WS Game 1 thoughts, stats
Keeping it simple.. I watched the last three innings of the first world series game last night. Love both teams, rooting for the Phillies. Couple of things stood out to me:
- How can anyone watch these games on TV? It must take sixteen hours to get through one of them.. and to have to listen to these douchebag commentators?
- They stated it, and i looked it to verify: The Phillies are 79-0 (86-0 if you count the playoffs) in 2008 if they are leading after the eighth inning. Holy Shit. That’s what a bullpen can do for you. I know Detroit struggled on both sides of the pitching staff this year, but… man… 86-0.
- I love Ryan Howard, and I almost cried watching him take strike three in the top of the ninth. Actually I yelled so loud my wife came running into the room, hoping i had impaled myself and she could collect the insurance money. He looks lost at the plate.
- It pains me to see Carlos Pena on a major league team. I think he’s a headcase that couldn’t quite put it together in Detroit. Imagine if he HAD turned out here.. what a great trade (Pena / Bonderman for Jeff Weaver). That might have turned into one of the better trades in history.
- Side Note: Also included in the trade was Franklyn German, quite frankly a name I’m not sure how to pronounce correctly (probably Herman???)… at a game at Joker Marchant last spring, a 75 year old man was wearing a Franklyn German jersey, and my brother in law & I just looked at each other…
- No idea who will win the series, or even game 2. I do think that the first game in Philly will be CRAZY…
- This whole “who wins the all-star game gets home field advantage” is crap. Interesting — Brad Lidge took the loss for the NL, though the NL ran out of pitchers so it wasn’t really fair.
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