POLL: Yanks or Rays - Who Do You Prefer 1st Rd?

I think the Rangers would have a better chance of eliminating the Yankees in the ALCS than the ALDS.

Either way, the Rangers will be the underdog, clearly.

Yankees + October are something that can wait till the next round (plus that means that they will be the WC, so fuck their HFA)

Their pitching is not as dominate, they are an older, slower team, and my psychosis needs…Nay demands revenge!

But I think we’re all in aggreeance that a triumph over the Evil Empire would be much more awesome if it were the ALCS and the win put us in the Series

So give me the Rays in the first round… they’re probably going to put us on during the daytime when nobody’s watching… but we’ll play the team who’s home field crowd probably has the least impact, and has the shittiest home turf in a shorter series…

And they’ve beat up on us too. Tough question, really. I really don’t want to play either. Yankees I guess.

the games will be on in Prime Time, and we have to face 2 good teams anyway.

“if you were the yanks or rays, who would you rather play…Twinkies or Rangers?”

All those teams are fucking scared of the mother effing Rangers.

I just don’t think we have the stuff to hang with the Rays over a short series. Maybe in a 7 gamer when we can see both Cliff Lee twice and CJ twice, but over a shorter series, the Rays would take us 99 times out of 100. The yanks on the other hand, I think is 50-50 right now, and if we can get out of round 1 against the Yanks, just think of what it’ll do for us in the FA market, let alone in keeping this fan base growing.

I think the Rays have the better pitching and I think the Rangers can run all over Posada. Although CC and Andy kinda neutralize that advantage for their starts.

I’ll take one in the ALDS and the other in the ALCS.

Cool?

a) I don’t want to listen to the whole historical success of Yanks v. Rangers in the ALDS story

b) If lose in the ALDS, I would want us to lose to the Rays

c) I think the Rays are less intimidating than the Yankees. Yeah, sure, you don’t want your team to be intimidated. But, I’d rather face Price than CC in Game 1. I’d rather pitch against Crawford/Longoria than Arod/Teixeira/Cano. And defense doesn’t intimidate.

If the rays and yanks don’t watch out we’ll be playing Minnesota in the first round!

I guess he has had a couple of good starts, but he hadn’t pitched since June. I think I take my chances against CC Sabathia and a potentially impotent Pettite… though that does make 4 out of the 5 ALDS games against leftys.

I just think the Yankees pitching is more vulnerable… and I would rather have that in a 5 game series.