Time to end the Wild Card winners reign

 

It'd be pretty damn sweet, if we could cap off the season with yet ANOTHER 8 game winning streak.

 

I've loved those, because 8's always been my lucky number.

 

Just 4 more!

 

Odds to win the WS:

 

white sox -125

houston +105

Odds to win the WS:

 

white sox -125

houston +105

So Sox fans would have to spend $125 to win $100?

 

Astros fans win $105 by betting $100?

So Sox fans would have to spend $125 to win $100?

 

Astros fans win $105 by betting $100?

 

Exactly

 

Also another reason to like this World Series.

 

2005 payrolls

 

    1. New York Yankees  $ 208,306,817                                         

    2. Boston Red Sox  $ 123,505,125                                         

    3. New York Mets  $ 101,305,821                                         

    4. Los Angeles Angels  $ 97,725,322                                         

    5. Philadelphia Phillies  $ 95,522,000                                         

    6. St. Louis Cardinals  $ 92,106,833                                         

    7. San Francisco Giants  $ 90,199,500                                         

    8. Seattle Mariners  $ 87,754,334                                         

    9. Chicago Cubs  $ 87,032,933                                         

    10. Atlanta Braves  $ 86,457,302                                         

    11. Los Angeles Dodgers  $ 83,039,000                                         

  12. Houston Astros  $ 76,779,000                                         

    13. Chicago White Sox  $ 75,178,000                                          

    14. Baltimore Orioles  $ 73,914,333                                         

    15. Detroit Tigers  $ 69,092,000                                         

    16. San Diego Padres  $ 63,290,833                                         

    17. Arizona Diamondbacks  $ 62,329,166                                         

    18. Cincinnati Reds  $ 61,892,583                                         

    19. Florida Marlins  $ 60,408,834                                         

    20. Minnesota Twins  $ 56,186,000                                         

    21. Texas Rangers  $ 55,849,000                                         

    22. Oakland Athletics  $ 55,425,762                                         

    23. Washington Nationals  $ 48,581,500                                         

    24. Colorado Rockies  $ 48,155,000                                         

    25. Toronto Blue Jays  $ 45,719,500                                         

    26. Cleveland Indians  $ 41,502,500                                         

    27. Milwaukee Brewers  $ 39,934,833                                         

    28. Pittsburgh Pirates  $ 38,133,000                                         

    29. Kansas City Royals  $ 36,881,000                                         

    30. Tampa Bay Devil Rays  $ 29,679,067   

I am curious.

 

 

I seem to remember awhile back in March that a few members here went to Vegas and bet on the Sox when the odds were high.

 

Can you find that thread?

Exactly

 

Also another reason to like this World Series.

 

2005 payrolls

And just think...something like $17 million of that goes to Clemens.

I am curious.

I seem to remember awhile back in March that a few members here went to Vegas and bet on the Sox when the odds were high.

 

Can you find that thread?

 

 

:banghead

 

 

Don't remind me. I was in Vegas during a March Madness weekend and this/close to dropping $100 on the Sox. I thought to myself at the time "Why waste $100"

 

Didn't read this all to see if it's here (sorry if it is) but here's Scott's 3 year totals against Houston..

 

 

vs. HOU

149 23 43 7 2 7 18 13 0 3 0 18 3 .289 .346 .503 .849

13 BBs, 18 steals (3 CS), and 7 HRs

 

Not too bad.

Figures that Crede has 2 HR off the rocket......it just does.

Didn't read this all to see if it's here (sorry if it is) but here's Scott's 3 year totals against Houston..

vs. HOU

149 23 43 7 2 7 18 13 0 3 0 18 3 .289 .346 .503 .849

13 BBs, 18 steals (3 CS), and 7 HRs

 

Not too bad.

My 1 worry along those lines is that Scotty probably hasn't seen Pettitte's move, and he's got one that rivals Buehrle.

 

But given all the rest we've gotten during this postseason, and the fact that he was moving on the Angels pitchers repeatedly, I think we do have a shot at a very successful running game. Ausmus was throwing out runners at about a .315 clip this year, which was only slightly better than Bengie Molina's numbers.

"Houston we have a problem" .

"Houston we have a problem" .

The actual line spoken in real life was "We've had a problem"

Clemens on the road scares me

The actual line spoken in real life was "We've had a problem"

whoa, you were THERE!?

Clemens on the road scares me

a lot of their rotation anywhere scares me...but you know what doesn't? their lineup. pretty much top to bottom. especially against our pitching staff.

Clemens on the road scares me

Not to hard to figure out why he's been so much better on the road and it's not to hard to figure out that the cell aint exactly a pitchers park.

Fast Facts:

 

• This year's World Series will be between a team that has never been there against a team that has not been there in 46 years. There has been only one other World Series between teams that each had not appeared in the Series in the previous 20 years. In 1948 the Indians (in their first appearance since 1920) beat the Boston Braves (first Series since 1914).

 

• Craig Biggio has appeared in 2,564 regular-season games but he's never played in the World Series. That would be the most career games for any player who was appearing in the World Series for the first time. That distinction is currently held by Barry Bonds (2,439 games). Three players have appeared in at least 2,500 games without ever playing in the World Series: Rafael Palmeiro (2,831), Andre Dawson (2,627) and Ernie Banks (2,528). 

 

•Spooky stat - Frank Thomas has appeared in 1959 regular season games.  1959 was the last year the White Sox appeared in the World Series.

 

• Carl Everett is the only player in major-league history to appear in at least 200 games for both the Astros and the White Sox.

 

 

Third baseman Morgan Ensberg admitted he had already heard from White Sox infielder Geoff Blum, an old friend and former Houston teammate.

 

"We've been text messaging," Ensberg said. "I can't wait to see him."

 

White Sox outfielder/designated hitter Carl Everett was a key cog in the Astros' playoff team in the late '90s and was teammates with Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio. Everett was dealt to the Red Sox in the deal that brought shortstop Adam Everett to Houston.

 

White Sox right-hander Freddy Garcia was originally signed by Houston and went to Seattle in 1998 in the Randy Johnson trade.

 

Other than those two and Blum, the Astros do not have any former teammates with Chicago. The Astros also aren't familiar with U.S. Cellular Field.

Weather.com weather report (as of today) and their weather tidbits, though I don't get the chart as both teams obviously won more games than that total.

 

 

Why the hell did it take me a full day to realize how well this line suddenly works?

 

Rode down the highway

Broke the limit, we hit the town

Went through to Texas, yeah Texas

And we had some fun

Are the times listed on whitesox.com for the world series games the first pitch time? because it seemed like sometimes in the playoffs the games would start way after their listed times.

A little randomness here but I thought this picture was really cool from espn.com:

 

Edited October 21, 200520 yr by Rowand44

Ump assignments are out:

 

Game One

HP Joe West*

1B Jeff Nelson

2B Jerry Layne

3B Derryl Cousins

LF Gary Cederstrom

RF Angel Hernandez

* Crew Chief

 

West is the guy that tangled with Ozzie last year about what releif pitcher he called, and led to MB taping large L and R s on Oz's jacket.

LETS MAKE THE f***ING JETSONS DOG EAT s***

Ump assignments are out:

 

Game One

HP Joe West*

1B Jeff Nelson

2B Jerry Layne

3B Derryl Cousins

LF Gary Cederstrom

RF Angel Hernandez

* Crew Chief

 

West is the guy that tangled with Ozzie last year about what releif pitcher he called, and led to MB taping large L and R s on Oz's jacket.

 

 

As long as there's no Wendelstedt (sp?), Froemming or Gorman listed, I don't care.