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Oct 7, 2005 23:42:42 GMT -5
Post by Talon Karrde on Oct 7, 2005 23:42:42 GMT -5
I can't believe that no one has begun a sports thread, so I'll start things rolling and maybe some of you sports fanatics can take over from here.
First off, congratulations to the Chicago White Sox for a job well done, sweeping the defending champions! I'm not a big American League fan, but I would love to see these guys win the pennant. After all, they haven't had a shot in forever. And this year's team wasn't even supposed to be in contention. It was supposed to be next year that they would have a shot! Go Sox!
While we're on the subject of the Amercian League, who here thinks that the DH rule is bullshit! *stands on tiptoes, hands raised high in the air* In my opinion, I think it's a cop-out to have someone bat for the pitcher. Let the guy swing. Using a DH is like using a cheat - oh, the pitcher's an easy out...we have to do something about that so we never have to worry about the pitcher's spot again. Can you say b-u-l-l-s-h-i-t? There are a number of pitchers out there that swing a mean bat. And why not make a well-rounded player out of a pitcher and teach him some better batting skills. Either way, it makes things even for both sides. Just a stupid rule if you ask me.
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Oct 13, 2005 18:17:49 GMT -5
Post by jpmessiah on Oct 13, 2005 18:17:49 GMT -5
All I need to say is the Yankees Lost. YES YES YES. No, not the network. HAHA. Anyways, it feels good to see such a pompous team lose yet again. I hate Yankee fans. This one is not directed at a certain Yankee fan who will probably take offense to my comments, because she has never acted this way. But most Yankee fans are just fans because of the amount of championships their team has won. I have been a fan of the Yankees since 1976. That's great, but the Yankees held how many world titles before that. I mean, how hard was it to choose a team when your front running mommies and daddied chose the team for you. I would rather be a Mets fan and cheer a real team on; rather than one that basically buys its world championships. Now, a Yankees fan will get all smart at this point and ask, well, who's better the Yankees or the Mets this year since the Yankees made the playoffs and all I have to say is that the fact really doesn't matter, because which teams are both home watching the World Series. There is only one thing that matters in baseball; winning the World Series, so this year, both the Mets and Yankees sucked. Deal with it.
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Oct 14, 2005 11:40:18 GMT -5
Post by srfrgrl on Oct 14, 2005 11:40:18 GMT -5
Lets talk about the DH, I believe it was instituted to protect pitchers from unnecessary colisions running the bases and from getting beaned intentionally while batting. I don't have a problem with the DH, actually find it very exiting that a pitcher has to go up against a better hitter. Makes the game a little more exciting for me, but thats just me.
As far as the Yankees, truth be told I did cry after they lost, and I was upset that they lost, but I will say that I didn't think they would even make the playoffs. The pitching this year left something to be desired. Money or not, it doesn't matter how much money you spend on a team, its if those players perform. The only players that were consistant were Jeter, Sheffield, Rodriguez and Mattsui. Other than that forgetaboutit. The starting pitching, the bullpen and the catcher situation need to be addresses. Cause sorry Jorge Posada, can never hold on to the damn ball. We'll have to wait till next year.
The Mets, need some pitching, and someone other than Wright and Reaz to make plays. Other than that they did very well under first year manager Willie Randolph.
For the World Series, I think it will be Chicago and St. Louis. I think St. Louis is great, but Chicago is a scrappy team and they should win it all.
Lets talk about Football, Giants QB Eli Manning is tearing up the field. In his last game against the St. Louis Rams he threw 4 TD passes and had no interseptions. The team is 3-1 going into Dallas this week to play the Cowboys, which has been improved with the advent of Drew Bledsoe as the starter over retiring Vinnie Tesaverde. This should be a great matchup for the NFC East competitors. Speaking of Vinnie, he will take the ball for the Jets this weekend as the starter. Funny how things work. You are out of football for 9 months and then all of a sudden you get the call that the Jets lost their starting QB and backup.
Hockey, I love hockey, The Devils. We will have to see about this team, lots of question marks here as Captain Scott Stevens has retired and several starters have been traded to other teams. Marty Brodeur is gonna have his hands full, as this conference is filled with guys that can score at the blink of an eye.
Notre Dame has a great matchup this weekend too, they are going against #1 USC in South Bend. Notre Dame has a great team and is looking to upset USC to go to a bowl game, we'll have to wait and see.
Last but least, Lets go Knicks, I mean what a disappointment the last couple of years. With Larry Brown at the helm I think we will see some effective turnaround. I would just be thankful to see them in the playoff picture.
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Oct 18, 2005 0:20:25 GMT -5
Post by Talon Karrde on Oct 18, 2005 0:20:25 GMT -5
Woohoo! Go White Sox! They are the American League Champions! Here's hoping that they become the World Series Champs as well!
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Oct 26, 2005 23:14:54 GMT -5
Post by Talon Karrde on Oct 26, 2005 23:14:54 GMT -5
;D Can you say sweeeeeeep!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations White Sox! You played like a team who really wanted it! Kudos to all the players, including Juan Uribe for the tremendous final two plays to end the fourth and final game! A World Series, well-played by the Sox and well-deserved. ;D
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Feb 6, 2006 12:53:06 GMT -5
Post by srfrgrl on Feb 6, 2006 12:53:06 GMT -5
I said it in another thread and I will say it again YEAH STEELERS. Yes it is true I am a NY Giants fan but I can route for a winner and the Steelers really deserved that win. I can't wait till my team is back in the superbowl, but now I can look forward to the end of the hockey season, Go Devils and Rangers as well as the start of training camp for the Yankees.
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May 3, 2006 12:30:39 GMT -5
Post by Talon Karrde on May 3, 2006 12:30:39 GMT -5
Some people ask, "Why the Mets?" People just don't understand what it means to be a New York Mets fan. Isn't the Bronx the home of the New York Yankees?
I think Mets fans feelings are best summed up by this Brooklyn Dodgers fan:
"I really believe with the Dodger fans that they got beaten down enough that there was an essential humility and an understanding which the Yankee fans never had. The simple fact is, as the world continually forgets, it is not a very nice place to live, and more bad things happen than good things. And that's how you learn to appreciate the good things, and two, once in a while you take it easy on somebody else. The Brooklyn fans are living proof of that. They are people who have learned to care about something other than winning; they care about excellence, and the proof is in the standing ovations Stan Musial got at Ebbets Field. There always seemed to me an essential meanness among a lot of Yankee fans, like God owes it to them. And if they ain't in the race, then it ain't a race, and if they ain't in the Series, it ain't a Series. I think because it came so hard to the Dodgers, because they had to fight so long for it, and they came so close so many times, they learned that, 'Gee, when it happens, it's wonderful, and when it doesn't, it's still baseball.'" - Joel Oppenheimer
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May 3, 2006 14:29:58 GMT -5
Post by jpmessiah on May 3, 2006 14:29:58 GMT -5
Most Met fans are true fans. They stick with their team through good and bad. We are used to the bad. To love the Mets is to love the Mets. You feel me? The Mets are an exciting team to watch. They create stars and build around a couple of other stars. They don't go out and buy an All Star team and then lose the World Series. To me, the Yankees are like the previous NBA Dream Team that did not win gold in the Olympics. You look at the team and say, how the hell could they not win and then you realize, sometimes there is such a thing as too many stars. A scrappy team is what is more fun to watch. The Knicks of Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Derek Harper, Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason were much more exciting than the Stephon Marbury led team that actually was supposed to have all star talent on paper. Also, pay attention to Yankee fans. When the Yankees jump out to a quick start and win mad games, they are quick to rub it into other people's faces, but when the Yankees start slow, they will say something like; "Well, April is a really bad time to judge a team...after all, it is only the beginning of the season." When the Yankees are doing bad, the fans are quicker to get nasty about their own team while Mets fans have a Wait Until Next Year attitude. That's just my take
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Jul 26, 2006 11:52:20 GMT -5
Post by srfrgrl on Jul 26, 2006 11:52:20 GMT -5
Ok this I have to comment on mostly because I just don't understand, how ESPN is now showing The World Series of Poker and Darts as a sport. I have never considered it a sport to sit on your duff and play cards. Do you break a sweat sitting on your fanny, I doubt it. See I classifiy a sport as you at least have to break a sweat. Golf, Poker and Darts don't qualify to me as being a sport, but I could be wrong, am I? I mean darts, standing in a spot and throwing a pointy object into a cork board. Some would say that the throwing motion would be considered a sport because it requires a level of skill, but please, breaking a sweat doing that, I don't think so. You aren't throwing the dart that hard or at a moving object.
Same for golf. Sorry to all you golfers out there, but again walking around in funny looking yuppy clothes and pretending you are Tiger Woods (which you are not) doesn't qualify as playing a sport. So am I right? I mean why doesn't ESPN play more sports that actually require the person to break a sweat, like soccer. That has a one of the largest audiences in the world?? I mean when I think of sports, I think football, basketball, baseball, hockey, but poker, no way.
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Jul 26, 2006 12:06:26 GMT -5
Post by jpmessiah on Jul 26, 2006 12:06:26 GMT -5
Breaking a sweat. Does that mean bodybuilding is a sport? There are competitions for it. But I mean, would you call a bodybuilder an athlete. And would you call a DH in American League baseball an athlete, because I could bet that a golfer exerts himself as much in one day as a DH does or even a pinch hitter who barely plays the game. Poker is not a sport. But as a bowler, who knows that I have to train my wrists and have some sort of arm strength, and have to strategize at times on ways to use the oil on the lanes to my advantage, well, I would consider it to be some kind of sport. So, I would include Gold in there. There is a lot of strategizing with golf, and using your muscles to make some sort of shot happen. Darts...well, it is a big competition and there is strategy involved and thought that goes into it and some sort of eye-arm connection. So, I will give darts to the sports category, too. Poker...never!!! It's on too much. Everywhere I look. Blah!!
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Jul 26, 2006 12:34:43 GMT -5
Post by Talon Karrde on Jul 26, 2006 12:34:43 GMT -5
I won an award in a dart competition. Perhaps this is why they consider it a sport. The word competition is confusing people. Just because this is a game of skill and you compete against people for top honors, it should not be considered a sport. If we were going to consider all competitions as sports, why not include Scrabble Tournaments or Crossword Tournaments. When I was a kid, they used to hold huge tournaments to discover who was the best video gamer. Should we consider video games sports? Let's get real folks. Competition is a part of sports but not every competition IS a sport.
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Oct 11, 2006 16:48:17 GMT -5
Post by Talon Karrde on Oct 11, 2006 16:48:17 GMT -5
New York Yankees Pitcher Cory Lidel was reportedly killed when his plane crashed into a building on the east side of of Manhattan at 2:30PM on October 11, 2006. The following is from www.mlb.com: "NEW YORK -- Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was the pilot of a small plane that crashed into a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to published reports. Lidle, 34, was killed in the crash, the reports said. The New York Times reported that police said two bodies were found on the ground shortly after the crash, and that one of them was that of Lidle, who was a licensed pilot. Four deaths were confirmed by the city medical examiner's office, CNN reported. Yankees manager Joe Torre told CNN that the plane that was a Cirrus SR-20 registered to Lidle. A New York City Fire Department spokeswoman, Emily Rahimi, told The Associated Press that the aircraft struck the 20th floor of the 50-story building, at 524 E. 72nd St., on the east side of Manhattan. Lidle, whose team was eliminated Saturday in the Division Series by the Detroit Tigers, told reporters on Monday that he planned to fly home to California on Wednesday. He said it would take roughly 15 hours of flying time, though he planned on stopping at least twice, including one stop in Arizona. Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to Lidle, and FBI reports show that Lidle's passport was found at the scene, according to a report on ESPN.com. Lidle's agent, Jordan Feagan, told Newsday he was informed by the Yankees that Lidle was among the fatalities of the 2:30 p.m. crash. "He wasn't just my client. He was probably my closest friend," Feagan said."
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Oct 20, 2006 13:24:58 GMT -5
Post by Talon Karrde on Oct 20, 2006 13:24:58 GMT -5
Well, the Mets lost last night and so the Cardinals advance to the World Series. I won't say that I'm not disappointed that my team didn't make it in, but I will say that I'm happy to have seen them make it this far. This was a team that was thought to be in contention for the playoffs next year, not this one. The fact that they played so well this year can only give Mets fans hope for next year. Yeah, I know - we always say wait til next year, but I think that this time the threat is valid. I think some tweaking is definitely in order. Wagner, for one, has to go. Yes, his statistics look nice - 40 saves out of 45 chances. But let's look at what he does in those save situations. Very few times does he have a one-two-three inning. Most often, he allows runs to cross the plate, cutting the lead down in important games. The statistics don't show what kind of pitcher Wagner really is - wild and inconsistent. Not very good characteristics for a closer. Also, it's time to get rid of Trachsel. Here's another guy with good and fairly misleading statistics. Basically, Trachsel is only good if the Mets give him a plethora of runs to work with. He can't handle things when umpires don't call pitches for him and loses all composure if a batter gets on base. I think John Maine is not starting pitcher material - I would make him a middle reliever. I think the fielders are pretty decent, but some of our new acquisitions need time to get used to the stadiums. Sean Green has had a mediocre year, but I think that he will improve with time. Cliff Floyd on the other hand is a terrific player, but is afflicted with so many injuries that he may not be worth all the time and money. We need another Endy Chavez out there. As always, Reyes was fun to watch out there. He made every effort he could in the field and was a bit stymied at the plate. He was trying to hard in my opinion. In fact, it would seem that the Mets forgot that their strength was in the small ball play. In the Championship series, it seemed that everyone was swinging for the fences. They need to get back to small ball. You done well, Omar! I wasn't sure about the team you assembled this year, but they rose to the challenge. Yes, they came up a tad short, but I have great hopes for them in the future. LET'S GO METS!!!!!!!!!
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