I'd like to congratulate the NY Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies for making it to the WORLD SERIES!

charlie and algernon

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Tue Oct-20-09 05:19 PM
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I'd like to congratulate the NY Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies for making it to the WORLD SERIES!

Edited on Tue Oct-20-09 05:20 PM by charlie and algernon

ESPN has an article about Game 1 of the World Series last night:

A video made the rounds of YouTube on Tuesday showing the Yankees closer looking around and then spitting toward the baseball in his hands during the 10th inning of Monday's game. The next pitch he threw broke like a slider, prompting many to say that Rivera was throwing a spit ball.

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"This is the first I'm hearing about this," he said before Tuesday's game. "I didn't even know that there was any indication that it's been looked at. Never. There are certainly some guys that might be suspect. But never Mariano, with anything that I've heard or been part of. And I'd be shocked if there was anything to that.''

Besides the fact that 45,000 people were in the stands, two umpires were within view and a PHILLIES RUNNER was on second base, petroleum jelly, not spit, is the main ingredient in a spit ball. Spit generally does not have enough weight to radically affect the spin of the ball.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4580781

:rofl:

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joeybee12

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Tue Oct-20-09 05:27 PM
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1. Rivera is on the downside of his career...

...I'm sure he feels he has a right to cheat, just like all Yankees do.

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madinmaryland

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Tue Oct-20-09 05:39 PM
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2. Dude! Just go back to the Sports Forum. I see anything sports related

in teh lounge and you are all over it!

Still suffering Roid Sox withdrawal syndrome?

:hi:

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joeybee12

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Tue Oct-20-09 05:47 PM
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3. I'd like you to admit the Yankees were given game 2 against the Twins...

...Go Anyone Else But Satan!

I'll come back in november, after the world's most-drawn-out WS.

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madinmaryland

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Tue Oct-20-09 05:51 PM
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4. Dude! The Bankees are going to win the World Series. Selig and the Goldman

bankers are assuring it happens.

It's a f*****g joke.

You think I am rooting for the Bankees? I have hated them since they beat the pirates in 1927!

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joeybee12

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Tue Oct-20-09 05:53 PM
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5. And you were in the stands then....

;-)

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madinmaryland

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Tue Oct-20-09 06:57 PM
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6. Since you mention it...

My dad was born approximately 9 months after that and I was born nine months after Bill Mazeroski's shot to beat the Bankmees!

Not sure what to make of these factoids.

:shrug:

We're from Western PA.

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AsahinaKimi

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Tue Oct-20-09 07:47 PM
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7. This game isn't over yet....

Edited on Tue Oct-20-09 07:49 PM by AsahinaKimi

GO halos!

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