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Has there ever been a playoff team with a closer who had a worse season than Brad Lidge? I would feel so uncomfortable if I was a Phillies fan right now.

Joe Mauer watching his future team celebrate.

Twins imploding in the 9th.

Nick Punto with one of the worst base running plays ever.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 11, 2009 -> 06:42 PM) Seriously, it's game 3 of the ALDS and the pitchers the Twins have thrown out so far are Duensing, Blackburn, and now THE Carl Pavano. How the Hell did these guys win the division with that as their starting rotation? The AL Central was an absolute joke and the White Sox and Tigers would struggle to score against little leaguers.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Oct 11, 2009 -> 06:34 PM) WOW should have been offensive pass interference on marshall and orton should have thrown an INT right there....big call for denver Receivers can do whatever they want to CB without getting called for PI generally. Yet a CB can't touch a receiver beyond 5 yards without getting a penalty and you basically can't hit a QB anymore on D.

Guerrero with a base hit and the Angels up 7-6. 3 runs with two outs nobody on in the 9th for the Angels.

Red Sox up 1 in the top of the 9th. But Vlad up with the bases loaded and 2 outs against Papelbon.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 11:49 PM) Pods put up great stats. I think he is by far our best hitter; seems like that dude just knows how to take what the pitcher gives him and get a hit. No? Beckham and AJ seem to have this ability as well. Pods by far our best hitter? You can't be serious can you? Gordon Beckham was a better hitter as a rookie than Pods in basically a career year for him. The 3 previous years to this one Pod was a horrible hitter and even this year he was about average for an AL leadoff man. Pods was one of our best hitters this year but that was a tallest midget contest. Historically Pods ranks behind Konerko, Rios, AJ, Beckham, Quentin. Pods has been a bad hitter more often than not in his career but had a decent year at the plate this and did everything else really poorly.

Teixeira=Stud. Talk about money well spent for the Yankees. Burnett, Sabathia, and Tex just killing it.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 09:27 PM) And now it's REALLY White Sox ball, bases loaded, 0 out, 3 singles, 0 runs. And I'm sure people will say "OMG YANKEES CONSPIRACY!!!!111" and "the ump lost it for the Twins" and all that if the Yankees win, and yes that was one of the worst calls in the history of umpiring/officiating/etc. But Mauer still got on base, the Twins still had the bases loaded 0 out, and they still blew it (and you can't assume the next two batters get on base and the exact same things happen if Mauer's double is properly called). So for once, I will be the anti-conspiracy guy here and say the Twins just blew it there. I actually agree. They had their chance and choked big time. If they lose then they can only blame themselves.

Maybe an awful Damaso Marte performance in the ALDS is a good thing for a team?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 09:23 PM) THE carlos gomez up. Carlos Gomez is so bad at baseball.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 09:21 PM) White Sox ball. 3 singles, bases loaded, 0 out. I would love to see an El Duque impression right here.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 09:17 PM) What call did they blow? A ball was clearly fair down the left field line would have been a double for Mauer and it was called foul. Not even a remotely close call.

Marte is really bad, I can't believe he is in for the Yankees in this situation.

How the hell do you blow that call? Unbelievable, definitely the Yankees year.

Lol at Nathan. Nice throw

Swisher hammered that ball. Nathan has nothing at all tonight.

I have a feeling A-Rod is going to make himself a New York legend this postseason.

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 08:09 PM) Sounds contradictory. Not really he is saying that he doesn't believe that guys can perform better in bigger spots but that he does believe they can perform worse in big spots.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 08:04 PM) that's the thing, he gets hits and walks when it counts. Actually Punto has sucked with RISP over the course of his career and his splits for late innings are equally horrible to his splits in the earlier innings. As are his splits in close games as opposed to blow outs.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 07:32 PM) kubel, cabrera and span sucking it. And I wouldn't start calling a-rod clutch just yet. I'm not, but the whole idea that A-Rod isn't clutch is now and has always been stupid.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 07:18 PM) Yeah, that's not too bad though, there isn't room for everybody they are in on right now (even with all the schollies available) because they are in on so many good 2011 guys. Beal is the important guy IMO, although that won't be easy either obviously. Even a class of something like Abrams, Randle, Thompson/Langford (kid from Alabama who favors Illinois), Siakam/Shaw, and Egwu would be a great class. Best case scenario (although unlikely) would look like this: PG - Abrams SG - Beal SF - Thompson PF - Shaw/Miller C - Egwu

So much for A-Rod not being clutch.