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[The Underdog]

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Today makes it 3 home runs. WOW Don Kelly hitting a home run is huge surprise, only got the start cause Betemit has been rubbish so far. Keep it going Tigers.

Phil Hughes in for Nova in the 3rd...things are looking up for the Tiger's
Not sure why Kelly was in but it worked for one AB at least

[anfo27]

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Phil Hughes in for Nova in the 3rd...things are looking up for the Tiger's
Not sure why Kelly was in but it worked for one AB at least

Top of the 7th and Tigers are still up 3-1. Hopefully your prediction of Valverde blowing it will not happen. Please don't happen.

Apparently Nova was taken out with a tight forearm.

[anfo27]

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Looks like you're going to get your wish Underdog. Bottom of the 9th the tigers up 3-2 with Valverde to come. COME ON PAPA GRANDE

[anfo27]

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You little beauty, Tigers get through in a thriller. What a game and what a series.

[Remi Moses]

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Quiet crowd
Verlander game 1 and later in the series .
Good result . One run ball game hostile crowd, powerful Yankee order.
That's pressure

[anfo27]

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Quiet crowd
Verlander game 1 and later in the series .
Good result . One run ball game hostile crowd, powerful Yankee order.
That's pressure

Loads of pressure for the tigers relief pitchers. Benoit had bases loaded with one out in the 7th and came through with a strikeout of Swisher. Jeter in the 8th nearly hit one out but got caught on the warning track. Valverde in the 9th was great against the heart of that Yankees batting order. Striking out A-Rod to end it was sweet and ended a very nerve racking game.
Going out to a wedding in a few hours so I'll be getting on it to celebrate the downfall of those cocky yankmees.
Good night yankess and hello Texas.

[The Underdog]

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Loads of pressure for the tigers relief pitchers. Benoit had bases loaded with one out in the 7th and came through with a strikeout of Swisher. Jeter in the 8th nearly hit one out but got caught on the warning track. Valverde in the 9th was great against the heart of that Yankees batting order. Striking out A-Rod to end it was sweet and ended a very nerve racking game.
Going out to a wedding in a few hours so I'll be getting on it to celebrate the downfall of those cocky yankmees.
Good night yankess and hello Texas.

Congrats anfo, enjoy. Your boys came through some tight situations to take it in NY against a very good team. Good series coming up with Texas. I haven't watched the game yet but looking forward to it (especially the save).

[The Underdog]

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Brewers win in the 10th against the D'Backs with a walk-off single. Cards have a 1-0 lead in the 4th against the Phils. Might be enough, the Phils pitching is excellent but their offense sucks.

[anfo27]

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Brewers win in the 10th against the D'Backs with a walk-off single. Cards have a 1-0 lead in the 4th against the Phils. Might be enough, the Phils pitching is excellent but their offense sucks.

Looks like 3 game 5 thrillers. Top of the 9th with cards still up 1-0.

[Remi Moses]

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Phillies offense went cold. Hopefully the Brewers beat the Cards( think it's compulsory to be over 60 at Busch stadium) To win 100 games and not make the NLCS series, ouchhhh! Did they replace Wearth? Just have to look at the seats behind home plate in Texas to who'll I'll be Rootin' for!

[anfo27]

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Huge result for the cards, to be 10 1/2 games back in the wild card race and then make and beat the Phillies in the first round is an amazing result.
Game 1 starts in 30 minutes with Verlander taking on CJ Wilson. Huge blow for the tigers with Delmon Young being ruled out for the whole series. We don't have a whole lot of depth and he was in great form with 3 homeers in ALDS which is a tigers record.
GO TIGERS

[GVGjr]

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It's marvelous in baseball how some teams are able to be super competitive even though the spend a fraction of the money that teams like the Yankees do. The Tampa Bay Rays only spend about 20 to 25% of the salary the Yankees do.
It doesn't always happen but every now and then some teams surprise.

Found this article to be interesting

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[westdog54]

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Looks like 3 game 5 thrillers. Top of the 9th with cards still up 1-0.

I've been on nightshift the past week and have been lucky enough to catch some replays of the playoffs on One HD. Some cracking games of baseball, plenty of twists and turns. Can't remember a post season this close for a long time.

[anfo27]

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It's marvelous in baseball how some teams are able to be super competitive even though the spend a fraction of the money that teams like the Yankees do. The Tampa Bay Rays only spend about 20 to 25% of the salary the Yankees do.
It doesn't always happen but every now and then some teams surprise.

Found this article to be interesting

Baseball

The Tampa Bay Rays are a great example of being a very smart organisation. They are in the toughest division where they are competing with the huge payrolls of the Yankees & Red Sox just to make the post season and they have made the post season 3 out of the last 4 years.
As the article tells us the Yankees have a payroll of $200 million, Red Sox $160 million while they are working with a budget of $40 million and have to find a way to compete. They look at these bigger organisations and think 'how can we compete with these guys'. They know they can't out spend these teams so they have decided that the only way they can compete is to out develop these bigger ball clubs. They put all their resources into development & drafting and have done a terrific job. When they get their draft picks they nail them and they use the free agency to their advantage.
They lost some damn good players in the off season to free agency (Crawford, Benoit, Soriano, Garza, Bartlett, Balfour) and they made no real attempt to keep these players, yet they still made the post season. They prefer to concentrate on nailing the compensation picks to further stregthen their farm system. The depth of talent the Rays have in their organisation is amazing and they will continue to be a power in their division for many years to come.
There is a lot to admire about the rays and a lot lessons that can be learnt by the way they operate. With free agency coming into the AFL next year maybe its not all doom and gloom for clubs like ours as has been touted.

[anfo27]

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I've been on nightshift the past week and have been lucky enough to catch some replays of the playoffs on One HD. Some cracking games of baseball, plenty of twists and turns. Can't remember a post season this close for a long time.

really disappointed there has been no live games on ONE HD thus far. To have nearly one live game every Mon-Fri during the regular season and not one live game post season is piss poor.