2011 ALCS Game 6 Live Blog

Game 6:  Tigers vs. Rangers 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

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2011 ALCS Game 5/NLCS Game 4 Live Blog

Game 5: Rangers vs. Tigers 4:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

Game 4: Brewers vs. Cardinals 8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

2011 ALCS Game 4/NLCS Game 3 Live Blog

Game 4: Rangers vs. Tigers 4:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

Game 3: Brewers vs. Cardinals 8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

2011 ALCS Game 3 Live Blog

Game 3: Rangers vs. Tigers 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

2011 LCS Game 2 Live Blog

Game 2: Tigers vs. Rangers 4:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Terry Francona, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

Game 2: Cardinals vs. Brewers 8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

NFL Week 5/NLCS Game 1/ALCS Game 2 Live Blog

Game 1: Cardinals vs. Brewers 4:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

Game 2: Tigers vs. Rangers 7:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Terry Francona, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

2011 ALCS Game 1 Live Blog

Game 1:  Tigers vs. Rangers 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Terry Francona, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

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2011 League Championship Series Schedule

This hurts a lot.

National League Championship Series

Milwaukee Brewers vs. St. Louis Cardinals

Game 1:  October 9:  Cardinals vs. Brewers  4:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 2:  October 10:  Cardinals vs. Brewers  8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 3:  October 12:  Brewers vs. Cardinals  8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 4:  October 13:  Brewers vs. Cardinals  8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 5:  October 14:  Brewers vs. Cardinals  8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 6:  October 16:  Cardinals vs. Brewers  4:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 7:  October 17:  Cardinals vs. Brewers  8:00 (TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

American League Championship Series

Texas Rangers vs. Detroit Tigers

Game 1:  October 8:  Tigers vs. Rangers  7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Terry Francona, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 2:  October 9:  Tigers vs. Rangers  7:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Terry Francona, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 3:  October 11:  Rangers vs. Tigers  7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 4:  October 12:  Rangers vs. Tigers  4:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 5:  October 13:  Rangers vs. Tigers  4:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 6:  October 15:  Tigers vs. Rangers  7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 7:  October 16:  Tigers vs. Rangers  8:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

2010 MLB Playoffs Day 15 Live Blog

Yankees vs. Rangers 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

MLB Playoffs Day 13 Live Blog

Game 5: Rangers vs. Yankees 4:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

Game 4: Phillies vs. Giants 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

MLB Playoffs Day 12 Live Blog

Game 3: Phillies vs. Giants 4:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

Game 4: Rangers vs. Yankees 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

MLB Playoffs Day 11 Live Blog

Game 3: Rangers vs. Yankees 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

2010 MLB Playoffs Day 9 Live Blog

Game 2: Yankees vs. Rangers 4:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

Game 1: Giants vs. Phillies 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

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2010 MLB Playoffs Day 8 Live Blog

Game 1: Yankees vs. Rangers 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

2010 LCS Schedule

Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees. In just over 3 weeks time, one of these teams will be calling themselves Champions. (all times ET)

National League Championship Series

NL East: Philadelphia Phillies vs. NL West: San Franisco Giants

Game 1: October 16: Giants vs. Phillies 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 2: October 17: Giants vs. Phillies 8:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 3: October 19: Phillies vs. Giants 4:00 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 4: October 20: Phillies vs. Giants 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 5: October 21: Phillies vs. Giants 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 6: October 23: Giants vs. Phillies 3:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)
Game 7: October 24: Giants vs. Phillies 7:30 (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

American League Championship Series

Al West: Texas Rangers vs. AL Wildcard: New York Yankees

Game 1: October 15: Yankees vs. Rangers 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 2: October 16: Yankees vs. Rangers 4:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 3: October 18: Rangers vs. Yankees 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 4: October 19: Rangers vs. Yankees 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 5: October 20: Rangers vs. Yankees 4:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 6: October 22: Yankees vs. Rangers 8:00 (TBS - Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)
Game 7: October 23: Yankees vs. Rangers 8:00 (TBS - Ernie johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz, SR: Craig Sager)

If the Yankees and Rangers series does not go 7 games, Game 6 of the NLCS will be pushed back to night time.

TBS Announces MLB Playoff Announcers

And the Fisting One's replacement is.............Ernie Johnson!

LDS Announcers:
Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz
Brian Anderson and Joe Simpson
Dick Stockton and Bob Brenly
Don Orsillo and Buck Martinez

ALCS Announcers
Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling, and John Smoltz

Sideline Reporters
Craig Sager
Tom Verducci
Marc Fein
David Aldridge

TBS Studio
Matt Winer, Dennis Eckersley, Cal Ripken, and David Wells.

Ernie Johnson is the man and even though I have not heard him do PbP much, if at all, he certainly figures to be better than anything Captain Fisted ever had to offer. Overall it looks like a good line-up, certainly much better now that Chip Caray is no longer with TBS to tell us that balls are getting fisted foul. Goodbye, Chip. We'll miss you.

Chip Caray Will Have To Take His Fisting Elsewhere

Very very very sad news coming out of Turner Broadcasting today. I'm not sure if there is any other way to tell you this so I will just have to break it to you and hoped you can bare what I have to tell you without breaking down. Chip Caray will no longer be working at TBS.

Wait? You're NOT upset about this??? Via the New York Times

Chip Caray’s tenure as TBS’s lead major league baseball announcer ended Monday when he and the cable network agreed to part ways.

Caray’s high-volume style was mixed with a penchant for bad play calls, embellishments and factual errors. His best known incident occurred during the American League Central Division tie breaker between the Twins and the Tigers in October. He called an obvious lineout this way: “Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play!”

In a memo sent to company employees, David Levy, the president of Turner Sports, wrote on Monday: “Since the end of this year’s M.L.B. playoffs, we’ve had several discussions with Chip Caray regarding 2010 and beyond. Both sides have agreed that now is the right time for Turner Sports and Chip to move ahead on different paths.”

Caray had some time left on his contract with Turner, where he also called Braves games on the Peachtree TV cable network. Levy said the company was looking at a “number of candidates” to replace Caray at both positions.

One more time with passion.......FISTED!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'll miss you, Chip. And your horrible calls.

For whenever there is a line drive basehit that is caught out there resulting in a double play, we know that your spirit will be in the booth calling it.

MLB Playoffs Day 15 Open Thread

Game on tonight! Will the Phillies be playing the Yankees or will there be a Game 7? Here's your vitals and yes, the weather is nice in New York today. Just ask Joe Buck.

Game 6: Angels @ Yankees 7:57 (Saunders, 16-7 vs. Pettitte, 14-8) (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Ken Rosenthal)

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MLB Playoffs Day 14 Open Thread

I would live blog this game if it was not for the fact that I am currently in the school's library working on a project where I need software only available on the university computers. Oh well, this is the small price I pay for staying up last night to watch and celebrate your 2009 NL champion Philadelphia Phillies. And if there is one sentiment about baseball here in Philly other than "WOOT!!! WE'RE NL CHAMPIONS FOR THE 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR!" it's "BRING ON THE YANKEES!!!"

Yankees @ Angels 7:57 (Burnett, 13-9 vs. Lackey, 11-8) (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Chris Myers and Ken Rosenthal)

MLB Playoffs Day 12 Open Thread

Today's game.....

Game 4: Yankees @ Angels 7:57 (Sabathia, 19-8 vs. Kazmir, 10-9) (Fox - Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, SR: Chris Myers and Ken Rosenthal)

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