Today's Smokes 10/25/10

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Permalink Reply by Brian D. on October 25, 2010 at 12:18pm

Flor de Oliva corojo robusto for me so far today.

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Permalink Reply by Craig Schmidt on October 25, 2010 at 2:14pm

Nicks sticks

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Permalink Reply by John Johnson on October 25, 2010 at 2:22pm

Jaime Garcia robusto, form The Party Source :)'

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Permalink Reply by Chris McCann on October 25, 2010 at 9:49pm

LFD Carajos Maduro
Flor de Oliva Maduro Robusto
Murcielago Churchill

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Permalink Reply by Charming Karl, Cookie King on October 26, 2010 at 12:18pm

Certainly I wish the Rangers well in the World Series, but I don't think it's going to be quite the cakewalk it was in the ALCS. SF has some incredible pitching - starters, relievers, closer (in spite of his Grecian formula beard...).

Should be a great, close Series.

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Permalink Reply by ryoga81 on October 26, 2010 at 1:33pm

I know I sounded overconfident and arrogant but seriously, this is the first World Series we've EVER been to in the Rangers 30+ years as a team so a win would be incredible. It's like everybody says, let Texas have this one, the Yankees will just buy another one next year....

The Yankees have what?....like 27 World Series wins under their belt?....let us little guys have one for once! lol

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Permalink Reply by ryoga81 on October 26, 2010 at 3:53pm

I just hope we don't pull the famed Dallas Cowboys Choke Maneuver® against San Francisco...lulz

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Permalink Reply by Charming Karl, Cookie King on October 26, 2010 at 4:19pm

I hardly think you can call the Rangers "little guys" playing in a ballpark worth God knows how many hundreds of millions of dollars, etc. Yes, their payroll is maybe a third of the Yankees ($56million plus 5 players whose salaries are not known), but they're paying Jorge Cantu $6million to platoon at first base - in the division series he played one game - so I don't think you can act like they're poor.

The Giants similarly have the money to be able to use Aaron Rowand as a pinchhitter and Edgar Renteria to platoon at shortstop, for a combined cost of $23.6million, or roughly 60% of the Pittsburgh Pirates total payroll.

Kudos to the Rangers for making it to the World Series, but there have been teams with much more dominant offensive forces (e.g., the 1988 A's and the 1960 Yankees) who have seen how scrappy teams with good pitching can be impossible to beat. The path ahead to the championship is no cake-walk.

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