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Icarus, I have been waiting for days for a retort for my retort(a re-retort?) in the Baseball thread, which I can't even REMEMBER now, it has been so long.
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The upside of living in Chicago when the Marlins won, was that the past two days going to work there has been no traffic on the roads. Everyone has been sleeping off crying in their beer for two days in a row.
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I wonder how the ratings of this year's playoffs compare to those of previous years. I'd bet these are the most watched playoffs in years. Ditto for the last month or so of the season.
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Frankly, beating the Yankees in the World Series is a much bigger deal than beating them in one lousy regular season game. The Yankees have a bunch of guys who really shine under pressure (Derek Jeter, for one). They really do some of their best work during the post-season, and I think they make the Yankees a much harder team to beat.
The Marlins are a scrappy team, and they deserved this win! Actually...I think Ivan Rodriguez said it best:
quote:The Yankees...they a good team....but we play better.
GO MARLINS!!
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Of course, everybody hated the D-backs for winning that year, since "New York needed encouragement" or something like that "after 9/11". PSH!
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The D-Backs had Schilling and Johnson and I assume a payroll twice as large as the Fish. The Marlins are also the first team since the 1914 Boston Braves to come back from 10 games under .500 to win the series. The Marlins also switched managers midway through the year. How many teams have done that. The Marlins came back in all three series by winning three games in a row. At least 4 of the Marlins playoff wins were comeback wins.
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Yeah, we went to the airport to welcome home our returning champions!
We saw a whole bunch of players. We only caught glimpses of most of them, but glimpses count! We saw Looper and Pierre and Dontrelle and Conine and Castillo and Gonzo and Lowell and Derrek Lee and Cabrera and Redman and Redmond and Chad Fox and Lenny Harris and Tony Perez. We saw Jack McKeon, who was driving his new Mercedes and smoking a cigar. We saw Jeffery Loria and got his autograph (he was the only one giving them!). We did not see Penny or Encarnacion, and our two MVPs (Pudge and Beckett) were MIA. But it was still really cool to come within ten feet of almost our whole starting lineup. And we screamed a whole hell of a lot.
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While rooting for the Marlins, I was always the most nervous when Hideki Matsui came to bat. He was almost impossible to get out. Next to him was Derek Jeeter. Sometimes I worried about Williams because of his power, but the Marlin pitching pretty well kept him handcuffed.
The goat of the series for the Yankees would probably be Boone, because of his errors, though Jeeter made a critical one in game six. The pitcher David Wells deserves a dishonorable mention, after laughing it up and boasting in pre-game interviews how he does not believe in conditioning, and then he strained his lower back and had to come out of the game after only one inning.
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