***Official Tigers vs Yankees ALCS Thread*** (1 Viewer)

[Doctor Detroit]

Will America mourn and protest bad calls against the Yanks? Cost them a game last night and could be the death knell in this one.

Yeah didn't think so.

What call was that?

Some strike three call or something really moronic. I almost commented on it but let it go at the time because I wasn't sure if he was serious.The Infante call today was obviously terrible.

So Cano was out at first last night in the second inning? Look, the Yanks have no kit coming to them, but thats a couple of brutal, game changing calls.

Here is a suggestion: why don't you spend some of the highest payroll on some guys who can score 1 run off good starting pitching?If you honestly think that Cano call last night was "game changing," you're a moron.

PayrollI guess the Tigers didn't buy their divsion?

Way to try and change the principal subject, moron. Did you think that the Yankees may have never had a ####### runner on basee at alln or that Fister may have gone the distance had the umpire had a reasonable strikezone? I bet you didn't.

you brought up payroll you clown. I have not slogged this piece of crap team in this thread enough for you? This team is garbage. They don't need the help of the umpires to shove them off the cliff.

Reasonable strikezone.

Pretty much all Fister's pitches on those walks were in that blue box, which would be reasonably considered a strike. I'm done with it, cry about your calls for the rest of the series, isn't gonna make your team any better. "game changer"

 

[Tremendous Upside]

great start by Sanchez btw

 

[Eephus]

A great opportunity here to give Valverde his confidence back.

I'd go batter by batter with him. The Yanks are so ####ed and confused right now. I mean, the horrible part of Jeter and the Infante call is, it will only take the focus of this crap assemblage. I said it early on this year, for Cashman to take basically the same team to war last year that went out in the first round, apart from Ibanez early and Ichrio midseason is a total disgrace. The minor league system is crap from a position player standpoint and this whole house of cards is about to come down when they can't buy in the IFA market like they used to. I'm no longer convinced he's the man for the job. The trouble is, the braintrust of this team sucks. Randy Levine is blaming stubhub for this attendance disgrace going on. This organization is about to go into the abyss. Fitting season that Mo and Jeter ended up in crumbled heaps on the field.

The won 95 games this season getting absolutely nothing nothing from their big off-season acquisition (Pineda)

 

[pollardsvision]

 

[Anthony Borbely]

Coke looks like a completely different pitcher last night and tonight than he did for most of the year.

 

[Eephus]

Granderson has had some brutal looking ABs.

 

[whoknew]

AWESOME. 2-0 lead.

Also happy that the bad call didn't change anything.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Phil Coke was dominated by the entire American League this year and he's gotten nine ####### outs and allowed one hit in this series.

One baserunner after the Infante debacle for the record. NEXT!

 

[jon_mx]

Coke!

 

[jon_mx]

Up Next....Justin Verlander. People who don't think this isn't the best rotation in the game, have not been watching them closely the last couple of months. All four have been outstanding.

 

[teamramrod]

Will America mourn and protest bad calls against the Yanks? Cost them a game last night and could be the death knell in this one.

Yeah didn't think so.

What call was that?

Some strike three call or something really moronic. I almost commented on it but let it go at the time because I wasn't sure if he was serious.The Infante call today was obviously terrible.

So Cano was out at first last night in the second inning? Look, the Yanks have no kit coming to them, but thats a couple of brutal, game changing calls.

Here is a suggestion: why don't you spend some of the highest payroll on some guys who can score 1 run off good starting pitching?If you honestly think that Cano call last night was "game changing," you're a moron.

PayrollI guess the Tigers didn't buy their divsion?

Way to try and change the principal subject, moron. Did you think that the Yankees may have never had a ####### runner on basee at alln or that Fister may have gone the distance had the umpire had a reasonable strikezone? I bet you didn't.

you brought up payroll you clown. I have not slogged this piece of crap team in this thread enough for you? This team is garbage. They don't need the help of the umpires to shove them off the cliff.

Reasonable strikezone.

Wait..Yankee Fan just said the Tigers bought the division? Seriously?

Peace

 

[Smack Tripper]

A great opportunity here to give Valverde his confidence back.

I'd go batter by batter with him. The Yanks are so ####ed and confused right now. I mean, the horrible part of Jeter and the Infante call is, it will only take the focus of this crap assemblage. I said it early on this year, for Cashman to take basically the same team to war last year that went out in the first round, apart from Ibanez early and Ichrio midseason is a total disgrace. The minor league system is crap from a position player standpoint and this whole house of cards is about to come down when they can't buy in the IFA market like they used to. I'm no longer convinced he's the man for the job. The trouble is, the braintrust of this team sucks. Randy Levine is blaming stubhub for this attendance disgrace going on. This organization is about to go into the abyss. Fitting season that Mo and Jeter ended up in crumbled heaps on the field.

The won 95 games this season getting absolutely nothing nothing from their big off-season acquisition (Pineda)

Pineda is shot.Kuroda had a great year but he's going on 38.Jeter had an unexpectedly great year, but his future is in question I'd say at this point. A-Rod is officially a full on clusterSwisher sucks but he's a block of production in the middle of the order who will and has to goThe O's are charging, The Rays were right there without Longoria for a lot of the season, and the Jays could NEVER have this much bad luck with injuries.

 

[Smack Tripper]

This whole Yankee postgame is about replay. Get ####ed all of you, this is a disgrace.

Bad calls happen, but answer some questions about your offense Girardi.

 

[Raider Nation]

This whole Yankee postgame is about replay. Get ####ed all of you, this is a disgrace.

Bad calls happen, but answer some questions about your offense Girardi.

Sorry, about his what?

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

wooooooooooot!

I sense some bitterness

 

[teamramrod]

wooooooooooot!I sense some bitterness

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTpeace

 

[tri-man 47]

great start by Sanchez btw

That's really been the key. When you can get quality starts like this, it doesn't take much to knock out some wins. I was surprised NY went with Kuroda in the 8th since he was on three days rest and didn't seem sharp in the 7th.

 

[Michael Brown]

A great opportunity here to give Valverde his confidence back.

I'd go batter by batter with him. The Yanks are so ####ed and confused right now. I mean, the horrible part of Jeter and the Infante call is, it will only take the focus of this crap assemblage. I said it early on this year, for Cashman to take basically the same team to war last year that went out in the first round, apart from Ibanez early and Ichrio midseason is a total disgrace.

What are you talking about? They traded Montero for Pineda and signed Kuroda in one night. That was supposed to greatly shore up the SP, and it did even with Pineda going down. Then Mo got hurt, which pushed a lot of relievers into different roles and they mostly got burnt out. But all we ever hear is that the Yanks don't have enough SP, yet the piching has not only been fine it's been amazing.If someone told you the Yankees would have home field advantage in the ALCS and would give up 8 total runs the first two games, you'd assume we were at worst split because the offense is supposed to be a given with these guys.Honest question - were you at ALL concerned about the hitting entering 2012? Because if you were, you were the only one. Let's stop blaming Cashman and Levine for a bunch of a-holes who forgot how to hit this week.

 

[jon_mx]

It could it be the Tiger pitching is just that good.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

It could it be the Tiger pitching is just that good.

3 straight games and the starters have allowed 0 runs on the road in the playoffs, Cannot be any better than that, litterally

 

[Smack Tripper]

A great opportunity here to give Valverde his confidence back.

I'd go batter by batter with him. The Yanks are so ####ed and confused right now. I mean, the horrible part of Jeter and the Infante call is, it will only take the focus of this crap assemblage. I said it early on this year, for Cashman to take basically the same team to war last year that went out in the first round, apart from Ibanez early and Ichrio midseason is a total disgrace.

What are you talking about? They traded Montero for Pineda and signed Kuroda in one night. That was supposed to greatly shore up the SP, and it did even with Pineda going down. Then Mo got hurt, which pushed a lot of relievers into different roles and they mostly got burnt out. But all we ever hear is that the Yanks don't have enough SP, yet the piching has not only been fine it's been amazing.If someone told you the Yankees would have home field advantage in the ALCS and would give up 8 total runs the first two games, you'd assume we were at worst split because the offense is supposed to be a given with these guys.Honest question - were you at ALL concerned about the hitting entering 2012? Because if you were, you were the only one. Let's stop blaming Cashman and Levine for a bunch of a-holes who forgot how to hit this week.

Yes I was, I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in the offseason thread from last year if you care to fact check.Its largely approach based with these guys. You're stuck with Tex ok.You're going to stick with Robbie, Jete.You're stuck with A-rod.So you have the OF, DH and C to work with. I think they got caught in between at C, hoping to integrate Romine in last off season and Martin represented a good valueBut that said, the team has never seem fully sold on Gardner, you had Grandy off a big season but with definite warts and Swisher, off his third bad october.Lets be honest here, this bad stretch of 7 Ocotber games really traces back to 5 bad ones last year and 5 bad ones against texas the year before (after the game 1 rally). The entire team is, or has become, a swing from their heels all or nothing bunch. I'm not expecting small ball galore, but a guy like Swisher, based on approach, is going to struggle in October. I'm pretty sure we said it last year and its as plain as the nose on your face. No one wants to give anyone away, but He or grandy I would have shaken up and dealt to change on some level the feel of this team. i think you have to churn new blood in each year, just to keep guys hungry. You can't tell me Ibanez is not more motivated based on never having won or the newness of New York or whathave you. Ditto Suzuki. I think its just a bad message of complanceny that is allowed to permeate and its more than a sample size argument. Its an approach based argument. These guy smack the crap out of the 3rd reliever on KC, but when You're seeing sometimes a teams best six pitchers and thats it, a team that was good enough to get into October, they're not going to make it their business to serve up a cookie.

 

[scrumptrulescent]

Will America mourn and protest bad calls against the Yanks? Cost them a game last night and could be the death knell in this one.Yeah didn't think so.

Hitting rock bottom here.

 

[Smack Tripper]

Will America mourn and protest bad calls against the Yanks? Cost them a game last night and could be the death knell in this one.Yeah didn't think so.

Hitting rock bottom here.

my hand to god, I didn't think it was possibly for this series to piss me off. I just figured, maybe a 6-2, 7-3 couple of games for Detroit.But to see these guys pitch their hearts out for the most part and to get teased by the offense, lose Jeter, this is somehow extra maddening. Its going to be a nuclear offseason.

 

[scrumptrulescent]

Will America mourn and protest bad calls against the Yanks? Cost them a game last night and could be the death knell in this one.Yeah didn't think so.

Hitting rock bottom here.

my hand to god, I didn't think it was possibly for this series to piss me off. I just figured, maybe a 6-2, 7-3 couple of games for Detroit.But to see these guys pitch their hearts out for the most part and to get teased by the offense, lose Jeter, this is somehow extra maddening. Its going to be a nuclear offseason.

Tiger pitching has just been way too good so far....other than Valverde of course.

 

[MAC_32]

Tiger pitching has just been way too good so far....other than Valverde of course.

 

[Raider Nation]

Its going to be a nuclear offseason.

Mo will be saving games for a 76-86 squad.

 

[Ghost Rider]

my hand to god, I didn't think it was possibly for this series to piss me off. I just figured, maybe a 6-2, 7-3 couple of games for Detroit.But to see these guys pitch their hearts out for the most part and to get teased by the offense, lose Jeter, this is somehow extra maddening. Its going to be a nuclear offseason.

Better bump the payroll up to 250 million.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Tiger pitching has just been way too good so far....other than Valverde of course.

Crazy graphic put up by espn with Valverde's playoff stats vs the entire rest of the staff.

 

[jon_mx]

Tiger pitching has just been way too good so far....other than Valverde of course.

Crazy graphic put up by espn with Valverde's playoff stats vs the entire rest of the staff.

Valverde has given up 7 runs in 2-1/3 for an ERA of 27.00Everyone else have given up 8 runs in 53-1/3 for an ERA of 1.35What is sad is Fister and Scherzer have combined to pitched three brilliant games and do not have a win to show for it.

 

[jon_mx]

Tiger pitching has just been way too good so far....other than Valverde of course.

Crazy graphic put up by espn with Valverde's playoff stats vs the entire rest of the staff.

Valverde has given up 7 runs in 2-1/3 for an ERA of 27.00Everyone else have given up 8 runs in 53-1/3 for an ERA of 1.35What is sad is Fister and Scherzer have combined to pitched three brilliant games and do not have a win to show for it.

The CBS sports stats have not been updated to include the last game, so it is actually even worse. So you can add 9 shutout innnings for everyone else.Valverde has given up 7 runs in 2-1/3 for an ERA of 27.00Everyone else have given up 8 runs in 62-1/3 for an ERA of 1.16

 

[Premier]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-show--yankees-try-to-disguise-empty-seats-at-alcs-by-moving-fans.html



I'm going to bookmark this link for every time a Ysnkee fan brings up the Rays attendance.

 

[Foosball God]

Tigers own the Yankees.

 

[shadyridr]

Baseball is a funny game... a weird bounce here, an error by Miggy there, a wild pitch, etc. Im not giving up hope vs verlander. phil's obviously gotta shut them down and hes done it before. If we can somehow squeeze one out tomorrow, we got our horse on Wednesday. Then its a new series and who knows, maybe Cano catches fire again.

Everyone likes to blame ARod and while he deserves some of the blame, when our best player goes 0 for 26 its gonna be hard to win. The other guys gotta pick up the slack and that includes ARod, Swisher, & Granderson. Tex has been drawing walks. Im not giving up

 

[Leroy Hoard]

updated offshore odds:

MLB SERIES PRICES - AMERICAN LEAGUE Odds

Best of seven (2-3-2) DET Tigers leads series 2-0

Detroit Tigers (Series Prices) -600

New York Yankees (Series Prices) +400

Split the difference on their juice and we're talking around 5-1. Stranger things have happened.

 

[Giantseasonticketholder]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-show--yankees-try-to-disguise-empty-seats-at-alcs-by-moving-fans.htmlI'm going to bookmark this link for every time a Ysnkee fan brings up the Rays attendance.

The Yanks (and this economy) have made it impossible for the average Family-of-4 to go to a regular season game. You can absolutely forget about the playoff games. I no longer have Yanks season tickets because after parking, a hot dog, and a beer, I'm usually out $75. I'd rather watch A-Rod, Granderson, and Swisher strikeout from the comfort of my couch.Unfortunately for the Yanks, I know more than a few people who live in North Jersey that feel the same way. Rays seats are never filled because of indifference and a lack of Schlitz on tap. Not sure if bookmarking this article is really a fair comparison.

 

[Greco]

Baseball is a funny game... a weird bounce here, an error by Miggy there, a wild pitch, etc. Im not giving up hope vs verlander. phil's obviously gotta shut them down and hes done it before. If we can somehow squeeze one out tomorrow, we got our horse on Wednesday. Then its a new series and who knows, maybe Cano catches fire again.Everyone likes to blame ARod and while he deserves some of the blame, when our best player goes 0 for 26 its gonna be hard to win. The other guys gotta pick up the slack and that includes ARod, Swisher, & Granderson. Tex has been drawing walks. Im not giving up

 

[Gopher State]

Q: What does Detroit Doctor have in common with the New York Yankees?

A: Next week, Detroit Doctor and the Yankees will both be watching the World Series on television.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Q: What does Detroit Doctor have in common with the New York Yankees?A: Next week, Detroit Doctor and the Yankees will both be watching the World Series on television.

Lots of big screen TVs in that new Yankee clubhouse.

 

[scrumptrulescent]

Tonight is a must win for Detroit. Verlander needs to be dominant. The Yankees have gotten to him before and if they do tonight, and NY wins, the series is a coin toss.

 

[shadyridr]

LMAO at calling a game a must-win for a team UP 2-0

 

[TobiasFunke]

How to Calm Yankee Panic

Yankee Nation is in a high panic, but given the franchise's robust championship history and deep financial resources, Yankee panic is a fascinating thing. It's not true panic. It's more like the panic the crew of a luxury yacht feels upon realizing they have set sail for the Cote d'Azur with the 1948 Cheval Blanc instead of the 1947. Yankee Panic is about not being indulged at the standard to which you are accustomed. To Yankee fans, this is suffering. To everyone else, it's sort of hilarious.

 

[scrumptrulescent]

LMAO at calling a game a must-win for a team UP 2-0

LYAO is not necessary.I hear the Yankees are happy to get out of NY and could be better because of it. If Detroit loses with their ace NY's ace goes the next day. Series could be even up real quick and the momentum would have done a 180.

 

[Disco Stu]

LMAO at calling a game a must-win for a team UP 2-0

LYAO is not necessary.I hear the Yankees are happy to get out of NY and could be better because of it. If Detroit loses with their ace NY's ace goes the next day. Series could be even up real quick and the momentum would have done a 180.

And if it does even up, that just makes it a best of three. Then you can maybe start talking about a "must win" game. Not now. That's ridiculous.

 

[Disco Stu]

What's the O/U on Verlander strikeouts tonight?

 

[Michael Brown]

What's the O/U on Verlander strikeouts tonight?

Thirtyteen

 

[scrumptrulescent]

LMAO at calling a game a must-win for a team UP 2-0

LYAO is not necessary.I hear the Yankees are happy to get out of NY and could be better because of it. If Detroit loses with their ace NY's ace goes the next day. Series could be even up real quick and the momentum would have done a 180.

And if it does even up, that just makes it a best of three. Then you can maybe start talking about a "must win" game. Not now. That's ridiculous.

Cool story bro.As a Tiger fan I feel this could be a pivotal game. True story.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

LMAO at calling a game a must-win for a team UP 2-0

LYAO is not necessary.I hear the Yankees are happy to get out of NY and could be better because of it. If Detroit loses with their ace NY's ace goes the next day. Series could be even up real quick and the momentum would have done a 180.

And if it does even up, that just makes it a best of three. Then you can maybe start talking about a "must win" game. Not now. That's ridiculous.

Cool story bro.As a Tiger fan I feel this could be a pivotal game. True story.

They don't know how it's been this year as a tiger fan. Nothing is over till it's over.

 

[Greco]

Yanks in 6.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

LMAO at calling a game a must-win for a team UP 2-0

It is

 

[shadyridr]

1-5 favorites ---> Must win game