general 2021 MLB discussion thread

well michael wacha certainly did his job

rays offense once again costing team ace michael wacha his well earned win

fuck em up nats

5-1 Nationals!

Of the 10,000 dumb ideas MLB ever had, the synchronized last-day finish--which I assume was inspired by the wild finish that one year--has to rank near the top.

Amazing. I’ve got the Rays / Yankees on the 2nd monitor now

(Top of the best, that is.)

Lowe up with two on!

Of the 10,000 dumb ideas MLB ever had, the synchronized last-day finish--which I assume was inspired by the wild finish that one year--has to rank near the top.

― clemenza, Sunday, October 3, 2021 5:07 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i remember it was well received at the time but right now mlb.tv is melting my laptop

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is this a relative or a future republican senator

Those 45 Marcus Semien homers would've looked nice on the A's tally :/

(Top of the best, that is.)

i was gonna say!

Cruz and Meadows left a runner at third with one out.

carlos correa has been hugging people for the past 20 minutes

I was wondering if randy was going to try stealing home, because it definitely looked like the bats weren’t going to get him there.

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5-3 Nationals, Boston poised for more. I've got a bad feeling.

Alex Verdugo all is forgiven!!

5-5. Relying on other teams is the worst.

love too get the extra-inning ghost runner in a season-deciding situation

Fuck--2nd and 3rd, Yankees, one out.

love too get the extra-inning ghost runner in a season-deciding situation

:(

they're not doing that for the playoffs are they?

NYY looks like they're about to buss it down

yankees win, sox are tied... this is the opposite of 2011

well i am disappoint

only two scenarios now right? BOS-NYY in the wildcard or BOS-TOR in a play-in game tomorrow and NYY cools their heels?

yup, barring a wild m's comeback

and no, there's no extra-inning runner on second in the playoffs (although i suppose there would be in a game 163)

0-0 into the 9th. I'm resigned to the worst, but at least Soto will come up.

that’s fucked up though. it’s literally the post-season. it’s literally a playoff.

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Nationals error, of course.

Fuck

top of the order for the nats

and the job of closing the game goes to… nick pivetta who starts with three straight balls

About all you can do now is hope for a runner + Soto.

The Jays did great to get back in this, and great to sweep the Orioles. They're young, it's baseball, etc. I will think back to two lost chances: heading into the Twins series, where they should have won 3, and heading into that last Yankees series, where--improbable though it would have been--they still could have controlled the outcome 100% by winning their last 6.

It's the Twins series that hurt.

cannot believe he held onto that this game is cursed

The least exciting wild card outcome has happened

absolutely awful, sorry jays friends

the TV gods chuckle darkly

I'm a Cardinals fan now. I don't think I could root for any one of the five AL teams, even though I like a number of individual players.

hmm, well, I would have preferred the opposite outcome of every game but you can’t have everything.

Dodgers won 106 games including their last 7 in a row and still could not catch SF

Ohtani: #43 in pitcher WAR, #20 in batter WAR, #1 in our hearts

I guess white Sox for me in the AL. Or rays. Fuck all the other franchises tho.

i'm a red sox fan and that's basically how i feel too tbh

white sox all the way... fun team, not their fault they ended up with tony la duissa

I just. I really don’t want to hear the breathless praise of him if they win it all. Like that lump on the bench had anything to do with what a great team they have.

Haven't really internalized that the White Sox and the Braves are in the playoffs, somehow I haven't really thought about either of those teams all season.