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What's going to happen to the Rays now, they might lose important players.

Jav_sol wrote:What's going to happen to the Rays now, they might lose important players.

Probably.

That's what the Marlins did after winning the World Series... Twice, I think. :sweat:

Rays are gonna lose Crawford, Pena and Soriano to free agency, will keep the entire starting rotation which is still quite young. :mrgreen: Will still be good but not good enough to keep up with the Evil Empire :usuck: who will probably sign Lee and perhaps Crawford, perhaps if they drew better they could have kept Crawford and added another solid player.

First game tonight in the ALCS, at Texas. How cocky are the natives from NYC? :usuck: NY Daily News suggested to make things more competitive that the Yanks should send their Triple-A team Scranton to play the Rangers, it is a virtual impossibility that the Yanks could somehow lose. :twisted:

^ Go Rangers! :woot:

bmwracer wrote:^ Go Rangers! :woot:

That makes at least 2 people outside of Texas rooting for them, :hehe: if it does happen to go to a 7th game, Mr. Postseason will be starting for them. :victory:

Yanks come from behind and beat the Rangers, 6-5... Rangers still haven't won a playoff game at home yet. :shakehead:

^^ And hope they never do. Switch my rooting interest to the Yanks now, :crazy: hope it's over in 5, hard to believe a team in the second round of the playoffs can pull an choke as bad as the Rangers did. :usuck:

Boo, Rangers won 7-2. :shamefulcry: Held on this time after having another 5-0 lead, Yanks had 14 baserunners but only a measly 2 crossed the plate.

Rangers finally win at home, beating the Yanks, 7-2. :victory:

Phillies lose to the Giants, 4-3. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:Rangers finally win at home, beating the Yanks, 7-2. :victory:

At least this time they didn't blow the lead. :sweat:

Jav_sol wrote:At least this time they didn't blow the lead. :sweat:

They could've been easily up two games to none.

^^ Sure should have been, with Lee going tomorrow things would have been looking rosy for them. :bow: Hard to swallow games like the first one, in the regular season you can get away with a few of them, but in a seven game series one win counts for 25% of the wins you need. :sweat:

hitomi #1 wrote:^^ Sure should have been, with Lee going tomorrow things would have been looking rosy for them. :bow: Hard to swallow games like the first one, in the regular season you can get away with a few of them, but in a seven game series one win counts for 25% of the wins you need. :sweat:

If the Rangers take it to seven and lose, they'll look back at game one and kick themselves.

Phillies take game two from the Giants, 6-1.

Thing about the Phils, when one ace loses they have have another one the next game...and the next game. :bow: And yes, Rangers will probably kick themselves hard if they lose in 7 games, :beatyou: only the 4th time in post season history where a team has lost with a 4 run lead entering the 8th inning.

hitomi #1 wrote:only the 4th time in post season history where a team has lost with a 4 run lead entering the 8th inning.

I would've thought the Dodgers had accomplished that feat with Broxton. :beaten:

Rangers-Yankees, game three tonight. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:Rangers-Yankees, game three tonight. :victory:

Go Rangers!

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Texas has taken an early lead on the Yanks again, 2-0, in the 5th. :woot:

Thing is, can they hold it? :fingerscrossed: