MLB beakdown

[Bradleyguy10]

say what you will about post season predictions but the truth is once the playoffs start it's a crap shoot.

You're kidding me................

I agree that it favors who is hot then, but to say to win WORLD SERIES is all luck, again I say...you're kidding me, right?

If that's the outlook for baseball's post-season what makes it any different from other sports especially sports that have similar playoff formats like hockey and basketball? Was it luck that the celtics won?

I guess this makes sense though coming from a Cubs fan with all the bad luck they've had in the post-season.;-)

 

[thefish7]

I can't speak to hockey, but basketball and baseball are very different games. Great baseball teams win 60-65% of their games. Great basketball teams win more like 85-90%. Over a 7 game series in basketball, the best team will win every time. In baseball, anybody can win 4 games in a row.

It's certainly not ALL luck, because you have to get there in the first place-- and baseball's playoffs are the most exclusive... But every team that gets there can actually win, which isn't true in the NBA for example.

 

[JasonAtBradley]

I am a big Cubs fan, and I hope they win the World Series! Also, I think the original poster is a Cardinals fan, since the thread title is "MLB Beakdown". :lol:

 

[SFP]

Cardinals have more World Series wins than any other REAL team...not a sell out team. That tastes good mmmmmmm

Not a sell out team! They new Mark give me another injection McGuire was not Mr. Natural! Every team in baseball had juiced up players...

 

[Bradleyguy10]

By sell out I was implying the Yankees/Boston type money teams, and wasn't referring to steroids...

Was Sammy Sosa ever accused of taking steroids?

 

[BUconnorD]

I'd like to see the numbers 2 years ago after the Sox won the WS

Coming from a cub fan who's seen the good (umm...this year...and...um...earlier this year...) and the bad (1909-2007) There is nothing more annoying than a "1-year baseball fan"
the baseball fan who's favorite player is Dye or Thome...but couldn't tell you a reliever other than Jenks
not just picking on Sox fans...this happens for everyone and every team
especially the cubs.

anywho...that's my 2 cents

 

[2bradleyfans]

I am a big Cubs fan, and I hope they win the World Series! Also, I think the original poster is a Cardinals fan, since the thread title is "MLB Beakdown". :lol:

You are certainly allowed to think what you wish. However, if someone starts a post and owns up to being a fan of a certain team, to then claim that person is a fan of a different team seems, well, ....odd.

 

[2bradleyfans]

I'd like to see the numbers 2 years ago after the Sox won the WS

Coming from a cub fan who's seen the good (umm...this year...and...um...earlier this year...) and the bad (1909-2007) There is nothing more annoying than a "1-year baseball fan"
the baseball fan who's favorite player is Dye or Thome...but couldn't tell you a reliever other than Jenks
not just picking on Sox fans...this happens for everyone and every team
especially the cubs.

anywho...that's my 2 cents

I know every member of the Sox team and their production and can probalby tell you all the players on the Sox for the last ten years.

I grew up a Sox fan went to my first game in 1982 at old Comisky. You are what you are, and I would say as far as casual fans the most go to the Cubs.

I lived in "wrigleyville for four years" 1999-2003 I went to probablly a dozen games there. Most of the people I went with or fans I saw around me were disengaged as to what was happening on the field.

There was much, people watching, talk of where to go next and the such.

Wrigley is a place to be and a place to be seen. Oh and a major league team happens to play their games there, and, you know what they have been good of late, real good.

 

[BU_EMT128]

Was Sammy Sosa ever accused of taking steroids?

Nope, he just corked his bat...

 

[JasonAtBradley]

You are certainly allowed to think what you wish. However, if someone starts a post and owns up to being a fan of a certain team, to then claim that person is a fan of a different team seems, well, ....odd.

It was a joke, and I was referring to the thread title. I think you meant to say "MLB breakdown", and not "MLB beakdown". "beakdown" - some birds have beaks - a cardinal is a bird with a beak, which is also the St. Louis mascot. I could have also joked that you were a Toronto Blue Jays fan for that same reason. :lol:

 

[Murph]

It was a joke, and I was referring to the thread title. I think you meant to say "MLB breakdown", and not "MLB beakdown". "beakdown" - some birds have beaks - a cardinal is a bird with a beak, which is also the St. Louis mascot. I could have also joked that you were a Toronto Blue Jays fan for that same reason. :lol:

Jason...Be patient, you see Cardinal fans aren't very smart.

 

[Chico]

I've been a Sox fan forever. Old timers will know how I got my nickname Chico. I could always take or leave the Cubs. We used to know every player on every team. In 1969 Cubs fans were overbearing because they finally had a big lead for once in their lifetime. I never wanted a team to blow a lead as bad as I did then. Being the Cubs they didn't let me down. Baseball has been trying to get them back in the WS for years by giving them key players for practically nothing. This season in inter-league play they didn't schedule them against the Yankees or Boston, but made sure they played Toronto and Baltimore out of the AL East.
Don't worry about their little slump right now, they probably still have games against the Pirates and Reds left. Don't forget in 2005 THE WORLD CHAMPION White Sox had a double digit lead that got down to 1/2 game and still pulled it out.