Baseball Thread Number 8: Cal Ripken says the playoff hunt is fun

Hard to consider him the best over a significant period of time and yet still overrated. What's better than best?

 

The guy can have one year better than everyone else and still have an overrated body of work.

 

Oh you're probably right, but it still feels like 2006 to a point.


If the Tigers finish 10-9, the Twins have to go 15-3 and the White Sox 16-2 and that's just to tie.

Now I know how you felt last year with the ups and downs the Twins gave up. That was last year, right?

 

FIGHT IN THE BRONX!!!! Posada attacks Jesse Carlson.

Crybaby Yankees mad because someone finally throws at them.

 

Joe Girardi has a well-deserved black eye, it appears.

 

That's true. But you called him both deserving of Manager of the Year and "sorely fucking overrated." So you're saying that it's crazy to think that the guy who's been the best manager in the league this year (by your own admission) might actually be among the best managers in the league. That's a pretty nonsensical position. It makes much more sense to think that since Scioscia did a better managing job than anybody else this year, you've probably been underrating him.

 

Again: Anyone who elicits 90-odd wins out of a team that had a starting pitcher die six hours after a start in April and had three other members of the projected starting rotation miss all or chunks of the season did a pretty incredible job.

There is absolutely no way I've underrated the guy. His maneurverings (sp, I'm sure Cranberry will correct it) in the playoffs since 2002 have often been indefensibly terrible, not to mention his tendency to play favorites at the expense of far superior players. It sure would be interesting to see what his rep would be if not for Dusty Baker and the Giants choking away the 2002 World Series.

 

Mauer goes 2-3, raises his average to .373, 20 points ahead of Ichiro.

Barring epic collapse, that will be his third batting title in four years, marred only by his injury-plagued 2007, when he hit .293 in 109 games.

 

Oh, Dice-K threw six-plus shutout innings and the Sox have won six straight, too...

 

That bitch is asking for it.