MLB Playoffs

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
 speaking of mute, that's what i do with any joe buck/tim mccarver called game. . .really, what dirt do they have on rupert murdoch that allows them to keep calling games.
 
 surely someone can figure out a way to get bob costas back into the booth, pair him with someone like al leiter. . .
 
 ugh, i really can't stand joe buck and tim mccarver. . .

not a mccarver fan, but dont mind joe buck, i heard him so much as a cardinals fan, just be glad you never have to hear al hrabosky, easily worst ever

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I say fire them all, and bring back Cosell.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  not a mccarver fan, but dont mind joe buck, i heard him so much as a cardinals fan, just be glad you never have to hear al hrabosky, easily worst ever

the mad hungarian. . .he has one of the more famous error cards from the 1982 donruss set, if i remember correctly.
 
 i would also love to have al michaels back doing baseball. . was it the sports guy that did the list of memorable sporting events that were broadcast by al michaels?

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by le sonick:
   

Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
  What about Abreu would make him a borderline hall of famer?
 
 And if Jeter didn't play on the Yankees, would anybody pay him any attention? If he were on Tampa Bay, he'd be Carl Crwaford.
 
 

that would be confusing to have a Carl Crawford and a Carl Crwaford both on the same team.
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yeah, while pronounciation of the two would be similar at least the spelling is different.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  was it the sports guy that did the list of memorable sporting events that were broadcast by al michaels?

August 2005 Mailbag:
 
   

Al did play-by-play for the greatest sporting event of all time (the 1980 Olympic Hockey game); the greatest gambling moment of all time (the Music City Miracle, when Wycheck lateraled to Dyson to beat the Bills); and the most incredible sports moment of all time (when the first-ever Bay Area World Series was postponed for a week by a devastating earthquake that happened moments before Game 3 in San Fran, the odds of which had to be 10 billion to 1 if you added up all the different variables). I always thought that was amazing. If Michaels had just found a way to announce Hagler-Hearns, the Artest Melee and the Shawn Michaels-Bret Hart "Screw Job" match in Montreal, he would have gone down as the Forrest Gump of announcers.

But of course he was wrong on one of them, and forgot that he did do the Hagler-Hearns fight!  August 2005 More Cowbell:
 
   

I made two significant screwups in the Al Michaels section of yesterday's mailbag...
 
 "As a diehard Bills fan and the Throwback being the most frustrating moment of my sports life, the Titans/Bills playoff game was definitely called by the ESPN guys, not Al Michaels."
 
 "Al passed up on that Music City Miracle game to broadcast the Miami vs. Jacksonville game (where Marino was down like 63-0 before he realized the game actually started)....Boomer admitted that he wanted to do that game, but Michaels wanted to broadcast the Miami game instead because it was probably Marino's last playoff game and the call was up to Al (he really blew that one)."
 
 Yes, I screwed up. But here's the crazy thing -- somehow I forgot this, and mainly because ESPN Classic never, ever, ever shows this fight, but guess who did the call for Hagler-Hearns? That's right, Al Michaels! I totally blanked on that one.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  why does Chris Berman still have a job, it is painful listening to him call a game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_with_me%2C_leather
 
 the absolute worst is the home-run derby

[ChampionshipVinyl]

Let's go Tigers!!! Two in a row at home!!!

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by ChampionshipVinyl:
  Let's go Tigers!!! Two in a row at home!!!

and more A-Rod strikeouts with the bases loaded!
 
  man i tell ya, between Pedro, D Lowe, Nomar and A-Rod (yes, we ALMOST had A-Rod)  these playoffs have been surprisingly pleasant
 
  (my lady gets so mad when we trade people away, but i say...theres a reason!)

[BookerT]

Originally posted by BookerT:
  anyway, everyone needs to come to terms with the fact that there is NO CHANCE the yankees don't win the world series.  

to borrow a line from the sports guy ... the lesson, as always -- i'm an idiot.

[terry]

Ugh, my belove-ed Yankees down in 4 games. I may actually have to root for the Mets for the remainder of season, but only because Willie Randolph is their manager. It's the closest to the Yanks I'm going to get at this point.

[alex]

It's always a good day when the Yankees get eliminated (especially like that) and all of their overpriced, overrated superstars have to spend the rest of October crying in their millions of dollars.

[sonickteam2]

i just dont see how the yankees could have lost
 
  its like Team Canada losing in Olympic Hockey
 
   i cant be happier they did, but its just weird,

[kookiemnstr8]

I hate it when people are happy when the Yankees lose.  Be happy for the Tigers/whoever was playing them.  That guy pitched phenomenally.  Making people like Sheffield and Jeter dive out and swing for the pitches that were clearly balls from our perspective but obviously impossible to read from theirs takes talent.  Throwing something like six pitches outside of the strike zone in the first however many innings?  Unbelievable.  They were the better team last night.
 
 My whole family are huge Yankee fans, and I think that we actually went into a little bit of shock.  It was kind of ridiculous.

[Barcelona]

I don' know anything about baseball, but from what I saw on tv, a few innings, is there a problem with attitude in the Yankees? they seemed like they were thinking more about vacation than the finals, extremely un-motivated. Even the coach didn't seem to worried when they were down 8-1.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Graace:
  I hate it when people are happy when the Yankees lose.  

Sorry, but it appears by that statement that you did not have to suffer through the late 90's with Yankee fans.  They were the least gracious winners, therefore I will have no sympathy for them as losers.
 
 The Steinbrenner era has so dramtically changed baseball, that I now get an extra happy feeling that they make all the off-season moves and deadline deals and still get bounced in the first round.