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Originally Posted by ChadFL
Is it true the Yankees might not go 100% after Carl Crawford? I thought all year that he'd be their top target outside of starting pitching but the rumors of late seem to say otherwise.
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I agree with Wingman, that the Yankees don't really need him. He's better than their current OF'ers, sure, but I'm not sure if he's that much better to really put too much effort into going after him.
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Originally Posted by ChadFL
I always hate it when a team clinches a championship on the road. It just seems to take away from the atmosphere you get when they win at home.
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I do too. But I guess on the flip side, the team gets to celebrate twice (once in the away stadium, and a second time when they return home).
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Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow
Yup, Rangers beat the old and slow Yankees and struggled a lot more than they should've in the process, Giants dominated the young and talented Phillies. Team with the better pitching staff tends to win series like that, especially when their bats find new life. Not sure why so many thought Texas was a lock, Cliff Lee can't start every game.
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Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow
Yup, the Yankees fans probably had a lot to do with the vast disparity there, logic dictated that the Giants were much more likely to do it. Honestly I think if the Rangers pitching staff was a bit better and it wasn't their first time there they would've put up more resistance.
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I'm not sure where this logic really comes from. On paper, the Rangers were the better team, and the logical choice. But that's why you have to play the games, I guess.
Now people who called the Giants are acting like they're geniuses and read the tea leaves properly, but there's the whole thing about broken clocks and how they're still right a couple times a day.
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Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow
Just thinking, since the Yankees are easily baseball's most popular team and the Rangers dispatched the Yankees, most Yankees fans probably thought Texas was going to win. That's actually the impression I got from all the Yankees fans I know.  |
I'm not sure if that's generally how it works. I think it may be just as common (if not more common) for people to want to see the team that beat their team lose, as some sort of revenge. So in this case, I would imagine just as many Yankee fans wanted to see the Giants win, just so that the Rangers would lose.
The whole string of logic along the lines of "Well if the my team (e.g. the Yankees) lost to that team (e.g. the Rangers) then I want that team to win, so I can say my team lost to the best team" doesn't really hold up for most people, and especially not to Yankees fans, who generally believe their team is always the best, and if they ever lose, it's because the Yankees lost the series on their own, not that the other team was better.
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