World Series Thread

zuutroy · 24-10-2007 9:15am #1

Well, its that time again. Can't see Colorado being able to do it, but ya never know, they've been on an amazing run.
I'll go for 4-2 Boston.
$4000 for a seat beside Pesky's Pole for tonights game on stubhub.
Bargain!

crianp · 24-10-2007 9:28am

Does anyone know where I can listen to or watch tonights game for free from Ireland?

BigDragon · 24-10-2007 9:48am

crianp wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can listen to or watch tonights game for free from Ireland?

No. All MLB games are tightly controlled by the brass. For example on the web WEEI radio goes off air(to Fox SPorts Radio) during home games because outside of the Boston area is controlled by MLB which is why they can charge $15 to listen to the radio. NASN isnt free obv........

BigDragon · 24-10-2007 9:51am

zuutroy wrote: »

Well, its that time again. Can't see Colorado being able to do it, but ya never know, they've been on an amazing run.
I'll go for 4-2 Boston.
$4000 for a seat beside Pesky's Pole for tonights game on stubhub.
Bargain!

Beat me to it.........:D Hope there's no rioting at Fenway :pGonna watch the worst movie ever in honour....Drew Barrymore's Fever Pitch.

zuutroy · 24-10-2007 9:52am

BigDragon wrote: »

Beat me to it.........:D Hope there's no rioting at Fenway :pGonna watch the worst movie ever in honour....Drew Barrymore's Fever Pitch.

Never even heard of it....I always liked Rookie of the Year

Benedict XVI · 24-10-2007 10:19am

crianp wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can listen to or watch tonights game for free from Ireland?

www.rojadirecta.com

that's where I watch it

zuutroy · 24-10-2007 10:37am

I'm sure it'll be on myp2p.eu aswell

Benedict XVI · 24-10-2007 11:06am

zuutroy wrote: »

I'm sure it'll be on myp2p.eu aswell

Yea, both sites essentially link to the same [streams anyway

cooker3 · 24-10-2007 10:35pm

Download tvAnts and choose fox5 and watch there, that is how I seen game 6 and 7 of the ALCS

cardshark202 · 25-10-2007 5:26am

Well great start for boston, 13-1 with practically everyone scoring. I expected the red sox to take the first two games comfortably anyway, and with Pedroia and Youkillis in such form its hard to see it any other way. The big question for me is whether boston will try accomodate big pappi in games 3 and 4. Can't see who they can leave out. Go Red Sox! (Since the Tigers didn't make it)

RuggieBear · 25-10-2007 6:15am

yep...but he is such a major part of the offence.....

Benedict XVI · 25-10-2007 8:03am

cooker3 wrote: »

Download tvAnts and choose fox5 and watch there, that is how I seen game 6 and 7 of the ALCS

Is that FOX5 a FOX affiliate from the US or is it from somewhere else.

I watch it on Start Sports from HK (on TVAnts) which has the MLB international commentary, which is fairly good anyway.

Fair play to the sox last night, only had to stay up a few innings to see all teh scoring.

I would still be worried about Shilling and Dice-K though, there is a lot to go in this series yet.

Washout · 25-10-2007 8:26am

Its great to see the Red Sox come back into their early season form at the right time.
I honestly thought the Yankees were going to pip them in the ALE.

Youkalis is in with a great shout of MVP now as well.

zuutroy · 25-10-2007 8:43am

Washout wrote: »

Youkalis is in with a great shout of MVP now as well.

We're only one game in!

BigDragon · 25-10-2007 1:12pm

zuutroy wrote: »

We're only one game in!

Which is 25% of the seies

Great game but after last weekend and last night I am now feeling the effects of sleep depre..... depri...... Im knackered.

Washout · 25-10-2007 1:24pm

genrally also if a player bats .360 with 1HR and 4 or 5RBI will get the MVP.

The form Youkalis is in i can see that happening

BigDragon wrote: »

Which is 25% of the seies

Great game but after last weekend and last night I am now feeling the effects of sleep depre..... depri...... Im knackered.

hasnt your poker playing acustomed you to this

zuutroy · 25-10-2007 1:38pm

BigDragon wrote: »

Which is 25% of the seies

Great game but after last weekend and last night I am now feeling the effects of sleep depre..... depri...... Im knackered.

7pm ET Start when in GMT...ok
8pm ET start when in GMT...dodgy
8pm ET start when in CET....forget it!
Condensed game whilst eating the cornflakes for me.

shapez · 25-10-2007 5:22pm

* grabs popcorn and beer * See you at the home plate people!!

Enjoy the show!!

cooker3 · 25-10-2007 6:28pm

Benedict XVI wrote: »

Is that FOX5 a FOX affiliate from the US or is it from somewhere else.

I watch it on Start Sports from HK (on TVAnts) which has the MLB international commentary, which is fairly good anyway.

Fair play to the sox last night, only had to stay up a few innings to see all teh scoring.

I would still be worried about Shilling and Dice-K though, there is a lot to go in this series yet.

It's the main Fox commentary as you would see if you lived in the states.

As an aside, it's interesting how many people from the poker forum are posting here

zuutroy · 25-10-2007 6:46pm

I was a baseballer long before I was a pokerer. This week has seen more posts on the baseball forum than the whole rest of the year!

BigDragon · 25-10-2007 7:12pm

zuutroy wrote: »

I was a baseballer long before I was a pokerer. This week has seen more posts on the baseball forum than the whole rest of the year!

Our sigs are working

BigDragon · 25-10-2007 7:13pm

Washout wrote: »

genrally also if a player bats .360 with 1HR and 4 or 5RBI will get the MVP.

The form Youkalis is in i can see that happening

hasnt your poker playing acustomed you to this

Haha. I very rarely play live with work the next morning and the online MTTS are over by 2-3am if Im running good

ubu · 25-10-2007 7:14pm

did anyone else have any problems trying to watch this? i tried (and failed) for almost an hour last night to get either Tvants or sopcast working with no luck whatsoever, Tvants just stayed buffering and sopcast nothing loaded on, even after doing the whole vlc thing......any suggestions?:mad:

oh and GO SOX!!! spent the summer in NE and got to go to fenway twice - Amazing!!!

hopefully Schilling can do the business tonight so we can take a 2-0 lead to the mountains at the weekend!

BigDragon · 25-10-2007 7:15pm

cardshark202 wrote: »

Well great start for boston, 13-1 with practically everyone scoring. I expected the red sox to take the first two games comfortably anyway, and with Pedroia and Youkillis in such form its hard to see it any other way. The big question for me is whether boston will try accomodate big pappi in games 3 and 4. Can't see who they can leave out. Go Red Sox! (Since the Tigers didn't make it)

Heah Reggie

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cardshark202 · 26-10-2007 4:48am

Thanks Dave, if the people on this forum found out how rich I was maybe my life would be in danger....
Anyway, a great game again and boston just holding out due to some excellent pitching. An MVP performance from Okajima imo and Papelbon closing out brilliantly. Very good game on the whole anyway.

shapez · 26-10-2007 8:09am

*yawn* My God that was worth it!!! 2 brilliant nights of baseball at Fenway.

Folks, do any of you watch it on NASN (Setanta Sports)???

Washout · 26-10-2007 8:38am

cooker3 wrote: »

As an aside, it's interesting how many people from the poker forum are posting here

for me i love statistics and seeing stats hold true...for the same reasons that i like cricket i also like baseball and american football because they are so statistics oriented sports.

in saying that I find the early part of regular season of baseball mundane and boring.generally september is the month where my interest kicks as teams begin to really fight for pennants and championships.

as you know Poker we try and play poker and try to make our best decisions based on statistics and history we have on players.

Washout · 26-10-2007 8:40am

shapez wrote: »

*yawn* My God that was worth it!!! 2 brilliant nights of baseball at Fenway.

Folks, do any of you watch it on NASN (Setanta Sports)???

i generally have NASN going in my room at night at this time of year after the missus keels over.

college football...college basketball and the end of the mlb season

BigDragon · 26-10-2007 10:31am

cooker3 wrote: »

It's the main Fox commentary as you would see if you lived in the states.

As an aside, it's interesting how many people from the poker forum are posting here

If Im playing I watch it on TvAnts......keeps me from tilting too much.

shapez wrote: »

*yawn* My God that was worth it!!! 2 brilliant nights of baseball at Fenway.

Folks, do any of you watch it on NASN (Setanta Sports)???

Yean when Im in bed. One advantage of having a long distance relationship :rolleyes:

RuggieBear · 26-10-2007 10:36am

Last inning i remember was the third.....fell asleep:o

BigDragon · 26-10-2007 10:41am

How good was Okie.....fantastic and Paplebon was his usual messer in the bullpen and 100% concentration on the mound.

Thought the Rockies made a huge mistake taking the best pitcher the Sox have faced in the post season off after only 90 pitches.

Be interesting to see if Big Papi's knee is able to cope with 1st base or if Tito lets him sit it out and goes with Youk.

BigDragon · 26-10-2007 10:44am

RuggieBear wrote: »

Last inning i remember was the third.....fell asleep:o

Schilling got better as the innings went by, Okie and Pap were great. Rockies were unimpressive and Halliday was a fool letting Pap pick him off at 1st by a country mile.

This review was brought to you by the wonderful properties of coffee :rolleyes:

DeadParrot · 26-10-2007 12:12pm

Good stuff from the Sox.
I'd love to see them win it in Fenway instead of a 4 game sweep.
The 2004 series was such an anticlimax after the comeback against the yankees.
I was living in Canada that year and it was amazing how many people got behind them to break the curse.

Xavi6 · 26-10-2007 4:04pm

Got to see the game here tonight. Delayed coverage but I made a point of not knowing the score so it was ok. Not a great game but the Sox did just enough and we quite impressive closing it out.

cooker3 · 28-10-2007 1:40am

Well this had being a rather good inning for the red sox, 6-0!

RedorDead · 29-10-2007 7:04am

And the sox take it in a sweep. 4-0 Lester gets the final win after coming back from cancer last year. Carlsberg dont do fairy tales...............

Lowell picks up MVP as well.

Looks like the team peaked right at the correct time, Franconas world series record is now 8-0 :eek:

RuggieBear · 29-10-2007 10:49am

RedorDead wrote: »

Looks like the team peaked right at the correct time, Franconas world series record is now 8-0 :eek:

He should retire now and stroll into the hall of fame...:p

zuutroy · 29-10-2007 11:27am

Bit of a dull World Series...I only watched the condensed games but Id've thought Ellsbury was deserving of the MVP. Next year, Blue Jays FTW!

OMG its the top story on RTE.ie sport!!

shapez · 29-10-2007 3:21pm

I wouldn't say it was a dull World Series overall. It had some excellent moments and tension right up to the end. You could see the tension on Papelbons face as he was in the last inning. Even though they were 3 - 0 up in the series, he treated it as if his life depended on it. Superb moment for Papelbon, a guy of 27 years old with nerves of steel. Even when it was over it took him time to actually let it sink in.

There were a number of players that were definitely in the running for the MVP. Ellsbury had a fine world series, as did Beckett, Youklis & Schilling. But, I am absolutely delighted for Mike Lowell picking up a well deserved MVP award.

zuutroy · 29-10-2007 3:49pm

shapez wrote: »

I wouldn't say it was a dull World Series overall. It had some excellent moments and tension right up to the end.

Well, maybe for Sox fans, but to the impartial observer it was a cakewalk where the Colorado offence never got going and their pitching had some crucial meltdowns. Of course the Red Sox guys were tense until the end. If you can't stay focused right to the end after 162 games + the post-season you shouldnt be there.
Compared with the likes of 2001 & 2002 it doesn't rate highly at all.

Washout · 30-10-2007 11:08am

the manner in which the red sox being 3-1 down in the ACLS then to go 7-0 to to WS title was amazing.

i agree that to the neutral it was dull but there were some amazing highlights

I could watch Josh Beckett Pitch all day.
Lugo made some good defensive plays.

BigDragon · 30-10-2007 12:18pm

Well, there it is. Quite ant-climactical but a win is a win.

Some great plays and players.

However, I can only comment on games 1 and 2 as I was away for the weekend in an area that didnt have broadband on my wireless so tried to watch the scores on dialup....forget it

:mad:. Will catch up over the next couple of days. Only downside was that it would be nice to see the WS won at Fenway....but heah....m not complaining.

Go Sox!

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