2023 ALCS: Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros

Jeter is boring ffs

It's officially felt hat season in Texas 🤠😉@kevinburkhardt | @AROD | @davidortiz | @derekjeter pic.twitter.com/3FUY8ONrqq

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 20, 2023

There’s an old Giants clip maybe on their channel, where Bochy is introduced to Dubon and someone tells him his nickname is “Dubie.” “Dubie,” says Bochy contemplative, “that’s a good nickname for this city.”

Lol

Two completely wasted ABs from Semien and Seager with runners on 1st & 3rd…pathetic

Jordan Montgomery… could get it????
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Friday, October 20, 2023 2:28 PM bookmarkflaglink

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Giving up a hit to playoff Kyle Tucker, have some shame please. But also what was that fielding error

I think he dropped it in the exchange , I think they got it wrong. Didn't cost them tho

Tie game

Difficult to argue that the Dusty Baker interview didn’t jinx the Astros

pretty low percentage play from altuve bunting with two out

astros deserve to lose purely for their obnoxious orange jerseys that say ASTROS on them instead of the name of their city which is what all road uniforms should say so that home crowd knows the identity of their team’s opponent

yeah was that supposed to be a squeeze?

Other teams don’t always do the city thing on the road greys but at least they’re grey?

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They do have road greys btw but they’re just not wearing them, I think the orange ones are alts
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Damnit Seager

These astros are relentless

Appreciate having the names on the away jerseys though. SF used to have only numbers and I found this kind of "DYKWIA"

How the FUCK did Seager get nominated for a gold glove. Rhetorical, Jeter, I know, I know

xp if you see a SF jersey with 55 or 28 you don’t need the name 😌, Tracer Hand can confirm this

There's been more than one group of Killer B's (Bell, Barfield, Moseby)...Alvarez/Abreau/Altuve need a nickname. (I know, I'm the only non-Houstonian in the world who would welcome this.)

You don't get a SBORZ without toasting a few marshamallows

IYKYK

Wait felicity, they did have the names on the away shirts I thought? It’s the home ones they don’t

xxp The A-Holes?

Oddly enough, I anticipated that.

It’s like you citing Joe P…It’s inevitable

Now, now--let's not break the peace we made here many months ago.

xp gyac you could be right. It was like, who do you think you are, the Dodgers?

Oh that was so hot

SEMIEN

I’m not fighting with you! I’m just saying we all have our (hopefully endearing) shticks?

sick play

that’s it, that’s the shit we love

toasted!

in the AL i think it’s only the red sox and the yankees who are arrogant enough to leave the names off the home whites, i kinda like it

I really hope these Rangers make that sick play worth it. Time to torch Verlander pls!

yeah, it's a charmingly swaggy bit

I wish the dodgers (and every other team) were still arrogant enough to leave them off. My sports should be inaccessible and reward die-hard fandom

give some meaning back to the number

6th inning best inning

Oh we like that!!!!!! GARCIAAAAAAAAAA

Joe Davis had absolutely no idea that was going out till it left the yard lol

I just went to brush my teeth and holy fuck!

third time through. no one is immune. literally seconds after the commentating crew note that verlander is facing the order for the third time and reassure each other “no reason to take him out now, his velocity’s still up”

This is fun

I love this damn sport so much. Still beaming. Thanks for pulling Verlander, time to make a coffee. Absolutely cackling the Rangers are using creed for their song too, just an absolutely classic move

As of 2023, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox do not display their players' names on their home uniforms

In a coffee shop, following online. No one will believe me after the WS last year, but after the single, I started a post to the effect that I'd probably pull Verlander--HR came so quickly (maybe internet lag?), didn't get a chance to finish. This is a three-game series, not seven.

Still laugh at this sorry

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Find me one trump baseball tweet that isn't eternally otm. Say what you want about him, but the bloke knew ball

that’s a fucked up walk

Walking Martin Maldonado have some shame