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Nelson Cruz is an absolute beast. He hammered a home run to tie the game in the 8th, and just smacked a grand slam to win it in the 11th. Texas is now up 2-0.

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An absolutely stunning ending to Rangers/Tigers, and predictably, ESPN.com's top story is Monday Night Football. To borrow one of the four-letter's tired old cliches, "c'mon man!"

I actually don't mind it as much in this case. It is the Lions v. Bears, after all. I would be upset if the Colts/Bucs game got more coverage. Painter throws a TD, w00t!

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*cue Nyjer Morgan F-bombs*

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
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An absolutely stunning ending to Rangers/Tigers, and predictably, ESPN.com's top story is Monday Night Football. To borrow one of the four-letter's tired old cliches, "c'mon man!"

Fact is not as many people care about playoff baseball as they do MNF and the ratings aren't even that close. Even last week's MNF game between the Bucs and Colts which most football fans could really care less about easily beat the MLB playoffs.

I'm watching the Lions/Bears game myself but that's only because the Cards/Brewers game appears to be over.

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An absolutely stunning ending to Rangers/Tigers, and predictably, ESPN.com's top story is Monday Night Football. To borrow one of the four-letter's tired old cliches, "c'mon man!"

Fact is not as many people care about playoff baseball as they do MNF and the ratings aren't even that close. Even last week's MNF game between the Bucs and Colts which most football fans could really care less about easily beat the MLB playoffs.

Sad but true.

 

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An absolutely stunning ending to Rangers/Tigers, and predictably, ESPN.com's top story is Monday Night Football. To borrow one of the four-letter's tired old cliches, "c'mon man!"

Fact is not as many people care about playoff baseball as they do MNF and the ratings aren't even that close. Even last week's MNF game between the Bucs and Colts which most football fans could really care less about easily beat the MLB playoffs.

Sad but true.

I don't know if fans are really even any more interested in a sporting sense. The NFL could put two 2-7 teams against each other on MNF and it would draw simply because there's alot of people out there that watch MNF simply because they have money riding on the game. You can't really do that with baseball. It just doesen't loan itself to gambling the way the NFL does.

What else could it be? You can't tell me that somehow there's that many football fans out there that will watch any game put on purely for the love of the sport. Especailly on a Monday Night when people have work the next day.

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First walk-off grand slam in postseason history! What a way to end it!

Technically I suppose it is the first but Robin Ventura hit a walk off grand slam in 1999. He just never bothered to finish running the bases so it went into the books as a single.

 

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An absolutely stunning ending to Rangers/Tigers, and predictably, ESPN.com's top story is Monday Night Football. To borrow one of the four-letter's tired old cliches, "c'mon man!"

Fact is not as many people care about playoff baseball as they do MNF and the ratings aren't even that close. Even last week's MNF game between the Bucs and Colts which most football fans could really care less about easily beat the MLB playoffs.

Sad but true.

Honestly, I think it's not inherent interest as much as MLB signing some really :censored:ty TV deals in pursuit of the highest dollar, that lead to weekday day games on Fox (god forbid the preempt :censored:ing Terra Nova or the X Factor) and one of the LCS's on :censored:ing Superstation TBS, and the fact that ESPN broadcasts the NFL and not the MLB playoffs, so they have a vested stake in it being the lead story. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy of bull :censored:.

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An absolutely stunning ending to Rangers/Tigers, and predictably, ESPN.com's top story is Monday Night Football. To borrow one of the four-letter's tired old cliches, "c'mon man!"

Fact is not as many people care about playoff baseball as they do MNF and the ratings aren't even that close. Even last week's MNF game between the Bucs and Colts which most football fans could really care less about easily beat the MLB playoffs.

Sad but true.

Honestly, I think it's not inherent interest as much as MLB signing some really :censored:ty TV deals in pursuit of the highest dollar, that lead to weekday day games on Fox (god forbid the preempt :censored:ing Terra Nova or the X Factor) and one of the LCS's on :censored:ing Superstation TBS, and the fact that ESPN broadcasts the NFL and not the MLB playoffs, so they have a vested stake in it being the lead story. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy of bull :censored:.

Fair points all around. Add to that the constant message of "no one matters but the Yankees and Red Sox" from ESPN and FOX over the past few years and it's no wonder the ratings are where they are. It probably never occurred to them that there would be seasons where the Yankees and Red Sox might get knocked out early or not make the playoffs at all.

 

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I was just thinking and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this before.

If the Rangers and the Brewers face off in the World Series it will be the first time we've had a guaranteed first time winner since 1980 when the Phillies beat the Royals. Before that you gotta go all the way back to 1920 when the Cleveland Indians managed by Tris Speaker beat the Brooklyn Robins (now the LA Dodgers).

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I was just thinking and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this before.

If the Rangers and the Brewers face off in the World Series it will be the first time we've had a guaranteed first time winner since 1980 when the Phillies beat the Royals. Before that you gotta go all the way back to 1920 when the Cleveland Indians managed by Tris Speaker beat the

Brooklyn Robins (now the LA Dodgers).

It was kind of interesting last year with the Rangers playing the Giants, who hadn't won in San Francisco in 53 years. It's not the same, but a streak was gonna end no matter what.

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