i thought i should put your previous prediction up here so people can see that you really do know what you are talking about
Now the only spanking cardinals will do, will be their own heads after being unable to hit the best picthers in the league. Let me name them for you so we can compare them with “young marlins picthers” …Pettite 2nd in ERA in the majors, Clemens 1.87 ERA (that is sick), Oswalt—only back to back 20 game winner in the majors, also do check out his winning percentage .680.
Astros in 6 over the small little red birds
Angels over the White Sox
Talk about resilience. Angels played their 3rd game in 3rd city in 3 days and 3 different timezones and still came up with a win. Whitesox had 4 days to prepare.
David Letterman's Top Ten List on Tuesday night was "New York Yankee Excuses." They included:
• No. 6: Didn't know if they were playing the California Angels, Anaheim Angels or Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
• No. 4: How are you supposed to field a competitive team on $200 million?
• No. 3: Due to a typo in latest memo, Steinbrenner demanded players give 10%.
• No. 1: Who can concentrate on baseball when hockey is back?
Another hit: And from Jay Leno's monologue Tuesday night: "Huge wildfire broke out last night in Orange County — 25 people were choking. No, I'm sorry. That was the New York Yankees."
White Sox starters goes back-to-back-to-back CGs. This has happened first time in American League when 3 starting pitchers have completed games. It’s ova for Angels - their offense is struggling - though umpires have made blunders too but truth of the matter is - Sox have an unbelievable pitchers - and their ability to manufacture runs can’t be stopped.
Cardinals bullpen is terrible - I mean really you have their relievers ERA higher than a vg. starter in the league - this series is in the bag too unless if there’s any climax left in both championship series.
Pir ji, it was one of the worst officiated series ever. So manyblown calls, it is unbelievable. Mike Socia is a class act for not ripping MLB and the umpires for blowing crucial call after crucial call.
Anyway, this is Astros year...move over Black err White Sox...WS here we come.
Good point Kaleem bhai but you missed to point out how many blown calls Cardinals got yesterday. Jim Edmonds was called strike out on a high fast ball but when a Cardinal pitcher throws the same pitch, it’s called ball.
Anyway, tonight is a good game. It’s been a series(NLCS, ALCS) of pitchers and I am loving every bit of it.
Gurantee Astros make the WS, this is going to be hellva of a matchup that no one would have predicted at the beginning of the season.
Sox and Astros both have a great bullpen - a rested bullpen of ChiSox I might add. Astros have HOFs (Clemens, Pettite, Oswalt) calibre starters whereas Sox got bunch of guys who were nobody until this season with 15+ wins to back it up. Sox relies on manufacturing runs early where Astros have power in the lineup. Astros have a record of 80-1 after leading at the end of 8th inning - that says alot about Brad Lidge - the Astros’ closer.
I’m estatic. This WS is going to be a match up of a franchise not having won the WS since 1917 - on the other hand for Astros - their first appearance in WS.
Talha, maybe that is true, but how about the non-call in the ninth when edmonds sneaks upto the third after Pujols was tagged out at home plate. Time was called, meaning runners cannot advance but the umpire went to sleep and let edmonds sneak up. That put added pressure on the Astros to turn a double play…and turn the douple play they did…it was one of the best double play in the history of Astros. Pettite will lead his hometown team to the promised land tonight. Go Astros.
Kaleem bhai, it wasn't Edmonds. He was thrown out arguing over the call in the 8th. It was Larry Walker who moved from 1st to 3rd. And no the time wasn't call since Ansberg moved from 3rd base to make the play at home. He wasn't at 3rd base. In fact, no body covered 3rd base. The play never ended.
..and yeah the DP was one of the best I've seen. Never expected that from Astros' infielders.
Who’s denying Sox didn’t have better pitching? We’re talking about officiating here. I bet if it was against Sox, all that stupid curse talk would have been going on in Chicago’s Radio stations.
BIG PHAT ALBERT'S mammoth HR saved Cards season - OMG... That was freaking incredible....
Lidge didn't even want to throw Pujols a strike. If you watch the replay, when Ausmus was giving the signal, he held his hand out straight to the right, telling him to throw it outside. They were just going to throw him junk off the plate. Lidge just hung a slider right over the plate..and it's back back back.......GONE!
Talha, can you please remove the damn link, ESPN is going to torture us Houston fans already, I dont need a constant reminder untill Wednesday......What the hell was Phil Graner thinking, you walk the Gorilla and take your chances with Sanders...first dumb move of the post season by Garner and it may wind up costing us a trip to WS.
I'm Kool bhaisahib, you really think that call in Game 2 did not change the series? Had the umpire done his job, angels and sox should be playing game 7 tomorrow night.
errrr why is that, did angels win 3 games or somfin :) or is that texas math
aray bhai kaleem we know you are a texan and are happy that the ass-tros are doing well, even though no one in Texas really cares for them since rangers seem to get all the love there, kinda like white sox are ignored in chi-town while cubs are not.
anyhoo..lets see if they can get past cards first. then they can worry about the sox.
…Pettite 2nd in ERA in the majors, Clemens 1.87 ERA (that is sick), Oswalt—only back to back 20 game winner in the majors, also do check out his winning percentage .680.
This has happened first time in American League when 3 starting pitchers have completed games. It’s ova for Angels - their offense is struggling - though umpires have made blunders too but truth of the matter is - Sox have an unbelievable pitchers - and their ability to manufacture runs can’t be stopped.