Posted October 2, 200718 yr They win 14 out of the last 15 including a playoff tonight in the 13th inning after falling behind two runs... and make the playoffs for the first time since 1995. Wow.
October 2, 200718 yr Now were talking. lol I dont even like them. In fact, I dont even like baseball... GO RAIDERS!
October 2, 200718 yr Author ...so how bout those Yankees? Yankees 2007 payroll: $ 189,639,045 Rockies 2007 payroll: $ 54,424,000 http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/totalpayroll.aspx?year=2007 :D:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
October 2, 200718 yr Derek Jeters yearly salary is almost as large as the entire payroll of the devil rays
October 2, 200718 yr <------------ Colorado Native I am not a baseball fan, but this is going to make me watch baseball. Last I remember, the Rockies really sucked which is a shame because they have a really nice field. Every game I've ever been to, they lost lol. We deserve a good baseball team :-). Oh yea, and screw the Raiders they suck lol. Nice missed field goal in the final seconds last game in Denver . There is this Raiders fan here where I work and she says we are a bunch of cheaters lol.
October 2, 200718 yr You know what's really funny....the Mets are out after leading all season. espn sports guy Levels of Losing Level II: The Goose/Maverick Tailspin Definition: Cruising happily through the baseball regular season, a potential playoff team suddenly and inexplicably goes into a tailspin, can't bounce out of it and ends up crashing for the season. In "Top Gun," the entire scene lasted for 30 seconds and we immediately moved to a couple of scenes in which Tom Cruise tried to make himself cry on camera but couldn't quite pull it off. In sports, the Goose/Maverick Tailspin could last for two weeks, four weeks, maybe even two months, but as long as it's happening, you feel like your entire world is collapsing. It's like an ongoing Stomach Punch Game. And when it finally ends, you spend the rest of your life reliving it every time a TV network shows a montage of the worst collapses in sports history. Other than that, it's no big deal. Best Example: The incredible collapse of the 2007 Mets. I have three buddies who root for them, so I was able to witness the emotional devastation firsthand: in five days, they went from planning for the playoffs to planning for a potential nightmare. Just when it looked like the ship had been righted, they were swept at home by the lowly Nationals, passed by the Phillies, given a second life on Saturday with a Phillies loss and Maine's one-hitter and then, just as abruptly, everything ended when Tom Glavine got shelled by the Marlins. Win or lose on Sunday, the damage had already been done to the psyche of Mets fans. On Friday night, as Cole Hamels was pitching Philly to victory, my friend Paul Raff (a Mets fan) sent me the following e-mail: "Honestly, it's such a betrayal by the team. They have ruined us fans this season and last October. I hate this sport now. They've violated and befouled every [expletive] nuance of the game, playoffs or no playoffs." Now that's a baseball fan with some healing to do. Personal Memory: The '78 Red Sox. Good God. You have to survive one of these pennant-race meltdowns to fully understand how scarring and debilitating they can be. Obviously, you can only compare sports and real life to a certain degree, but watching your baseball team die over an extended period of time is almost like watching a family member die over an extended period of time -- every day is worse than the last, you don't feel better when it's over, and afterward, you spend the next few weeks and months coming to grips with everything that happened and trying to make sense of it. Anyway, Mets fans, we're all feeling for you this week.
October 2, 200718 yr see signature for thoughts | | V Crappy execution but shiney in all the right places? Go Yanks.
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