October 5 Playoff Game Open Thread

He's sitting 'em down alright.  Travis Hafner looked downright stupid in his last at bat.

Other than that one pitch Carmona serves to Melky, the pitching in this game has been nails on both sides.

A walk, 2 wild pitches and an HPB so far this inning...  

Bonds could jump?

I know cuz I swallowed one.  Moth eggs were laid in the new turf.  They all hatched at once, within about an hour of each other.  Slowly the stadium began to fill with them.  At the peak, I estimated a half million moths inside the stadium, based on how many I saw in a cubic meter.

I think that McGwire's shot that night was going to go off the top of the wall, but Bond's moth-filled blind jump pushed it over.  What fun.

with no one out and men on first and second...  

I would think Tony is gone, and I really hope he gives his decision by Monday.

I'm ready to get it over with and get ready to warm up to a new era for the Cardinals, I think we all are.

The Cards need go into the winter meetings with a new manager & GM decided and focused on a game plan that will hopefully be geared towards either picking up pieces that we need to hopefully compete in the Central next year, or go forward with some sort of youth movement.

I still have mixed feelings about this whole change but I am ready for all of this to end and for the club to decide on a game plan for the future, instead of this vision of a disorganized mess we are in currently.

It would have been nice if the Cards could have done like Houston did last month and announce the GM & Manager have been fired the same day but also giving the fans a feeling that the change will be good for the club.

obviously now we're talking about predicting one game, which is just silly. that said, here's my shot at silliness:

i actually expect the yanks to take at least one now that they're not facing cc and carmona. i think the sox definitely look like they could sweep; the angels' lineup just doesn't look like it has enough, and schilling is pretty much a beast in the postseason.

i'd love the cubs to get swept, but rich hill is good and livan hernandez is not. if they continue to get nothing out of soriano, dlee and aram, i guess anything could happen.

absolutely NO IDEA what is going on in the phils/rockies series. absolutely nothing to say about it. however, i would say that in addition to all the other feel-good reasons to be rooting for colorado, if they end up in the series against boston, that would be "rox vs. sox" - kinda catchy.

there will be a 3 day break between games.

I know they are at least hoping the Yankees make a series out of theirs. I know Fox is praying for a Yankees comeback for their dream ALCS Yankees-Red Sox Series. LOL.