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Saturday, October 08, 2011
A hysteria-inducing 3-2 win over the D-backs in Game 5 clinched the NL Division Series, a win-or-go-home game decided in the bottom of the 10 inning on Nyjer Morgan’s single after John Axford’s first blown save since mid-April.
Carlos Gomez, at second after a single and a stolen base, raced home on Morgan’s hit to give Milwaukee’s its first postseason series win in 29 years.
The NL Championship Series opponent still awaited as the Brewers celebrated with 44,028 deliriously towel-waving fans, but this much was clear: Milwaukee is four NLCS wins away from the World Series.
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1. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 08, 2011 at 01:12 AM (#3956162)Son. I'm pretty sure he's got 2 sons, no daughters.
Sure, but as long as Mike Napoli hits .800.
I am also pulling for Brewers-Tigers. Go Zack!
Oakland vs Toronto
Kansas City vs Tampa
Pittsburgh vs San Diego
Milwaukee vs Washington
Toronto vs Pittsburgh
How about that?
I think the Cleveland - Miami WS was the modern day nadir. It could be again.
Yeah. Amazing interview. He then followed it up with "I have no words right now. I have nothing for you, gotta go." And then he left.
I love the Internet. I've decided I'm rooting for the Brewers now and it's because of an extremely old man (hi, Harveys!) I've never actually met.
As you wish.
The full transcript:
FIELDER: "Ohhhh, man. I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go." [EXITS]
This is so overrated and or weak analysis. 1 market is only worth about 5%, at most, of the ratings. What get's people to watch are compelling teams/stories, competitive games. Sure the household Yankees/Sox are out, but the remaining four teams can still create a huge rating. Braves v Twins was a monster World Series.
Uecker did the 10th. Normally he would go refill his cocktail or take a dump, but for an elimination game, WTMJ wisely kept Uecker on the play by play.
Unless they then put games on Thursday and Saturday at which point they get eyeballs on games 4 days tops.
I'm betting that there are some ESPN football programs that air during the week that get better ratings than baseball games.
Wasn't there a point at some point last year or so where CSPAN had higher ratings than Nationals' games?
Mostly because it went to 7 games. If it went 5 games or so it wouldn't have been.
That series' ratings were right inl ine with the ratings for the WS ratings around it with the only difference being that it went 7 whereas the other games went 4 games or 6.
As for stories:
The Phillies-Rays series was a dud despite having a ton of story lines that should have made it interesting and yet the next year which featured the Yankees and Phillies got the highest ratings since about 1996. Giants-Rangers again had a ton of interesting story lines and again it was a dud of a world series ratings wise.
They're not; the division titles are. That is why the Brewers now need to beat the Cardinals four more times after already beating them over 162 games.
Personally, I think Morgan makes the team more fun to watch. The guy is 100% emotion. Had him on my DMB team for the last three or four years.
A good bunch. Enjoy the rest of your post season.
Yankees vs Phillies...nobody outside of those two cities would even ####### care.
honest answer
Florida Marlins vs.... the lesser La team?
I do not think any of the original teams would ultimately be a bad series(unpopular series)
Just watched it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, god, no.
No.
No, no, no, no.
No.
NO.
A running, no jump, non-HR catch?
No.
Mets vs. Yankees.
Mets vs. Yankees.
My favorite baseball season ever. Being at Rutgers, taking the train into the city for Game 6 of 2000 ALCS with my brother, the electricity in the air...Justince home run, the loudest noise I've ever heard. The ride back, \"#### the Mets! #### the Mets! #### the Mets!"...then watching Game 1 of the World Series at a bar in Manhattan that was about 70/30 Mets fans, just the intensity of the back and forth. The whole city was baseball baseball baseball baseball non stop. Glorious.
About the only bummer for me was my unused ticket for Clemens vs. Piazza 2 in Game 6. I have to admit I was kinda rooting for the Mets to pull out Game 5.
So, we need a couple of seven game LCSes and at least one of them has to go seven gmaes? More importantly, you left out the extra innings before the walkoff.
Anyway, the only problem I have with the Brewers in an LCS is that they're in the wrong one.
And then he came back and blew the Diamondbacks away the next inning. Running Axford back out there was a nice decision by Roenicke that I don't think a lot of managers make.
There are a lot of Tiger fans at the Ballpark during the regular season. I talked with a fanatic who was sitting behind me during a Tiger win earlier this year. I asked him what part of Michigan he was from. His buddy said, "he's from Alpine, Michigan" – Alpine being a town in West Texas. He was your basic Tejano guy, had never been to Michigan, was just slightly insane.
By contrast, the Division Series this year was eerie. Whenever the Rays did something right (and they did a lot right in Arlington), the Ballpark was deathly silent. Not a single clap of applause; I wasn't sure some of the Rays' home runs really happened, because there was an utter lack of fan reaction. Things got louder than hell in Game Two when the Rangers stormed back. But in a way I am glad to see the Tigers come in this weekend, if only because there will be some noise and some balance in the crowd; a sense that there's a little rivalry can be good, as long as there's no danger of it reaching Dodger-parking-lot proportions. And in Texas, there really hasn't been, even last year when there was a high proportion of Yankee fans in for the ALCS.
I love the Rangers and dislike the Cardinals, but I am quite OK with both the Tigers and Brewers, having spent a lot of time in both Michigan and Wisconsin over the years. If they meet in the WS I really am not quite sure which way I'd be pulled.
FTFY :) (I was going for someone other than the big three on the Cardinals)
He does have dreamy eyes, doesn't he?
I apologize profusely for the confusion. I didn't mean to say the catch was AS amazing as the one by Chavez. Just that they are similar in that they were remarkable catches where that ended up being for naught.
This will be the first-ever LCS that's a World Series rematch.
Well, it's the only LCS with a team that played in the other league's LCS as well.
I think an amount of cold, cold, cold bitterness informed my post there. ;-)
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So the Orioles franchise began life as the Milwaukee Brewers.
So the Cardinals have played the Brewers TWICE in the World Series
And of course the Yankees began life as the Baltimore Orioles, with John McGraw as their first manager.
Considering where George Herman Ruth started and where he ended up, that somehow seems appropriate.
Gomez might be a guy who could actually figure out how to hit. There is obviously some talent there. Probably will always be streaky, but maybe he could improve on his streakiness. I would never count on it though.
Considering where George Herman Ruth started and where he ended up, that somehow seems appropriate.
That's certainly true, and it makes you wonder whether Muggsy would have been more favorably inclined toward The Bambino if both he and the Orioles had stayed in Charm City and spent their careers together there.
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