Archive for October 1, 2008

Game 1: Cubs 2 – Dodgers 7

Series: Dodgers 1-0
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POTG: 2B Mark DeRosa (2B, HR, 2 RBI)
Runner Up: SS Ryan Theriot (2 H)
This was a total and complete return to pre-2008 Ryan Dempster. Naturally, the clock struck midnight on the first day of the playoffs.
Dempster BB/9 IP
2004: 5.4
2005: 4.7
2006: 4.1
2007: 4.1
2008: 3.4
tonight: 7
I don’t know why it happened, but this game brought [...]

and even more

I think I may be getting excited for this. Hard to tell, what with more posts in three hours than in some three week stretches.
- I hate doing predictions, because they’re so useless and no one really cares about them, they just care about what actually happens. But I think the Phillies are a deeper [...]

the obligatory playoff preview

I’m with the those who say playoff baseball is as much random chance as anything else. I don’t believe it takes anything away from the champions, because everyone has a chance to the rules of the game before they play it, but it’s different enough from the regular season that you shouldn’t be surprised when [...]