I've rooted Yankees since I was 5, but have always liked the Twins, and wouldn't mind seeing the Rangers make it for the first time, so I'll be easy to please.
If I had to pick a NL preference, I guess it's the Reds-I'm good with any of them.
I think I'm done getting emotionally worked up over sports. I enjoy them, but somehow seems less important as I grow old and feeble.
I've always been a Yankee fan but I find it hard to get excited about this team.
Losing 16 of their last 20 (or whatever) and settling for a wild card spot in the playoffs is quite disappointing. In the old days they would have missed the playoffs.
Baseball is so unpredictable compared to other sports. The teams that look the strongest and seem the obvious favorite never get to the world series. I thought The Phillies (which still has a shot at it) and The Yankees looked like the better teams.
They're a great team, and probably the only team in sports that would consider a loss in the ALCS as a failed season--
Im actually more enthused about the Rangers though. I grew to like them a lot when Tom Strange who started this thread hung in there as a faithful fan with undying hope for years and years and years on this thread.
I know what its like to wait seemingly forever and the top of the world feeling that comes when 'it' finally happens.
Nothing against the Yankees, but the Rangers (and the Giants too) earned it. They have a good team and a truckload of the intangibles that make it happen.
I hope Tom is somewhere savoring every second of this and sitting on top of the world...--as well as every Ranger and Giants fan.
The Rangers and Giants earned it. They deserve to go. The Yankees played the last month like they didn't care, so they deserve NOT to go. Last year they played like they cared (even Arod)-this year was different, and so it goes.
This may be a terrific series ( of course, you never know ). I haven't decided who to get behind. I usually go AL, but there's something about these Giants overachievers, that I like. It's a fire that the Dodgers never seem to be able to ignite. Maybe I'll just sit back and go with may the best team win, and enjoy whatever happens.
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Ahh, leave Bernie alone. He's a good guy, and a good guitarist, too.
So are you rooting for the Yanks or the Rays to win the American League East?
P.S. What happened to Bolshevik?
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And Yaz popped out to Nettles to kill the Red Sox chances in the '78 playoff game. I guess he really sucked.
Bernie Williams was a great ballplayer, and as far as I can tell, a fine, fine human being. I have no idea how well he plays guitar.
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He's up for a Grammy--sounds good to me
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Just a reminder for everyone
that the new epilogue to the Ken Burns Baseball series ,
The Tenth Inning, airs on PBS this week (In my area it is Tuesday and Wednesday at 8PM)
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TrustAndObey
And the playoffs start tomorrow..
Whose rootin' for whom?!
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I've rooted Yankees since I was 5, but have always liked the Twins, and wouldn't mind seeing the Rangers make it for the first time, so I'll be easy to please.
If I had to pick a NL preference, I guess it's the Reds-I'm good with any of them.
I think I'm done getting emotionally worked up over sports. I enjoy them, but somehow seems less important as I grow old and feeble.
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I've always been a Yankee fan but I find it hard to get excited about this team.
Losing 16 of their last 20 (or whatever) and settling for a wild card spot in the playoffs is quite disappointing. In the old days they would have missed the playoffs.
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mstar1
It will be nice watching the playoffs without an emotional stake in it--Im a fan if underdogs --I'll take the
Reds and Rangers here---although the Giants haven't won anything in my lifetime either..
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TrustAndObey
I'm going for the underdogs in the AL... Ranger's! It looks like they have game 1 wrapped up..
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mstar1
Are y'all watchin' Doc?
Its a thing of beauty to watch him pitch-
nothing through 8
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He did it!!!!
Wow that was great to watch!
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soul searcher
The Yankees will wreck him. :B)
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GeorgeStGeorge
Being a Reds fan, I found it a bit painful. I do recognize a great sports achievement, however.
George
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GeorgeStGeorge
Well, the first game they couldn't hit.
This one, they couldn't field.
How about the next game -- no pitching? :(
George
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Human without the bean
Go Yankees! Do it again.
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outintexas
Go Rangers!! We are in uncharted waters here.
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dmiller
Am rooting for my "home team" here in Minney-soda (The Twins), but it looks bleak. :(
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TrustAndObey
Even more uncharted right now.. Up by 2 (3-1) in the final game of the series.. Can they do it?!
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outintexas
They advanced to the ALCS! Up against the Yankees again.
Good to see them bounce back yesterday after that 8th inning disaster in game one.
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TrustAndObey
Make that the World Series!
Go Rangers!
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Human without the bean
Baseball is so unpredictable compared to other sports. The teams that look the strongest and seem the obvious favorite never get to the world series. I thought The Phillies (which still has a shot at it) and The Yankees looked like the better teams.
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soul searcher
So what does everybody think of the best team that Steinbrenner's money could buy?
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They're a great team, and probably the only team in sports that would consider a loss in the ALCS as a failed season--
Im actually more enthused about the Rangers though. I grew to like them a lot when Tom Strange who started this thread hung in there as a faithful fan with undying hope for years and years and years on this thread.
I know what its like to wait seemingly forever and the top of the world feeling that comes when 'it' finally happens.
Nothing against the Yankees, but the Rangers (and the Giants too) earned it. They have a good team and a truckload of the intangibles that make it happen.
I hope Tom is somewhere savoring every second of this and sitting on top of the world...--as well as every Ranger and Giants fan.
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hiway29
The Rangers and Giants earned it. They deserve to go. The Yankees played the last month like they didn't care, so they deserve NOT to go. Last year they played like they cared (even Arod)-this year was different, and so it goes.
This may be a terrific series ( of course, you never know ). I haven't decided who to get behind. I usually go AL, but there's something about these Giants overachievers, that I like. It's a fire that the Dodgers never seem to be able to ignite. Maybe I'll just sit back and go with may the best team win, and enjoy whatever happens.
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