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Bottom of the 3rd, 4-1 Halos, runners on 1st and 3rd, and still no outs:D :D :D :leap: :cookoo: :calpping: :worm:
 
WOOHOO...Bonds doesn't need a ring in my opinion. Especially after blowing the game twice last night in the same inning. Hitting a homer means nothing, if you can't help out in the field.

Bobbling a ball and not running after a ball that was catachable hurt them.
 
I hope the angels can pull it off. I hate all the taems in San Fran. I am an Oakland fan A's and Raiders.:) I was hoping the Angels would be playing the the cards.
 
THE ANGELS WON!!!! BONDS GETS NOTHING. I'm so happy. Congratulations to the Angels, they deserve it.
 
Always glad to see the A.L. team win it.

Always glad to see Bonds denied anything.

Always glad to see a San Fran team lose.
 
For some reason I wanted to see Bonds get a ring. He is by far the best baseball player I've seen in my generation. And I hate to see someone with that much talent being held back by managements inability to put a good enough supporting cast around them. It is weird though, as I have always hated anything to do with San Francisco myself. I still do with this one exception.

It is nice to see the Angels win it though. Any team that beats the Yankees is all right in my opinion.:)
 
Yeah, well when he messed up two plays in game 6, I knew he didn't have the heart for it. Typical bonds attitude towards defense.

Anaheim beat the Yankees, that made me the happiest.
 
Congrats to the Angels, they were my favorite team when I was a kid. I didn't ever think they would get to the world series.
 
Go American League....that was a great series per usual.

Glad to see Bonds denied again...I really can't stand that guy.

So how about this Eckstein guy? Reminds me of Pete 'Charlie Hustle' Rose. Always runs, never trots around like some ****y SOB. Inning ends, he runs to the dugout to be the first back out on the field while the others are still fixing their jewlery.
 
Originally posted by 4xchampncountin
For some reason I wanted to see Bonds get a ring. He is by far the best baseball player I've seen in my generation.  
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Ever seen him play in the field? I won't insult the other players by calling what he does defense.

Name any one player in baseball that you wouldn't trade straight up for Alex Rodriguez, salary issues notwithstanding. That's my definition of MVP.
 
Exactly, he's a joke. Hitting the ball is only one aspect of playing the game.

Trying to field the ball with his bare hands to try and look cool is just awful.

The less gold jewlery and dangly earings on my athletes the better...but I guess some people gotta like that kinda person. More power to ya 4x.
 
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY

Bonds is nothing but a show off at the plate and an embarassment in the field.
 
"So how about this Eckstein guy?"

I was thinking the same thing. I thought that he was a pretty good candidate for MVP. Being the leadoff hitter robbed him of a big number of RBI's. I've forgotten what his batting avg was for the whole series but it was one of the best on the team. He's a lil guy but he's got ALOT of heart in the game. Hell he even runs to first base when he gets walked!!

:thumbsup:
 
That's what baseball needs, more guys like Eckstein and less show offs like Bonds. So what Bonds can hit a bunch of homers, he can't do jack in the field and that's what lost his team the world series. If he would have even played 50% in the field the Giants would have won.
 
There are a whole lot of guys in baseball like Eckstein, they just don't get any coverage from espn. espn goes straight to the flashy catches or home runs, but they don't show all the strikeouts or errors those guys get and they don't show people like Eckstein or who get on base or put the runner in scoring position.
 
I was impressed by the rookie pitchers that the Angels put in game 7. The one guy they called K-rod had some good strike outs.
 
No offence, but anybody who would rather have Eckstein on their team than Bonds needs their heads examined. While I appreciate the way guys like Eckstein play, he doesn't have nearly the impact of guys like Bonds. I grew up watching whole teams full of guys like Eckstein as an Indians fan. It wasn't until they got guys like Albert Belle, Eddie Murray, Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome etc that they won anything. Jose Conseco was right when he said more people would rather watch him strike out than to watch Wade Boggs hit a single to the opposite field. Arrogant, but right.

Ward Fan..You are exactly right about Alex Rodriguez. He is the best player in the game right now. And yes, I would trade Bonds for him any day of the week. But, since he took the Rangers money, watching him in October wont be an option any time soon.
 
Originally posted by Ciggie
That's what baseball needs, more guys like Eckstein and less show offs like Bonds.  So what Bonds can hit a bunch of homers, he can't do jack in the field and that's what lost his team the world series.  If he would have even played 50% in the field the Giants would have won.
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And if Bonds hit like Eckstein, the Giants would have finished third in their division at best and would have been watching the playoffs just like you and me.
 
Just an additional note, do you know how many extra base hits David Eckstein had in the entire World Series?

NONE!
 
Odd.

Which player has a ring? Eckstein or Bonds?

And for my own additional note...did you see Bonds fielding those balls? Horrible, absolutely horrible.

Did you see Erstad nearly killing himself through the entire series to make catches?

Still gonna take Bonds? All that skill and he can't get a ring....weird.
 
He only plays half the game, that doesn't deserve a ring. Dive for a ball, play the field like you deserve to be out there, not like you deserve to be out there cause you are so jacked now you hit a ball very far.
 
That was perhaps the greatest TEAM victory of all time.

34 year old Tim Salmon, leads a bunch of youngins including rookie pitchers Francisco Rodriguez (youngest pitcher to ever win a World Series game), and John Lackey (first rookie to start and win a winner-take-all game seven in 93 years), along with a short-stop that makes Mark Martin look like Andre The Giant all the way to the World Series Trophy.

A team whose whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.

No Barry Bonds, no Sammy Sosa, no Mark MacGuire. Even ol Tim will probably never make the Hall of Fame. After taking out the mighty Yankees, and the Twins, they took on the Giants and their superstar Barry who broke the Series record for highest on base percentage (.700), highest slugging percentage (1.294), most intentional walks (7) and most walks (13). Barry tied the Series mark for most homers (4) and most runs (8) while completely altering the seven games unlike any player before him.

But the Angels played the game the old fashioned way. One run at a time. Get a man on, move him to 2nd, and if all heck breaks loose so be it but they be getting that one run. Put the ball in play. Make the defense beat you. And when the sticks got hot, they batted around, and batted around, and batted around.

For all the towering home runs the Yankees, Twins, and Giants put up, for all the mega-bucks and tradition the other guys could muster, it was rookies and nobodies, a midget, and the ghost of a singing cowboy that took another one run come from behind game to become the 2002 World Series Champion.

Way to go Angels. You showed the world how to play the game.
 
71Fan....

^^^^^^^^^5's to you and an AMEN. Very well put.

:calpping: :thumbsup: :victory: :angel:
 
I do border on eloquent now and then if I do say so myself.:D

Seriously tho, I was on a semi-pro hard ball team once that was much the same as the Angels. The team was the Riverside Brewers which was left over from the old Pacific Coast League of WWII days.

I was a not very talented 2nd baseman, that somehow managed to stay in the starting lineup due to an almost 800 on base percentage. To let ya know how bad I was at 2nd base, I pivoted one double play in 26 games. Fortunately we got a few more than just the one when the shortstop was in the middle.

Anyways, we not the most talented team in the league. We only had two guys that were a threat to go deep but everybody else knew how to get on and we played pretty solid defence. We also had an ace in the hole. Old Pete could bunt. Couldn't run on them used up legs but he could bunt.

Any time in the late innings that we got a man to third base with more than one out, up would come old Pete and the suicide squeeze was on. The whole dern league knew it too. And it didn't matter. Play in and he would bloop it, play back and he would square before the pitcher even got his sign. Old Pete probably drove in as many runs as anybody on the team. Somehow he would get to first, and step off the bag for a runner.

We went 24 and 2 that year. Losing to a lower division team and splitting with the league champs. Second Place is just the first loser but dern it sure was fun to mess up their perfect season in the last game of the year. Why they didn't throw down to first to get ol Pete instead of trying to make the play at home I'll never know. With all their talent, they forgot how to play the game.

So yea, hats off to the Angels.
 
Thanks for the story. It brought a smile to my face as I pictured the scene when I read it. I LOVE it when people play the game to the best of their abilities, not because of the money but because they love to play the game!!
 
defiantely

i think what 71FAN told us is what baseball is all about

homeruns dont mean anything
 
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