# MLB post season: 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 4, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592 "2009-10-04T21:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/281 "2009-10-22T04:52:25Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > Congrats, and thank you for knocking off the Dodgers. Yes. As a Yankees fan, I do NOT want to see Manny Ramirez in the opposing batter’s box in the postseason ever again. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/282 "2009-10-22T05:00:30Z")
Woohoo! Awesome! 2 NL Pennants in a row! What a great season it has been! Keep it going boys! ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/283 "2009-10-22T07:56:56Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 100% correct. It is time for him to retire or baseball to can him. He is a bad ump anyway. I have a rule of thumb. If the Ump is good, I do not know his name. If I know his name he is a bad ump. I know McClelland’s name and have for years. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Tim McClelland is widely regarded as one of, if not _the_ best umpires in baseball. He had a bad game. You probably know his name because broadcasters get pissed off by his deliberate strike calls. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/284 "2009-10-22T09:16:51Z")
> [@pricciar](#): > > Woohoo! > > Awesome! 2 NL Pennants in a row! > > What a great season it has been! Keep it going boys! KA BOOOOOOM!!! Stupid TBS actually said something I agree with: “This team [Phillies] are an American League batting team stuck in the national league.” A bit insulting to the NL, but after watching this I think the Yankees are in trouble this time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/285 "2009-10-22T12:40:38Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > I don’t know what you’re talking about. Tim McClelland is widely regarded as one of, if not _the_ best umpires in baseball. He had a bad game. You probably know his name because broadcasters get pissed off by his deliberate strike calls. Actually that is a good call, it is one part of the reason I know his name, the slow strike calls. It annoys me too. He has had other “bad games” including the classic Pine Tag incident game way back when I was a teen and he was a young umpire. I suspect these factors are a big part of why I recognize his name. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/286 "2009-10-22T12:45:44Z")
So it’s the Yankees and the Phillies? Can I root for Swine Flu? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/287 "2009-10-22T12:51:29Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > So it’s the Yankees and the Phillies? Can I root for Swine Flu? Not yet, Yanks still have to close the deal. Serious question, in 1986 I was rooting against the Red Sox and thus for the Mets to win. If the Yanks make it in, which team will you be rooting against? ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/288 "2009-10-22T13:02:40Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Not yet, Yanks still have to close the deal. > > Serious question, in 1986 I was rooting against the Red Sox and thus for the Mets to win. If the Yanks make it in, which team will you be rooting against? Let me put it this way. Imagine Satan starts a baseball team. He puts Joe Stalin at first base, John Wayne Gacy at second, and Barry Bonds in left. He makes my single most evil ex-girlfriend the manager, and lets Ronan Tynan sing “Achy Breaky Heart” in the middle of every seventh inning. He builds a new stadium literally using the skeletons of the Damned. Imagine somehow this imaginary team makes it all the way to the World Series, where they encounter a plucky team from Philadelphia made up entirely of orphaned children. I would still hope the Phillies lost in four games, and then I’d hope they played four _more_, and the Phillies lost all of _those_ games, too. The Yankees are the annoying classmate who thinks he’s better than everyone else. The Phillies are the Enemy. * * * Though if we’re being honest, I’ve been sorta-kinda rooting for the Yankees this postseason. I wanted the Dodgers to win the World Series, but the Yankees were second. Given my loyalties, I’ve been sick of all the reflexive anti-New York stuff I’ve been seeing out of sports fans lately. I kind of want to see them all have to deal with _another_ World Champion coming out of this city, especially when the football Giants win it all this winter. Plus, the Yankees got rid of the two guys against whom I had to root at all costs, so I don’t hate them as much anymore. _HA ha_, Mike Mussina, _no ring for you!_ ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/289 "2009-10-22T13:08:39Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Serious question, in 1986 I was rooting against the Red Sox and thus for the Mets to win. I was rooting for a meteor, or for a wildcat baseball strike to suspend the World Series for the year. My roommate and good friend was a Mets fan, and I didn’t want to hear it from him all winter long. He was also a Jets fan, whereas you know who my favorite football team is. I got gloating equality back a few months later. ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/290 "2009-10-22T13:31:57Z")
I’m hoping the umpires mistakenly award the championship to the Pirates. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/291 "2009-10-22T14:49:55Z")
That was a hell of a game. Go Phils. Last year there was a problem with people climbing street lamp poles, so this year the city decided to grease the poles. All the way down Broad Street. You may write your own “greased pole” jokes. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/292 "2009-10-22T16:35:40Z")
We’re looking at a rematch of 1950. So, how many of the old Whiz Kids are still around? Think we’ll be seeing and hearing from Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons? Which of the 1950 Yankees are still around? Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, for sure. Who else? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/293 "2009-10-22T17:56:44Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > We’re looking at a rematch of 1950. > > So, how many of the old Whiz Kids are still around? Think we’ll be seeing and hearing from Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons? > > Which of the 1950 Yankees are still around? Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, for sure. Who else? Jerry Coleman and Doctor Bobby Brown are still around but Doc hasn’t gotten to an old timers games for years. We recently lost Hank Bauer & Scooter. DiMaggio, Woodling and Billy Johnson are gone. Tommy Byrne, Lopat, Reynolds and Raschi are all gone. Joe Page too. Some of the other backup players could be alive. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/294 "2009-10-23T00:00:28Z")
Really love to see Tex get a hit here. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/295 "2009-10-23T02:48:45Z")
Seventh inning, six runs. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/296 "2009-10-23T02:51:14Z")
didn’t last long ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/297 "2009-10-23T02:51:50Z")
Damaso Marte? Really? With Joba already warming up? Was Josh Towers not available? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/298 "2009-10-23T03:00:55Z")
Chad Gaudin pitched last night. What’s with these bonehead managers? ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/299 "2009-10-23T03:18:44Z")
Can we institute a rule where if you throw a pick off throw you have to pitch to the batter? That Rivera delay was ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592/300 "2009-10-23T03:33:03Z")
I thought Fuentes was going to piss that away. He looked as relieved as hell after that pop up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2009/512592.md?page=16)