TimMc

A fan? Pssh. No way. Why the yutzes at Fox insist upon allowing Tim McCarver to be the [ahem] "color" man behind Joe "I cannot believe he has this job" Buck is completely beyond my comprehension. McCarver suffers from constipation of the brain and diarrhea of the mouth. Nice post, Patrick.

Niners are 3-4 now. Well! I was fun while it lasted. Bring on the 2010 Baseball season. sheesh

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Good point....but I still hate the Yankees.

Agree w/you BB; I'm sure not writing the Phillies off for dead. Never mind 2004, teams have definitely come back from 3-1 deficits in the WS before...and as I posted above, I share your concerns about Pettitte in Game 6. On the brighter side, I was glad to see Joba pitch so well last night, even though he did give up that game-tying HR to Feliz. That felt like an aberration, whereas with Hughes an out feels like an aberration right now (what is his WS E.R.A. now..81.00 or something? I'm not exaggerating! I just hope he can recover from this and get it together next season...a scout yesterday was quoted as saying that "Hughes doesn't look like the same pitcher right now...he looks frightened.") I just want to say re: "best team money can buy"--the Core 4 are still powering NY to a large extent, and they are all farm-grown--Jeter, Pettitte, Rivera and Posada. A-Rod came to the Yankees in a trade. Of the Big 3 free agents that came to NY this past year, Tex has been MIA for just about all of the postseason, save a hit here or there, and CC has lost one game and given up 3 runs in a no-decision in the WS so far. I'm not denying the power or positives of NY's high payroll, but they're not just a collection of bought players. In the 35 years that I've been following NY (good Lord!), I think the only time NY might have "bought" a championship successfully was with Reggie Jackson in 1977...even then that team was so much more than Jackson. I wouldn't deny that Steinbrenner's tried to do it, but he failed miserably for years! And the legendary late-1990s team was built almost exclusively on farm players and shrewd trades (as has been said before, in large part because the Boss was out of commission for a couple of years and Jeter/Pettitte/River et al weren't traded away for aging stars past their prime). How's that Yankee Kool-Aid tasting? Facts: 1. A-Rod opted out of his contract and was signed as a free agent in 2007. Signed to a contract that no one else would ever possibly imagine offering. 2. Damon, the hero of last night's rally, was signed as a free agent when the Yankees outbid the Red Sox. Signed as a CF, he couldn't handle the position for four years and had to move to LF - but that extra 20 million offered makes up for it when he makes a heads up play like that one (not to mention the AB ending with the single). 3. Burnett signed to a ridiculous fifth year (when he's 37) to keep him from Atlanta. 4. And that "core" player, Jeter, will get his 25 million a year contract til he's 42 or whatever, too. The Yankees are the best team that money can buy, and there's no denying that fact. End of story. Dull, predictable and uninspiring baseball. If the Yankees win it all, it will be a hollow victory at best. Is it next season yet?

Jim, Howcome I can't logon as GoodSpeak? If you would prefer I use TimMc instead, I'm OK with that.....but can you restore my join date and post numbers? It took me a long time to get to my esteemed statuts as Funkateer I would certainly appreciate it. Thanks!

I was being ignored, I have absolutely no idea why, so I had to re-register. This is the GoodSpeak experiment. I guess we wait and see if this post is still here tomorrow....

That is excatly what the Phillies manager was saying in the paper. Lee has never gone on three days rest and figures this isn't the time to push it. I'm guessing he figures that at 1-1 this WS is going at least to five games. Then, Lee will be able to pitch a quality start.

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