It that time of year!!!!

[DTAggie]

Snelly - I think Rangers in THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[SnellySmokesEm]

Snelly - I think Rangers in THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Well that would be a safe bet.  I would also bet the series wont make it back here for game 5.  The Rays are totally out of sink right now...
At least hockey is starting.  GO Lightning!

[SouthernSmoked]

So now, today's effort becomes merely Cincinnati's biggest baseball game since the opener of the 1990 World Series. It is surely the biggest start of Bronson Arroyo's career. A win would un-set the all-Philly tone. It would validate the Reds as legitimate comeback jacks, not just a band of overachievers who feasted on bad teams all summer.



Reds vs Phillies 6:07 PM ET, October 8, 2010 Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

[SnellySmokesEm]

I'm pullin for the reds tonight!  Hopefully they do better than the Rays did last night. 

[FLBentRider]

162-gazillion games and it comes down to one. Makes you wonder about it.

[SnellySmokesEm]

Yeah.... It stings a little bit....

[Carter]

It drives you crazy.  The season is over for the vast majority of teams by the middle of June (July at the latest) and you've still 3 more months to play.

Rays are good now, but how tough was it when they were at the bottom for all those early years?  And looking at an empty Tropicana field was always hard.  And now Baltimore languishes there in the east.  We get teased in Toronto every spring, but it never seems to amount to much.

When I was a kid, the Blue Jays would have great attendance.  My parents used to drive my brother and I and usually a friend each down to the games (in the mid to late 80s).  They'd drop us off in the cheap bleacher seats and then go by themselves and sit along 1st base line.  We'd be sitting in left field right behind George Bell.  It used to be packed out there in that Grandstand.  We'd yell and act like goofs.  The drive of 1987 where we battled the Yankees right into late September is still one of my favourite memories about baseball.  You know, I really don't think it cost that much.  I'll have to check with my parents this weekend.  Now with Blue Jay tickets the way they are, if I take my wife and 2 kids to the ball park, after parking and concessions ($10 beers) I could drop $150 to $200 in no time.  At 80ish home games, it's no wonder they can't put bums in the seats.

Sorry for the rant.  I enjoy the game of baseball, but I'm at a loss on the economics of it.

Carter

[ArnieM]

Phillies/Reds.  I don't have a favorite.  I can't recall seeing that many errors in one game, let alone a playoff game.

Let the better team win and try to catch the damn ball!

[SouthernSmoked]

Defensive miscues by the Reds helped the Phillies battle back from a 4-run deficit and take a 2-0 lead in the National League Division Series with a 7-4 win.

[SnellySmokesEm]

Game 5 is here and my anxiety is through the roof......   I can't drink beer fast enough....