How the west was won....

[vansmack]

Nobody in So Cal is at work today, and since I'm from So Cal, I took the day off too.
 
 Therefore, for those of you that are unfortunately at work today, I will be posting my thoughts and comments on the board here.  So when you're watching it on GameDay and it says "Shawn Green grounds out slowly to Scott Rolen," I'll let you know that Rolen charged the ball, barehanded it, and threw Green out in one fluid motion, clearly the best defensive 3rd baseman in the league.....that's the kind of guy I am.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Nobody in So Cal is at work today, and since I'm from So Cal, I took the day off too.
 
 Therefore, for those of you that are unfortunately at work today, I will be posting my thoughts and comments on the board here.  So when you're watching it on GameDay and it says "Shawn Green grounds out slowly to Scott Rolen," I'll let you know that Rolen charged the ball, barehanded it, and threw Green out in one fluid motion, clearly the best defensive 3rd baseman in the league.....that's the kind of guy I am.

I am at home and listening to the radio broadcast, I probably wont be posting my thoughts.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by pollard:
  I am at home and listening to the radio broadcast, I probably wont be posting my thoughts.

Why don't you just go down to Bricks?  They'll have it on.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

This is the one month of hte year it sucks not having cable. Fox seems to think they should make it all Yankees all the time, every fucking year.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Why don't you just go down to Bricks?  They'll have it on.

because I am supposed to be at home "working" so I need to be available

[vansmack]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Why don't you just go down to Bricks?  They'll have it on.

because I am supposed to be at home "working" so I need to be available [/b]

Ahhhh...yet another great reason to be in SF - wireless networks galore!
 
 ESPN is using a cover version of Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight" by some band that was probably on the Warped Tour.  That's the third Phil Collins cover I've heard in two months - revival?
 
 Finley's grand slam has been shown twice, before the first pitch has been thrown?  Anyone, care to take the over/under? I'll set it at 4.
 
 Jonny Miller and Joe Morgan have the call.

[sonickteam2]

I am going for a Dodger's sweep.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  I am going for a Dodger's sweep.

[Celeste]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Why don't you just go down to Bricks?  They'll have it on.

because I am supposed to be at home "working" so I need to be available [/b]

you need a laptop with wireless or at the very least a blackberry

[vansmack]

Williams has been getting his ball up a little bit, which is a bad sign for a sinker ball pitcher.  The Dodgers only managed two flare singles however.  
 
 One odd note, the teams aces are throwing today: Woody Williams and Odalis Perez (seven wins all season!).  With Schilling, Colon, Clemens, Santana, Mussina, and Ortiz on the other six teams, those are two pretty sorry aces.
 
 Maybe you don't need it with 14 Gold Gloves behind you in St. Louis, but not a single Gold Glove in LA has to be worrysome for Dodger fans.

[ratioci nation]

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[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Celeste:
  you need a laptop with wireless

have one, but battery is shot, and waiting for a fedex

[vansmack]

Just walk him next time.
 
 It was a great pitch (in a great ptich sequence, changing speeds and location), low and inside and Pujols went down and crushed it!  That's 3 HR's in 11 at-bats against Odalis Perez for Pujols.  Unbelievable.
 
 Any chance Milton Bradley hits somebody in these playoffs?

[vansmack]

Joe Morgan: "He needs to use the curve ball to get the the double play here"
 
 Jonny Miller: "He's only got 1 double play in his last 24 starts, Joe, which is odd for a sinker ball pitcher."
 
 Williams gets Cora to ground into a double play with his sinker, not his curve ball.
 
 They should let Venerable and I have the SAP channel to call the game.

[vansmack]

Gray Miller reports: "Tony La Russa asks his bench coach 'what do you got?' and the bench coach said '5.7' as the time it takes Perez to get to home plate.  Renteria steals second base on the next pitch"
 
 Joe: "Those numbers are great and all, but you still have to read him correctly"
 
 Renteria is picked off on the next pitch but Odalis inexplicably drops the ball as he's chasing Renteria between the bags.  The Dodgers had him out and that has to cost them a run against the Cards, doesn't it?  Great insight by Joe Morgan though.