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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:32 PM
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Rockies fans — y'doin' okay?




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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:34 PM
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1. its been a good game...
I'm rooting for the Rockies....just because. I'm a M's fan.
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likesmountains 52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:34 PM
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2. barely...
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:37 PM
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3. No
I can't believe that Holliday error in the 8th.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:38 PM
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4. I can't either
Or the home run that wasn't.

But, that's baseball. :shrug:

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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:41 PM
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5. As a Phils fan, if the Rockies win, good for them
It should be a fine series coming up.
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:44 PM
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6. This game is incredible....
has it all. Controversy, grand Slam, great pitching late, depletion of players... I love games like this....
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:47 PM
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9. Especially with somethin' big at stake
It's kinda like gettin' the seventh game of the LCS or World Series early. :D

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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:46 PM
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7. Urgh.
This game is making me sick to my stomach... The ecstasy of having runners on base in the bottom half of the last inning... The agony of the Padres getting runners into scoring position inning after inning after inning... Bleh...

Still, go Rockies!
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:47 PM
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8. Like walking on a tightrope....
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:49 PM
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11. More like eating fire and walking on pins and needles.
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 10:49 PM by jtg33
If the Rockies end up winning, I just just collapse from exhaustion.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:49 PM
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10. It'd be worse if it were in Sandy Eggo
At least you know you've always got last ups.

:thumbsup:

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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:51 PM
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12. Yeah, but if the Madres get up in an inning...
...then we have to face Trevor Hoffman. I do NOT want to see him in this game.

On to the 13th! :scared:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:55 PM
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15. Meh, he can be had
Dodgers messed him up late last season. Went into the ninth trailing 9-5 and got four straight homers — the second two off Hoffman — to tie it. Madres got a run in the 10th, and the Dodgers won it on a two-run walk-off by Garciaparra in the bottom of the 10th.

One of my favorite. nights. EVarrr. :bounce:

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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:53 PM
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14. 2007 might have been the best year ever......
regular season. Here we have a playoff. the Mets collapse. The near collapse by Boston and the yankees surge. A ROD. The Phillies. The Brewers. the CUBS FOR GOD'S SAKE! The indians.... BARRY BONDS BREAKSD BASEBALL"S MOST HALLOWED RECORD. Clemens comeback.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:53 PM
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13. Jorge Julio is in now.
Just shoot me now. x(
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:56 PM
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16. I hate you, Jorge Julio. I hate you.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:56 PM
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17. Fuck!
:banghead:

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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:57 PM
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18. Julio sucks. S-U-C-K-S, sucks!
He should have been banished to the minors LONG ago!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:01 PM
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23. Rox got Matsui, Tulo and Holliday comin' up
All may not be lost.

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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:57 PM
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19. Well, we're fucked now
It was a good run though n/t
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:59 PM
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20. They had to put Julio in. They just HAD to!
Get our hopes up, only to break our hearts with his pathetic pitching!
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:00 PM
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22. That Holliday error is going to go down as the Bill Buckner play of Rockies lore
Julio can't be held responsible. It's not his fault he's been promoted beyond his ability.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:02 PM
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24. That's true. I don't know WHAT happened with that one.
If he had caught that one, that ends the inning right there. Sigh... Now all we can hope for is a miracle.

Another miracle.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:06 PM
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26. Sounded like he just didn't get a good look
as it came off the bat.

It's not supposed to happen to major leaguers, but it does — often at just the wrong time. x(

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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:17 PM
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37. I think he made up for it!
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:00 PM
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21. Oh well......
Stranger thing have happened. But mostly to the Dodger bullpen (just kidding...not really...)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:04 PM
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25. Heh... ain't it the truth
When Saito gave up a game-winning yak a couple weeks ago, I knew the season was over — especially since it was just a day or two after Broxton did the same thing. x(

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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:14 PM
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27. Well, blow me down...
Matt Holliday up with a runner at second and nobody out and the Rockies trailing 8-7... AND THE ROCKIES TIE THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:15 PM
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33. Like I said
Hoffman can be had. :D

:woohoo:

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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:14 PM
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28. Tied up again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:14 PM
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29. I think I smell new life!
:woohoo:
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:15 PM
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31. Damn, I love baseball...
:D
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:16 PM
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34. You and me both!
This is MY kind of game! Joy and despair, excitement and desperation, and the playoffs just 90 feet away!!!!!
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:17 PM
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36. I know what you mean......
shit.....SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rockies WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:17 PM
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35. Yup
I don't even have a dog in this fight, and I'm diggin' the hell out of it. :toast:

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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:21 PM
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52. Same here, basically
Now I got to go into the "anyone but the Yankee's" mode....:D
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:21 PM
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51. damn good stuff!
:D

:hi:
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:14 PM
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30. I'm fucking shaking and screaming like a little kid
90 feet away man
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:18 PM
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38. My neighbors are gonna hate me
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!! He dropped the ballll!!!!!!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:20 PM
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45. ...
:toast:

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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:21 PM
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49. Oh God I wish I was in LoDo right now
instead of sitting in my solitary Boston apartment. Oh well.

Rox win! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:27 PM
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57. Hey, I grew up a Dodgers fan in Giants country
I know just how you feel. I've done a lot of celebrating (and moping) alone. :D

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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:15 PM
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32. What an incredible game....Way to go Rockies!!!!!
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:18 PM
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39. Rockies WIN!!!!!!!!!
Bust out the booze! :toast:
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:18 PM
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40. And a play at the plate to end it...Incredible game...
Wow, team of destiny perhaps?
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:18 PM
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41. WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROCKIES WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROCKIES WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROCKIES WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:20 PM
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46. ...
:toast:

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HuskerDU Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:19 PM
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42. Welcome to the party Rockies fans!
Pissed I couldn't watch the game- sounds like an all timer.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:19 PM
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43. OUT-FREAKIN'-STANDING BALL GAME!
It even ends with blood! Blood and glory!

:woohoo:

Congrats, Rox fans! :toast:

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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:20 PM
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47. Oh my God. Amazing. Just amazing.
That was the best game I've EVER seen!!!!!!
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Ekirh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:19 PM
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44. HOLY SHIT WHAT A GAME!!!!
Replay.... it seems like he didn't get the plate...

but I guess it doesn't matter now.. call was made.. game is over!

Congrats Rockies!!!
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:20 PM
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48. And he missed the plate!
Wonder why the ump signaled safe. the correct call is no call.
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Ekirh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:21 PM
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50. Not sure either. .
I'm not going to falt the Rockies though... The ump call you safe... just go with it.. and hope no one notices until it's to late.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:22 PM
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53. Yeah, it sure looks that way...
...but the ump had a better view than the rest of us. Maybe he saw something we didn't?

I don't care. We'll take it!!!!!!
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Ekirh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:23 PM
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54. Like I said
The ref called you safe.. don't question it.. accept it... and just take it


What a game . . .

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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:24 PM
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55. How can a game this important end on a bad call?
Unbelievable. This is a classic game and it ends on a badly made call. I think the guy was probably safe, but the ump wasn't convincing.
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Ekirh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:25 PM
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56. it is a shame. . .
Not going to spoil my enjoyment of the game though... one helluva game..

but that call is probably what's going to be talked about tommorrow...

But then again maybe I'll be wrong.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:31 PM
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59. No, you're right. They're already talking about it on ESPN.
That call is going to be questions and dissected for years. The Padres might have a right to feel burned by that call. I do think he might have slipped a finger onto the plate as he slid by, and the ump waited to make toe call to see if the catcher actually held onto the ball.

But, then again, I'm a little biased.
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Ekirh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:34 PM
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61. Go ahead and be bias. . :)
I enjoyed the hell out of the game that's all that really matteres to me (I'm a Braves fan so I have no stake in this game)

The call was made, the game is over, your team is the playoffs.... enjoy the hell out of it! :)
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:41 PM
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65. You know I will!
I'm just bummed that Games 1 and 2 are at 1:00pm Colorado time - I'll be at work! I might still be able to listen to the game on the radio, but it's not the same as being able to watch it and scream at my TV.

The good news is that if the Rockies manage to get the series to a Game 4 I'll be going! Next Sunday, at Coors Field, 8:00pm Colorado time.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:28 PM
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58. What about the bad one that went *against* the Rox?
One of the neat things about baseball is everything has a way of evening out.

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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 02:47 AM
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85. McCLellan behind the plate had one of the most brutal games I've seen an ump have for awhile
He gave Peavy about four inches on both sides of the plate, six inches up and a few inches down for most of the game. Otherwise, it would have been over by the third or fourth. Peavy had nothing. Then, once Peavy left the game, he continued giving Bell a wide zone, but for everyone else, his zone shrunk tighter than his sphincter did on the final play at the plate. He wouldn't call a frigging strike for anyone. He consistently missed balls and strikes up, down and sideways. It must have driven the hitters crazy not knowing where the zone was.

On the homer (having sat in those leftfield seats fifty times or so over the years with my late handicapped buddy), to hit anything hard enough to make the ball ricochet back onto the field, you have to hit it over the yellow pad. The rail is behind the pad. That was a bad one that went the Padres' way.

Go Rox.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:34 PM
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60. Wow.. great game!
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 11:35 PM by mvd
We have two hot teams playing each other - the Phils and the Rockies. The best team doesn't always win the World Series - you have to be a hot team in the playoffs.

As for the call, he might have gotten the edge of the plate. Hard to tell. If I was an ump and couldn't tell, I'd say out. Maybe he saw it better.

Night, all! :hi:
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:42 PM
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66. My thoughts exactly!
The ump had an angle we didn't have. But jeez... If he DID get the corner of the plate, he didn't get it by much at all...
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:36 PM
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62. All I'm sayin' is you guys better pound the snot out of the Phillies
preferably a sweep...it's the only thing I have to look forward to this October
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:38 PM
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63. Mets fan?
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:41 PM
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64. yes a very bitter and sad Mets fan
even though I told myself I was mad at baseball and wouldn't watch "this stupid one game playoff" I couldn't help myself and still watched...I'm glad I did, it was a great game
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:43 PM
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67. I hope the Phils do well
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 11:43 PM by mvd
I'm proud of them. I know the feeling of frustration, though. Phils had been so close.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:44 PM
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68. Well maybe not a SWEEP...
After all, I do have tickets to Game 4 in Denver... A 3-1 series victory for the Rockies would be okay by me!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:47 PM
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70. As long as they do it at home
What's the fun of winning on the road? :D

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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:49 PM
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71. Whatever works for your schedule best
:P I actually have an autographed baseball dated April 5, 1993 and signed by David Nied the first starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies...that game was played against the New York Mets
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:45 PM
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69. Two highest-scoring clubs in the NL
Oughta be interesting. :D

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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:53 PM
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72. played in stadiums...
with the one of the shortest left field fences since the Polo Grounds and the other one is at altitude...I'm not predicting many pitchers duels
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:55 PM
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74. The altitude hasn't been quite as much as a factor the last two seasons.
The Rockies keep all of their game balls in a specially calibrated humidor to make sure the balls stay exactly the way they were when they left the factory. The result is a softer ball, as opposed to the rock-hard pellets the Rox used to toss around during the era of the frequent 12-11 game. Altitude is still a factor, but it has been reduced to a degree, thanks to the humidor.
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:01 AM
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76. The altitude is never a factor
It's my personal belief that's just some made up crap so the "analysts" will have something to talk about. I think it's a mental thing more than anything else.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:04 AM
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78. In any case
the altitude's the same for both clubs. :D

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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:03 AM
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77. I didn't know they had such a short porch in Philly
329 down the left-field line.

14-foot fence, though.

http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/index.htm

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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:16 AM
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80. I've seen many fly balls turned into home runs in that park
and they moved back the fence 10 feet after the first season
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:34 AM
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83. Ebbets Field was weird, too
The second deck in center field stuck out, so every so often you'd get an guy camped under a deep fly ball and it'd land in some fan's lap.

That's what Willie Mays and some others said, anyway. Doesn't look like it's possible. :shrug:



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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:53 PM
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73. Just as long as they don't put Jorge Julio on the mound again...
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 11:57 PM by jtg33
I think it'll be a great series. If our starting pitchers ca n keep the game close and hand it over to the bullpen, I think we have an excellent shot at actually winning this series... But it sure won't be easy...

On edit: Apparently I can't spell when I'm thrilled about the Rockies going to the playoffs. :woohoo:
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:00 AM
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75. Woof! I know what you're talking about...
we had him for a few months last season...he was pretty much crap
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:05 AM
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79. Ugh. Tell me about it.
It seems like he gives up hits or runs every time he pitches. Something tells me he WON'T be on Colorado's playoff roster. My, my... What a shame that would be, wouldn't it? What a shame!

:sarcasm:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:23 AM
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82. Y'oughta yell the same thing at him
as my friend once yelled at Felix Jose when he was in the minors:

"Ah, get a last name!"

:rofl:

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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:21 AM
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81. A lot will depend on pitching
As long as we can avoid Eaton, the Phils might be in good shape - LOL. The pitching was a huge question mark, but has been a lot better lately.

Looking forward to an exciting series. :hi:
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 12:55 AM
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84. they damn near killed me.
I was at the park yesterday.

Watched on TV tonight

Ai yi yi!
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