N.L. PLAYOFF GAME THREAD: Cardinals vs. Braves 10/05

[OFFNY]

o

The best defensive team in the National League already made 3 errors in this game, and are throwing the ball around the infield like the Keystone Kops.

The Rangers may be favored to win our playoff game, but I don't think that you can assume anything, (such as Saunders pitching badly, etc.)

[Palmoripken]

Is the Braves seventh inning stretch song "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"? I just heard it play.

Yeah I think I've heard they've been doing it for a while. Not as long as the O's have tho considering that Denver was an O's fan.

[RevOlution]

o

The best defensive team in the National League already made 3 errors in this game, and are throwing the ball around the infield like the Keystone Kops.

The Rangers may be favored to win our playoff game, but I don't think that you can assume anything, (such as Saunders pitching badly, etc.)

Never can assume anything, esp. with playoff games.

[callahan09]

o

The best defensive team in the National League already made 3 errors in this game, and are throwing the ball around the infield like the Keystone Kops.

The Rangers may be favored to win our playoff game, but I don't think that you can assume anything, (such as Saunders pitching badly, etc.)

Yeah they've been crazy bad defensively tonight.

[Palmoripken]

I feel bad for Chipper. That DP error was the turning point in the game.

[RevOlution]

I feel bad for Chipper. That DP error was the turning point in the game.

Don't count the Braves out, even though their defense has sucked tonight. This game is over until the last out.

[weams]

I feel bad for Chipper. That DP error was the turning point in the game.

Yeah, but they should have beaten the Yankees more than they did too. Good career. Wrap it up.

[OFFNY]

Never can assume anything, esp. with playoff games.

Yes.

I remember in October of 2006, when Yankee fans were calling into Mike Francesca on WFAN and facetiously saying, "Oh gee, I'm afraid of the Tigers, Mike."

After dropping the opening game, Detroit outscored the Yankees by a composite total of 18-6 in Games 2, 3, and 4. They not only beat the Yankees, they threw them down the stairs.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2006_ALDS1.shtml

[Palmoripken]

Don't count the Braves out, even though their defense has sucked tonight. This game is over until the last out.

Oh I'm not. Just saying that the current complexion of the game changed with the error.

[notyourbuddy]

I hate the tomahawk chop chant. Wish someone would kill that tradition already.

[Palmoripken]

Yes. I remember in October of 2006, when Yankee fans were calling into Mike Francesca on WFAN and facetiously saying, "Oh gee, I'm afraid of the Tigers, Mike."

After dropping the opening game, Detroit outscored the Yankees by a composite total of 18-6 in Games 2, 3, and 4. They not only beat the Yankees, they threw them down the stairs.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2006_ALDS1.shtml

I forget but I think that was the series where the bugs ate Joba Chamberlain.

[OFFNY]

I forget but I think that was the series where the bugs ate Joba Chamberlain.

No. That was the next year (2007), in Cleveland.

And yes, the heavily favored Yankees lost that divisional playoff series, too.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2007_ALDS2.shtml

[BmoreMatt]

Two on and two out, down by three. I was quietly rooting for Chipper there. Oh well.

[callahan09]

Yes.

I remember in October of 2006, when Yankee fans were calling into Mike Francesca on WFAN and facetiously saying, "Oh gee, I'm afraid of the Tigers, Mike."

After dropping the opening game, Detroit outscored the Yankees by a composite total of 18-6 in Games 2, 3, and 4. They not only beat the Yankees, they threw them down the stairs.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2006_ALDS1.shtml

Ewwww, Mike Francesa. Can't stand that guy haha. When I first moved here in 2007 I watched/listened from time to time, then I realized just how much he hates Baltimore...

[Palmoripken]

No. That was the next year (2007), in Cleveland.

And yes, the heavily favored Yankees lost that divisional playoff series, too.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2007_ALDS2.shtml

That's right. I was really hoping we'd see a Cleveland versus Colorado WS that year. Cleveland's GM at the time was the son of Cal, Eddie, and a bunch of other O's agent, Ron Shapiro. Plus they were going against the Red Sox in the ALCS.