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#19036	05/16/2015 8:00:17 am
Tiger504 Joined: 06/17/2014 Posts: 1314 Kalamazoo Bloody Tigers III.4	Best of luck to both Mt Vernon and Birmingham. Birmingham had been very resilient the last few series. It's been some good baseball.

#19085	05/17/2015 9:49:22 pm
FMcgriff1b Joined: 11/23/2012 Posts: 103 Inactive	Well if the four game series is any indication I will lose. Won the first and lost the next 3. The last two games I lost in extras and the bottom of the ninth. I'm also down my best hitter and my best pitcher for the whole series. But anything can happen in a 3 game series.

#19088	05/17/2015 11:47:17 pm
95th Cub Joined: 03/06/2015 Posts: 100 Racine Bombers VI.18	Should be close, and I wouldn't be surprised if they needed all three games. Birmingham knocked my boys out, but it didn't piss me off that badly given I wasn't expecting to do anything in the cup, much less as a D6 team, draw first blood against a Legends team once, let alone twice. Hell, I wasn't expecting to knock around anybody so badly their owner released him ASAP (or blow the lead in spectacular fashion), but that's baseball for ya.

#19090	05/18/2015 1:12:14 am
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	It's bizarre that they just played a league series and now must battle for the Cup Crown. Can two teams be more similar? Check out these numbers... Birmingham 233 AVE, 678 OPS, 3.03 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, .981 FPCT Mt. Vernon 229 AVE, 675 OPS, 3.02 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, .984 FPCT I recently purchased my Broken Bat 3000 Super Duper Prognosticator on the black market. I used to run thousands of simulations, but this version is so good I just ran one. Here were the results: Game One Birmingham 4 - Mount Vernon 3 Game Two Mount Vernon 2 - Birmingham 1 Game Three Birmingham 5 - Mount Vernon 2 Order from me now before the rush due to its miraculous accuracy !

#19110	05/18/2015 11:20:52 am
FMcgriff1b Joined: 11/23/2012 Posts: 103 Inactive	MukilteoMike hadn't checked the team stats for my league recently. I hadn't realized we were so closely matched. That's quite remarkable. As for your predictions...... I hope they're wrong.

#19120	05/18/2015 4:22:51 pm
PrivateSnowflake Joined: 01/06/2015 Posts: 1166 Bloomington Thunder Legends	Congrats to the Cubs. Starting pitching in this series was as advertised, it came down to the bullpens in two of the games. Well done to both finalists, win or lose, it's an amazing accomplishment to be one of the last two teams in a tournament consisting of every club in BrokenBat Updated Monday, May 18 2015 @ 4:27:56 pm PDT

#19127	05/18/2015 5:46:49 pm
95th Cub Joined: 03/06/2015 Posts: 100 Racine Bombers VI.18	turns on PA system We're singin' Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Gooooo! Hey Mount Vernon, whaddaya say? The Cubs are gonna win today! I'd play the Champions League song, but a cat stole my copy of it.

#19138	05/18/2015 9:11:33 pm
FMcgriff1b Joined: 11/23/2012 Posts: 103 Inactive	Well when I watched the games I suspected something as my mailbox was uncharacteristically full. (Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes and congratulations. We've got a great community of players here.) I couldn't believe how crazy the first game was. Sun hit a triple to tie (he has hit two triples in the past four seasons)and then Hurst hit a single to take the lead. I was contemplating benching Thompson http://brokenbat.org/player/56154 as he's not the player he once was. I decided to leave him in and he did well saving two games with 3 up 3 down ninth innings which was huge. The last game was won on a 3 sacrifice flies and a solo home run. A lot of productive outs from my team. It was an exciting cup run to say the least. I had quite a few close calls and near loses along the way.

#19144	05/18/2015 11:04:18 pm
kladu Joined: 02/03/2013 Posts: 57 Birmingham Athletics Legends	Congrats! Too bad my luck did not last a bit longer, or my infield did not blow G1.

#19145	05/18/2015 11:17:16 pm
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	...or my infield did not blow G1. Very much a Bill Buckner moment by your first baseman. 3 deadly unearned runs in the 8th. Ouch. The big difference, though, is that BB played there regularly. I would have destroyed my phone while watching, that's for sure.