Al, should I dare say it??? 9-5... O's beating the Yanks in the 8th!!!! if we can hold this lead the East lead is down to 5 and a halfnow that I posted this we'll give up 5 in the 9th!!...Sammy
Sitting here watching the game and Markakis hit one out to make it 11-5. Not even a five run ninth can hurt us now.:wink2:^&grin Nyy's starting to back up to the pack. -- AlAl, should I dare say it??? 9-5... O's beating the Yanks in the 8th!!!! if we can hold this lead the East lead is down to 5 and a half
but boy was I a happy camper when I came out and saw we closed the gap, Al this is actually getting to be exciting!! I can't remember the last time I had this kind of hope this late in a season?? ...Sammy
George, if there is a bigger individual surprise this season than the rebirth of AJ, I don't know what it is. He has been simply amazing, as have been the Pirates, along with him. Pirate fans have to be thrilled, as along with we Baltimore and DC fans, our teams are now in contention for the first time in recent memory. I don't think the NYY's will keep slumping, but at least the race is beginning to get interesting again as two weeks ago the closest team to NY was 10 games behind. Now they're all inside 10 games.^&grin -- Al
Yeah, we are having a good time right now.:wink2: In your other post you made a reference to Bob Gibson. Ain't that the truth. Can you imagine someone showing up Gibson or Drysdale? They would be taking their life in their hands in their next at bat or, at the very least, be endangering the next man at bat. Jeesh, I miss the baseball from the 60's. Still say that if I had to bet my life on one baseball game, I would want Gibson on the mound for me. Might settle for Koufax or Marichal if Gibson was off fishing, but Gibbie was the best I ever saw. -- Al
Money always talks, regardless of what the player says.:rolleyes2: Meanwhile, the NYY's seem to have found their bats today against my O's. They lead the O's 11-1 in the 4th, with Cano adding a GS, his seventh since the start of the 2010 season. I still can't figure out how Oriole HoFer Palmer went his whole pitching career without allowing a single GS. Quite a record. -- Al
Amen to that. In 'the old days' if a pitcher didn't go 9 innings on a regular basis with a sub 3.5 ERA, he was a #4 starter or long relief candidate. Nowadays, 6 innings with an ERA under 4.5 gets a pitcher 'Ace' status and a trillion dollar contract. Yeck. -- Al
the Colts were suppose to win the Superbowl easily against the Jets, we know how that turned out, and the O's were favorites to win the World Series in 69, but those amazing Mets came along kinda glad I was only 4 yrs. old at the time, I was more worried about cartoons/fruitloops...Sammy
I was only 4 yrs. old in 69 but of course have learned over many a year since that year New York owned us Baltimore fans
that year
Sammy, you left out the third and final humiliation suffered by Baltimore at the hands of NY City. The Baltimore Bullets lost the NBA Championship to the NY Knicks in the same time frame as the SB and WS.{sm2} As George refers to, the scars of such losses run deep. I have never gotten over those particular series of Baltimore losses. SB III was especially bad as I believed then, and still do, that the Colts were one of the best teams the NFL had ever seen, to that point. Play SB III 1000 times, and Baltimore wins it 999 times. But it was # 1000 that counted and thus a great team is now nothing but a notorious footnote in NFL history. Now the nightmares begin, again... -- AlI was only 4 yrs. old in 69 but of course have learned over many a year since that year New York owned us Baltimore fans
that year
...Sammy