Author Topic: MLB 2004 (Read 139282 times)

Holographic Elvis · « **Reply #210 on:** August 20, 2004, 12:52 AM »

Just listened to "Welcome to the Jungle" as Gagne trotted out. Best intro in baseball.

Scott · « **Reply #211 on:** August 23, 2004, 09:44 AM »

Big sweep for the Twins this weekend and finished 5 of 6 versus the Indians and Yanks (almost swept the Yanks too) Back to being on fire after a little nosedive. 7 up on Cleveland after only being 1 up last week...tough series against Texas and Anaheim coming up

Mikey D · « **Reply #212 on:** August 23, 2004, 10:47 AM »

The Red Sox swept the White Sox and now lead the WC standings by 1 game and now only trail the AL East by 5 1/2 after being down by 10 1/2 last week. Still have six games against the Yanks left. The underachievers are finally starting to play like they should have been all season. Should be a great final six weeks of the season.

Jeff · « **Reply #213 on:** August 23, 2004, 10:57 AM »

Quote from: Mikey D on August 23, 2004, 10:47 AM

The Red Sox swept the White Sox

Thanks! Way to go Red Sox! With their sweep of Chi-Sox and our bashing Cleveland, the Twins now hold an 7/8 game lead over Cleveland and Chi-Sox, respectively.

Good weekend... but as Scott said, we play the Rangers soon. Hopefully the Twins can beat up on Texas and Cali to return the favor for ya Mikey!

Jeff

JediMAC · « **Reply #214 on:** August 23, 2004, 03:41 PM »

Quote from: OCB on August 23, 2004, 09:44 AM

Big sweep for the Twins this weekend...

And an even bigger sweep by the Halos over the Yanks!

Where you at, Yankee fans?!

Nicklab · « **Reply #215 on:** August 23, 2004, 04:34 PM »

Right here. Still leading the AL East, BTW.

Dressel Rebel · « **Reply #216 on:** August 23, 2004, 06:56 PM »

Quote from: Nicklab on August 23, 2004, 04:34 PM

Right here. Still leading the AL East, BTW.

Word. Not many teams in baseball can drop 6 of their last 7 games with the 2nd place team red hot and still lead their division by 5.5 games!

Holographic Elvis · « **Reply #217 on:** August 23, 2004, 08:28 PM »

Went to the last 3 Dodger/Braves games and had a blast talking s--t to all the bandwagon Dodger fans. Typica example: Friday nite when LaRoache singled in the go-ahead run off Gagne, the guy behind us screamed, "F--k you Gagne, go back to Canada!" The guy was wearing a Gagne jersey. He turned into super fan again when Beltre homered to win it. Typical LA fans. It was a fun 3 days.

JediMAC · « **Reply #218 on:** August 24, 2004, 07:56 PM »

D'backs just put Randy Johnson on waivers... But it's said to be doubtful that the Yanks will pick him up. Wonder why not?

In separate news, Card's reliever Julian Tavares just got suspended for 10 games for juicing the ball up with some **** he had applied to the bill of his cap.

As for the Dodgers, yeah, there bullpen's in the toilet right now, and Gagne's even looked human last week. Last night's game sucked major ass though, as the Dodgers rallied back from a 7-1 deficit, to tie the game in the 9th on Adrian Beltre's major league leading 38th (or is it 39th?) dinger, only to turn around and lose the damned game in the bottom of the 9th when we loaded up the bases, and walked in the game winning run...

Giants are starting to creep up on us...

Not surprising really, since I've though we were playing over our heads all season long in the first place. I'd be perfectly fine seeing the Angels and Dodgers swap positions. Angels have turned it on again of late, so I think they're looking pretty solid for either a Division winner, or the Wild Card spot. Dodgers will probably wind up sliding right out of both. Hopefully I'm wrong though, and they tough it out and hang in there.

Still waiting for my Angels - Dodgers Freeway World Series that I've been praying for since I was about 6 years old...

Scott · « **Reply #219 on:** August 24, 2004, 11:05 PM »

Nathan just blew his second save in a week after going like 34 straight before that...damn...Tribe lost though again

JediMAC · « **Reply #220 on:** August 26, 2004, 05:40 AM »

So the Angels absolutely blew up tonight! Won 21-6, on 22 hits, for our 8th or 9th win in a row... All 21 runs were scored over a 5 inning stretch. DaVanon hit for the cycle too, which is a good thing he got his licks in, as he's about to get benched when Troy Glaus finally returns in about a week or two...

Of course, the A's keep winning too, so we still haven't nabbed the top spot in the West.

Dodgers continue their slide against the lowly Expos. Giants are only 4 back now, and closing fast...

Holographic Elvis · « **Reply #221 on:** August 26, 2004, 01:44 PM »

Marco Scutaro!!

Jeff · « **Reply #222 on:** August 26, 2004, 01:54 PM »

Quote from: OCB on August 24, 2004, 11:05 PM

Nathan just blew his second save in a week after going like 34 straight before that...damn...Tribe lost though again

If it wasn't for that, we'd have swept Texas and be on a nice little run.

As it stands, we've won 8 of the last 10 (stupid Nathan blown saves!

), and opened up a nice 8 and 9 game lead over the Tribe and ChiSox, respectively.

Now we just gotta keep the run going to get that second seed in the AL so we can host Oakland/Anaheim at the Dome in the first round ot the playoffs

Jeff

Scott · « **Reply #223 on:** August 26, 2004, 02:54 PM »

Big series with "JediMAC's" Angels this weekend. Been a nice two weeks for the Twinkies, hope they keep it up!

Holographic Elvis · « **Reply #224 on:** August 26, 2004, 07:32 PM »

A's win again Matt. Gotta keep up!