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[thesightless]

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and toasty, if you dont attend these games, i will hunt you down. there are a few principles to live by and taking advantage of a world series game is one of them. i dont care if you sit or stand, but you better be there. im calling you 20 minutes after first pitch and if i dont hear crowds..... IP BAN IMO>

[thesightless]

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yup.

i'll give you the reasons why giambi has been embraced moreso than them. you can agree or not, thats your decision. ill just give you where they are coming from.

he, once it was leaked, came out with it. he held a press conference for any media that wanted to show up and stood in front of the firing range. it affected his game a lot. to the point where cashman asked him to go down to AAA to work on it. he said no way, and fought back, all the while answering and facing the questions and giving honest answers. he also said that he gave up his union clause and said if someone wants to test him they could. he fought back , while being much less of a homer hitter, and became a pure linedrive hitter for us, and got a lot of big hits. call it pity, call it a story, but NY loves the underdog, and that is what he became. he never once fought against the allegations, but owned up, and worked hard to get back. he is a gamer for the most part as well. he never pulled the shit the others did, he came back and didnt hide. you really cant ask for more. unless you are a hater and ask him to retire.

[Jenks]

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Yeah, everyone in this city pretty much turned their backs on McGwire. He IS a disgrace imo. Loved last year when i went to a game some fan had his McGwire jersey on, except took black electrical tape and put a big X over the back of it. lol. Nice one.

What i still don't get is how NY embraces Giambi the cheater? Wether you come clean or not, a cheater is a cheater in my book. Giambi basically got his 25million dollar contract by cheating. Palmiero, Cheater. Bonds, Cheater. Sammy, Cheater. What gets me about Barry is, he would have gone down as one of the greatest of all time without the roids. Greed. Sad isn't it?

[thesightless]

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francesca just made a great great point..... not on these teams or the games... but something older...

big mac cant even show his face, due to the absolute disgrace he is right now. the team and league agreed not to allow him to throw a first pitch (from selig himself), he hasnt been to a game yet, and the media is ignoring him....

must not be very nice not to be able to show your face in a place where you were once held as a god.

i didnt realize this at first but its true, and its a shame for the game and for him more than anything..

''i dont want to talk about the past"........

[Jenks]

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i'm optimistic usually, but the realist tells me Jim Leyland isn't letting us close out this series in STL. So, i'd take my seat tonight, over SRO tomorrow night, if you're only reasoning is to get to go to a closeout game.

[toasty]

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a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

not sure if that applies here actually.

when in rome.

uh, thanks

[Jenks]

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a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

not sure if that applies here actually.

when in rome.

[toasty]

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OK, need some advice here.

I have tickets for tonight's game, which I had because I wanted to see the potential clincher. With the rainout last night, my tickets are now for game 4 rather than 5. It could get rained out, which would set everything back, as far as I know.

A friend of mine is offering me a standing room ticket for tonight, and I have an option to swap my ticket for tonight (which is in a seat) for the makeup game. Taking that would guarantee that I got to see the last game played here, but there's a real good chance, I think, that the game will be rained out, meaning I'd be watching Game 5 in SRO.

I'm torn. Thoughts?

[thesightless]

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you keep spouting the same thing, i keep replying. a fun little game.

[Jenks]

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NY are great fans, not just fair weather(8 milion ppl this year, yanks sold out every game),

you don't need to keep posting NY's resume, we get it.

[thesightless]

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NY are great fans, not just fair weather(8 milion ppl this year, yanks sold out every game), and i agree with you on the subway series. it would only give US juice, this is better for the country as a whole. but these shitty teams on the national scale arent helping. it is so far the lowest rated series ever.

[Jenks]

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we both sat online at 9am when ticket sales went on, and tried for 30 minutes to get in to buy tix...didn't make it. been watching it from the loft. was funny, when the national anthem was over game 3, the jets flew over, and i'm watcing it on tv, and hear the jets go over on the television and in the air and then watch them shoot past my window, talk about surround sound.

[toasty]

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^^you've got some tickets, right? Were you out there last night?

[Jenks]

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At the risk of sounding New York-centric, the interest would be greater with one of the New York teams (one, but not both, because I firmly believe the last thing this country wanted to see was another Subway Series). Having one New York team gives everyone else a rooting interest.

greater for who? new yorkers maybe. hey buddy, ny didn't make it, go suck on your thumb, asshole.

i think this world series is fantastic. that's the problem with baseball fans today, everybody wants to see a homerun, when baseball is really about pitching. 1-0 games are the best.

i love that NY and the east coast isn't in it anymore. it weeds out the fair weather fans.

[thesightless]

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WHY?!!!!?!?!?!??!?!?!!??!?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2639001