All-Time Franchise Baseball Tournament: RED SOX WIN IT ALL!

[The Argonaut]

Thanks for having the wife and me to your dinner party.

[Lament]

The Giants are yours if you want them, I'll grab the Braves or the Mets.

Thanks. I guess I'll wait and see how desperate I am to have a real shot at winning when the next time we do this comes around. If I'm confident in my White Sox I might just run with them again.

if you'd want to assemble the brewers' pitching staff, that'd be fine.

So much 1992 Cal Eldred.

Lament, please start Cano at 2B instead of Stirnweiss and Berra at C instead of Howard in both my games tomorrow.

Got it. I was impressed with your managerial skills when Cano hit the go-ahead homer the day you put him in the lineup.

Seems almost unfair to call my team the Fam-a-lee and not let Dave Parker in the lineup.

Every time I run sims, I tell myself I want to point out that your squad has the best name of any of them. I wanted to give my team an alternate name, but I couldn't come up with anything better than the Go-Go-Sox.

[Lament]

2 Joe Dimaggio LF
3 Babe Ruth CF
4 Mickey Mantle RF
5 Lou Gehrig 1B

That's just ridiculous to see written out.

[@SkitchP]

So updating my Tigers spreadsheet, I got to see a lot of the random scores and stuff. I think Jorge is 4-0 against the red sox, but 0-4 against the expos.

[Kaius]

[Norah]

I like the Montreal Doubledicks.

[EJ]

Thanks, Commish.

I figured you'd do something like Disco Is Dead to celebrate that fateful day at Comiskey. But that wouldn't really capture the spirit of your team. You don't even have Chet Lemon on your roster.

[@SkitchP]

Thanks, Commish.

I figured you'd do something like Disco Is Dead to celebrate that fateful day at Comiskey. But that wouldn't really capture the spirit of your team. You don't even have Chet Lemon on your roster.

Chet Lemon should be on MY roster.

[Lament]

So updating my Tigers spreadsheet, I got to see a lot of the random scores and stuff. I think Jorge is 4-0 against the red sox, but 0-4 against the expos.

I wonder if chud takes any solace in this.

Thanks, Commish.

I figured you'd do something like Disco Is Dead to celebrate that fateful day at Comiskey. But that wouldn't really capture the spirit of your team. You don't even have Chet Lemon on your roster.

GODDAMMIT.

We should have been called Disco Demolition. Or Fuck Judge Landis.

[Norah]

I thought he was 3-1 against the Red Sox. Didn't we split the first series?

[Lament]

No, he swept the first series too.

[Norah]

god damnit

[Lament]

I like the Montreal Doubledicks.

Doubledicks is a good name. So is The Skitch Red Machine. But We Are Fam-A-Lee is just fucking awesome.

[philpritchard]

Can I call dibs on the Mets next year? I pretty much had a team ready to go for this tournament if we needed it, and I don't want to bother with any other team because the Mets are the only other team where Olerud is the starting first baseman.

[Lament]

Yeah, you can have the Mets unless someone wants them as their #1 team. Or if you want to take the Mets as your #1 and hope the Blue Jays come back as your #2.

[Lament]

Day twenty-eight matchups...

Tigers - Reds
at Detroit: Trout (R) vs. Walters (R), at Cincinnati: Lolich (L) vs. Rhines (R)

Rangers - White Sox
at Texas: Jenkins (R) vs. Scott (R), at Chicago: Perry (R) vs. Walsh (R)

Blue Jays - Mariners
at Toronto: Langston (L) vs. Clemens (R), at Seattle: Hernandez (R) vs. Stieb (R)

Expos - Red Sox
at Montreal: P. Martinez (R) vs. Grove (L), at Boston: Rogers (R) vs. Martinez (R)

Yankees - Orioles
at New York: Hunter (R) vs. Kilroy (L), at Baltimore: Guidry (L) vs. Palmer (R)

Cubs - Royals
at Chicago: Jenkins (R) vs. Saberhagen (R), at Kansas City: Brown (R) vs. Greinke (R)

Astros - Cardinals
at Houston: Ryan (R) vs. Cooper (R), at St. Louis: Scott (R) vs. Tudor (L)

Pirates - Indians
at Pittsburgh: Candelaria (L) vs. Perry (R), at Cleveland: Law (R) vs. Feller (R)

[Lament]

Day twenty-eight has been run.

[BigRedLedbetter]

I'm a temporary Buccos fan. Raise the jolly roger or whatever they say. We are family too.

[philpritchard]

I was starting to think I would never get to use this: Alomar walkoff!

[philpritchard]

I haven't updated my stats since the devastating collapse and sweep at the hands of the Cards on Day 24. I guess I should get on that.