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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 09:09 AM) Arrieta is going to get hit today as well, the Cubs really needed that game yesterday imo. Bet the house?

I just wanted to see Greg's hypothetical response. Crack cocaine possession=death penalty in China, my seven month old son might be unhappy with me.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 09:28 AM) I thought one with Rick Kenny and Jerry with 3 Stooges type haircuts would be good. Maybe nobody would figure it out but Moe and Larry haircuts are pretty distinctive as is the Curly bald head. Too dated ? Anti-Racism/political correctness lobby will not condone....showing KW in an unflattering light.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Billy_Goat Media playing up the angle of the Billy Goat Curse again...the Mets' Murphy and Billy Goat sharing the same name. Then you have the 1969 Curse with the Mets. http://www.billygoattavern.com/legend/our-history/ http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-165153251.html Tickets averaging $1000 a piece, twice as much as ALCS.

Especially with Iowa on their third and fourth string running backs...you have to go toe to toe with their offensive and defensive lines to win a game like that or their superior conditioning will wear you down in the second half. Not pretty, but it works....and Beathard is more capable of creating big plays with his feet than Rudock ever was.

You know what might have worked....you could have lied and said you failed to stop because you were carjacked once at an intersection when someone with a Glock hopped in because you came to a complete stop and gave him sufficient time to strike...or your unit in Iraq was ambushed at an intersection in Riyadh when you stopped at an intersection because kids planted by Al queda were crossing to block your path and you got ambushed on four sides by automatic weapons fire and continue to suffer from ptsd as a result of losing half your buddies. Of course, as a Christian, you also risk going to hell for breaking the Ten Commandments. Those are two ways out of it. Ethically and morally, no way. Butarguing you regularly give at church and to United Way isn't going to get you sympathy since part of that can be written off against taxes.

Indiana is the type of team that scares you as an Iowa fan, especially if they get an early lead and playing at home with motivation to prove something. Luckily Iowa has Maryland at home this week first.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 09:19 PM) just a question to all, do the sox really need a 30 hr a season as a player to be get. i mean dunn was that kind of player. a 30 hr guy with a batting avg of 230 . i think a hitter, who has the ability to hit 20+ hrs, and avg hitting of 270 avg, and has a contact of rate to k's stat. The Astros and Royals have that type of balance...threats but not a bunch of pure home run hitters like the Jays have... Someone will argue Valbuena, Rasmus, Gattis and Carter, but those are all or nothing types. Really Correa and Springer types are the ideal, and they are rare talents. In this market, it's only Upton, Chris Davis and maybe Cespedes.

When a ball drops in without being touched that always happens. Basically, an ace with a three run lead in a close to must-win game has to pitch over or through that. I'm sure in the postgame he didn't use it as an excuse. Both teams had breaks they took advantage of.

Granderson with an 88% success ratio scoring that runner from third and less than two outs. Why was Montero so far behind home when he caught the ball? Posey Rule or just didn't realize he was too far back to be able to do anything but lunge forward with a tag?

Yeah, all he had to do was bunt...no need to burn a hitter.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 05:54 PM) Punter should have just fallen on it instead of trying to kick I mean as a designed play. Too risky he gets tackled with 1-3 seconds left I guess...and in the red zone to boot.

That must have been both shocking and painful. The crazy thing is they had a couple of chances to tackle him before he crossed the goal line and still preserve the victory. Then you have the bumbling, rumbling stumbling 74 yard dash by a FB as well.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 05:37 PM) Can't do that only up 2. If they were up 3 that is an option and just have them run through the end zone. What if you ran back to the five or ten and kept dodging/eluding tacklers long enough for the clock to run out?

One thing to keep in mind though...the best defense in baseball has a huge advantage on turf if they do keep it in the park. The Royals also match up well wth Estrada, Cueto's brimming with confidence and they lost 2/3 at home to the Rangers. Greg wil not be betting another house against Cueto now.

I think the odds are 81-82%, something like that, taking the first two at home in a seven game series...

Why don't you just have the Qb or Rb take ball and run around behind the line long enough to run out the clock? Guess there's the risk of giving them a shot at a final pass or even a field goal. Craziest ending in recent memory...like Cal-Stanford and the band coming onto the field.

Hochevar limiting the damage was the key to this game..along with Goins opening the door. Davis warmed up three times but Yost got him into a game situation and it definitely paid off today. Duffy as well.

Hochevar limiting the damage was the key to this game..along with Goins opening the door. Davis warmed up three times but Yost got him into a game situation and it definitely paid off today. Duffy as well.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 04:31 PM) I usually won't do this to a non-pitcher, but this game is on Goins if Toronto loses. What the f*** is he doing out there? He almost crossed up Tulo on the Morales grounder up the middle, too. Jays have had some bizarre innings recently. The seventh against Texas, balls hitting the guide wire and then this half inning. Rios with some sweet revenge against the organization that summarily dumped him six years ago.

Crazy that Price might end up 0-7 in seven postseason starts.... and he's going to get $200 million plus. Cubs are going to have to think twice.

Royals don't give up. Goins way too aggressive this inning...Moustakas' first post-season RBI, was just 2/24 before that at-bat.

12 in a row retired by Price. If the Royals hadn't swept the Tigers the last three games of 2006 (giving the Twins the division...Detroit would eventually get to the World Series as the WC behind Verlander)..they would have had the worst record in the majors and selected David Price. TB finished one game worse and the Royals took Moustakas, the Cubs selected Josh Vitters. Wieters, Bumgarner, Heyward and Mesoraco were all on the board for Chicago to choose instead.

Rios just does not lay out for anything....and then kind of an emergency inside out hack from Goins that somehow squeezed in down the 3b line. Royals also benefitted from a nifty defensive play from Escobar and Encarnacion falling asleep at 2b and getting picked off the previous inning or the lead would be 2-0 or 3-0. Shadows still giving pitchers the advantage. Can't believe Price is 0-6 in six post-seasons starts, two victories came in relief.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 02:23 PM) The beginning of this post about KC is a big stretch IMO. You don't live in KC, do you? Moore survives, but not sure that Yost does after inserting Ventura in as a reliever and it completely blowing up in his face before the 8th inning.