I don't feel sorry for them.

i'm surprised that anyone was even at that game, most of them were probably Yankees fans

For a team that's done pretty good the past few seasons (Rays) they just can't sell tickets there. Even the year they were in the world series they were having problems selling tickets. My brother is a huge Rays fan and bought tickets the day before the world series began and drove down and saw the game.


Also, fuck you atlanta. Fuck you

For a team that's done pretty good the past few seasons (Rays) they just can't sell tickets there. Even the year they were in the world series they were having problems selling tickets. My brother is a huge Rays fan and bought tickets the day before the world series began and drove down and saw the game.


Also, fuck you atlanta. Fuck you

Florida just doesn't strike me as the kind of state where baseball is big enough to have two teams.

Tampa's pretty far from Miami, though.

he meant big enough as in popular enough, which shouldn't be true since latinos and old people love baseball.

Latinos and old people love the Yankees and Red Sox.

Hence "bastards."

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/09/29/baseball-night-in-america/
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/bill-buckner-strikes-again/

FINAL MLB Award Leaderboard; numeric values are Combined WAR [(fangraphs+BB-ref)/2]

NL MVP
LAD CF Matt Kemp 9.3
MIL LF Ryan Braun 7.8
CIN 1B Joey Votto 6.7
SF 3B Pablo Sandoval 5.9
NYM SS Jose Reyes 6.0
COL SS Troy Tulowitzki 6.0
PIT CF Andrew McCutchen 5.5
MIL 1B Prince Fielder 5.4
STL 1B Albert Pujols 5.3
ARI RF Justin Upton 5.3

AL MVP
TOR RF Jose Bautista 8.5
BOS CF Jacoby Ellsbury 8.4
DET 1B Miguel Cabrera 7.2
BOS 2B Dustin Pedroia 7.4
TEX 2B Ian Kinsler 6.5
BOS 1B Adrian Gonzalez 6.6
KC LF Alex Gordon 6.5
B 3B Evan Longoria 6.2
NYY CF Curtis Granderson 6.0
TB 2B Ben Zobrist 5.8

NL Cy Young
PHI Roy Halladay 7.8
LAD Clayton Kershaw 6.8
PHI Cliff Lee 6.8
ARI Ian Kennedy 5.3
PHI Cole Hamels 5.1
SF Matt Cain 4.5
SF Tim Lincecum 4.4
STL Chris Carpenter 4.4
SF Madison Bumgarner 4.2
CHC Matt Garza 4.0

AL Cy Young
DET Justin Verlander 7.8
NYY CC Sabathia 7.0
LAA Jered Weaver 6.1
DET Doug Fister 5.7
TB James Shields 5.5
TEX CJ Wilson 5.5
SEA Felix Hernandez 5.1
LAA Dan Haren 5.2
BOS Josh Beckett 5.2
OAK Gio Gonzalez 4.3

NL Rookie
ATL RP Craig Kimbrel 3.2
WAS 2B Danny Espinosa 3.0
WAS C Wilson Ramos 2.8
PHI SP Vance Worley 2.7
STL LF Allen Craig 2.7

AL Rookie
NYY SP Ivan Nova 3.2
SEA SP Michael Pineda 3.1
TB SP Jeremy Hellickson 2.8
TOR 3B Brett Lawrie 2.8
SEA 2B Dustin Ackley 2.6

It's not a big metro area has been creamed by the recession and has a terrible stadium in an inconvenient place. Not surprising.

MIL 3-1 ARI
PHI 3-2 STL
TEX 3-2 TB
NYY 3-1 DET

PHI 4-1 MIL
TEX 4-1 NYY

PHI 4-3 TEX

The Rangers are, I think, the best team top-to-bottom. I don't know how you get around the Phillies' rotation... except I do, because we did it last year. So I'm picking Philly but the World Series could just as easily go the other way IMO.

Why did you not incorporate the pitchers into the mvp voting if their win shares were high enough?

thats the point I was trying to make a few pages back but my efforts were fruitless, Justin Verlander IS a candidate

Seeing Fister over Felix is sickening. I didn't like that move at all at the time and I like it less now. The dude was under team control for years and for cheap.