each pitch was mesmerizing, especially in the last few innings.

Yankees...





Gone!

people hate on the Yankees because they have a big payroll...get over it...they play in New York and everything is bigger in New York...and try explaining how they never....ever complain that they subsidize 60% of the rest of the teams in the league with the luxury tax they willingly pay every year to teams that instead of re investing their monies into young talented players take profits instead for their fat cat owners.....see Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals perennial doormats on the take

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people hate on the Yankees because they have a big payroll...get over it...they play in New York and everything is bigger in New York...and try explaining how they never....ever complain that they subsidize 60% of the rest of the teams in the league with the luxury tax they willingly pay every year to teams that instead of re investing their monies into young talented players take profits instead for their fat cat owners.....see Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals perennial doormats on the take

Oh, no, there are many other reasons people hate the Yankees. Like their smug, entitled fans, for example, who feel that if the Yankees don't win the World Series every goodamn year there is something amiss in the universe....though some of my best friends are Yankees fans, and I have to forgive them for it.



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...Tele you can find rabid, entitled and smug fans everywhere....Yankees fans are no different than RedSox fans or Lakers fans, or Miami Heat fans....but the argument that the Yankees are some fat cat corporate machine is just an easy excuse...they pay for A Rod because he makes them money with their TV station programming...just like CC and Texeira...but 70% of their team is their own farm system talent. The real scandal in baseball are teams like the Marlins, perenial doormats who trade their players rather than pay them and make profits for their shareholder owners or get city councils through blackmail to sponser the $500 million new stadiums that they don't need.

Bye Bye Phillies. St. Louis out pitches the Phillies for a tight 1 - 0 win. Carpenter outlasts Halladay in pitchers duel. Some great infielding by the Cards help to seal the win.

Meanwhile Milwaukee advances to the NLCS with a 2 - 1 win over Arizona.

Milwaukee vs. St. Louis

Detroit vs. Texas

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...Tele you can find rabid, entitled and smug fans everywhere....Yankees fans are no different than RedSox fans or Lakers fans, or Miami Heat fans....but the argument that the Yankees are some fat cat corporate machine is just an easy excuse...they pay for A Rod because he makes them money with their TV station programming...just like CC and Texeira...but 70% of their team is their own farm system talent. The real scandal in baseball are teams like the Marlins, perenial doormats who trade their players rather than pay them and make profits for their shareholder owners or get city councils through blackmail to sponser the $500 million new stadiums that they don't need.

Don't leave out the loutish Phillies fans, the most insufferable lot in baseball. Those yahoos come into your city by the busload, drunk as skunks before they ever get to the park, and then try to pick fights with the home team fans all game. They're the kind of people that crash your party and then grope your wife and puke on your rug. Yes, it was a Phillies fan that puked on an off-duty cop who was taking his daughters to see a game a few years ago.

Despite being around since 1876, the Phillies have won two of the 107 World Series (1980 and 2008) that have been played since the first one in 1903. But some short-term success has their fanbase acting like the team's some kind of dynasty. I rejoice in their fan base's collective pain and misery tonight. I guess they can start rooting for their "dream team" Eagles in earnest now.

The scandal about teams like the Marlins and Pirates is that they make about $27 million a year in revenue sharing and then have about a $35 million dollar payroll. Forget about a salary cap: baseball needs a salary floor to force the teams that get revenue sharing money to reinvest in their product.



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Max..a few years ago when Granderson was hitting all those triples,some friends & I were at a game & we came up with a song we called "The Grandyman",to the tune of sammy davis candyman....

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Rip This
...Tele you can find rabid, entitled and smug fans everywhere....Yankees fans are no different than RedSox fans or Lakers fans, or Miami Heat fans....but the argument that the Yankees are some fat cat corporate machine is just an easy excuse...they pay for A Rod because he makes them money with their TV station programming...just like CC and Texeira...but 70% of their team is their own farm system talent. The real scandal in baseball are teams like the Marlins, perenial doormats who trade their players rather than pay them and make profits for their shareholder owners or get city councils through blackmail to sponser the $500 million new stadiums that they don't need.

Don't leave out the loutish Phillies fans, the most insufferable lot in baseball. Those yahoos come into your city by the busload, drunk as skunks before they ever get to the park, and then try to pick fights with the home team fans all game. They're the kind of people that crash your party and then grope your wife and puke on your rug. Yes, it was a Phillies fan that puked on an off-duty cop who was taking his daughters to see a game a few years ago.

Despite being around since 1876, the Phillies have won two of the 107 World Series (1980 and 2008) that have been played since the first one in 1903. But some short-term success has their fanbase acting like the team's some kind of dynasty. I rejoice in their fan base's collective pain and misery tonight. I guess they can start rooting for their "dream team" Eagles in earnest now.

The scandal about teams like the Marlins and Pirates is that they make about $27 million a year in revenue sharing and then have about a $35 million dollar payroll. Forget about a salary cap: baseball needs a salary floor to force the teams that get revenue sharing money to reinvest in their product.

it's a huge scandal. they leverage the new stadiums (at tax payers expense) to increase their profits and as you say take the revenue sharing to cover the payroll while they make money that they divide among the shareholders rather than invest in putting a better product on the field.....

fyi to all those that think that a team like the Yankees is bad for baseball...TBS announced that last night’s Game 5 drew 9.72 million viewers and was the most watched LDS game in cable television history. It was the most watched LDS game on television — network or cable — since the 2005 Game 5 between the Yankees and Angels.

PS good luck Milwaukee...brewing something exciting in the land of cheese



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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, SWEET SATISFACTION! The Yankees are now playing GOLF and watching the series on TV!! I FEEL GOOD!

Although I love the Red Sox and am a diehard fan it is noce to see 4 different teams in the division series and the the teams witht he huge supertars, Boston, New York and Philadelphia either missed or are gone from the playoffs. Go Milwaukee!!!!!

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Although I love the Red Sox and am a diehard fan it is noce to see 4 different teams in the division series and the the teams witht he huge supertars, Boston, New York and Philadelphia either missed or are gone from the playoffs. Go Milwaukee!!!!!

The NLCS is a rematch of the 1982 World Series (the Milwaukee franchise played in the AL from 1969 to '94). If the Cardinals and Tigers win the respective league championship series, the World Series will be a rematch of the 1968 World Series.

Personally, I'm hoping that Nyger (the Idiot) Morgan implodes during the NLCS and singlehandedly destroys the Brewers' chances. Which moron move will it be? Maybe he'll throw his glove in a hissy fit while the ball's still in play in the outfield, or run over an opposing catcher when there's no play at the plate, or pick a fight with an opposing pitcher instead of running the bases. The man's a time bomb, and his antics have no place in the World Series.