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American League Division Series

Rays are down 0-2 in Texas - First Pitch is at 2:07 PM

Twins are down 0-2 in Nueva Jork - First Pitch is at 5:37 PM

Two Games, One Thread!

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maybe we don't want crawford
Rangers just may sweep the Rays out of town tonight
it sort of looks like that doesn't it
C'mon Rays get some runs
Dear Arte...

save your money – go after someone other than Crawford. He sucks in the playoffs.

that would make him the perfect Halo
Um

Take a look at his stats from the 2008 playoffs…

A college football or Lingerie Football League thread would be getting much more attention
Upset brewing...S Car leading Ala late in 4th
Gamecocks WIN! wtg spurrier
it sucks to think that this could have been us :(
No chance

whatsoever…I mean if we would’ve played at least .500 baseball yea..

Matt Joyce in the dugout:

“Fuck Me!”

Lol nah, taking wide ass turns like that is not gonna make u get panther points…

what the hell is with all of the over-sized necklaces the players are wearing

w.t.f.

Wouldn't it be beautiful if both the Rays and Twins

Came back and won their respective series?

is that the same Murphy that used to play for us?
No

Ours was Tommy Murphy and his career never went anywhere.

I always thought he was a Willits clone
He was out.
true.

now on to VLADDY!!!!!

VLADDY VLADDY VLADDY
okay, what the hell is the oversized necklace Elvis and alot of other players are wearing?

Am I missing a trend?

Garza has the same necklace thing
Those were BS

Strikes to Crawford….2 in a row.

Ya, those were both off the plate
Not just off in the plate

But in the right-handed batter’s box.

Ya, I just went back to look, I'm not sure how any umpire thought those were strikes
The exact same pitch...but you can't blame Oliver

If the ump gave it to me, I’d sure as hell go for it again.

shoulda hit him!!!!!!!!!!!!
yup - stupid pitch garza
had to be thaat little piece of trash
way to screw it up garza
Shit...

Looks like Garza should’ve take some tips off of Rodney’s recipe…the Kinsler Bean Soup.

or *gulp* Lack..........Horse Face
Horse Face. Where's Lackey
If it wasn't for

Ian Kinsler, CJ Wilson, and Ron Washington..I’d be rooting for the stRangers…

well it looks like its going to get even more tough....Yanks or Rangers?
Rangers - I'll NEVER want the yankees to win anything
Nah Yanks already won i guess i can take that

Rangers on the other hand havent won squat i wouldnt be able to live with em winning

I'd have to say Rangers without a doubt

Just bcuz of those other WS greedy bastards! Even tho I DID NOT want Vladdy to go on and get a ring without the Halos…

It would be a tough call - I probably wouldn't care who would win - want both equally
Rivera

Would’ve only hustled to that…lol

i dont even want to begin to think what Juan would have done with that
According to a friend who is watching the game too, Elvis Andrus said something to the effect of "Get the f out of the game" to Garza as he was heading back to the dugout

Did anyone else happen to catch that?

doesn't surprise me

seems that is the team “line” get the f off our field, out of the game… Idiots.

I wouldn't doubt that.

They’ve turned out to be more douches than the skankees…

Oliver!
Vlad!
Molina!
O'Day!
Who is the Halos?!

Oh shit nevermind it’s the gay ass rangers…

They’re like that ex girlfriend that gets with your best friend.

except that YOU (the Angels) told her to walk, or traded her in for a different model
More like

Get outta here b*tch! I ain’t paying for your shit!

And a couple of days later they’re together.

How the hell do you take that pitch Sean
DAN JOHNSON!
hahahaha watch out for YOUR wall cruz
Come on Pena
wtf!!!

R these f***ing rays really about to get swept by texas???!!!!

look at that crowd

can’t even decide what color their team color is….

ain't that the truth!
we should trade for Pena, heck with CC
Has Longoria show up at all this match?
Pena clutchness
K zone!

Imagine having pena, wood, and jack cust in the same line up!… Sweet!

Two of those three players actually had above-average OPSes this year

Guess which.

oh crap

an o’day chant

That's what they chant in soccer

“Ole, Ole Ole Ole!”

Come on Darren, you can give up a run here
Nice swing Upton
WHAT are you swinging at Upton
feliz blows
blows fire?
Do the Phillies or Reds

Have any former Halos? Bcuz it seems like everyone else does.

Phillies have JC Romero

Shudder

And Reds have Orlando Cabrera
Reds have Troy Glaus
Braves have Troy Glaus
So there you have...
Ron Washington seems to think he's Tony La Russa
I'm not entirely sure why Feliz is in now
to keep the game at 2-2
Ya, I get that, but the Rangers only have 1 guy left in the pen now. Granted, they can probably get a starter up if need be, but I'm not sure why he didn't stick with O'Day
Feliz looks like a baby Pedro Martinez
Wow, Jaso took 2nd base out of the ground
c'mon Rays you can hold this lead
Win this Rays so Ranger fans can go home to their pork and beans.
and so

washington can go find a straw

And a box cutter
hahahaha andrus
Come on Rays, end this quick. I don't want to have to chose between this game and Yankees/Twins
stay with this one - only miss 1 inning of the other game.
thank you Crawford
Future Angel Carl Crawford!!!
well maybe we should get CC after that catch, I don't know
his average is not good though but I guess the team hasn't scored runs either until today
ok so now his average went up
Here I go again...on my "not-so-high" horse
It wasn’t just the Berkman pitch. Wendelstedt’s strike zone was askew all night. A website called Brooks Baseball takes the Pitchf/x data and filters it by pitcher, at-bat and even umpire. With the umpiring data, the site calibrates each at-bat to reflect a hitter’s height, then puts out a data plot showing his accuracy on balls and strikes.
The Berkman pitch was one of 31 wrong calls by Wendelstedt. Thirteen other times he called a ball on a pitch inside the strike zone, one of them on a cutter to Derek Jeter(notes) that literally was in the center of the strike zone, at the belt, halving the plate. And 17 times – most of them actually benefitting Pavano – Wendelstedt called a strike on a pitch outside the zone.
This is not normal. It is not close. In the Atlanta-San Francisco game Thursday, Dana DeMuth missed nine calls. With Texas-Tampa Bay, Jim Wolf was wrong 12 times. Both were reasonable. Both, too, are good umpires.


LINKIE

It’s a shame that the standards have gotten so low. While umpires will vary on the height of their zone, the width is not some subjective determination. Home plate is home plate. It doesn’t move.

The Twins saw it on their video machine, saw it with their own two eyes. They had been hosed. Again. The man who did it – the man who shouldn’t have ever been there in the first place – will stand on the right-field line Saturday for Game 3, gainfully, laughably employed.
which ump was it?
Hunter Wendelstedt is the primary topic of the article
sorry didn't know the two were for the same game.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Carl Crawford delivers AGAIN!!!
He's just trying to close the deal with Arte.
*******************HOMERUN************Carl Crawford!***********************
Hopefully

You’ll be able to post that a lot next season

44FAN is going to become a Yankees fan?
That'd piss me off

The Yankees don’t need Crawford at all. Besides, they’ll be busy signing Cliff Lee.

whom they desperately need...Lee
Their pitching staff is pretty average after Sabathia and Pettite
Ya, realistically I'm not sure if the Yankees will sign Crawford. They have a lot of other contracts to deal with this offseason

Pettite, if he doesn’t retire
Rivera
Jeter
Most likely Lee

Looks like CC's asking price just went up by a few million dollars
he showed up for 1 game

let’s see if he can keep it going tomorrow

well - the team only showed up for 1 game so far too.
the umpires didnt show up today
They haven't shown up all postseason
you mean to ruin it...
When

do they EVER show up?

they show up in favor of the skankees
depends on which side u are on

i’d say they were the missing link for the rangers today

They had to leave early.

Heard they had to catch a plane to New York…

Feliz blew it in the post-season so suck it Rangers fans.
and oliver too

hangers on of ex angels

Postseason aint over for the Rangers right?
S Rod with the hit

Yeee boy!

muck bartinez about to become a rays fan
lee warming up?
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
bingo bango boingo

where’s your jazz fingers now dipshits?

LMFAO!!!

+1

You had me cracking up! It’d be funny if the rays used that right in front of the Rangers fans lol

hear in vancouver , they say

BINGO BANGO BONGO

HIS NAME IS ROBERTO LUONGO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqUl_-BugsA
switch it off once the music starts though

Lol
*****************HOMERUN*****************Carlos Pena!**************************
Now THIS looks like the Rays
agree

now we just need the twins to show up

show up and get beat
They'll take a three run lead and blow it
I say

A GS given away by FUentes…

Buck Martinez says the darndest things
No Buck,

That wasn’t a camera…that was more like a missile launcher…

I thought it was supposed to be a boombox
This game isn't over yet
don't let them back in this..
roids

i’m sure of it

Coke

aine….

kinsler looks like every guy

i’ve ever punched in a bar

go sit down Kinsler
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Okay, Twins game time
f*** texas

…That’s it… F*** um’

f*** texas

…That’s it… F*** um’

I like your spirit
Great game by the Rays.

Loved all the late offense. Carry that over into the next two games PLEASE.

if the rays score early in game 4

they win the next two.

no diggity

NO DOUBT

yep, i took it way back there

carl crawford looks like a peanut.
i heard that's his nickname

if ya know what i’m saaaayin

i do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's Go Twins!
Hard to believe Mauer only has 9 hr's on the year

but I guess he missed some time.

no-dome brings mauer back to reality.
5.6 WAR

A nice reality.

9 HR's is about his career average
Strand Jeter at first. Or heck, pick 'im off.
I chewed a heckova chalupa today
Did u get

Butt slapped by Girardi?

only in my dreams.

i mean nightmare.

Shut up guys, seriously
the ball just leaps of Robinson Cano's bat. pure TBS poetry
jorge posada is a fucking turd.
Cell phones using indie music in their ads is almost as annoying as jorge posadas face.
Hughes is dominating so far. Do something Twins!
If Twins win

We get 4 baseball games tomorrow.

THAT would be cool
Not gonna happen
Duensing is getting crushed
Good job O-Dog
I'm betting against 4 games tomorrow
Did that hit the first base coach in the nuts?

At least he didn’t swing at it.

It looks like it did
Time for a pitching change Gardy
I hate Thames' last name.....

Why do they pronounce it Tims? It looks like Tames!

How about Brett Favre - how does he get the r pronounced before the v
The world

may never know.

A Rod should be shot
I hate that I can't watch Sports Center tonight

knowing that all they’ll do is fap fap fap away over the Yankees.

I would never choose to watch SportsCenter
The Twins need to improve their starting rotation
HOW did they get into the playoffs?
A 'Premium" throw by Mauer
It must be something

About having the JM initials…

God I hate these announcers so much. It sounds like they're pleasuring themselves every time the Yankees score a run
They likely are
Jeez Twins come on...

I’m thinking about quitting this game and watch The Shining instead

Steve Physioc sighting

do play for play for a Utah-Iowa State football game on Fox

He does Pac-10 hoops too
Mike Napoli on the list for most homeruns against LHP (10)
That should draw some attention
BECAUSE HE FELT LIKE THROWING HIS F'ING CHANGEUP
SIT DOWN TEIX
Good evening everybody.

Go Twins!

we wish that was what was happening
I know, trying to keep the faith..

But it ain’t easy.

Poor Twins
I remember what it's like to just feel numb in their situation right now.

What can you do?

Turn the page....
there isn't another page in this case.
Wasn't a literal thing bro.

I know this is an elimination game, just channeling my inner Scioscia.

Actually, the answer is "get even next year"

Thankfully we’ll always have last year’s revenge against the Sox. And it’s nice knowing they’re not even in the fight this year… even if the Rays don’t manage to come back, at least they’ll have given us that.

Lets keep the rally going Kubel.
Come on Kubel, pretend it's Mariano Rivera
Well damn.

A 1-2-3 inning, and a GS and the Twins are back in this!

string some hits together guys
Ok Twins, time to get on the board.
George Steinbrenner passed away?

I had no idea. Nice Peruvian pan-flute music in the background TBS.

I was wondering what on Earth that music was
I was wondering why they paired that music with George.

Wouldn’t the Empires theme song from Star Wars been more appropriate?

Stienbrenner's grandaughter's name is Swindal, how appropriate.

and she has a terrible voice.

I thought the name was way too ironic.
Well shit!

Quit salivating over Swisher you guys. He prefers being serviced sexually BEHIND closed doors.

Come on Kubel!
out comes skelator
You're kidding me
What a waste of bases loaded Kubel.
Well shit! I hate the skankees!!!!!
Evil Prevails

lets go RAYS

and now Joe Buck is happy
Everybody at TBS is happy.

Lousy SOB’s. Once again, I hate the skankees!

monday 10/11

hug a twinkie day … Poor fans, we know how they feel

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