Losing 1-0 to Chris Carpenter in Game 5 of the 5-game first round. Halladay was great as always. Carpenter was very good, but the Phillies made him look like Clemens and Maddux combined.
Ed Snider was the source of a lot of Flyers problems, but Hextall was an atrocious GM who never figured out how to manage the salary cap, or that players are contracts, or the relative value of draft picks and player contracts. Snider can't be blamed for Hextall getting a quick hook as Pittsburgh GM.
I'm a die hard SF Giant fan. I was loyal to my father rooting interest. He was in the Polo grounds the last game they played in New York.
Outside of the Phillies, the Eagles also lost to the spygate-era Cheatriots, too, the year before they were caught.
I hear Pittsburgh might be getting a Major League Baseball team sometime soon—any truth to the rumor?If only you were a Steelers and Pens fan...
Nah. They are a great minor league town.
Worse than that. Their lead was 6.5 with 12 games to play. http://ultimatemets.com/standings.php?ThisDate=1964-09-20
I can get Smiths hot dogs at Giant Eagle and Primati's sandwiches in Erie or Grove City mall and not have to endure the pain of watching the Pirates.
Getting rid of the NL DH and putting runners on base in extra-innings were two of the worst changes major sports have made in recent times. Just awful.
I feel ya. I was raised to be a Twins & Vikings fan. I'll always have those 2 world series (that 2nd one!!)--but that's around the time things started to go south, and now the twinkies are in no better shape than the bucs. Though we do make the playoffs sometimes, it's always a 1st round exit....
I get what you're saying, but that's very rarely the reality in the NBA. You typically need more than 1 superstar to win a title, and the talent seriously tapers after the first few picks. Occasionally a team gets lucky with a Maxey at 15, but most guys drafted in that range are projects or busts.
The PIrates are karma for Pittsburgh fans no-showing Game 7 of the playoffs against the Braves in the early 1990s.
IIRC, that was the same year the Twins won "the greatest world series of all time" vs. the Braves, so I'm cool w/ that outcome (even w/ local PA boy on the mound for the bucs).
Emotion-based, not fact-based. Every year several lower-payroll teams make the playoffs and advance.
If I could have I would have been there... that game wore on me for quite some time.. Bonds playing sooo deep, etc., etc. There was a playoff game in the late 80s against Cincy where tickets were easily attainable.. may have been Strike effects but doubt it
Advantage =/= results.
We are family. All my brothers, sisters, and me
Chase Utley's parade speech.
The Flyers even getting to a game 7 against that amazing team was a miracle in itself.
Oh god - why-O-why have you brought up the 64 Phil’s. This is a wrestling board. It took me 40+ years to forget that debacle. Every morning riding to work with my Dad on the Paoli Local listening to all manner of Philly bitching about Gene M. Thankfully I’m downtown today fueling up for tonight’s match and with enough brews … I can forget that you raised the thing that must never be mentioned.
I still have a Pirates cap I bought at Three Rivers during the 1979 season with Stargell stars on it. I usually break it out once a year when we do something at work on opening day. It is the one time of year I still think about baseball. Anyway, that hat still gets me a lot of comments/compliments.
