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Pick your playoff teams

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Its about this time every year (for the last 4, anyway) that I live up to my monikor and I pick a team from each league whom I will root for in the playoffs.

Last year, it was the Rockies and the Indians. I picked up on the Rockies mid-surge and rode that wave all the way into the green monster.

In 2004 I happed to visit Boston in August and got completely swept up in the RSN. I even bought a damn hat... As much as I hate the damn Red Sox now, watching them upset the Yankees in that historic ALCS was one of my favorite baseball experiences.

Because frankly, My hatred for the Red Sox is fairly new compared to that I hold for the Yankees.

But I digress. Pick your teams, and maybe explain a little why. I'm going with the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays and your Philadelphia Pedro Pheliz'es.

I'm totally jumping on the Dr's bandwagon, but I've secretly liked the philles for a few years and Pete's addition to the team only made that bond stronger. I'd love to see them in the series (especially when the alternative is the Cubs or Dodgers).

Let's hear it.

 

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I’m pulling for whoever is playing the Dodgers in the first round. When and if the Dodgers are eliminated, then I’ll figure something else out. Probably the Rays or Brewers, if those teams are still around by then.

by rotorueter on Sep 25, 2008 10:09 AM PDT   0 recs

Pretty much the same with me. Maybe a little love for the Twins if they make it in.

by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2008 10:20 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Move over! I am coming on board this band wagon.

Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!

by daveinexile on Sep 25, 2008 11:06 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Go Rays!

I almost always root for the NL team, but this year may be different if those teams are the Evils, Phils, Cubs and possibly the Mets. I hate all of those teams. I don’t want the Cubs because I prefer that cursed teams stay that way (except for the Giants, of course.) If you thought the howling was bad from the Red Sox fans after their curse was lifted, wait until the Cubs get off the schneid.

Anyway. I hope the Brewers make it. I’d like to root for CC, Hart, Braun, Hardy and Ray Ray.

In the AL, it’s all about the Rays. They’re the only team in the league who hasn’t won a WS in the past few years. I hate the Red Sox, Angels and White Sox. Screw ’em. Go Rays.

And I did predict them to finish ahead of the Yanks, fwiw.

Bonds stands alone.

Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal

by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2008 10:15 AM PDT   0 recs

Hey you stole my teams!

Signed, BVCE, currently wearing Prince Fielder Brewers shirt.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2008 11:01 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

we can root for those teams together.

Bonds stands alone.

Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal

by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 26, 2008 10:15 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

IAWTC.

by dmunk on Sep 25, 2008 1:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

well, some things have changed. I don’t hate the Twins all that much. I’d certainly choose them over the Red Socks or Angels, but not the Rays. They’d be my 2nd AL choice.

Bonds stands alone.

Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal

by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 26, 2008 10:16 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Gotta be the Rays, even though I know we’re going to hate and despise them within a few years. The Atlanta Braves were cute and cuddly once too.

by Evan on Sep 25, 2008 10:16 AM PDT   0 recs

yeah, but the Rays won’t smash our hopes and dreams in a 103 win season.

Bonds stands alone.

Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal

by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2008 10:27 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Rays and Phillies. If the Brewers make it, then I like them over the Phillies.

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.

by groug on Sep 25, 2008 10:20 AM PDT   0 recs

If the Brewers don’t get in, then I’m just going with Not Dodgers for the NL.

by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2008 10:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Me also

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 25, 2008 10:31 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

GROUGTHINK

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 25, 2008 10:43 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

groudthink would be way better

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.

by groug on Sep 25, 2008 11:13 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well

The Twinkies are my numbah two team and i’ll definitely be rooting for them if they manage to squeak in. Otherwise, i’ll be rooting for the Rays. I really just pretty much hate every other team in the playoffs.

Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.

by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 25, 2008 10:31 AM PDT   0 recs

Call me negative but I mainly root against teams when the giants arent involved. Dodgers first and foremost, of course. I also want to see the Angels go down hard – but it has as much to do with the fact that they’re one of the luckiest teams (11 wins above pythagorean expectation, which probably makes them the worst of the AL playoff teams) in recent memory as it does with their theft of our championship in 02. I don’t like either Sox team and I don’t much care for the Mets either, although I’d definitely cheer them on in the Series against any of those AL teams I mentioned.

"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."

by i did my job on Sep 25, 2008 10:33 AM PDT   0 recs

went back and checked, and the angels are actually 13 wins above expectation, which is tied with the 04 Yankees for the most in the last two decades. Incidentally, the Diamondbacks have played way above their means in recent years – not only did they have no business winning the division or even being in the race last season, but in 2005 they were the worst team in the National League according to run diff despite finishing 3rd in the West and running ahead of us for most of the year.

"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."

by i did my job on Sep 25, 2008 10:44 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

check that, they finished second

ahead of us.

"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."

by i did my job on Sep 25, 2008 10:45 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

self-reply

"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."

by i did my job on Sep 25, 2008 10:45 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

you did your job

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 10:48 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, I enjoy rooting against teams so much more. A Bums/Sawks Series would seriously bum me out. NO PUN INTENDED. Or was it…?

by satyricrash on Sep 25, 2008 1:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I generally root for teams

that have never won a WS. So this year it has to be Brewers and Rays. After non-WS winners, i go with teams with the longest drought; the Cubs are exempt though because I will never, ever root for them. I have no love for the Phils, Mets, or, of course, the Dodgers. I like the Red Sox because I went to school in Boston. I hated the city, the Bruins, the Patriots, and especially the Celtics, but for some reason I liked the Sox. In spite of that, I will root for the Twins over the Sox; I just hope they get in.

Rooting order:
Brewers
Rays
Twins
Red Sox
Angels
Phillies
The rest I will just be rooting against.

Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.

by marklar on Sep 25, 2008 10:49 AM PDT   0 recs

RAYS baby

after that it’s kinda hard. I actually think it would be cool to see the Cubs break the curse. I know a lot of people feel differently, but I think that kind of thing is cool. I thought it was fun to see the Sox (both of them) end their droughts, and now it would be nice to see the Cubs do it. Plus it’s been 100 years since their last win, so it would be kind of fitting. But I love that the Rays are in and I want to see them do well. Hate the Halos, the Dodgers, the White Sox, and I’m sick of the Red Sox.

I honestly don’t mind the Mets, and I for some reason I’m rooting for them above the Phillies, can’t say why. I’d like to see the Brewers in though. But yeah, I’ll root for the Mets a little bit I guess, depending on who they play.

Ok so Rays and Cubs I guess are my teams.

Still defending Rich Aurilia, and the Niners' classic unis

by wjackalope on Sep 25, 2008 10:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

oops

wasn’t supposed to be a reply to marklar

Still defending Rich Aurilia, and the Niners' classic unis

by wjackalope on Sep 25, 2008 10:54 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Last time the Cubs won it took Merkle's Boner to get them there.

If they do win it all this time how will Selig suddenly shifting 3 games out of Houston to a de facto home sight not be viewed in the same light thus renewing the curse for another 100 years?

I am fast beginning to hate Selig as much as the inbred Steinbrenner clan. Something I never would have thought was humanly possible.

Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!

by daveinexile on Sep 25, 2008 11:14 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

nice to hear that your capacity for hate has reached inhuman levels. your conversion to the dark is almost complete.

Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.

by kennv on Sep 25, 2008 12:13 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The Brewers are my second NL team so my decision is made easily there. I predicted the Rays would win the AL East in 2009—the prediction was made in 2004. So I’m a year off. So sue me.

Anyway, Brewers/Rays World Series 4 LYFE. In part to watch ESPN shit itself going, “how are we supposed to market this when there is no Red Sox?!”

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2008 11:00 AM PDT   0 recs

The ratings would be horrible for that series. Still rooting for it, though.

by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2008 11:11 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

ESPN is already

having a fit that the Yankees aren’t even in the playoffs. I don’t know how many times I heard ESPN announcers say. “It will a shame if the Yankees don’t make the playoffs in the final year of Yankee Stadium”. Somehow that possibility didn’t bother me at all.

Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.

by marklar on Sep 25, 2008 11:25 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I’m pretty sure if the Rays make the series ESPN will push the OMG WHO COULD PREDICT THE RAYS BEING GOOD NO ONE story line.

by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2008 11:38 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I trust that ESPN/FOX/TBS will find a way to epically pee all over anything good in this postseason.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2008 11:47 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I wonder how many times they’ll mention Yankee Stadium during their playoffs broadcasts.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
comics | cartoons | Nattowear | McFAQ

by Natto on Sep 25, 2008 11:48 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

IT IS BASEBALL’S MOST HALLOWED CATHEDRAL

IT IS THE ROMAN COLOSSEUM OF OUR DAY

IT IS WHERE THE VIRTUOUS GO AFTER THEY DIE

IT IS THE ONLY MANMADE STRUCTURE THAT COULD SURVIVE A DIRECT HIT FROM THE ASTEROID IN ARMAGEDDON

THE SIGHT OF YANKEE STADIUM HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE NAVY SEALS WHO HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR 20 YEARS TO SOB UNCONTROLLABLY

IT WAS BUILT BY HERCULES AND REMODELED BY TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S MUSTACHE

IT IS…YANKEE STADIUM

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.

by groug on Sep 25, 2008 11:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Talk about beating a dead horse...

where’s that pic when we need it?

by Jakespaar on Sep 25, 2008 11:54 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE THE DAY YANKEE STADIUM ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN?

by rightcenterfielder on Sep 25, 2008 12:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

But without ESPN, I never would have realized just exactly how much I honestly don’t even give a tiny shit about Yankee Stadium.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2008 1:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You mean you don’t care about an old, piece of crap stadium on the other side of the country?
I watched a little of the final game. I tried to be interested and failed.

by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2008 1:38 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Easy not to be interested in the game

But to deny the undeniable history of Yankee Stadium is to say you’re not much of a fan of baseball’s rich history.

You mean you don’t care about an old, piece of crap stadium on the other side of the country?

Pretty narrowminded viewpoint.
This may be hard to believe , but baseball that happened more than ten years ago – and in another part of the country – actually happened.

  Think what you like about the Yankees’ blatant mockery of a salary cap , but their historical numbers aren’t cooked – they really did win all those championships.

"Ain't got a hope in Hell - that's my belief." - Bon Scott

by victor frankenstein on Sep 26, 2008 5:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

does less RedSox/Yankees = More Dane Cook?

Please no.

Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.

by kennv on Sep 25, 2008 12:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

My order:

Not Dodgers
Brewers
Not Dodgers
Not Angels
Rays
Not Dodgers
Not Cubs
Not Phillies

So…I’d like the NL to win over the AL in principle, but really only the Brewers would fit the bill – I don’t like the mets, I don’t like the phillies, and I don’t like the cubs. I also don’t like some team down south that wears blue.

I guess if Brewers are in, then them. If not, Rays.

Tentatively adopting Dan Ortmeier. And Boom Goes the Dynamite.

by Andy from DC on Sep 25, 2008 11:02 AM PDT   0 recs

You omitted

the “Not Mets” from your order. How will I be able to follow the playsoffs now?

Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.

by marklar on Sep 25, 2008 11:21 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Please pass the banhammer

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 25, 2008 11:28 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Sep 25, 2008 12:27 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The good thing

about “Dodgers or Angels” is we get to see two LA teams eliminated from the playoffs.

Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.

by marklar on Sep 25, 2008 1:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Brewers and Rays

Although I wouldn’t be disappointed if the Phillies made it.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
comics | cartoons | Nattowear | McFAQ

by Natto on Sep 25, 2008 11:47 AM PDT   0 recs

Anyone but the Dodgers.

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 25, 2008 11:55 AM PDT   0 recs

Not usually interested in the playoffs but this year may be different

Well I started by saying the teams I wouldn’t want to win, but that ended up longer, so here’s the teams I don’t mind:

Rays
Brewers
Cubbies

The Angels piss me off for obvious reasons. I can’t forgive the Twins for the dead horse. The Phillies just don’t rub me the right way. Everyone else I dislike for obvious reasons.

STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.

by UnleashTheGore on Sep 25, 2008 12:00 PM PDT   0 recs

of the teams still in playoff contention

Make Fox’s head a splode:
1. Brewers
2. Rays

I would be ok with:
3. Phillies: NL team, not from NY or Boston, no stupid “curse” to latch onto
4. Twins: no problems here

When I start losing interest:
5. White Sox: though it would be interesting after all of this Cubs hype
6. Angels: rather not see them win, but given the alternatives…

The Joe Buck Cesspool of Dislike
Mets/Cubs/Red Sox/Dodgers (Do not want)

by rightcenterfielder on Sep 25, 2008 12:08 PM PDT   0 recs

I actually enjoyed Buck Sr. It just had to be said so I could wash the foul taint Jr. leaves behind.

Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!

by daveinexile on Sep 26, 2008 10:25 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Rays

#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 12:56 PM PDT   0 recs

The Rays

The whole Rays, and nothing but the Rays.

your 2008 SF Giants: this isn’t totally insane, just really stupid

by Lyle on Sep 25, 2008 5:21 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Brewers. Partially as an f-you to the already insufferable Cubs fans, but mostly because I’d like to see a World Series that features the Sausage Race between innings.

No, my Crazy Crab bobblehead is not for sale.

by Kitspool on Sep 25, 2008 1:03 PM PDT   0 recs

Sausage races get top billing in Vegas

$5 on Chorizo.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2008 1:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Hmm

Not Dodgers
Not Redsox
Not Mets
Not Cubs
Not Angles

What does that leave me? Rays, Chisox/Twins, D-backs, Phillies, Brewers?

Oh, who am I kidding, I won’t pay attention at all. I guess Brewers/Rays would be the least vomit inducing.

If the Cubbies win, doesn’t that give the Giants the longest WS victory drought? So, in terms of the patheticness account I could go for that. But would Cub fans become as insufferable as Red Sox Nation? Could such a thing be possible?

Uh, go Niners?

FIRE BRIAN SABEAN

by zenbitz on Sep 25, 2008 2:01 PM PDT   0 recs

If the Cubbies win, doesn’t that give the Giants the longest WS victory drought?

If so, will we be just as bad as Cub and Red Sock fans pre-championship?

by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2008 2:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The Indians are up next. They last won one in 1948. Then it’s us.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2008 2:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Good

That gives us more time to prepare for our moment in the spotlight as an intolerable, “loveable loser”/asshole fanbase.

First step, conjuring up a curse story that plays well in the east coast media.

by rightcenterfielder on Sep 25, 2008 3:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

umm san francisco, compatible with east coast media . . .

the curse of the gay asian pompous dog walker?

Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.

by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 25, 2008 5:38 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Apparently we have the Krukow Kurse.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
comics | cartoons | Nattowear | McFAQ

by Natto on Sep 25, 2008 10:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I haven’t really heard Kruk making any big preseason predictions the past few years though.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
comics | cartoons | Nattowear | McFAQ

by Natto on Sep 25, 2008 10:43 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

See, this is why I like the Indians. They’re just like us!

by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2008 3:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

RAYS BREWERS AND WHOEVER IS PLAYING THE DODGERS

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on Sep 25, 2008 2:09 PM PDT   0 recs

The Giants have drained most of my life blood (once again)

I don’t really have the emotional surplus to get very excited about the playoffs.
Mainly, I want to see the Dodgers & Angels eliminated. After that, I’d like to see the Mets eliminated.
  
Normally, I’d be rooting for the Red Sox (everyone please resist the temptation to jump all over me). I was born there, and I’ve adopted them as a backup team. I don’t know any annoying Red Socks fans; and I know I’m not one. However, I wouldn’t mind seeing the Rays in the Series (for variety and because of their history).
  
I also wouldn’t mind seeing the Cubs go to the Series and win – just in case there’s some sort of cosmic plan that requires the longest droughts to end first…
 
Other than that, I don’t really care about the other playoff teams.

by Jakespaar on Sep 25, 2008 3:46 PM PDT   0 recs

Angels vs. Cubs

by ACgiant97 on Sep 25, 2008 3:56 PM PDT   0 recs

Play your pickoff teams

E. Velez

Billy Hayes: His job is better than