every Series sans one has been a one-sided blowout
worst post-season ever
16th October 2007 12:46 PM
monkey_man
Colorado is gonna run away with the whole thing!
16th October 2007 03:15 PM
Lil Brian
quote:time is on my side wrote: How does a team win 21 out of 22??? The Rockies???? Come on. Wake me up. This can't be happening.
They've been really fortunate.
16th October 2007 03:27 PM
Starbuck
quote:every Series sans one has been a one-sided blowout
worst post-season ever
sway...perhaps you don't remember the best world series ever??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_World_Series
"The 1991 World Series was ranked by ESPN to be the best ever played[1], with five of its games being decided by a single run, four games decided in the final at-bat and three games going into extra innings. "
wow...what a series!
best series yet!
16th October 2007 03:37 PM
Saint Sway
"And we'll see you tomorrow night!"
91 was a classic!
I remember it well Bucky! Morris pitched a game for the ages and that blind, black midget hit a game-winning HR and then celebrated by groping some women in a bar.
[Edited by Saint Sway]
16th October 2007 05:50 PM
Starbuck
that blind, black midget, as you call him was the third fastest player to 2000 hits, had a lifetime avg of .319 if memory serves, was a first ballot HOFer and could kick your ass till next tuesday. well, if he weren't dead.
let's see you do this...
or this...
this is more your speed.
16th October 2007 05:57 PM
Saint Sway
Oh Bucky, this is more your speed
16th October 2007 06:03 PM
Saint Sway
quote:Starbuck wrote:
that blind, black midget, as you call him was the third fastest player to 2000 hits, had a lifetime avg of .319 if memory serves, was a first ballot HOFer and could kick your ass till next tuesday. well, if he weren't dead.
the only ass that abusive lil midget ever kicked were womens
he was a cowardly punk and you're an idiot for having even an ounce of hero worship for him
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In a Dec. 17, 2002, St. Paul Pioneer-Press article titled "The Secret Life of Kirby Puckett," Tonya Puckett alleged that her husband had subjected her to a Patrick Bateman-esque array of torture and abuse, including putting a cocked gun to her head as she held their then-2-year-old daughter; trying to strangle her with an electrical cord; locking her in a basement; and using a power saw to cut through a door she was hiding behind.
So when Kirby died, it was doubly tragic: the death of a hero and sports icon, and the premature death of a torn man who, unable to cope with no longer living life as a sports legend, turned his own self-hatred and insecurity on those closest to him and lashed out at the world in a vicious way.
"THE OTHER KIRBY"
Puckett has history of abuse, say former wife, mistress
From Sports Illustrated
Chuck Solomon
The Rise and Fall of Kirby Puckett
By Frank Deford
Issue Date: March 17, 2003
[Puckett] woke up one bright spring morning in 1996 and thought he'd slept funny on one eye, only it was glaucoma, and so never again could the Puck stand in against horsehides flung 90 to 95 mph. Just like that, no warning, he had to hang it up. Then he wasn't a ballplayer anymore, let alone a whale of one. Then he was just back to being fat little Kirby Puckett. Of course, this meant being able to spend more time with his mistress of many years, who nobody seems to have known existed, because Kirby was, of course, an ideal family man -- even though, truth be told, he wasn't even an ideal scoundrel, because he also had cheated on his mistress of many years with a passel of other sad and lonely women. And you thought the fans were duped. She was so shocked at his perfidy, the mistress of many years, that she began to seek comfort in commiseration with the wife.
Anyway, the mistress of many years says that when Puckett couldn't play baseball anymore, "he started to become full of himself and very abusive." He began to perform lewd acts in public, such as going to a fancy shopping center, parking there, then opening his car door and stepping out and peeing in plain view of other people (Twins fans presumably included). ...
Laura Nygren, the other woman, says that Puckett often spoke resentfully about having to visit children in order to bulwark his image. "He always said how much he hated going to the hospitals," Nygren says. "He became more [vocal] about how much he hated it after he retired, but he always said he hated it."
Excepted from "The Rise and Fall of Kirby Puckett," by Frank Deford in the March 17, 2003 issue of Sports Illustrated.
ATLANTA (SI.com) -- Baseball fans across the country were shocked last year when Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, one of the game’s most beloved figures, was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a suburban Minneapolis restaurant.
But that incident was merely the latest in a pattern of alleged sexual indiscretions and violent acts by the former Minnesota Twins icon, according to the cover story by Frank Deford, with special reporting by George Dohrmann, in this week’s Sports Illustrated.
Puckett has pleaded innocent in the restaurant incident, and is scheduled to go on trial March 24 for false imprisonment and criminal sexual assault.
Laura Nygren, whom SI describes as Puckett's "mistress of many years," told the magazine that Puckett resumed an affair with her just seven weeks after he was married in 1986 -- then cheated on Nygren with numerous other women.
After the onset of glaucoma in his right eye forced him to retire in 1996, Puckett began committing lewd acts in public, such as urinating in mall parking lots, Nygren told SI. Her relationship with the ex-ballplayer ended last March after he allegedly threatened her and she obtained a temporary order of protection.
Shortly before Puckett was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 2001, a female employee of the Twins threatened to file a sexual harassment suit against the team because of Puckett’s and other men’s behavior. The Twins allegedly made a financial settlement with her, according to SI. The Twins declined to comment to the magazine about this allegation.
Puckett’s ex-wife, Tonya, divorced him in December, barely a year after she told police that he threatened to kill her during a telephone conversation. Over the years, she told SI, Puckett had also tried to strangle her with an electrical cord, locked her in the basement and used a power saw to cut through a door after she had locked herself in a room. Once, she said, he even put a cocked gun to her head while she was holding their young daughter.
Puckett’s upcoming trial stems from charges that he pulled a woman into the men’s room of a restaurant in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Sept. 5, 2002, and fondled her. The woman told police that Puckett released her only when her girlfriend opened the door to the men’s room and screamed.
Puckett, who retired with a .318 career average, 207 home runs, 1,085 RBIs and 134 stolen bases in 12 seasons, helped Minnesota win the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the 5-foot-8, 230-pound center fielder was revered in the Twin Cities -- and throughout baseball -- as much for his “good guy” nature as for his play.
He and his ex-wife were involved in numerous community projects and during his career he won the Branch Rickey and the Roberto Clemente Man of the Year awards for community service. He’s also a member of the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame.
But that image also was a sham, according to Nygren. One day after he had retired, she told SI, they were together when Puckett said he had to leave to visit a sick child who was waiting to meet him.
“That’s great, you get to make that kid’s day,” Nygren told him. “That must make you feel good.” But she said Puckett just snapped back at her.
“I don’t give a s---,” he said. “It’s just another kid who’s sick.”
[Edited by Saint Sway]
16th October 2007 06:15 PM
lotsajizz
fuck Puckett and any dumbass who thinks he is worth more than a shit
16th October 2007 06:52 PM
Starbuck
quote:fuck Puckett and any dumbass who thinks he is worth more than a shit
this is a ridiculous statement.
tell me you wouldn't pick puck in his prime over JD Drew or Coco Crisp.
sports are filled with overpaid basket cases that are jerks off the field, and it turns out that puckett was probably one of them. that doesn't mean he isn't on the short list of the greatest players of the last half century.
16th October 2007 07:06 PM
Fiji Joe
quote:Starbuck wrote:
that doesn't mean he isn't on the short list of the greatest players of the last half century.
The "short list"?...only if you're referring to his height
17th October 2007 12:27 AM
glencar
Tribe ahead 3 games to 1????? What the hell's going on???? FUCKIN' A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17th October 2007 01:26 AM
pdog
quote:glencar wrote:
Tribe ahead 3 games to 1????? What the hell's going on???? FUCKIN' A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad, A Boston Rockies series would be amazing in those hitters parks... it over yet, so we'll see!
17th October 2007 07:37 AM
Some Guy
Cleveland looks good.
17th October 2007 08:12 AM
Ten Thousand Motels
Fuck the Tribe. They still have to come to Fenway.
17th October 2007 10:16 AM
glencar
Yes, where they're 1 for 2. Good luck to yer Bosox.
17th October 2007 10:30 AM
Ten Thousand Motels
Throw in a little baseball trivia.
"The Indians Nickname"
"Legend has it that the team honored Louis Sockalexis when it assumed its current name in 1915. The spectacular Sockalexis, a Native American, had played in Cleveland 1897-1899." wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sockalexis
17th October 2007 10:34 AM
Jumping Jack
As soon as the Bosox started being compared with the Yankees they started playing like them.
17th October 2007 10:34 AM
Nellcote
I do not see anyone representing the AL in the World Series as of this writing. The series is not over, Sox need to chin up and move on to win one in Cleveland to make this a real series. Sox need to re-think this JD Boo thing, and put Ellsbury in, the 1st Navajo in the MLB, who can run 4.2 from home to 1st. He sparked them in September, Francoma needs to get him to play. Either team which does move on to the next round will certainly have their hands full with the Rockies, as their pitching has peaked at the absolute best time.
17th October 2007 10:47 AM
gimmekeef
It aint over till Rosie Odonnel sings...Man I'm prayin for extra innings.....
17th October 2007 11:06 AM
Ten Thousand Motels
quote:gimmekeef wrote:
It aint over till Rosie Odonnel sings...Man I'm prayin for extra innings.....
Unfortunatley for most of us Hell is inevitable.
17th October 2007 12:13 PM
Saint Sway
looks like yet another one-sided series.
weak
The Torre decision has had more drama than the actual playoffs
17th October 2007 12:34 PM
lotsajizz
unfortunately, sir, you are correct
as of now
17th October 2007 01:55 PM
Starbuck
sox should win tonight with beckett on the mound. the man has ice running through his veins come playoff time.
it will, however, be a rockies-indians world series. rockies in five.
17th October 2007 01:58 PM
Nellcote
Buckinator, are you traveling thru time & space with those folks from the show "Time Tunnel", as the game is not until tomorrow? It's Been A Hard Day's Night, it seems...
17th October 2007 01:58 PM
Saint Sway
I agree. Gotta like Becket in a must win situation.
wonder who Francona goes with in the following game if they win this one?
and the Rockies bubble has to burst soon.... I'll take the AL champ to win it. This long layoff is the one thing that can snap the Rockies
17th October 2007 02:17 PM
Starbuck
and what the hell is with the long layoff? who ever heard of a world series starting on a wednesday? it is supposed to start on a saturday night.
this must be scott boras's fault.
17th October 2007 02:57 PM
Saint Sway
Selig sucks moose cock.
Only any idiot would skip the weekend and start on a wednesday.
doesnt matter since TV ratings are so low anyways. Games start at 9 and end at 1am. WTF??
17th October 2007 03:11 PM
gimmekeef
The Rockies are trying to round up the Orioles pitching staff for 8 days of batting practice to keep em sharp...
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