2007 MLB Playoffs Thread

[JetsIn06]

ROCKIES!!!!!!!!!!!

Bloop pinch hit scores 2, Rockies lead 2-1!

[Arles]

Another TBS graphic jinx there. And I know Rockies fans don't want to hear it, but they have done something to get in the good graces of the baseball gods over the past month. Now, they have a very good team, but some of these hits are crazy.

[BishopMVP]

When you're hot, you're hot.... cheap 2 out double falls between 3 D'Backs, 2-1 Rockies.

[Young Drachma]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[JetsIn06]

3 RUN BOMB!!!!!!!

6-1 ROCKIES!!!

[Arles]

DBacks are done. This Colorado team is like the "Ice Man" of MLB's Top Gun this season. They don't make mistakes and pounce when you give them a chance. I don't see Cleveland or Boston being able to derail them at this point. As a baseball fan, you can't help but be impressed. As a DBacks fan, well, you want to go cry it off in another beer

[molson]

Originally Posted by Galaril

And regardless of the AL winner the Rockies are going to CRUSH whomever gets in their way to the WS championship I fear.

Ya, it's hard to see anybody stopping the Rockies at this point. They're a WS Sweep away from the most incredible run in baseball history. (And if a Rockies fan thinks they're going to sweep, I wouldn't find them obnoxious - just saying).

[LloydLungs]

Originally Posted by Galaril

And regardless of the AL winner the Rockies are going to CRUSH whomever gets in their way to the WS championship I fear.

I'd agree, but for the nine days that will pass between the NLCS and the World Series. Boy, they're going to have SO much time off coming up. I've got to think that is going to have a weird effect on any major league baseball team.

[mauchow]

Its too bad that these games are on so late cuz maybe the East Coast people would actually get to see this amazing stuff.

GO ROX! KILL THE SOX/INDIANS!

[JetsIn06]

Uh oh. We got ourselves a ballgame here. 3-run homer in the top of the 8th to make it 6-4.

[Young Drachma]

Get Corpas in.

[JetsIn06]

Wooo!!! 3 more outs baby.

[Young Drachma]

This is AWESOME.

[JetsIn06]

[Young Drachma]

Tulo is a beast.

[k0ruptr]

wooo rockies!

[Young Drachma]

Can't wait to try to buy tickets Monday!

[Young Drachma]

I'm the goofball wondering where they'll put the pennant.

[Young Drachma]

Umm..thanks Monfort. Now be sure NOT to sell the team off.

[Mustang]

Baseball has some of the most gawd awful trophies.

[SackAttack]

I wonder what kind of odds you could have gotten on the Rockies winning the World Series three weeks ago?

[k0ruptr]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

I wonder what kind of odds you could have gotten on the Rockies winning the World Series three weeks ago?

I'm thinking some people won big on these bets at the beginning of the year.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Mustang

Baseball has some of the most gawd awful trophies.

No kidding. The World Series trophy is boring as hell.

I like the Giles trophy. I'd never seen that. Pretty awesome looking.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

I like the Giles trophy. I'd never seen that. Pretty awesome looking.

I don't know.. I saw 2 inches of space where they could have stuck another column.

[Buccaneer]

Congrats to the Rox, what an amazing run. Go NL.

[Butter]

My God, some of you New England sports fans are the whiniest bitches I've ever seen in my life.

"Hey, don't celebrate too much, you only won one game!"

Fucking WAAAAAAH. When your team wins a playoff game, I'm sure the crowd at Fenway isn't doing polite golf claps and then heading home.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

My God, some of you New England sports fans are the whiniest bitches I've ever seen in my life.

"Hey, don't celebrate too much, you only won one game!"

Fucking WAAAAAAH. When your team wins a playoff game, I'm sure the crowd at Fenway isn't doing polite golf claps and then heading home.

A. People take casual observations way too seriously.

B. No one was referring to the Cleveland crowd.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by Galaril

I think a veternan team like Boston will be affected by the fact that these guys and their fans Obviously think they got this series in the bag and in 5. I feel an ass wupping coming the next few games Boston in 6

Logan, you may want to retract point B.

Or go back to dissecting each and every word of the Indians unbearably long slogan, that was worthwhile.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Yikes. I kind of knew of it was bad, but I really hadn't realized just how bad it was.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sp.../tbs_1017.html

New York — The National League championship series had all the elements of a low-rated sporting event: a sweep involving two smaller-market, tradition-poor franchises.

The Colorado Rockies' four-game sweep defeat of the Arizona Diamondbacks drew an average 2.8 rating for all households and a 3.3 for homes with TBS. The previous low average LCS rating was a 6.2 for the Mets' five-game victory over the Cardinals in 2000.

Turner Sports president David Levy said network executives were "still very, very happy" with their seven-year deal with Major League Baseball despite a convergence of factors leading to low NLCS ratings in their first year airing the playoffs.

"At some point in the package we're going to be at the high," he said, "and it will all average out to what we modeled this thing at."

Improved division series ratings were a major reason for Levy's optimism. He said broadcasting all the division series games on the same network helped attract viewers by eliminating confusion.

"We demonstrated with the division series that with the right blend of teams, the right markets, the right schedule and the right promoting that TBS can out-deliver or deliver comparably to broadcast television," Levy said.

The Cleveland Indians' 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of the ALCS on Monday night drew a 6.6 rating on Fox.

[miami_fan]

It's all ESPN's fault.

[molson]

The only "East Coast Bias" is a bias for TV ratings and money.

[miami_fan]

Damn Wakefield lost it quick. 3-0 Indians

[miami_fan]

I'm sorry 6-0 Indians

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Yikes. I kind of knew of it was bad, but I really hadn't realized just how bad it was.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sp.../tbs_1017.html

New York — The National League championship series had all the elements of a low-rated sporting event: a sweep involving two smaller-market, tradition-poor franchises.

The Colorado Rockies' four-game sweep defeat of the Arizona Diamondbacks drew an average 2.8 rating for all households and a 3.3 for homes with TBS. The previous low average LCS rating was a 6.2 for the Mets' five-game victory over the Cardinals in 2000.

Turner Sports president David Levy said network executives were "still very, very happy" with their seven-year deal with Major League Baseball despite a convergence of factors leading to low NLCS ratings in their first year airing the playoffs.

"At some point in the package we're going to be at the high," he said, "and it will all average out to what we modeled this thing at."

Improved division series ratings were a major reason for Levy's optimism. He said broadcasting all the division series games on the same network helped attract viewers by eliminating confusion.

"We demonstrated with the division series that with the right blend of teams, the right markets, the right schedule and the right promoting that TBS can out-deliver or deliver comparably to broadcast television," Levy said.

The Cleveland Indians' 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of the ALCS on Monday night drew a 6.6 rating on Fox.

We need some small market spin for this. Oh, and some Yankee/Red Sox hate.

[Crapshoot]

Originally Posted by Atocep

We need some small market spin for this. Oh, and some Yankee/Red Sox hate.

Where's SI?

I agree that ESPN drives me nuts (the Sportscenter after the Yankees-Indians series spent what seemed like 35 min on Joe Torre, and 5 min noting the Indians won), but at some level, the level of interest is just so much higher. I'm a baseball fan, but I'm far more interested in watching CLE-BOS than COL-ARI - I have no rooting interest in the latter series, just disdain (aka jealously, that the NL West will see the Giants rooted to the bottom for years). the NFL has done a wonderful job of marketing the SuperBowl and the MNF as the "sport" and not about the teams (from a gameplay standpoint, I think this is detrimental, but that's another debate) - baseball hasn't done that quite the same way.

[korme]

Hope I'm not jinxing the Indians, but -

Cleveland / Colorado is going to make one hell of a World Series.

[dime]

Originally Posted by Atocep

We need some small market spin for this. Oh, and some Yankee/Red Sox hate.

I'm no tv ratings guru, but I don't know that those ratings are all that bad when you consider that not only was this series on TBS (some basic cable packages don't even have TBS), but it had two west coast teams and some late start times.

[Celeval]

I hate the late start times. I tried to watch all four of those games, and only made it to the end once.

[miami_fan]

Wow back to back to back for the Sox.

[Crapshoot]

Back. To Back. To Back. Yeah, the Red Sox have a nice middle of the lineup.

[Galaril]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Wow back to back to back for the Sox.

Way to go Cleveland fans boo at your team when they are up 2-1 in the series and up 7-3.

[dime]

manny just went from "quirky and amusing" to "obnoxious shit" for this fan.

they weren't booing their team, they were booing ramirez for standing at the plate like he just hit a walk-off when his team is down 4 in the 6th inning.

[Galaril]

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

My God, some of you New England sports fans are the whiniest bitches I've ever seen in my life.

"Hey, don't celebrate too much, you only won one game!"

Fucking WAAAAAAH. When your team wins a playoff game, I'm sure the crowd at Fenway isn't doing polite golf claps and then heading home.

Sorry, I forgot Indians haven't had alot to cheer about until very recently.

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by dime

manny just went from "quirky and amusing" to "obnoxious shit" for this fan.

they weren't booing their team, they were booing ramirez for standing at the plate like he just hit a walk-off when his team is down 4 in the 6th inning.

This is one of those things that is supposed to be remembered some time next year when Manny gets drilled by the Indians isn't it?

EDIT: The Indians radio broadcast team is talking about this same thing right now.

[molson]

Originally Posted by dime

manny just went from "quirky and amusing" to "obnoxious shit" for this fan.

Just now?

I love Manny, and baseball needs more personalties. But if you're not into that schtick, you should have been off the Manny bandwagon a LONG time ago.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by molson

Just now?

I love Manny, and baseball needs more personalties. But if you're not into that schtick, you should have been off the Manny bandwagon a LONG time ago.

Its nice to see personality in pro sports. Especially baseball since everything is TRADITION, TRADITION, TRADITION, respect the game, ect.

Baseball needs more guys like Manny.

[molson]

15-20% of the population of the US lives in Red Sox/Yankee Country - New England, New York, New Jersey. And that doesn't begin to account for the huge amount of northeast transplants throughout the US - particularly in the SF Bay Area, Florida, and the Pacific Northwest.

That's ALL there is to it - why ESPN considers those teams a priority.

[samifan24]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

This is one of those things that is supposed to be remembered some time next year when Manny gets drilled by the Indians isn't it?

I hope Manny gets drilled in the ribs the next time he comes up. Some of you Red Sox fans want to talk about ridiculous celebrating? Manny's standing there acting like he just hit a walk-off game winner when his team is down by four is the definition of ridiculous.

[dime]

Originally Posted by Atocep

Its nice to see personality in pro sports. Especially baseball since everything is TRADITION, TRADITION, TRADITION, respect the game, ect.

Baseball needs more guys like Manny.

there's a BIG difference between having "personality" and placing your own personal accomplishment (likely meaningless solo HR) above your team's straits (likely going to lose the LCS).

how is that not obnoxious? if I were a red sox fan, I'd be pissed that he was so happy with his little home run when his team is down 7-3 and about to go down 3-1 in the series.

[molson]

Originally Posted by dime

how is that not obnoxious? if I were a red sox fan, I'd be pissed that he was so happy with his little home run when his team is down 7-3 and about to go down 3-1 in the series.

It's obnoxious, I'm not gonna lie to you.

But long ago, Red Sox fans have made something of a pact with Manny. We can be upset with every little things that happens, OR, we can take him as he is, accepting the quirks along with the power, the average, the plate discipline. "Manny Being Manny" is a catch phrase very familiar to any Red Sox fan. We love the production, so we're willing to look past the "extras".

And it only works because at the surface, he seems like a really nice guy - anti-media, yes, but always cool to the fans.