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Welcome to The Southpaw for the World Series Game 5 live chat.
If this is your first time here for a chat, thanks for coming. If you've been here before thanks for coming back.
Tonight, the New York Yankees are looking to clinch thier 27th World Series championship.
The Phillies are looking for a stay of execution. And they've got a pretty good lawyer on their side, Mr. Cliff Lee.

7:32	Just noticed during the pregame intros that they had a guy against his locker who was supposed to be Shane Victorino. However, he was wearing No. 18.

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On this date last year, Phillies fans here at The Southpaw thought only Jesus saved more than Brad LIdge; Cole Hamels was Optimus Prime, Sandy Koufax, Luke Skywalker and Marty McFly all wapped up in one; And Charlie Manuel was a beautiful mixture of Buddha, Casey Stengel and Yoda. This year, they feel very different and that's not fair to Hamels, Lidge, Manuel or Phillies fans.

7:44	Alright, we have to get one thing straight. Derek Jeter is not the greatest Yankee of all time. There's this fellow named Babe Ruth who, if he never became a Yankee, the team probably would have been disbanded.

7:47	[Comment From Jeff Frantz] At least she's wearing a red shirt?

7:49	So yeah, before the game, the broadcasters asked if Derek Jeter was the best Yankee of all time.

7:49	Of all time.

7:49	Had they never heard of Babe Ruth? Joe DiMaggio? Yogi Berra?

7:49	The Southpaw's head is exploding.

7:49	[Comment From Jeff Frantz] He's the greatest Yankee of the HDTV age

7:49	Which is the only age that counts, I guess.

7:50	[Comment From Jeff Rice] McFlyyyyyyyyyyyyy

7:51	[Comment From Jeff Frantz] Once Jeter generates enough revenue that the Yankees can build a stadium without stealing children's playgrounds and hundreds of millions in public funds, they can bring him into the conversation

7:51	[Comment From Jeff Rice] Don't like the inclusion of Charlie in your analogy, Southpaw. Manuel did a better job with this year's team because he had to work around the craziness of Lidge and Hamels

7:52	[Comment From Jeff Frantz] Until then, I'll refer to BP's definitive analysis of the Babe as the greatest player of all time.

7:55	[Comment From Jeff Frantz] So I've had to sit through this mastercard commercial all post-season. That is not punk rock. It can not be a punk-rock download.

7:55

What type of an idiot makes the statement that Derek Jeter is the best Yankee ever? Seriously. If it wasn't for Babe Ruth, the team might have been contracted. Before they got him, the Yankees were the joke of the American League. Then he came and doubled the home run record, hit more home runs than any team, and won four World Series rings.
Then you have Gehrig, who won seven rings and had eight seasons with 150 RBI's. Let me tell you, there have less than 60 seaons in which a player has had 150 runs batted in. He has almost an eighth of them.
Then there's DiMaggio, who did all that stuff on the field and MARRIED MARILYN MONROE.
Derek Jeter dated Mariah Carey, and it was when she was on the downside of being the hottest women on the planet.

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[Comment From Jeff Frantz]
DiMaggio also lost years his age 28-30 season fighting in a war. His age 28 season, he slugged .497. His age 31 season, he slugged .511. If we assume he as 180 hits a season during those years -- a conservative estimate, he has nearly 2,800 hits by age 36, and would have retired as the Yankees all-time hits leader.

8:02	I like the research, Jeff.

8:03	[Comment From Jeff Frantz] I like Jeter as a player, but you just can't spout crap like that

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