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October 3, 2009

Biggest Game Threads

It always comes up during playoffs, so I thought I would go back and find the biggest threads.

Top 5 Game Threads of 2009
G108 - 0807: Yankees 2, Red Sox 0 (15) -  957
G 16 - 0424: Red Sox 5, Yankees 4 (11) -  931
G  8 - 0414: A's 6, Red Sox 5 (12)     -  839
G 60 - 0611: Red Sox 4, Yankees 3      -  741 
G110 - 0809: Yankees 5, Red Sox 2      -  670
As expected. Either Yankees and extra innings. Or both. Two of the top five were in the same series.

1,000+ Threads
2007 ALCS 7 - Red Sox 11, Spiders 2    -  1,356
2008 ALDS 2 - Red Sox 7, Angels 5      -  1,328
2008 ALDS 3 - Angels 5, Red Sox 4 (12) -  1,254
2007 ALCS 5 - Red Sox 7 Spiders 3      -  1,033
2008 ALDS 1 - Red Sox 4, Angels 1      -  1,020
2008 G 113  - Royals 4, Red Sox 3      -  1,018
2008 ALCS 7 - Rays 3 Red Sox 1         -  1,008
That Royals game looks more than a little out of place.

The most comments for a World Series game was 955 for 2007 WS4. There were no comments at JoS in 2004.
Example
X-rays on Alex Gonzalez's right wrist were negative. Seabass was hit by a pitch on Friday night. He thinks he'll be able to play on Sunday.
[I] had no pain. I feel good. I can move my fingers and hand, my wrist. ... I can squeeze.
Rocco Baldelli strained his left hip flexor on Friday and will have an MRI on Monday morning. His status for the ALDS is unknown.

Daisuke Matsuzaka has a 2.22 ERA in four starts since coming back from the disabled list on September 15.
I was able to work on points that I felt were going to be important going into the playoffs, and I had a really good feel for those points. ... The most important point was being able to battle with runners on base and I think that's my real strength.
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7 comments:

  1. laura kOctober 3, 2009 at 8:27 PM

    There were no comments at JoS in 2004.

    You mean comments were not turned on yet?

    God, can you imagine the trolls for THAT series?

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  2. RobOctober 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM

    Battling with runners on base is your only strength, Dice... because that's the situation you're in the most when you're pitching.

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  3. A ConformerOctober 4, 2009 at 7:42 AM

    That Royals game looks more than a little out of place.

    To be fair, I think I remember that Royals game, and the comments were around 850-900 when people decided to reach 1000. I seem to remember the last 100 or so were about trombones and music and other non-game stuff, way after the game was over.

    Now, I'm gonna go check if my memory deceives me or not.

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  4. laura kOctober 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM

    Trombones! :)

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  5. allanOctober 4, 2009 at 8:07 AM

    I think you are right, Ofer. We were also following later games. I finally kicked everyone off to go to bed.

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  6. Rick (f/k/a westcoastsox)October 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM

    I'm looking forward to hitting 1,000 comments in 2009 WS4 when we sweep the Dodgers (Dodgers, because if it comes to that, I'll be live-blogging from Dodger Stadium. Somehow.)

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  7. A ConformerOctober 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM

    Hahaha, turns out it was more violas than trombones. The rest of it was fairly true.

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