I agree

I don’t know the exact rules on who is allowed to hang around, but I don’t think they are that stringent. I would imagine Riske, Branyan, etc. will be there as well.

After we walked out of the stadium Sunday there was one of those preachers with the megaphone in the parking lot. A group of us started chanting “CC’s God” and completely drowned him out. It was awesome.

It’s not often that one player has the power to help take a team this far.

Not saying it did it all himself by any means, but his attitude definitely brought a more positive influence to the team and motivated the rest of the boys.

He definately deserves some sort of recognition. Personally, I think he’s more deserving of the MVP. He is the reason we are in the post-season. Without him, we would have been out of the race 2 weeks ago. When you look at what he has done for us the last 3 months, particularly the past 2 weeks, no one has been a bigger difference maker to thier team’s success. He literally threw us on his back and carried us to the post season.

I know Ryan Howard’s had a very good year, but I would challange any Phillies fan to go back through thier schedule and tell many games they won because of Ryan Howard. When I do that with CC, eleven come to mind. I know sometimes in baseball pitchers can go out there and get – I don’t want to call them “cheap” wins, but – wins they may not have necessarily been the difference in. You can sometimes go out there with 5 innings of average work and pick up a win because you happened to be pitching on a day your team’s bats were hot. That was never the case with CC. In each one of his wins, he was absolutely dominant.

When people look back at the 2008 season up to this point in 5, 10, 20 years, the two headlines that stand out will be :

1.) the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
2.) CC Sabathia

Ryan Howard’s 48 HRs/146 RBIs are very impressive, but it’s not what people will remember about the 2008 regular season in 10 years. Cy Young or MVP, he deffinately deserves some sort of recognition. my vote’s MVP.

I don’t think you can give CC the Cy to someone who only pitched half the year. I know he’s been nothing short of God like since he’s been with us, and probably the best pitcher in the NL during that span. But, the fact that he only pitched half a year in the NL hurts his chances.

I think it should go to Tim Lincecum. He’s 18 – 5 on a horrible team, his BB/WP rate leaves a bit to be desired, but his other numbers are just ridiculous. He’s got crazy sick K/9 number, H/9 while only in his second year, #1 ERA+ AND while eating up the 3rd most IP in the NL (Once again on a crap team). It would be crazy to see what he’ll do once he’s got a team behind him to help the Wins ratio.

That kids crazy good. If Sabathia pitched most or all of 2008 NL and posted the numbers he has since he got to Milwaukee, it would be easy, but I really don’t think he’ll get it based upon the whole being in the AL thing.

But in a post game interview last night, the Rock asked CC if he’ll pitch on 3 days rest and the response was “No doubt”.

i’m hoping for rain on Wed. and we get a Sabathia/Halems Game 1 matchup on Thurs.. barring that, my guess is Gallardo.