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Hopefully Texas can close it out today, but not sure. :sweat:

Jav_sol wrote:Hopefully Texas can close it out today, but not sure. :sweat:

They do, 6-1. :woot:

Now all they have to do is beat whomever comes out of the National League and I'll be happy. :mrgreen:

Darn it, how do the teams I start rooting for end up on the short end? :beaten: Okay then, let's go Giants! :naughty:

Giants off to the World Series :shakehead:

Cheering for the Rangers, since they have my favourite Montreal Expo on the team.

Rev wrote:Giants off to the World Series :shakehead:

I feel the same way. :bleh:

Cheering for the Rangers, since they have my favourite Montreal Expo on the team.

Vlad, right? :victory:

Go Rangers!

hitomi #1 wrote:Darn it, how do the teams I start rooting for end up on the short end? :beaten: Okay then, let's go Giants! :naughty:

Guess several hundred million dollars won't buy you a championship. :beaten:

Rev wrote:Giants off to the World Series :shakehead:

Cheering for the Rangers, since they have my favourite Montreal Expo on the team.

Go Giants. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
They do, 6-1. :woot:

Now all they have to do is beat whomever comes out of the National League and I'll be happy. :mrgreen:

Yeah, it would be good to see Rangers win their first championship.

Jav_sol wrote:Yeah, it would be good to see Rangers win their first championship.

Yes.

It would be even better at the Giants expense. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Yes.

It would be even better at the Giants expense. :mrgreen:

But doesn't the state of CA finally deserve a WS victor? :mrgreen: Wait, just remembered the Angels won it in 2002, guess the Lone Star state is overdue for one. :muack:

hitomi #1 wrote:But doesn't the state of CA finally deserve a WS victor? :mrgreen: Wait, just remembered the Angels won it in 2002, guess the Lone Star state is overdue for one. :muack:

The Angels?

They don't count as a California team... They're a sham. :bleh:

hitomi #1 wrote:
But doesn't the state of CA finally deserve a WS victor? :mrgreen: Wait, just remembered the Angels won it in 2002, guess the Lone Star state is overdue for one. :muack:

You don't understand the Giants/Dodgers rivalry. It's a "destroy the life raft" rather than having one make it kind of thing. :beaten:

Kijinnmaru wrote:You don't understand the Giants/Dodgers rivalry. It's a "destroy the life raft" rather than having one make it kind of thing. :beaten:

Perfect analogy. :rofl:

I'm a huge Giants fan, so I understand how BMW feels as a Dodgers fan. I would be rooting for the Rangers too if they were playing the Dodgers. There are no "California" rooting at all. All my Oakland A's friends are probably rooting for the Rangers and they play in the same division.

Hell, the Angels were called the "California Angels" before some nimrod decided to rename it the Los-Angeles-but-we're-not-really-anywhere-near-LA Angels.

dochira wrote:I'm a huge Giants fan, so I understand how BMW feels as a Dodgers fan. I would be rooting for the Rangers too if they were playing the Dodgers. There are no "California" rooting at all. All my Oakland A's friends are probably rooting for the Rangers and they play in the same division.

Hell, the Angels were called the "California Angels" before some nimrod decided to rename it the Los-Angeles-but-we're-not-really-anywhere-near-LA Angels.

Yet I wouldn't root for the Angels. :bleh:

2002 was a lose-lose world Series for me: Angels-Giants. :bleh: :bleh: :bleh:

Postponing the entire WS that year would've been fine by me. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
The Angels?

They don't count as a California team... They're a sham. :bleh:

And to think the city of LA "adpoted" them. :naughty: And about the couple hundred million doesn't buy a championship, wait now, when the Yanks lose it's open the wallet time, NY papers say they're going to offer Lee $125M for 5 years, :grumble: hope he stays in Texas which could happen, :mrgreen: then again the Sox need someone besides Lester and Bucholz. :fingerscrossed:

hitomi #1 wrote:then again the Sox need someone besides Lester and Bucholz. :fingerscrossed:

Sox won't get him, they went and got John Lackey. :sweat:

Go Rangers!

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Jav_sol wrote:
Sox won't get him, they went and got John Lackey. :sweat:

And they're stuck with that 82M contract for 4 more years. The most rumored signing for them is supposed to be OF Werth, think that would be okay, :mrgreen: not much power in the OF, would love to see Crawford there :victory: though the Angels are supposed to be the team that's going to go all out for him.

hitomi #1 wrote:
And they're stuck with that 82M contract for 4 more years.

Well, he can't get worse than he was this past season. :sweat:

Jav_sol wrote:
Well, he can't get worse than he was this past season. :sweat:

Sure hope not, Burnet has the same size contract with the Yanks, first year he had similar numbers to Lackey's, this year he set an all time record for the Yanks with the highest ever ERA for a starter. :hehe: