Rooting for Ronald, Ozzie, Freddie, Dansby, et al.
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Sunday, 18 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
That was the year there was like 2 teams that were down to their last out and managed to rally back, correct?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 18 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
Amazing finish.
https://www.mlb.com/news/remembering-dramatic-final-day-of-2011-season
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 October 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Lot of guys to root for in Atlanta, Acuna is one of my favorite players, but the logo, the name, the chop, I have to draw a line.
Plus, I really don’t want Kershaw to join the list of greats who never won a World Series.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
2011, the night of Robert Andino!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
at least, despite the silly playoffs, we're going to get world series teams that belong there
― mookieproof, Sunday, 18 October 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
Dustin May can't throw a strike. Pretty scary.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 October 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
Absolute fastest I've ever seen a pitcher called to the bullpen. 6 pitches into the game.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 October 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
wow, i didn't even get a chance to turn the game on yet and he's already out?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 October 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
oh, i see he's not removed yet.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 October 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
He's still pitching but yeah poor phrasing on my part: 6 straight balls from May and Roberts got a guy up and throwing in the pen.
8 straight balls to lead off the game (allowing a steal in the process) and then gives up an RBI single was all you missed.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 October 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
Weird how the Dodgers have a pitching staff that always ~~feel thin this season.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 19 October 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
sitting on a park bench
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 October 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
What are your guys' thoughts of Travis d'Arnaud batting cleanup for the Barves?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 October 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
Will definitively work very well vs the Rays staff.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 19 October 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
interesting double play.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 October 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
Riley trying to innovate the sliding skill.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 19 October 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
Mookie Betts.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 19 October 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
lotta walks dawg
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 October 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
Cody Bellinger - mistakes were made
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 19 October 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
Rays vs Dodgers
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
barves gonna barves
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 19 October 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
otm
go TBR
battle of the #1 seeds was my rhetorical nightmare but good for them, rooting for kershaw to get his smile back
acuna and albies will have many opportunities going forward i hope
― ✖, Monday, 19 October 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link
Glad for Mookie, but it sucks that the Giants aren't going to be competitive in the West for a long long time.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 19 October 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
ah well -- go Rays.
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Monday, 19 October 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
atlanta got pretty dang close to knocking out the dodgers. they're a fun team to watch.
― na (NA), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
i fucking love Urias.
― scampos sacra fames (outdoor_miner), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
Not just the #1 seeds, but, in a playoff designed for anything but, the two best records in baseball. How many times has that happened in the WC era? Not many, I'm guessing.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 October 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
if you're trying to trick me into doing the math on that...
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
for only the fourth time in the wild-card era (since 1995), the teams with the best record in each league will meet in the World Series.
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
expect Manfred to bury the chances of it happening more frequently
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
(xpost) Close to what I meant, but it's possible that the two best records came out of the same league in one of those years (probably not, but possible); the Dodgers and Rays had the two best records this year.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Seeing as I asked the question...The two best records across both leagues has only happened twice post-WC: 1995 (Atlanta/Cleveland) and 2013 (Boston/St. Louis).
― clemenza, Monday, 19 October 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
I assume Kershaw gets the G1 start on normal rest? My usual rooting interest with the Dodgers in there: two great starts from Kershaw (even if five innings), Tampa for the series.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 October 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
i’m still thinking about willy adames’ pick in the first inning of game 7
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 October 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.mlb.com/video/willy-adames-slick-sliding-stop
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 October 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
it wasn't even that close!
forever unfathomable to me how hard they can throw
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 October 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
I want kiermeier to get a ring
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
I just want the dumb Kershaw narrative to end. 'Clutchness' as a concept is the plague.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
For as long as he mixes in the occasional great game with lots of games where he seems to lose it in the middle innings, I don't think it will. Lots of back and forth on this in the Kershaw thread. As I said there: I don't think it's clutch or character or anything as ephemeral as that, but I do think there's good reason to believe that he presses in certain situations, and that--a totally human thing--that ends up feeding upon itself.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
And, as is often pointed, his manager could have circumvented some of that by removing him a little earlier.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
"pointed out"
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
saw somewhere that in kershaw's playoff career, the bullpen has allowed 70% of runners inherited from him to score (average seems to be about 41%)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
Didn't know that was that high--obviously part of it. A lot of home runs, though.
Three ways I could see a pitcher pressing: over-thinking, second-guessing himself (related to the first), over-throwing. Same with a batter (substitute over-swinging), although I would think the mind games might affect a pitcher more.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
With 11,000 people there, are the sounds I'm hearing actual (and only) crowd noise, or do they embellish?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
Omg shut up about the free tacos.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
pretty sure they embellish the sound. rays sticking with glasnow longer than i expected, although i guess turner will be his last batter
morbs is going to be furious about missing this game because no one started a world series thread
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
left him in way too long
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
Let’s see if they do the same with Kershaw.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link