If the Astros do hang on, Valdez vs. Pena is a pretty interesting MVP call.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
Peña mvp for me
― They do the Shug a loo, do the Shy Tuna, do the Kemba Walker (fionnland), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Gyac, I can be stubborn about my opinions. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying there's room for a difference of opinion there.
I think I'd go with Pena too.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
bothers me that espn resets all the individual stats for each series while mlb dot com shows cumulative playoff stats
espn is wrong, but i guess it's useful for mvp-ness
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
If he hadn’t already gone out, this would have been a great time for Nick Castellanos to have homered.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
If it were just Pena with the bat, maybe Valdez, but Pena's been fantastic in the field, too. They still have to win.
(Not sure which broadcast I have on, but if you don't the same one, they just said there hasn't been a home team clinch the WS at home since 2013...that's kind of amazing.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
That was truly weird, about six different ways.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
fortunately for my aunt, the iggles are 8-0
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
I hate the astros
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
congrats to Dusty and Dusty only
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
Okay you won a real one, can you please fade from the spotlight now, there are other, much cooler less tainted teams that would like to play baseball well too
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
Found it moving the way they surrounded Dusty in the dugout. I guess I've seen that before, but I don't remember.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
I picked Astros in 5, it took a extra game. Very happy for Dusty Baker.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
Joe Davis > Joe Buck
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
fuck the haters, my Astros take another WS, wearing my Altuve jersey RN
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
Congrats f. hazel
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
f. hazel, you and me both :)pena, mvp. right on.
― sknybrg, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:35 (one year ago) link
Congrats sknybrg, I thought you would be a Mets fan
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
Between Ortiz shooting the fake money at him and the cameo by his wife, I know Verlander has endeared himself to ILB even more.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
Phillies offense stressed me out this entire series, never felt safe from them
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 6 November 2022 04:51 (one year ago) link
they were like 3-for-420 with runners in scoring position tho
wonder how joe girardi feels tonight
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 06:11 (one year ago) link
lol phils did very well given their shit unbalanced roster, late season streaks are real but they disappear as soon as they come
― buzza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
I second this. Davis probably made more memorable calls in this postseason than Joe Buck did in the last 25 years.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 6 November 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
Fun season
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 6 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
Didn't realize till last night that Pena's already 25. Late start for a rookie (for the obvious reason of Correa) that will probably come into play when he hits the free agent market down the road.
Like anything pertaining to old media, I doubt Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year is nearly as newsworthy as it was 20 years ago. (1998, McGwire and Sosa; 2001, Johnson and Schilling. Three of the four are pariahs now.) Still, I'd love to see Dusty Baker win it this year. Wasn't sure if they've ever given it to a coach, but I checked and they have, at least three times: John Wooden in 1972, Dean Smith in 1997, and Pat Summitt and Mike Krzyzewski in 2011. (They seem to have a thing about college basketball coaches.) If they do go with baseball, I suppose it'd be Judge; if the Yankees had won, for sure it's be Judge. I don't know if there is an obvious winner from some other sport this year.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
Totally forgot that it was Dusty Baker's son who almost got trampled at home in 2003.
https://www.mlb.com/news/darren-baker-celebrates-dad-dusty-s-world-series-victory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV7x8WcR4g
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
That’s literally the first thing I think of when it comes to Baker. I had only recently started watching baseball again and I wondered who the idiot was that let a toddler on the field
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
J.T. Snow ought to be in the HOF for that.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link