Ve shall avenge you, sir!
2011 MLB Thread
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dIZZyBlIZZy
Batteries not included
Wow!!! That game ended nicely and like the same AB the Sox final went on the stadium marquee.
pacesplace
Prince
Most insane single night of baseball probably since Game 6's of the championship series back in 2003 (first thing that came to mind). Good luck to the Cardinals, they earned the playoffs, I guess it's better to lose now so the Beaves don't get content with making the playoffs and losing in the first round every year again.
Anyone that doesn't think the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is the biggest in sports: The Yankees let in the Rays, who by far outperformed the Sox in the month of September, just to spite them.
Anyone that doesn't think the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is the biggest in sports: The Yankees let in the Rays, who by far outperformed the Sox in the month of September, just to spite them.
Darkness
Shadow creature
Thanks for sweeping the Braves, Phillies... 
classical_hero
In whom I trust
That was a day that will never happen ever again. The first time this year that Boston lost while leading after the 8th. This is the firs since the 50's that the Yankees gave up such a big lead so late in the game. Boston now have the biggest ever choke in baseball history. The Braves have the equal second biggest choke in history. The fact that in the space of a few minutes we have Boston losing and then Longoria hitting a walk off home rum to win it. You cannot script that and if someone wrote a movie about this, before this had happened, then they would have been laughed at. No matter what your sport is, this night will go down as the most amazing day in sporting history. This was more exciting than the last day last year in the EPL when five teams could have gone down. Truly amazing.
El Justo
Deity
there are few words for what happened last night, boys
i almost feel bad for the braves. those guys were trying so damn hard...but they couldn't get it done. and manuel was rolling out one AAA pitcher after another there at the end. tough break for the bravos.
that TB-NY game was unreal. how can you not love TB? they lose all their top guys this season and somehow prevail like this? and to see bosox LF crawford butcher that line drive. oh man.
Dent, Buckner, and now who? Papelbon? hard to lay the blame on a single guy, i think. lester pitched pretty well when it meant something. but to blow that game last night in baltimore? uggh. gonna be a long off season in beantown.
how does everyone feel about mets SS reyes telling his mgr before the last game that if he got a hit in his first AB that he wanted to come out of the game to preserve a batting title? a little bush league if you ask me. but i realize this has been done a lot over the years, ie guys coming out to preserve avg's etc. but to bunt? and to actually tell your mgr beforehand? bush league
i almost feel bad for the braves. those guys were trying so damn hard...but they couldn't get it done. and manuel was rolling out one AAA pitcher after another there at the end. tough break for the bravos.
that TB-NY game was unreal. how can you not love TB? they lose all their top guys this season and somehow prevail like this? and to see bosox LF crawford butcher that line drive. oh man.
Dent, Buckner, and now who? Papelbon? hard to lay the blame on a single guy, i think. lester pitched pretty well when it meant something. but to blow that game last night in baltimore? uggh. gonna be a long off season in beantown.
how does everyone feel about mets SS reyes telling his mgr before the last game that if he got a hit in his first AB that he wanted to come out of the game to preserve a batting title? a little bush league if you ask me. but i realize this has been done a lot over the years, ie guys coming out to preserve avg's etc. but to bunt? and to actually tell your mgr beforehand? bush league
Y'all might not believe this but in my other fantasy baseball league championship I needed two strikeouts to win, with both Papelbon and Kimbrel as my closers. Both failed and I ended in a tie/ and lost the tiebreaker 
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I too am part of the collapses...
. Unbelievable really.
*as for the goats... I thought Crawford should have caught that ball easily.
*The Braves looked done as soon as the Phils tied the game. Why were they not 'jacked up' in the bottom of the 8th and 9th when they could only win and not lose??? Instead their entire bench looked liked they had just lost their best friend. They were waiting to lose IMO.
.I too am part of the collapses...
. Unbelievable really.*as for the goats... I thought Crawford should have caught that ball easily.
*The Braves looked done as soon as the Phils tied the game. Why were they not 'jacked up' in the bottom of the 8th and 9th when they could only win and not lose??? Instead their entire bench looked liked they had just lost their best friend.
They were waiting to lose IMO.
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El Justo
Deity
i lost 1st place in my $ league to mike napoli's second HR 1 out of 2 ain't bad though re the line drive to crawford - that is one of the hardest balls to catch as an OF, the ones straight at you or with a little tilt to them. but yeah, he probably should have caught it, especially if he got leather on it. a shame, really. i wonder where this Epic Boston Collapse will rank among the all time chokes? '64 Phils still have to worst one imo, something like a 6 game lead with 7 to play. boston wild card lead was, what? 9 on sept 1?
addit: '64 Phils were 6 1/2 games up with 12 to play. they went on to lose 10 straight and finished tied for second.
phils surely played hard last night. it was the right thing to do imo, to protect the integrity etc.
IIRC they were saying that the Red Sox collapse was the worst in history, not sure if that is Red Sox history (which, by the way, would be quite a feat mind you) or baseball history. But 9 games up in 30 days, and 7 games at the end of the season to a sub-500 team and to still collapse like that is utterly, truly one for the long, sad, miserable history* book of the Boston Red Sox.
Watching both games on mlb.com, last night was truly something I have never witnessed. Although this collapse was more a slow, impending death that you saw from a mile away, it was still a gut punch of sorts, ala the epic 2003 collapse against the Yankees in the playoffs. 3 hits, done, turn the channel, and literally 2 minutes later laser beam over the fence, season over, see you later. Unbelievable. Especially considering that an hour earlier everything looked good--potential rain-out with the Red Sox in the lead, Rays down by seven runs in the eighth inning. Just... unbelievable. This is why people watch sports.
My hat is off to the Rays for their remarkable feat but they could not have done it without the Red Sox being utterly, horrendously awful in these last few weeks.
*not the short, happy, amazing history book, which is about 3 pages long and in another section.
Watching both games on mlb.com, last night was truly something I have never witnessed. Although this collapse was more a slow, impending death that you saw from a mile away, it was still a gut punch of sorts, ala the epic 2003 collapse against the Yankees in the playoffs. 3 hits, done, turn the channel, and literally 2 minutes later laser beam over the fence, season over, see you later. Unbelievable. Especially considering that an hour earlier everything looked good--potential rain-out with the Red Sox in the lead, Rays down by seven runs in the eighth inning. Just... unbelievable. This is why people watch sports.
My hat is off to the Rays for their remarkable feat but they could not have done it without the Red Sox being utterly, horrendously awful in these last few weeks.
*not the short, happy, amazing history book, which is about 3 pages long and in another section.
El Justo
Deity
poignant get another SP, youk healthy again, and the bosox will be right back at the top. they're too good to let this happen 
unbelievable sequence of events too. totally agreed. never seen anything like it in any sport...
did anyone hear cowherd just rip boston and its fans this morning? wow. that dude has an ax to grind!
get another SP, youk healthy again, and the bosox will be right back at the top. they're too good to let this happen unbelievable sequence of events too. totally agreed. never seen anything like it in any sport...did anyone hear cowherd just rip boston and its fans this morning? wow. that dude has an ax to grind!
That's about all there is to it. bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
My World Series prediction: Brewers vs Yankees.
sophie
Break My Heart
I'm saying Yanks-Phils, Phils win in 6.
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