Question of the Day - Page 201

spudlyff8fan · 10-05-2007, 01:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_roach

Are the Cubs gonna win the world series now?

No...no...sorry.

2000th reply.

kwilson · 10-05-2007, 08:25 PM

Question of the Day:

Did you ever think this thread would hit 2,000 posts?

Not really. But I never thought a great deal about it.

the_roach · 10-06-2007, 10:20 PM

Well, my Cubs logo signature didn't last long. They gone.

Oh well, there's always next year. :P Will the 100th anniversary be the cursebreaker?

As for QOTD, I'm in the same boat of not thinking about it. But it's kind of cool that it's lasted this long.

kwilson · 10-09-2007, 03:42 PM

Question of the Day:

Who do you want to win the World Series?

I suppose now that I'm a resident of Philadelphia I should be rooting for the Phillies, but I really can't bring myself to. So I'm mostly indifferent, since the Mets imploded.

spudlyff8fan · 10-09-2007, 05:07 PM

I want the Sox to win...but they won't.

aye...

Only 84 years til the next Red Sox world series victory...

the_roach · 10-09-2007, 06:20 PM

Phillies got swept along with the Cubs and Angels, so throw that out of the window. :P

Look at spudz over here. He thinks the Red Sox still have underdog/curse/inferiority cred. No, they're a major player nowadays who I think are going to win this year. The Red Sox actually have that swagger of belief about them that the Cubs so visibly lacked.

spudlyff8fan · 10-09-2007, 10:21 PM

I just worry about the pitching. And the hitting. I've just seen Matsuzaka give up too many big games, Javier Lopez give up too many key runs and Gagne suck so hard you could throw him into a wall and he'd be stuck at the face.

The Sox offense is painfully streaky when you watch them daily as I do. They're also preferential with their run support to a perplexing degree, as Roach, who briefly paid attention to his fantasy football team which allowed him to grasp just how little the Sox helped out Daisuke and how much they helped out Tim Wakefield. But yeah, CC Sabathia and co are no jokes. I'm worried.

the_roach · 10-09-2007, 10:27 PM

I woulda grasped that without dumb fantasy baseball because I pay attention to the Red Sox stuff. :P But anyway, the Red Sox to me have big game players who crank it up a few notches in the post-season (Schilling, Beckett, Manny, and Ortiz specifically). That will rub off on the other players. And if I'm not mistaken, the Red Sox won 6 of 8 this season against the Indians.

spudlyff8fan · 10-09-2007, 10:46 PM

And the Yankees wrecked the Indians in the regular season. That didn't quite work out. The Sox do have a handful of Mr. October candidates in Schilling, Beckett, Manny and Ortiz. But still. Pretty much the rest of the lineup are all postseason newbs. And if they aren't postseason newbs, outside of those four, they ain't so hot (I'm looking at you, JD Drew).

the_roach · 10-09-2007, 11:56 PM

Question of the Day:

We all love the Geico cavemen ads. So what about the new sitcom on ABC? Any thoughts?

I don't know. I feel like people don't get the show at all and its humor. It's definitely got an unusual tone to it. That's what is leading people to say that it doesn't quite translate well from the ads to a 20 minute sitcom. Well, I think people are judging the show based on the limited scope of the commercials and not by the self-contained merit of the show.

Then there's that undercurrent of race and the issues there that probably makes people uncomfortable and cry foul.

I hope the show actually works in the whole geico caveman commercial campaign as a subplot. That would be neat.