Bud Selig had been shoving this World Baseball Classic down people's throats. My only gripe is Chicago has not been selected to as a playing field, anyway, we would not want it here! Everyone else feels the same way?
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Total joke.  I mean how stupid is it to root for one team to win so your team can advance, but if that team doesn't win to root for a certain amount of runs to be scored so your team can win the tie breaker.  There has got to be a better way of breaking ties, like oh I don't know, play another game.
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Well that Red Sox rotation really trails off\n\nSchilling, Beckett, Papelbon, Matsuzaka and... Wakefield\n\nAs a Sox fan, i question the amount of money, but love the rotation for a few years.\n\nBeckett, Papelbon, Matsuzaka with a lot of young guys, Lester, Bard, \n\n\nIt has not been officially annouced, the bid has not been officially accepted, and Matsuzaka has not signed a contract - three things to remember..
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No, I prefer to laugh and pour salt in your pathetic wounds.\n\n  but rest assured, this has nothing to do with the fact that Im a die-hard white sox fan.\n\nhere, ill make you an offer u cant refuse,\nim currently recruiting new sox fans, if you convert to whitesoxtology ill throw in a fee cap for you and all you other cubs losers. but you got until the end of the week.\n\nand think of it like this, if u were a sox fan, you wouldnt be crying now. nows a time of extreme bliss.
78200
It's a crying shame to see Tiger Stadium become what it is. I have spent many a afternoon there as a kid. Many fond memories of the Grand Ole Lady. Tear her down, and may she rest in peace. Preserve the field as a playground for the nieghborhood kids, and all who want to walk the same field that Ty Cobb Al Kaline George Kell and many Tiger greats played.\n\nThe problem is that the city of Detroit owns it now, and the mayor is too darn lazy to do anything. Plus the city pays mike ilitch for maintaince (big deal, the grounds crew goes in once a month to cut the weeds), and mike ilitch is more concerned with making money then he is about preserving a vital part of our history.\n\nThere is nothing left there to beg borrow or steal. Everything I pass it along my way to Comerica it breaks my heart to see what mike ilitch and the city have done to it.
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No, the sport has spread enough that the USA would be slaughtered by a team of World All Stars.  The World Baseball Classic is different because each nation has some players but to consolidate them all against the USA wouldn't work so lets stick to NL vs AL.  I don't care for the homefield in the WS stipulation though.  The team with the best record should have homefield with the exception of a Division winner vs the Wild Card the division winner should always have homefield.
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Well I'm a huge redsex fanand Johnny was like a hero to all of us and then going to another team, and of all, THE YANKEES!  because of money. tisk. now all of boston will be wearing their "Johnny is no longer my homeboy" shirts. Im going to the first Redsox yankees game may 1 and i will def. be booing. And be cheering for coco( if hes not injured)
628705
The White Sox are a refined baseball team who's fans care about winning and losing...the Cubs need new leadership, on the field and off all their fans care about is talking on their cell phones and getting drunk. Hey don't these people have jobs to go to??
510735
I'm not a Cubs fan but just once I'd like to see them at the very least win a NL pennant.  You Cubs fans have suffered like no other franchise.  If the day ever comes that they look like they have a real shot at winning a pennant I for one will be rooting for them.  As a matter of fact the only time I wouldn't be rooting for them is if by chance they played the Yankees in the world series.  Other than that I'm okay with the Cubs winning.
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It's still a wait and see situation.  Wood and Prior are more of a liability than anything else.  Forget about them staying healthy for an entire season, it just won't happen.  On paper they look pretty good but as Chris Berman says, "That's why they play the game."  There is a losing attitude in Chicago and has been for many years.  They first have to get through that before winning.  It will take time.  Personally I don't think Sweet Lou is the man for the job because he doesn't have the patience.
325692
Burn in hell a**hole.!!! The Cubs should never leave Wrigley.\nAnd they never will!!!\n\nGO CUBS!!!
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The security at potentially clinching games is overwhelming now.  I think the turning point game was the final game of the 1976 ALCS when the Yankee fans totallly trashed the field after Chris Chambliss won the pennant for the Yankees on a 9th inning walk off homer.  It was not a new development for the home town crowd to jump onto the field for a pennant or World Series winning moment.  I have seen films of the Bill Mazeroski walk off home run in 1960 and he had trouble crossing the plate because of the number of fans who had run onto the field in celebration.   In the 2004 ALCS, when A-Rod was called out after limp wristedly slapping at Bronson Arroyo's glove, dozens of mounted New York policeman had to surround the field as a preventative.  They did not just show up, they were obviously at the Stadium and ready to go in case of just such an emergency.
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Well, there's one team from Canada that has won the "World" Series. Honestly, I hate this, and I'm American. The "World" Series started in 1901 and though it was played in other countries had baseball, it wasn't like it was here, so I guess they just thought that winning a Major League Baseball championship would make them the champs of the world. Stupid and arrogant. I always call it the Major League Baseball Championship Series. I hate that it's call the "World" Series. I hope it can be changed some day.
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Dear fellow Met fan: I hate the Yankees because the BOSS spends oodles of money on players who don't bring him a championship. Back in the day before Steinbrenner got Giambi, ARod, etc; Jeter, Tino Martinez and Paul O'Neill helped bring the Yanks to multiple titles. I guess I don't hate the Yankees all that much, but I seriously dislike them. When the BOSS is out, then I'll give them a little more respect. The same respect I have for guys like Joe Torre.
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This travesty is one of the few that still remain in sports today.  The league has cracked down on the changing strike zone and I know this will be worked on next year.  You are right on, though, it is a joke and a pity that they won't start making the call as it should be made as they do in all other levels of the sport!  Great question!
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Hitting has been a surprising plus for the Sox.  Euk and Loretta have been excellent and Lowell has been a very pleasent surprise.  Trot has hit well all year and Jason is starting to come around.  It looks like Crisp is starting to hit again (it is almost like he was in spring training for the past few weeks after his injury).  And I will take .250 out of my #9 hitter everyday (especially when he continueally flashes the leather).  Manny and Papi have not been consistant, but they have been getting the job done....they will be fine when it is all said and done.\n\nD-fence has been awesome.  I have never seen defence like this in Boston.  It is a pure joy to watch.\n\nThe bullpen is coming along.  It was good to see Timlin pitch well last night after the injury.  Papelbon is a stud and the young guys are starting to get it done in middle relief.\n\nI think the biggest question mark is the rotation.  I think the top three are ok with Schilling, Wake and Beckett (although I would like to see Beckett step up and be a stud #2) and I think one of the young guys will fill in admirably at #5 which leaves us with Clement??????\n\nIf we could trade for a solid/experienced # 3/4 who could give us innings we would be all set.
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I gotta agree, Joe Crede is having a heck of a year. I also think Travis Hafner should be starting(sorry, I'm a Cleveland fan).and I think Grady Sizemore should make it. Jermaine Dye is having a solid year, and deserves consideration. And what is up with Jason Varitek leading at catcher. I think everyone who voted for him should have their ballot thrown out, and their heads sewn to the carpet. Lets not forget about Tom Glavine. He should be collecting social security by now, instead he is leading the Majors in wins. I just Hope Guillen makes fair selections, and doesnt get 3/4 of his starting lineup in the game, the way Joe Torre has done in the past. Good luck Sox fans, its too late(again) for my dear (pathetic) Tribe to be thinking postseason.
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is someone crying???\n\npoor USA, although they never had a chance in hell of getting out of that group, but for some reason the fans actually believed they could do it.....hahaha\n\nstick to hockey......wait you can't win that either.\nstick to basketball....wait thats not it either.\nstick to baseball......wait thats not it.\nstick to american football......your the best in the world at that because no one else plays....congrats.