2023 World Series: Arizona Diamondbacks vs Texas Rangers

Is 9:15 some kind of secret Satanic symbol?

Enjoyed Harold Reynolds' MLB interview with Junior about his photography. Had to check--never played in a World Series. Damn.

Also this, from Marcus's "Real Life" column posted earlier today:

6. Geico Insurance, “Umpire” (Martin Agency). Ken Griffey, Jr., and Melissa Griffey have a nice new house on a tree-lined street with the Geico house commercials’ just-one-problem: the “little-opinionated” next-door neighbor, big, white, former MLB balls-and-strikes majordomo Jim Joyce in full regalia. He peeps in the window and calls strike one, strike two, for invisible transgressions. He kicks leaves dropped by the Griffeys’s tree back in their front yard. Finally he takes offense to Ken’s shirt, Melissa tells him he needs glasses. He pumps his arm in the air and shouts “YOU’RE OUTTA HERE!” and banishes them from the neighborhood as if he’s burning a cross on their lawn. Secret BLM commercial? Or coded appeal to the Great Replacement demographic? The more it’s appeared throughout the playoffs the more the balance seems to tip to the right.

link to reynolds interview?

those geico commercials play every break - kind of annoying

I'll post one if I find anything.

I'm amazed at how Arizona's able to run at will.

Is this what the 2015 royals were like? I know they were famously a small ball team causing chaos in the world series

They were a great contact team, but I don't remember them stealing bases like this.

very annoying how prevalent the "he HAS to get it done here, it's SO IMPORTANT to score first!" rhetoric is. I get the reasoning, but there's 25 more outs left if Moreno gets out. maybe take a break for a few innings before this emotional leverage talk

gallen’s got some nice cleats on today

2015 Royals: stole seven bases for the series (5 games), struck out 37 times--both a little more than I thought.

“Defence is the new market inefficiency” was the claim I hard in response to the royals win

*heard

I love Corbin Carroll

Another round of “this is the inning” Francis

Stealing even when he can’t, just for fun

This dbacks team is so much fun to watch

We'll see, but once again, I question that. Even if you bring in both runs, you won't beat Texas with two. If you get one or zero, not good.

And to state the obvious, they let a guy having a good postseason bunt to they could get to a guy who's been cold the whole way.

Lol, first inning repeat. Texas shutting them down

Perdomo having a post season

3.2 on 29 pitches! Give us a CS Zach!

Two nasty strikes right there

good on Ketel to trust his first baseman "who just struck out!" who is this announcer, lol

Great half inning

I'm putting on records - this is why i can't listen to national broadcasts haha

I think, in general, the disappearance of the sacrifice bunt from baseball is a bad thing. There are many times during the course of a season when, late in a game, I don't understand why a team doesn't bunt (acknowledging that it's probably because the guy with the bat in his hand doesn't know how to). But when I see it used like it was last inning, I suddenly turn into a hardcore, eye-rolling sabermetrician (or, if you'd rather, Earl Weaver); I want the other team to come out and mash a home run or three.

Griffey Jr. link for 龜: https://www.mlb.com/video/griffey-on-his-photography-career

Eovaldi makes me think of John Malkovich in Rounders: "The kid's got alligator blood" (needs the accent).

wtaf @ greil marcus

Say Hey Kid (almost).

Great catch (also we’re now over halfway to a WS no-no)

Eovaldi is being Houdini

LP

Incredibly frustrating to watch the dbags squander it every inning

I was just going to post that Gurriel had a flair for the dramatic with the Jays...never got the chance.

I hope this game keeps my interest as I have been tuning out in the blow out games

This feels like the first really good game since the first.

It really does

It's Arizona, so there is no way this will be a no no. Texas will break through

So bizarre the two paths to zero runs.

I'm starting to feel torn at this point...almost ready to trade the win for Gallen to do it, and hope that Texas can win it at home (obviously preferable), but if you let Arizona back into the series, could easily see the Diamondbacks going back to Texas and winning both. And I do want Texas to win.

Eovaldi's close to 100 pitches, so I assume this inning is his last (they'd probably want him available for an inning in a G7).

That's a good take because they did win the last two against the Phillies, who I still believe are the better team.

Xpost

There it is

there goes the no no

And now outs

I wanted to go Sam Jackson on the play-by-play guy: "Say 'no-hitter' one more time. I dare you--I double-dare you." I still honour that myth.

(Superstition, not myth.)

I love baseball

That was fast

I must be getting the game on a slight delay--Bee's posts appear before the actual play.