Baseball Playoffs....

[Smooth Operator]

Originally Posted by JerseyJ

Hey smoothie...Cliffy had a dandy of an outing today eh?

Ah … great to see ya, Jersey boy

Yeah, was a tough series for CL

Probably should've walked ER in last night's contest

At least he went down swinging, tho … unlike that big choke artist (RH) in Philly…

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Ah … great to see ya, Jersey boy

Yeah, was a tough series for CL

Probably should've walked ER in last night's contest

At least he went down swinging, tho … unlike that big choke artist (RH) in Philly…

Howard had a difficult playoffs (though he did hit well.. just no homers and noone decided to get on base for him) and had a terrible last at bat.. but he is NO way a choke artist. Ryan "Just Get me to the plate Boys" Howard and "choke artist" shouldnt be mentioned in the same breath.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Howard had a difficult playoffs (though he did hit well.. just no homers and noone decided to get on base for him) and had a terrible last at bat.. but he is NO way a choke artist. Ryan "Just Get me to the plate Boys" Howard and "choke artist" shouldnt be mentioned in the same breath.

I thought he meant Halladay for a second. It would help if he didn't feel the need to abbreviate every name of every person.

[Cannon Shell]

Giants pitched great. I was surprised that Texas was so inept against them. Funny that SF could easily finish last in the NL west next season.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

I thought he meant Halladay for a second. It would help if he didn't feel the need to abbreviate every name of every person.

I did at first also, the "went down swinging" part assured it was Howard

[Smooth Operator]

Somehow don't think people will mistake RH for RJ ("Mr. October") at this point…

[Antitrust32]

lets forget that he single handidly carried the team into the playoffs in September the past two years and then had some huge moments in October... oh yeah and he was recently injured and didnt seem to get back into form.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

lets forget that he single handidly carried the team into the playoffs in September the past two years and then had some huge moments in October... oh yeah and he was recently injured and didnt seem to get back into form.

He's great, but he strikes out too much and you can't end your team's season with the bat on your shoulder. It's gonna be a while until he lives that down. Carlos Beltran still hasn't lived his backwards K from 2006 down and he took a much filthier pitch than Howard did.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

He's great, but he strikes out too much and you can't end your team's season with the bat on your shoulder. It's gonna be a while until he lives that down. Carlos Beltran still hasn't lived his backwards K from 2006 down and he took a much filthier pitch than Howard did.

that was terrible of him to watch that ball go by.

Philly fans can have problems with anything. So of course they will have a problem with Howard & his contract.

But the guy has been as productive as can be, he's a good leader, and he often comes up big when we need him. Is there any other player you'd want in the month of September not named Albert?

Howard is the man.

[timmgirvan]

texas needs a bit of small ball...too predictable
nice job by Giants!