MLB - 2006 World Series

[SlowwHand]

Private plane Alex Rodriques was on had a mishap.
No injuries. What is it about NY Yankees and airplanes?

[OzzyKP]

The pressure is just too damn much in New York.

[Guynemer]

MAGGLIO ****ING ORDONEZ, *****!

[Guynemer]

To the Cardinals and Mets:



COME GET SOME!

[asleepathewheel]

Congrats to the Tigers, great story.

And I'm very happy for Polanco. He's a hell of a player, I was upset when he was part of the Rolen trade.

And looks like the Muts are going to have to dig deep in their pen tonight, trachsel was awful and hit on the leg by a drive.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Mets gave 'em two games . Only because Trachsel had a Trachsel-ish start though .

[Stuie]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
And I'm very happy for Polanco. He's a hell of a player, I was upset when he was part of the Rolen trade.

QFT.

(Except I was upset when he was part of the Urbina trade - Uggie of course is still in jail for attempted murder last I checked).

[SlowwHand]

Seems strange.

Macha out as A's manager

04:02 PM CDT on Monday, October 16, 2006
Associated Press


OAKLAND, Calif. – Ken Macha was fired as manager of the Oakland Athletics on Monday, two days after the AL West champions were swept out of the playoffs by Detroit.

Macha had two years left on his contract. The A's went 368-280 in his four seasons as manager, but have frustrated management and their fans by failing to get into the World Series.

Oakland won the West with a 93-69 record this year. After sweeping Minnesota in three games in the first round of the playoffs, the A's were eliminated by Detroit in four straight in the AL championship series.

"Not to fault either side, but I felt a disconnect on a lot of levels," general manager Billy Beane said. "Once again, it's not to point the finger at Ken or anything like that. But that disconnect was there and it was something we needed to address as soon as possible."

The A's became the sixth major league team to let its manager go since the final days of the season. Dusty Baker (Chicago Cubs), Joe Girardi (Florida), Felipe Alou (San Francisco), Frank Robinson (Washington) and Buck Showalter (Texas) are not coming back next year.

Macha went through a topsy-turvy October last year, too, during which he briefly was out as manager.

Right after missing the postseason for a second straight season in 2005, the A's failed to reach agreement with Macha on a new deal. The Athletics cut ties with him and Beane announced there would be no further negotiations.

At the time, Macha called it one of the "massive disappointments" during his seven years in the organization. The A's interviewed other candidates for the job and Macha talked to Pittsburgh about its managerial vacancy.

But about a week after being let go, the A's rehired Macha and gave him a three-year contract.

Macha joined the A's as their bench coach in 1999. He became their manager in 2003 and led them to the AL West title in his first year, and followed that with a pair of second-place finishes before winning the division again this season.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Apparently he wasn't getting along with some of his players as well.

In other news, the Cubs have Lou Pinella as their manager. May God watch over his soul .

[Sikander]

Way to go Tigers! They haven't contended since 1987 (a great year btw), the year before I moved to Colorado. It's about time.

[Stuie]

I love the Phillies new coaching staff:

Davey Lopes
Art Howe
Jimy Williams

I'd pick any of them to manage in place of Uncle Chuck.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Go St. Louis... show the naysayers that the NL is far better than they want to admit.

Great game though

[Tuberski]

Man I love seeing New York teams lose.

All year long on ESPN they talk about the Yankees and the Red Sox, over and over and over.

When they got knocked out it was Mets, Mets, Mets.

I'm so glad thats over, except we'll have to hear about "what went wrong?"

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

New York's gone!!!!!!!

ACK!

[Imran Siddiqui]

ESPN talked all about the Mets?

Must be nice to see the world with wacked out Texas colored glasses . Ever since the LDS round, the Tigers have been the story.

And what went wrong is pretty easy, the #1 and #3 pitchers for the Mets went down before the playoffs. Though Perez pitched very well tonight.

[GePap]

So, will this be the lowest rated WS ever, of just one of the five worst rated WS ever?

At least I don't have to give a rats ass about the games coming next week.