WARNING!! Annual OT Baseball Thread 2011!! Open at Your Own Risk!

[ChuckElias]

Ellsbury becomes the first 30/30 player in Red Sox history by hitting a 14th inning homer to lift the Sox a full game over TB for the wild card. Wow! One full game? Yeesh.

Now they go to finish up in Baltimore (who just beat them up at Fenway) while the Rays host the Yankees, who have nothing to play for. Although, if I were the Yankees, I think I'd rather play hard and hope to get the Sox in the first round of the playoffs, than rest up and possibly face Tampa Bay's pitching in a 5-game series.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Now they go to finish up in Baltimore (who just beat them up at Fenway) while the Rays host the Yankees, who have nothing to play for. Although, if I were the Yankees, I think I'd rather play hard and hope to get the Sox in the first round of the playoffs, than rest up and possibly face Tampa Bay's pitching in a 5-game series.

Did they change the rule that prevented teams from the same division from meeting in the first round of the playoffs? I didn't think the Yankees could see either Boston or TB in the first round.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Did they change the rule that prevented teams from the same division from meeting in the first round of the playoffs? I didn't think the Yankees could see either Boston or TB in the first round.

You are apparently correct. I thought they had changed the rule, but have been corrected by a couple esteemed members.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Have been corrected by a couple esteemed members.

mbyron? An esteemed member?

[ChuckElias]

The first session of my New Applicants' class is tonight. I will be pounding Tums, while asking my students for updates of the Sox and the Rays during our breaks.

To be honest, the best I can hope for right now is a one-game playoff tomorrow. I just don't feel good enough about this team to think that they'll win AND the Rays will lose. Fingers crossed, but it just doesn't seem like it's been that kind of September.

[JRutledge]

Well Chuck at least there is basketball season.

Peace

[nine01c]

Please put a fork in this thread and resume in April, 2012.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

The first session of my New Applicants' class is tonight. I will be pounding Tums, while asking my students for updates of the Sox and the Rays during our breaks.

To be honest, the best I can hope for right now is a one-game playoff tomorrow. I just don't feel good enough about this team to think that they'll win AND the Rays will lose. Fingers crossed, but it just doesn't seem like it's been that kind of September.

My Braves and your Sox both went down in epic fashion.
What an end to the regular season! Three of the four games involving the potential wild-card teams were classics.
It was a great day to be a baseball fan.

[BillyMac]

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

The first session of my New Applicants' class is tonight. I will be pounding Tums, while asking my students for updates of the Sox and the Rays during our breaks.

To be honest, the best I can hope for right now is a one-game playoff tomorrow. I just don't feel good enough about this team to think that they'll win AND the Rays will lose. Fingers crossed, but it just doesn't seem like it's been that kind of September.

It was the best possible result. No team with that large a lead that chokes it away deserves to be in the playoffs. Dan .108 Johnson. Are you kidding me??? Longoria for MVP. His numbers are without a month missed due to injury.

[ChuckElias]

Thank you for your concern, but I'm actually fine.

I'm honestly not as broken up as you might think. It's been pretty obvious for 5 or 6 weeks that the Sox weren't good enough to do much even if they did make the playoffs.

I'm disappointed, obviously, b/c they seemed to be so good for most of the summer. But once injuries kicked in, there was no help for the pitching; and then it seems like everything else fell apart too. We could've gotten nice "Wild Card" t-shirts and then gotten swept by Texas.

Oh well.

[mbyron]

I must say you're weathering this historic collapse as if it were just the Mariners missing the playoffs again, instead of the team that led the division much of the year and had a 9 game lead in the wild-card going into September!

As for being swept in the playoffs: I remember the last time they made the playoffs as the wild-card team. It's like lotto: you can't win if you don't play...

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Thank you for your concern, but I'm actually fine.

I'm honestly not as broken up as you might think. It's been pretty obvious for 5 or 6 weeks that the Sox weren't good enough to do much even if they did make the playoffs.

I'm disappointed, obviously, b/c they seemed to be so good for most of the summer. But once injuries kicked in, there was no help for the pitching; and then it seems like everything else fell apart too. We could've gotten nice "Wild Card" t-shirts and then gotten swept by Texas.

Oh well.

Good to hear you're ok, Chuck!

I watched the Sox in Baltimore on Monday... something just wasn't clicking. 90% of the fans were Boston fans and you could tell they were on the edge.

Just several hours away from kicking off the postseason....Go Cardinals!!

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

mbyron? An esteemed member?

Some that 'informed' him on other sites apparently have moved into the 'esttemed' category.