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Kevin Shields

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Baseball is the greatest sport. You have to get 27 outs. No sitting on a knee, letting the playclock run down, no faking an injury to stop the clock. One of the best nights in regular season history. I love sports that have no play clock!!!
 
mgranato

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Your're right, baseball doesn't need a play clock, it needs and alarm clock!:p

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Richie3Jack

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Yep, it sure was.

May I remind everybody that because my Yankees only went after that ingrate, Cliff Lee, and didn't get him....we were told by every pundit that the Red Sox would assuredly win the division and the Yankees were just playing for 2nd place.

Funny how things work out when you play the game.










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+1 to Granato's alarm clock comment. When your sport is too long and time consuming even for golfers to enjoy, you have a problem.

I like the way soccer manages the pace of play. They turn the clock on, and it runs. It requires almost an act of congress to stop the clock. To me, there's nothing worse than watching the last two minutes of football or basketball....timeouts, intentional fouls, throwing the ball away, intentional grounding that isn't called, intentional fouls. Just shoot me.
 
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Kevin Shields said:
Baseball is the greatest sport. You have to get 27 outs. No sitting on a knee, letting the playclock run down, no faking an injury to stop the clock. One of the best nights in regular season history. I love sports that have no play clock!!!
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Yea, it was a great evening! I'm unfortunately an O's fan, and that was about all I've had to root for all year. I don't know that a more unbelievable ending could have been scripted! Still cannot believe the Rays came back from a 8 run deficit!
 
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Kevin Shields said:
Baseball is the greatest sport. You have to get 27 outs. No sitting on a knee, letting the playclock run down, no faking an injury to stop the clock. One of the best nights in regular season history. I love sports that have no play clock!!!
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While there were a couple of terrific wild card races that went down, some of the other races, like the NL batting championship went down with the equivilent of taking a knee. Jose Reyes taking himself out of the game after one hit was pretty putrid and self serving. No the team wasn't playing for anything, but at what point do you put individual first and team second?? How about making those guys play for their paycheck like in golf?? Might see some different levels of trying!! Like Crawford might have made that catch!!!!! (oh well he'll still get his paycheck, lol)
 
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Richie3Jack said:
May I remind everybody that because my Yankees only went after that ingrate, Cliff Lee, and didn't get him....we were told by every pundit that the Red Sox would assuredly win the division and the Yankees were just playing for 2nd place.
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I love it.

<a href="http://www.whosay.com/darrenrovell/photos/74154" title="Darren Rovell's photo Boston Herald cover revisits calling the '11 Red Sox the "Best Team Ever""><img src="http://media.whosay.com/74154/1/74154_la.jpg" alt="Darren Rovell's photo Boston Herald cover revisits calling the '11 Red Sox the "Best Team Ever"" width="600" height="644" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.whosay.com/darrenrovell/photos/74154">Darren Rovell on WhoSay</a>
 
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A great time to be a Phillies fan! Richie we obviously won't agree on
Cliff Lee..our view from Philly would be directly opposite of yours. How unusual for a guy to leave money on the table in exchange for doing it the way he really wants.
 
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While I don't agree that Lee is an ingrate, he did not leave a lot on the table. He actually makes more annually ($24 million) with the Phillies than he would have made with the Yankees ($22 million).
 
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tobell said:
A great time to be a Phillies fan! Richie we obviously won't agree on
Cliff Lee..our view from Philly would be directly opposite of yours. How unusual for a guy to leave money on the table in exchange for doing it the way he really wants.
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Has nothing to do with what he really wants, it's his wife leading him around.








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While there were a couple of terrific wild card races that went down, some of the other races, like the NL batting championship went down with the equivilent of taking a knee. Jose Reyes taking himself out of the game after one hit was pretty putrid and self serving. No the team wasn't playing for anything, but at what point do you put individual first and team second?? How about making those guys play for their paycheck like in golf?? Might see some different levels of trying!! Like Crawford might have made that catch!!!!! (oh well he'll still get his paycheck, lol)
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was Reyes right to do what he did?? ..not my call to make.....BUT

70 years to the day....the great Ted Williams batting 399. ....was scheduled to play in a double header did he play???


of course he played....BOTH GAMES....went 6 for 8 batted 406..........NOW THATS A CHAMPION


@shot limit.....hey big boy how about those Tampa Bay Rays......

@shot limit... national championship game...........Nov 6th at tuscaloooooooser........LSU-ALABAMA
 
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Steve Greffen

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was Reyes right to do what he did?? ..not my call to make.....BUT

70 years to the day....the great Ted Williams batting 399. ....was scheduled to play in a double header did he play???


of course he played....BOTH GAMES....went 6 for 8 batted 406..........NOW THATS A CHAMPION


@shot limit.....hey big boy how about those Tampa Bay Rays......

@shot limit... national championship game...........Nov 6th at tuscaloooooooser........LSU-ALABAMA
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The precedent of Reyes has been set before by others. Not necessarily by the the individual, sometimes the manager sometimes the gm but apparently this was Reyes decision to come out. Yes your right no Ted Williams types anymore.
 
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