misterballz.blogspot.com - 11/4/2009
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Trying to extend the World Series to a 7th game for the first time since the 2001 postseason, when the Yankees lost to the Diamondbacks, the Phillies head to New York. The Yankees lead the series 3-2 and still stand just 27 outs from their 27th World Series Championship. The pitching match up ...
World Series and Remembrance - The Missing Years - 1994 to 1999
myteamrivals.typepad.com 10/24/2009 — With the World Series ready to start in a week, I'm picking up my lengthy series, "World Series and Remembrance." Last year I started with the '60s and went decade-by-decade thru the '80s, stopping in front of the Phillies appearance in that year's Fall Classic and the thought of ...
THE YANKEES ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!!
yanksgoyard.com 10/26/2009 — Thanks to some timely pitching from Andy (can I) Pettitte, and some errors from the Angels, the New York Yankees are going to the World Series for the 40th time in franchise history.
The Bronx Bombers will take on the Philadelphia Phillies in a revenge matchup from the 1950 World Series.
Some ...
So what should we call this Yankees-Phillies World Series?
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 10/26/2009 — Here are the words I've wanted to say for six years: The Yankees are going to the World Series! What a night. I stayed up very late rewatching all the coverage. How cool is it to have the Yankees finally going to the World Series? Hooray! I was also trying to figure out what we call this series ...
5-4-3 Baseball Roundup - LCS/World Series/Bizarro World Edition
randallsimonssausages.com 10/26/2009 — Our World Series matchup is set as it'll be the Bronx Bombers vs the Fightin' Phils. This WS promises to be one of the best in recent memory (knock on wood). You have the stars, the stories, and the traditional teams all on the table for this series. And, most of all, the Yankees are back, ha ha...
Monday Night Open Thread: World Series Edition
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 10/27/2009 — Use this thread for whatever you'd like to discuss. I'm sure most people have the series on their mind so here's a few pieces of info on the upcoming World Series matchup: - The Yanks could add Brian Bruney and Eric Hinske to the World Series roster according to the NY Post . “You could see us ...
Phillies vs. Yankees World Series breakdown
allthingsphillysports.blogspot.com 10/27/2009 — They are the two best teams in baseball. It's Philadelphia vs. New York. Broad Street vs. Broadway (sort of). The bloodstripes vs. the pinstripes. Can you ask for a better World Series than this? Here is my complete position by position breakdown of the World Series:
Starting Pitching...
World Series Preview: Can the Phillies Repeat?
sportsthenandnow.com 10/28/2009 —
Fans of the Phillies are hoping to have more to celebrate following the World Series.
Asked last April who were the last two teams I would like to see in the World Series, anybody and everybody who knows me well enough would have said the Yankees vs. the Phillies.
As a lifetime New ...
Four Scouting Keys to World Series
mlb.fanhouse.com 10/28/2009 — by Frankie Piliere In Advanced Scouting , MLB FanHouse's professional talent evaluator breaks down the playoffs from a scouting perspective.
Unless you are a fan with a rooting interest in this World Series, it's nearly impossible to not ...
A World-Class World Series
baseballanalysts.com 10/28/2009 — The World Series begins tonight and it should be a real treat for baseball fans everywhere (except maybe those in LA). The Fall Classic doesn't always produce great match-ups, but this year the playoffs have produced a doozy. The 2009 Series features an outstanding a Yankees team and a good ...
Your 2009 World Series Predictions Post
walkoffwalk.com 10/28/2009 —
Let's get the gang together and issue some wild World Series predictions, but instead of declaring a winner AND the number of games the series will go, let's choose between a barnburning close series or a bunch of snoozy cakewalks.
Why this ...
World Series numbers game
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 10/28/2009 — .nobrtable br { display: none }Ratings for every World Series game since 1972.The 2008 Phillies/Rays World Series averaged a 8.4/14 rating and 13.8 million viewers on FOX, by far the lowest rated, least-viewed World Series on record. The past four ...
World Series Preview: Power vs. Power
noyoureatowel.net 10/29/2009 — The last step. Yankees vs. Phillies. World Series #40 for the Yankees searching for World Series championship #27. The Phillies are the defending World Champions and may be coming in better than they were last year. So who is going to take it all? Who is going to be the 2009 World Series ...
Yankees Tweak World Series Roster
feedproxy.google.com 10/29/2009 — While the Yanks still have a few hours left to finalize their World Series roster, they made two moves Tuesday to switch up the roster from their other postseason series.
Eric Hinske and Brian Bruney have been added to the Yanks World Series roster, pending a late minute change of mind.
Hinske ...
Darek Braunecker Is A Fan Of This World Series
sportsagentblog.com 10/30/2009 — If you had two clients playing in the World Series, who would you want them to be after watching the first two games of the world series? Would they be Cliff Lee and A.J. Burnett? If your name is Darek Braunecker, that dream is actually a reality. Braunecker, whom I recently covered in an Agent S
Mr. November
hardballtimes.com 10/30/2009 — This will be the second time the World Series stretches into November. I could be wrong if for some reason an early World Series started that late, but I was thinking only in the current 3 round playoff format could a series go this long. The latest dates for a final world series game:
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World Series and Other Baseball-related Press Releases
fangsbites.com 10/31/2009 — I have some baseball-centric press releases here. Let's get to them. First, MLB is really happy about the World Series ratings. 2009 WORLD SERIES ATTRACTING BIG AUDIENCES Game Two of the 2009 World Series on FOX registered 18.9 million viewers, a 48% increase over last year’s Game ...
Day games don't rate in World Series
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 10/31/2009 — The push for afternoon games during the World Series seems likely to result in fewer eyeballs.From 1972 to 1987, 31 World Series day games averaged 18.5 million households (the equivalent of a 16.1 rating today) and 31.2 million viewers on NBC and ...
The Nightmare Is Upon Us
myteamrivals.typepad.com 11/2/2009 — Last year, the Phillies won the World Series behind the strength of Cole Hamels and Brad Lidge . This year, they are likely going to lose the World Series because of the failure of those same two players. What was a dream World Series match-up for many has now turned into a ...
World Series Memories – What Are Yours?
metsmerizedonline.com 11/2/2009 — World Series memories are very personal. They don’t have to be about who won and who lost.
One of my first memories of the World Series was in 1963 when the Yankees faced the Dodgers. In game one, Sandy Koufax dominated, striking out fifteen Yankees. But what I remember is that I ...
New York and Philadelphia... World Series rivals BEFORE 1950 —
SULLY BASEBALL
If you read or listened to World Series coverage this year, you'd think this was the second time New York and Philadelphia squared off in the World Series. And it is true, the Phillies and the Yankees only played each other one other time... the 1950 World Series. But well before the Phillies ...
October 28th Vs. The Phillies —
WasWatching.com
Well, at least the Yankees avoided being shutout in Game One of a World Series for the first time in their history (covering 40 World Series).
Funny, for some reason, this didn’t feel like a World Series game. Maybe it was the damp conditions with all the mist and the lack of crispness ...
World Series Preview: The Umpires —
River Avenue Blues
For our final World Series preview post before the Game 1 game thread, may I present to you the umpires…
Amidst increased scrutiny, Major League Baseball yesterday evening announced the umpire crew for the World Series. After a series of controversial and obviously bad calls during the ...
World Series Preview —
Over Beers
Well here we are, Game 1 of the 2009 World Series. Finally. Despite that "baseball loyalists" (whatever that means) wanted a Yankees vs. Dodgers series; we have a better match-up with the defending World Champion Phillies taking on the vaunted Yankees. Sports Illustrated had an article in last ...
World Series Notes —
BASEBALL HOT CORNER
The rain just keeps on coming but the warmth of baseball's World Series stretches from the Bronx to the City of Brotherly Love. Let's go around the horn for some World Series related links: Home sweet home: "the New Jersey Turnpike Series. To live up to this name, as any Turnpike veteran will ...
One Guy’s World Series Prediction —
Baseball Digest
What better time to offer up entirely unscientific predictions than on the eve of the 2009 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies?
The 2009 World Series could be one of the greatest postseason series of all time. The teams are stacked quite evenly, with ...
World Series Rematch, 59 Years Later —
Baseball Digest
During the Yankees greatest stretch of success, they appeared in 25 World Series between 1921 and 1964, winning 20 of them. At the crest of that dynasty, the Yankees won 5 straight World Series championships from 1949 to 1953. The Philadelphia Phillies were the first of the teams that ...
Most Yankees Are New To This World Series Business —
The Sports Section
Now that the Yankees have clinched their 40th trip to the World Series, it is already commonplace for those souls who consider the Yankees bad for humanity to mock the team and its fans for their overcelebration. Oh, no, it's been six whole years since you've been to the World Series. Talk to ...
2009 Fall Classic —
The Yankee Princess Sports Blog
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