2009 MLB Season Thread

[BrySmalls]

I refuse to be a fan that hates one team more than he loves his own. However, as a Red Sox fan, I am, by law, not allowed to cheer for them under any circumstance beyond playoff-clinching related matters.

In any case, go Phillies.

That's a bold statement right there (sarcasm)! It's a forgone conclusion that a Red Sox fan would favor the opposition against the Yankees in the World Series.

[FiddySicks]

I can't believe how bad Joe Saunders looked tonight. That and Chone Oh For Figgins needs to be the first player booted during the off season, dude looked absolutely dreadful in the "offs" for the second straight season. He was something like 3-35 this post season.

[BigEd76]

Phils in 6

[Cujo]

Yankees in 4

Series MVP: A-Rod

[Patchez]

Yuckin' Fankees!

I bet that everyone on this Board, when they were born (if?) and when they die, the Yankees will at both times, have the most World Series Titles.

Phils in 8, Fox will find a way!

[TrueYankee26]

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

[DEAD!]

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

I was waiting for that

... I'll also bet that the next time the Phillies make the world series, it will be against the Red Sox...

[BrySmalls]

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

WE GOIN TO THE 'SHIP!

I was waiting for that

... I'll also bet that the next time the Phillies make the world series, it will be against the Red Sox...

I've never seen anybody else more excited to be on board Titanic II.

[DEAD!]

I just found this out: Eric Hinske is back in the World Series

[njmeadowlanders]

As a Met fan, this sums it up perfectly:

http://metstradamus.blogspot.com/2009/10/satans-series.html

At midnight on Monday, October 26th, the New York Yankees won the 2009 American League pennant, completing a World Series matchup with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Also at midnight on Monday, October 26th, the movie Armageddon was starting on my cable system.

How fitting.

The movie had a happy ending. But this, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon. There is no happy ending. Satan has been unleashed. The minions have arrived on earth. The Mayan calendar has ended little more than three years earlier than expected. The world will never be the same. And the next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.

In one respect, this awful season couldn't have ended any other way. The good news is that now, there really is no possible season that could possibly be any worse than this.

[BrySmalls]

As a Met fan, this sums it up perfectly:

http://metstradamus.blogspot.com/2009/10/satans-series.html

At midnight on Monday, October 26th, the New York Yankees won the 2009 American League pennant, completing a World Series matchup with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Also at midnight on Monday, October 26th, the movie Armageddon was starting on my cable system.

How fitting.

The movie had a happy ending. But this, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon. There is no happy ending. Satan has been unleashed. The minions have arrived on earth. The Mayan calendar has ended little more than three years earlier than expected. The world will never be the same. And the next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.

In one respect, this awful season couldn't have ended any other way. The good news is that now, there really is no possible season that could possibly be any worse than this.

There's no crying in baseball, especially when the Mess did not invest their money properly into their farm system and their on the field "talent".

Maybe you should try rooting for a smaller (less budgeted) organization (Rangers, Twins, Royals, Pirates, A's, Padres, Rays, Marlins, Orioles, or Nationals) instead of one that self ordains themselves as the "best in the NL East" only to collapse by or during the month of September each season.

[Jigga]

Hey, Mets fans, to borrow from the poker phrase, "Shut the :censored: up and deal!"

[NJTank]

As a Met fan, this sums it up perfectly:

http://metstradamus.blogspot.com/2009/10/satans-series.html

At midnight on Monday, October 26th, the New York Yankees won the 2009 American League pennant, completing a World Series matchup with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Also at midnight on Monday, October 26th, the movie Armageddon was starting on my cable system.

How fitting.

The movie had a happy ending. But this, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon. There is no happy ending. Satan has been unleashed. The minions have arrived on earth. The Mayan calendar has ended little more than three years earlier than expected. The world will never be the same. And the next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.

In one respect, this awful season couldn't have ended any other way. The good news is that now, there really is no possible season that could possibly be any worse than this.

There's no crying in baseball, especially when the Mess did not invest their money properly into their farm system and their on the field "talent".

Maybe you should try rooting for a smaller (less budgeted) organization (Rangers, Twins, Royals, Pirates, A's, Padres, Rays, Marlins, Orioles, or Nationals) instead of one that self ordains themselves as the "best in the NL East" only to collapse by or during the month of September each season.

The Mets may give us taht chance.

I heard the Wilpons Bernie Madoffs buisness partner in crime is going to Madoff the Mets and gt the payroll gut the farm system and run on a dime udget while not reducing ticket prices to make 2009 last forever.

[njmeadowlanders]

It doesn't matter if the Mets went 0-162 or lost Game 7 of the NLCS. Their performance has nothing to do with this. It's just the fact that our biggest rival will face off against the other team from our city whose fans do nothing but rub it in 24/7/365 that the Mets AREN'T the Yankees and always a distant second even in those rare instances when they have a better team. I suspect only White Sox and to a lesser extent Angel fans understand where I'm coming from in that regard.

The fact that they're badly mismanaged and spend their money wildly on pieces of crap isn't going away. That's something that they bring upon themselves year in and year out, but that has nothing to do with the fact that it just so happens to be Yanks/Phils gunning for the title. I don't get why I shouldn't have preferred any other matchup--literally, even Atlanta/Yankees...all I'm saying is that as a Met fan it's the absolute worst matchup that could've presented itself. Nothing more, nothing less.

And before anyone says "Well I don't remember you bitching when it was Giants/Patriots" blah blah blah I'm going on the record in saying that I have absolutely zero problems with the Giants, and I was in fact, full out rooting for them to beat New England.

[STL FANATIC]

McGwire back to the Cardinals as the hitting coach is for real.

Press conference for that and TLR's return with a 1-year contract (maybe a mutual option as a couple places reported that or two years) coming up momentarily.

[BrySmalls]

As a Met fan, this sums it up perfectly:

http://metstradamus.blogspot.com/2009/10/satans-series.html

At midnight on Monday, October 26th, the New York Yankees won the 2009 American League pennant, completing a World Series matchup with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Also at midnight on Monday, October 26th, the movie Armageddon was starting on my cable system.

How fitting.

The movie had a happy ending. But this, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon. There is no happy ending. Satan has been unleashed. The minions have arrived on earth. The Mayan calendar has ended little more than three years earlier than expected. The world will never be the same. And the next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.

In one respect, this awful season couldn't have ended any other way. The good news is that now, there really is no possible season that could possibly be any worse than this.

There's no crying in baseball, especially when the Mess did not invest their money properly into their farm system and their on the field "talent".

Maybe you should try rooting for a smaller (less budgeted) organization (Rangers, Twins, Royals, Pirates, A's, Padres, Rays, Marlins, Orioles, or Nationals) instead of one that self ordains themselves as the "best in the NL East" only to collapse by or during the month of September each season.

The Mets may give us taht chance.

I heard the Wilpons Bernie Madoffs buisness partner in crime is going to Madoff the Mets and gt the payroll gut the farm system and run on a dime udget while not reducing ticket prices to make 2009 last forever.

Good, that's exactly what they deserve.

It doesn't matter if the Mets went 0-162 or lost Game 7 of the NLCS. Their performance has nothing to do with this. It's just the fact that our biggest rival will face off against the other team from our city whose fans do nothing but rub it in 24/7/365 that the Mets AREN'T the Yankees and always a distant second even in those rare instances when they have a better team. I suspect only White Sox and to a lesser extent Angel fans understand where I'm coming from in that regard.

The fact that they're badly mismanaged and spend their money wildly on pieces of crap isn't going away. That's something that they bring upon themselves year in and year out, but that has nothing to do with the fact that it just so happens to be Yanks/Phils gunning for the title. I don't get why I shouldn't have preferred any other matchup--literally, even Atlanta/Yankees...all I'm saying is that as a Met fan it's the absolute worst matchup that could've presented itself. Nothing more, nothing less.

And before anyone says "Well I don't remember you bitching when it was Giants/Patriots" blah blah blah I'm going on the record in saying that I have absolutely zero problems with the Giants, and I was in fact, full out rooting for them to beat New England.

1. It sure as hell has to do with their under performance, otherwise you wouldn't be complaining about the Yankees in the World Series and the Mess sitting on the sidelines -- again.
   
2. The Mess will always be the orange-headed stepchild of Gotham.
   
3. There's no World Series matchup that would appeal to you without the Mess being involved. So sit back and take notes on how these two organizations made the right moves in Free Agency and trades as well as developing some home grown talent or you can simply watch the Rangers if you're so disgusted.
   
4. Of course you don't have a problem with the Giants except when they aren't playing the Jets. I can see you getting upset if/when the new Meadowlands Stadium will be named Giants Stadium again (hypothetical).
   

[BaltimoreFan]

Well, this was the matchup I least wanted to see. I was really hoping for an all LA series, or at least one of them to make it (but both proved to be inferior). I don't really cares who wins as I don't really like either team. So I'll just be hoping for a good series. I'm hoping it won't be a slugfest, like its looking to be. But I guess I'm pulling for the Phillies. Although I wouldn't mind if A-Rod does well and leads the Yankees to a championship (as long as Teixeira does horrible).

[njmeadowlanders]

[*]There's no World Series matchup that would appeal to you without the Mess being involved. So sit back and take notes on how these two organizations made the right moves in Free Agency and trades as well as developing some home grown talent or you can simply watch the Rangers if you're so disgusted.

[*]Of course you don't have a problem with the Giants except when they aren't playing the Jets. I can see you getting upset if/when the new Meadowlands Stadium will be named Giants Stadium again (hypothetical).

I really need to take exception to these two points.

Because the Mets aren't in the Series means that I couldn't find any matchup appealing? That just HAS to be sarcastic right? If that were the case then there would be exactly ONE World Series ever that I would have found appealing and that would have been when they played the Yanks in 2000 (I wasn't old enough to remember anything about the '86 Series).

If I don't have a problem with the Giants except when they're playing the Jets (obviously) then why is that obvious whereas when the Yankees don't play the Mets it's not obvious? (By the way, the new stadium is a complete 50/50 Joint Venture unlike the current stadium, so it will be a corporate name once they find someone. Until then it's simply "New Meadowlands Stadium".

And again, let me reitirate. Because the Mets suck doesn't mean I couldn't have enjoyed say, a Dodgers/Angels or a Cardinals/Twins or whatever combination it could've otherwise been...I'm just saying Yanks/Phils is the worst case scenario among all possible matchups from my perspective. I don't see what's so wrong with that.

[BrySmalls]

[*]There's no World Series matchup that would appeal to you without the Mess being involved. So sit back and take notes on how these two organizations made the right moves in Free Agency and trades as well as developing some home grown talent or you can simply watch the Rangers if you're so disgusted.

[*]Of course you don't have a problem with the Giants except when they aren't playing the Jets. I can see you getting upset if/when the new Meadowlands Stadium will be named Giants Stadium again (hypothetical).

I really need to take exception to these two points.

Because the Mets aren't in the Series means that I couldn't find any matchup appealing? That just HAS to be sarcastic right? If that were the case then there would be exactly ONE World Series ever that I would have found appealing and that would have been when they played the Yanks in 2000 (I wasn't old enough to remember anything about the '86 Series).

If I don't have a problem with the Giants except when they're playing the Jets (obviously) then why is that obvious whereas when the Yankees don't play the Mets it's not obvious? (By the way, the new stadium is a complete 50/50 Joint Venture unlike the current stadium, so it will be a corporate name once they find someone. Until then it's simply "New Meadowlands Stadium".

And again, let me reitirate. Because the Mets suck doesn't mean I couldn't have enjoyed say, a Dodgers/Angels or a Cardinals/Twins or whatever combination it could've otherwise been...I'm just saying Yanks/Phils is the worst case scenario among all possible matchups from my perspective. I don't see what's so wrong with that.

Yes, it was in a sarcastic tone.

About the comparison betweem the Yankees/Mets and Giants/Jets, it deals with how often the teams play each other. With the Yankees/Mets, it's six games every year during the regular season whereas its one game every four years for the Giants/Jets.

Finally, it kind of sucks "rooting" for the lesser of two evils That is, if you happened to watch.

[goalieboy82]

i think it will be yankees in 6