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Like everyone said hopefully Freddy and Mark are flipped in our rotation and I'd be willing to bet that Schilling goes game 3 as he'd be on normal rest with the offday on thursday.

There's our playoff lineup folks. I'm very happy to see Jermaine in the 3 hole.

Stevenson beats Mundelein 55 to 7.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 01:31 AM) Here's to hoping Aaron Rowand starts and goes 8 for 8

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 12:43 AM) Like I said earlier, this will probably be their rotation: Clement Wells Wakefield Schilling I think there's a chance of that but they could also move schill up to game 3 cause of the day off on thursday.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 12:09 AM) So we get Boomer instead? That could be AWESOME. The Sox do not like RHP, but they seem to tee off on LHP. Also...I don't know why anybody'd be afraid of playing Boston. Boston's not a cakewalk with that offense, but that pitching staff makes it a hell of a lot easier. Anaheim is a team I really don't care to face, but they're not a team that would bother me either. There is one team that absolutely scares the s*** out of me, that being the Yankees. The angels will take care of them, imo. Anyways, my friend who's a bosox fan thinks it'd be clement for game 1 cause he'd be on full rest but I could see them moving boomer up to go game 1.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 11:50 PM) With Arroyo, Schilling and Wakefield starting the 1st 3 games, the Red Sox are gonna be in trouble pitching wise. We've just got to score enough runs for Count, MB and FG to work with. Can't happen like that dbaho. Schill can't pitch game 2 as that would be on 2 days rest and from what I've heard from red sox fans Arroyo will be sent to the pen.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 11:23 PM) I'm not gonna trash talk that Cleveland squad. They fought there asses off and even if they don't get in, they are gonna be a potential thorn in the Sox side for the next couple years. They are a really good team. Of course that could change if Millwood, Wickman and Company get away this offseason. The AL Central is going to be ridiculous next season.

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 07:45 PM) And if Cleveland wins on Monday, we play a WELL RESTED LAA TEAM... NO THANKS Or the yankees. EDIT: Actually this isn't true, anaheim can get homefield over the yanks but if that happens it means the bosox win the wildcard.

QUOTE(Ishmookie @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 10:01 PM) My lineup would be: Casanova-c Blum-short Ozuna-3b Harris-2b (so willie could bat cleanup) Perez-lf Gload-1b Anderson-cf Borchard-rf Widge-DH Our whole bench in the worst order will beat the tribe and eliminate them! how funny would that be (and harris is batting 4th) I love that 3-4 combo, have you seen power like that before?? MERCY

QUOTE(Ishmookie @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 09:49 PM) so no playoff required. thanks. No problem, a one game playoff only takes place when the loser would go home and not make the playoffs.

QUOTE(Ishmookie @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 09:48 PM) If the yankees lose and the angels win they tie for the 2 seed. Correct, the Angels would have homefield as they own the head to head over the yanks.

QUOTE(Ishmookie @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 09:38 PM) Would the playoffs start on wednesday if Boston and Cleveland had a playoff for the WC and Boston won? And whats the deal with all of the tiebreakers. Nope, Tuesday is officially the opener now, it would have only been moved back if there were a 3 way tie. What tie breakers are you talking about? The only things that matter now is if cle wins and boston loses then there is a one game playoff on monday.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 09:29 PM) Yah for a second I though the Time Zone change making it a 4:00 start time in LA but remebered they did it last year in the Boston Series. It'd be 5 L.A., it's 7 central time.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 09:20 PM) Yes the Angels have a 5-2 record against them and If Yanks lose and Angels win @ Texas it will happen Ya, I just went to check who had the head to head advantage, that's a good point. Anyways, those time slots are certain, so I'm sure they'd still get that 7 o'clock game central game even if it was at Anaheim.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 09:16 PM) What happens if the Angels grab the homefield against the Yanks will those times stay the same? Thanks Tom You know, I was thinking about that, do they have the tie breaker over they yanks?? If so then there is still a possibility that we play the yankees.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 09:07 PM) rather play boston than Anaheim three main reasons. 1. Angels have much better starters and a deeper pen. Boston pitching is no only injured, they'll have to start either Clement or Arroyo against us (Arroyo for sure if they have a one-game playoff with Cleveland). 2. Angels run like hell against us with Figgins, Cabrera and others. Boston doesn't try to steal. 3. Angels just beat our brains in at Comiskey in early September and we play like do-do on the West Coast. We played Boston much better. All we have to remember is DO NOT LET Ortiz or Ramirez beat you. If we can advance to the alcs there's a good chance we'd run into the angels anyway.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 08:57 PM) 15 games down to 1.5 in the space of 6 weeks??! You're gonna have to explain that one. Yeah Cleveland got hot but if we played even decent baseball that lead is still 10. Who cares now. The record is about to go back to 0-0 and they get a chance to show us what they're really made of.. We did play decent ball nuke. We played .500 ball since August 1st(a few games over now) so we weren't choking, cleveland just didnt lose.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 08:26 PM) Distasteful but accurate. They totally pissed away a huge division lead This is so incorrect.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 07:31 PM) Politte NO. Can I ask why?

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 07:04 PM) And Actually I meant we should have taken El Duque over Viz not Marte. Well that was a fun argument for nothing. We both got our points across, agree to disagree.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 06:50 PM) If he's on the playoff roster than what do you suggest we do w/ him? He should ONLY come in to face a tough LH if Cotts is unavailable or has been used. The only time I want him coming in to face a lefty is when it's just him and Viz left in the bullpen, anyone else in our pen besides Vizcaino should be in to face a lefty way before Marte. To be honest, neither of those two are going to get much work at all in the postseason if you ask me.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 06:43 PM) Marte Vs LH's 23 ip, 24 hits, 15 bb, 32 K's, 1 hr. Vs Rh's 22.1, 21 hits, 18 bb's, 22 K's, 4 hr Righties are hitting .238 off Dam as Lefties are hitting .261 off him. Also, I've been talking about what we've seen for Damaso as of late, I'll admit I didn't look up stats before I posted all of this but it's no secret that as of late Damaso can not get any lefties out.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 06:45 PM) MY POINT WAS, I'D RATHER HAVE MARTE INSTEAD OF VIZ This argument started cause you said we need Damaso as a lefty specialist, and I said that's not where he should be used. Well that was 2 pages of pointless argument.