2019 World Series -- Houston Astros vs Washington Nationals

five hundred thousand of the worst human beings alive were just activated as baseball fans and they all live within 10 miles of me

Wise men say, teams that win often seem to have more fun

happy for max and zimm though this is undeniably a fun baseball team

someone just shot off a firework i am going to jump off a bridge

Short of the Jays winning, quite exhilarating.

Max and Soto and the Expos connection, yes, but I think mostly love them because they're so damn old.

Has their ever been a seven game series where the home team lost every game?

nope, not in any sport

I figured....that is wild!

Feel a bit bad for Greinke but then again he probably doesn’t care lol

happy for max and zimm though this is undeniably a fun baseball team

someone just shot off a firework i am going to jump off a bridge

― qualx, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

you'll live

Great day, I also got a $800 bonus.

We can retire baby shark now

New Secret Sauce: bullpen optional.

Your owners look like bathfitter salesmen

Man, Ted Lerner is 94, he was born the year after the last Senators world championship.

Glad that a franchise that has not shied away from having large payrolls win the WS, also.

Tough call...So hard to square a pitcher vs. a hitter over a few games. I thought Price should have won last year, I probably would have voted for Soto this year.

I guess the Astros are our generation's version of the '69-'71 Orioles, rather than the 90's Yankees.

'88-'90 A's, too, who were one win shy of three 100-win seasons and lost twice to markedly inferior teams.

I would have gone Soto too.

dynasties are good to have occasionally and houston would've been a fun one if they hadn't turned heel

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Anyway I watched zero baseball this year but go Nats, my sister is happy

u monster

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/screen-shot-2019-10-31-at-1.00.41-am.png?w=1000&h=600&crop=1

jeez, Cole wearing a Boras cap after the game and expressing his reluctance to speak w/ "I'm not an employee of the team"

Dude, wear the loss for an hour? Sounds like a shit teammate

WPA

Strasburg 0.50
Soto 0.42
Greinke 0.36
Springer 0.36
Doolittle 0.35
Urquidy 0.23
Rendon 0.20
Kendrick 0.20

(xpost) On the call-in this morning, they weren't sure if Cole was joking or not with "I'm not on this team anymore"...Have you seen the clip?

Also, I must redirect everyone to this brilliantly prophetic post from Oct. 13:

THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

To which you can add: the Royals came back against both the Jays and the Cardinals after falling behind 1-3, while the Nationals came back against both the Dodgers and the Astros after falling behind 2-3 (with the Cardinals sweep between).

I saw a clip of his interview with the hat on and he didn't seem remotely in a joking mood...not sure what the joke would be anyway?

I guess they hadn't actually seen the clip (neither have I)...If you did it in a dry, self-mocking way, I could see where that would be funny--it sounds like the kind of joke Greinke or Joe Biagini would make.

Would definitely be funnier after a win than a loss, though.

putting on you agent's cap immediately postgame nagl

your

and the Nationals didn't even need Don Denkinger! xxxxxp

No more baseball ffs

Wise men say, teams that win often seem to have more fun

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

You could see how united and fun loving these Nats were even when they were in the wild card spot in August. In a way that say the Braves or the Astros weren’t.

I guess the Astros are our generation's version of the '69-'71 Orioles, rather than the 90's Yankees.

'88-'90 A's, too, who were one win shy of three 100-win seasons and lost twice to markedly inferior teams.

― clemenza, Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:36 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I sincerely doubt we have seen the last of these Astros. Correa and Altuve and Bregman and Springer still have many good years ahead of them. They are a big market franchise. The farm system is still top 10. Losing Cole will make their rotation go from insane to very good. They can still very much be the 90s Yankees (unfortunately).

i did not watch a single moment of this world series (apart from replays of the trea turner obstruction call)

sup qualx

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— Yoni Boo!👻-rande (@YoniAstro) October 31, 2019

https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1189952465413771264

Here's the updated career top 50 and bottom 50 hitters in career playoff WPA, with players who appeared in 2019 postseason highlighted. pic.twitter.com/VOyARZpGfN

— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) October 31, 2019

wau Maddux

at what point did u decide to boycott, mook?

that maddux line is just for his batting, which is wild -- he was 4-for-55 with 22 K

i was disgusted with the astros assistant GM thing and how it was handled -- one of the women in the locker room is a former co-worker -- and just didn't feel like watching

xp: Reggie Sanders is lol'ing all the way to the bank, how many rings did he end up with?

Ah, only one.

I was remembering that he went to the playoffs an incredible amount of times for a journeyman (incl. 3 WS in 4 years on 3 different teams):

CIN 1995 Lost in NLCS
ATL 2000 Lost in NLDS
ARI 2001 Won WS
SFG 2002 Lost WS
STL 2004 Lost WS
STL 2005 Lost NLCS

has anyone checked in on the mattress guy

pic.twitter.com/3JBIGWapjC
— Yoni Boo!👻-rande (@YoniAstro) October 31, 2019

lmaooooooo

gibson vs lolich should count, except they forgot to elect lolich to the hof

That was a good one, yeah; Lolich got better after that, but he was already pretty good. (Last time a pitcher won three, right?)

I wish Craig Wright had added a little subjectivity to his rankings based on the overall historical stature of the pitcher. Smoltz was fast becoming one of the best pitchers in the game by '91, and Morris was Morris (I'm aware, I'm aware...); 15th seems low.

(And if you want to go strictly by a central-mean measure of WAR, change the title to "Calculating Every World Series Game 7 Pitching Matchup.")

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― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:25 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hey!! i don't know how much i'll post. i think i'm gonna start a new account because this one has too many bookmarks

I get setting guidelines beforehand, but I still fail to understand how you get to the point of being down 3-2 in the 8th inning of Game 7, and deciding Osuna's your better bet against the top of the Nationals' order than the single best pitcher in baseball this year. https://t.co/a7HByfu2MJ

— Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) November 1, 2019

New in this story— Closer Sean Doolittle will not attend the White House with the Nationals on Monday. He is the first player to confirm that they will not be there: https://t.co/6bhqI74PUI

— Jesse Dougherty (@dougherty_jesse) November 1, 2019