Technical difficulties. It ran across the screen about 5 minutes ago. I'm getting highly perturbed, to put it nicely.

not on for me either????

+1

Fucking TBS.I hope after this they never get another series. Anyways, Coco got a bunt single and got picked off,Pedroia popped up, and Ortiz struck out:banghead: . Shields pitched 17 pitches 12 being strikes.

Aah yes. MLB showing playoff baseball on cable ftl.

Power outtage in Atlanta, game will be on Tv hopefully in about 25 minutes. according to radio weei.

(reported on ESPN Game Chat a couple minutes ago)

At least they're showing this hilarious Steve Harvey episode instead. Put the damn game on already!

DAMNIT.

that's pathetic tbs. fucking pathetic.

fortunately i tivo'd the madrid derby earlier, so i can watch that.

how does a power outage in atlanta affect their ability to show the game and yet they can show shit on tape?

BJ Upton strikes again!

what the fuck???Never heard of anything like that before. Fuckin ridiculous. GO RAYS!

And we're back! 1-0 Rays.

Wonder how loud the Trop can get...

YOUK!

Shit. Nice shot, Youk. Wonder how many Boston fans are in the stands. I don't hear booing, sounds like Yoooooouk to me. Hmm...are we gonna get a home run derby?

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CLOSE.

Nice work by Longoria to save that ball to get at least one out.

Uh oh, Papi's warming up! :)

Youk knocks in another run! :)

I'm really curios to see how the Rays react to some early adversity here

You gotta be shitting me Shields didnt get that call

How many times are these goofballs going to remind us about the strike zone?

Ouch. Ump is out of the game.

Nothing like getting a completely different strike zone in the middle of the game

There is an alternate umpire, right? Or is that only during the World Series? For those who aren't following, the home plate umpire had to leave the game after getting hit by a ball an inning ago in the collarbone area. So they're talking it over now to figure out what they're gonna do.

normally, they'd go with only three umps.. but they have LF and RF Umps, so one will move in.

Right down the line. Argh.

Interesting strategy from Maddon there. Isn't a bunt a better play than a hit and run with a slow/average runner on base? Think he out-thought that one a little bit...

And Bartlett goes and hits the homer. That could have easily been the lead right there.

Tek Tek Tek Tek... BOOM!

Great DP.

C'mon RAYS!

God damn it. :mad:

Russian Roulette Game 7. Wow.

game 7. woohoo.

Hmmm, been doing a sim of MLB 2008; The Show for the WS (if it were to be Boston, I don't have the Tampa roster right yet to try that one). Not liking it so far.


Game 1: Boston 1 Philly 0 in 12 innings
Game 2: Boston 5 Philly 3, the Jason Bay and JD Drew show (but the CPU manager makes Charlie look like a genius leaving Ruiz in to hit against Papelbom (sp?) with 2 outs in the 9th and a runner on base with left Stairs still on the bench, needless to say it was a game ending strike out)

dola: PM me if any Philly area FOFC'ers would be interested in a McFaddens gathering for a game.

JapanBall.com - Post-Season Baseball Schedules

Japan does its post-season really interestingly. It'd never work here, but I totally dig it. This would be great for MLB if they did this for the 2nd Wild Card team to really disadvantage the wild card, rather than making them on par with a division champion.

One thing the MLB needs to do is not award home field advantage to a wild card team in the WS unless both teams are wild card teams. The winning all-star team should mean nothing if it's a division winner versus a wild card. (personally not a fan of the all-star game determining it anyway)

Damnit....Pedroia is such a thorn in the side.

This is fun and electric :D

SI

Baldelli should be bunting here with 2 on and no one out

nevermind

Still fun to watch :D

SI

Far superior to watching the boring football game.

Congrats to the rays :/

edit: To be truthful, we were playing with house money to even get to game 7.

Great game. Aybar just gave the Rays some insurance. The Red Sox had Jason Varitek hitting in a key situation for some reason. I hope the Rays hold on as Rays-Phillies will be a fine World Series.

Nothing beats baseball. Just wow.

Amen!

Bucc, back to my post a couple of days ago. Why in the world are the Pads shopping good, long contract, young best-pitcher-in-NL Peavy?

SI

Will the Rays bullpen blow it again? Dan Wheeler is going to try his best. 2 on, no out.

My terse reply was actually serious. John Moores, Pads owner, is in a very nasty divorce battle. He will purposely reduce the value of the franchise for revenge, esp. as he is on record to saying the Pads will have a reduced payroll next season.

Crisp woulda been safe if he slid towards the base