fuckin shams-level shit
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
i sincerely like clemenza; i just think he's wrong
gtfo with that bacon-flavored pap
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
To me, this isn't all that complicated. CG no hitters are cool and awesome -- as we all know, it's happened only twice in the playoffs and once in the WS. Is a combined no hitter just as cool and awesome? Obviously not ... but it's still pretty great! Unlike three combined team HR's, a combined no-hitter in the WS is rare and historic! Is it as historic as Don Larsen's perfect game? No way -- but's it's still historic!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 3 November 2022 08:18 (one year ago) link
in a way it’s really christian vasquez’ no
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 10:31 (one year ago) link
whoops hit send too soonit’s vasquez’s no-hitter - he was the constantit’s historic and amazing. slightly more likely in an era of max effort one-inning guys? of course. but on the biggest stage, throwing fastballs for six innings to a team that absolutely launches the ball? hey it’s no AL regular season home run record - what could be, really - but extremely, extremely impressive nonetheless. wish i could have stayed awake! (here in the UK it was 1:30am in the 5th when i finally conked out)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
We're making the same mistake! I called him Vázquez because (I think) I've got Javier Vázquez on the brain. You're calling him Christian Vázquez. It's Christian Javier.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:33 (one year ago) link
i’m talking about Houston’s catcher :)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
Ah, yeah, "the constant"--that's how fouled up I am. (That might have been the cause of my initial confusion.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
There is, I think, a pretty nuanced look by Posnanski at two ways to view last night's game. It's not shareable, and I'm glad--I'd be enmeshed in another two-day back-and-forth. One part did make laugh, though, and might make mookieproof laugh too (he's describing a friend who tweeted him last night)
"He was actually in the crowd the night that Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in a World Series game. It remains one of his most cherished sports memories."
Evidently a few us are still stuck back there.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Sheehan:
It’s fair to hold combined no-hitters apart a bit, as no-hitters are more individual accomplishments than team ones. When that combined no-hitter happens with a team down 2-1 in the World Series, though, it’s possible to be too jaded. It was a no-hitter in the World Series! That’s happened exactly once, 66 years ago. It was a no-hitter in the postseason! That’s happened one other time, 12 years ago. I don’t care if the Astros used all 38 pitchers they’re carrying and the Phillies went up there with souvenir bats, that’s a big moment, that’s an incredible accomplishment.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
That the Phillies are tied 2-2 in this Series is remarkable when you consider that everyone figured their path to a victory was through the right arms of Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler. Through four games, the two of them have allowed 13 of the 15 runs the Phillies have conceded, they have an 8.10 ERA in 13 2/3 innings, and neither has seen the sixth inning.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
The ugly reality of the expanded-playoffs era is that to history, October matters more than the six months that precede it. All-time greats have had their career accomplishments ignored in favor of a listing of playoff failures. Others we remember as legends because they got the big hit, the big strikeout, the big double play. Barry Bonds over here, David Ortiz over there. Alex Rodriguez over here, Derek Jeter over there. No stats, just vibes.Tonight, Justin Verlander’s career gets sorted, for good, into one of those groups.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
I don't know if Bonds is exactly over there: some struggles with the Pirates, historic Series with the Giants, marred by the finish. Mixed bag.
"Too jaded"--I could counter that with some of Posnanski's column today, but I'm trying hard not to.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
(Sheehan's exclamation marks are not working their magic on me.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Lifetime postseason OPS:
Derek Jeter: .838Alex Rodriguez: .822
Who is here and who is there exactly?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
I'm not even sure what the point is with Verlander either. He almost single-handedly pitched the Tigers past the A's in two division series. He was the MVP of the 2017 ALCS. He's been bad in the WS, but he's hardly been a postseason bust during his career.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
Drifted off during the fifth.
― Andy K, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
Has Trumplander's effort been called gutsy yet?
― Andy K, Friday, 4 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
Looks like Verlander is going to get that monkey off his back after all
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
oooo they comin
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
Or maybe not, who knows at this point. This has been a good game
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
it's Schwarbin' time
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:36 (one year ago) link
What an out
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
Was really hoping the Phillies would tie it up thre
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
Great play...this should be a fun bottom of the ninth.
Didn't get home till the bottom of the fifth, so I missed the first half. Am I reading correctly that Verlander worked his way out of a couple of jams? Starting pitchers sometimes do that?
― clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
Great play, I thought it was gone
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
oh my god so close
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
Kissinger needs to die right now so Castellanos hits this out of the park
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 04:01 (one year ago) link
...
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
Damn
Man, that was a catch.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
The Great Mancini
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 November 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
Where is Karl Malone? This thread needs some levity that even my old-man wrong opinions cannot provide.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:36 (one year ago) link
can’t speak for KM but there is something about your team being bounced from the playoffs prematurely that makes me a bit more distant come World Series time. It’s a long haul until the re-start.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
i’m the opposite! what happens to me is i instantly become a fan of the team that bounced me. weird psychology at play there maybe
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
“Own me, daddy,” - TH
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
lol apparentlyi dunnopart of it is just getting to know these dudesobviously i would never with the yankees
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
I want a Game 7
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
I do too...but I started the series divided, and now I want Houston to win, so tonight would be fine.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
This can go one of two ways, 1) Valdez dominates again and is named WS MVP when the Astros win the series tonight, 2) The Phillies go homer happy again and set up an all-time unpredictable, anything can happen Game 7.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
The latter. I kinda dont want baseball to end this year!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
Yes agree, this years playoffs have been a lot of fun even if my beloved Giants weren't in.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
Great turn by Altuve--don't know how he hung in there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
If the Astros win and Valdez only gives up a run or two, I suppose he would win MVP. Short of that, though--or Javier winning a G7--Pena will win.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
Love seeing a huge classic curveball--you hardly ever do anymore.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
Valdez settling in
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
I want a game 7 because I can’t watch tonight and also I want the phils to win.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
i don't really care who wins the series, but i *would* like a Brad Lidge Moment tonight
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
I want everyone to tell me--and tell me before it happens--the exact moment when they should take out Valdez.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
(Left myself wide open there: "How about we tell you the exact moment when we take out you instead?")
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link