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Sep 28, 2008 - 1:10 PM
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OTOH, Sunday night as a standalone with no other games on, coming after you'd likely already invested the day in watching your own team just never gelled as a concept with me.
Well, I think that is precisely why I DO like it, because there are no other games going on. I rarely watch the FOX games if it's not the Angels--I can find other stuff to watch on saturdy afternoons, the idea of a reigionalized 'game of the week' is just silly to me, there's nothing special about it to me other than national broadcasters, who IMO aren't that great, but I'll watch the ESPN Sunday Night game because nothing else is going on at that time. there was a time when disney owned the team and the angels played all their sunday games at night, but they were never on tv cause of ESPN, even then i watched the espn sunday night game over listening to angels on radio (unless i was at the ballpark, which was often) Thankfully with all games on TV now I don't have to pick which games to go to based on what won't be televised.
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My Mets go down again 
A good effort, but this has been the year of the blown lead by the bullpen.
Congrats to Milwaukee for earning the wild card slot.
Bye, Bye Shea Stadium...lots of memories...
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Sep 28, 2008 - 6:48 PM
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ANZALDIMAN
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I was at the JETS game watching the scoreboard with baseball scores. The crowd would cheer when the METS scores surfaced, but we were all out of the stadium walking to our cars when I heard someone yell out that the METS were losing.
Ed and I were devastated until I came to the realization that they would not have gone far. They should have clinched it 3 weeks ago.
In honor of the demise of Shea, the JETS had their throw-back "Titan" uniforms on today.
Farewell Shea Stadium---some really fun times there watching JETS & METS, right Jim?
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Back to the topic of Playoffs-------
CONGRATS to the Brewers and GO PHILLIES GO!!!!
Donna
Yes.
Some really fun times watching the Mets in the early to mid 70's at Shea as a kid with you, and as an adult in the mid 80's when they were still bad but were poised to win.
I was attending Mets games at Shea quite a bit in the mid 80's with friends from work until '86, when "suddenly" it was hard to find a ticket for a decent seat, with the rise of Doc and Darryl and the team getting better and drawing more and more fan interest.
We would take the bus from Willowbrook Mall to the Port Authority terminal in NYC.
And then we'd hop on the subway to Shea.
( I have lots of stories about those subway adventures but I'll save those for later) 
It was a lot of fun then, I was in my 20's, and I had some good times.
One of the guys who used to go to the Mets games with us back then was the brother of former boxer Bobby Czyz. Nice guy.
I have not seen him in years, and I often wonder how he is doing.
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Sep 28, 2008 - 9:05 PM
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Rexor
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Which is a reminder that for all their struggles and the fact that they're out of the playoffs, they still have a solid base to build from for next year and didn't experience a major collapse.
It seemed like they played much better once the pressure was off (ie. they realized they weren't making the play-off's). If Wong was healthy maybe they could have challenged the Red Sox... I still think they need another ace-like pitcher a la Santana or Beckett.
The team needs to just make the smart decisions in the off-season on who to bring back (get Mussina back for a two year deal, wave bye-bye to Giambi) and I think their chances of 2008 being a hiccup in a long postseason run look good.
It would be nice to see them break the curse of the Giambino. Btw, what's your'e thoughts on A-Rod? Would you trade him for Soriano?  Back to the playoffs, the NL looks exciting. Torre and the Dodgers, Pinella and the Cubs, and the Phillies. In the AL, if the Angels can get past the first round (The Red Sox), they should be in the Series.
-Rex
PS: Wow, there were actually some picthers in the AL with ERA's under 3.
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Oct 1, 2008 - 9:51 AM
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Donna
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Here is a nice story about Rose and Barb.
Two 90-year-old women, Rose and Barb had been friends all of their lives.
When it was clear that Rose was dying, Barb visited her every day. One day Barb said, 'Rose, we both loved playing women's softball all our lives, and we played all through High School. Please do me one favor: when you get to Heaven, somehow you must let me know if there's women's softball there.'
Rose looked up at Barb from her deathbed and said,'Barb, you've been my best friend for many years. If it's at all possible, I'll do this favor for you.
'Shortly after that, Rose passed on.
At midnight a few nights later, Barb was awakened from a sound sleep by a blinding flash of white light and a voice calling out to her, 'Barb, Barb.'
'Who is it?' asked Barb, sitting up suddenly. 'Who is it?'
'Barb -- it's me, Rose.'
'You're not Rose. Rose just died.'
'I'm telling you, it's me, Rose,' insisted the voice.
'Rose! Where are you?'
'In Heaven,' replied Rose. 'I have some really good news and a little bad news.'
'Tell me the good news first,' said Barb.
'The good news,' Rose said, 'is that there's Softball in Heaven. Better yet all of our old buddies who died before us are here, too. Better than that, we're all young again. Better still, it's always springtime, and it never rains or snows. And best of all, we can play softball all we want, and we never get tired.'
'That's fantastic,' said Barb. 'It's beyond my wildest dreams! So what's the bad news?'
'You're pitching Tuesday.'
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Oct 11, 2008 - 12:38 PM
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ANZALDIMAN
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Go PHILS!
They won the division today, and will be tough to beat .
Last year they got bounced quickly in the post season.
I don't think that will be the case this year.
The Phillies stumbled for a while and let the Mets get close, but they played much better baseball at crunch time once again when it counted, and they deserve the NL east division crown that they earned today.
A very exciting ending, with an incredible double-play!
And it's not over yet John.
The Phillies are playing superb baseball now, they are up on the Dodgers two games to none in the NLCS.
When the Phillies offense gets going, there is no stopping them.
The series goes back to LA tomorrow for game three, but aside from a few dramatic moments for the Dodgers provided by ..who else, Manny Ramirez, the Dodgers have looked flat so far in the first two games.
We'll see what happens, but right now it looks like a Red Sox/Phillies 2008 World Series.
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