MLB general postseason 2020 thread

the #2 payroll team beat the #27 payroll team, with the Rays' entire payroll roughly equivalent to Betts+Kershaw earnings for the year.

sadly, the Dodgers are the kind of team that will all show up at the White House and eat a spread copious Mickey D's with Trump.

but I'm happy for Dodgers fans who have suffered through the last few decades.

that's always kind of a weird day when you win the World Series and find out you have COVID

This is a long ass speech.

"I'm going to the infirmary ward!"

I don’t think they would go to the white house also the fact that the rays’ owners don’t spend money is their own problem

kill thr filibuster

it's ruining baseball

wait, what? wasn't turner just in a heap of people without mask?

congrats doyers

also good luck doyers

Yeah, better it goes to franchises that actually spend like the Nats or Dodgers.

but I'm happy for Dodgers fans who have suffered through the last few decades.

lol

I just hope we never see a 60 games season ever again.

'55, '59, '63, '65, '81, '88, and now 2020.
What a year. What a season. What a team.
Congratulations @Dodgers

— Vin Scully (@TheVinScully) October 28, 2020

MLB fans welcome to boooing the commissioner as a seasonal chaser

it's kind of funny that the doyers ended up winning both of the asterisk WS years ('81 and 2020)

Lol what’s wrong with Manfred

okay now I'm bummed they won because we might've gotten to see how they'd treat a COVID outbreak on a baseball team right before GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES

sorry, that was a dumb way to put it. i don't actually think of them as "asterisk years". this was a crazy fucking year. but they all tried, and the dodgers played really well and deserved it. but still, just that they won both of the "weird" years

okay now I'm bummed they won because we might've gotten to see how they'd treat a COVID outbreak on a baseball team right before GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES

not to get all tin-foil hat, but maybe they deal with it by not letting the test results known until mid-game?

I think manifred has his own voice in his earbuds tbh. He’s talking like he hears himself talking and is confused

and just lie about why Turner got pulled? yeah you could probably do that

I just hope we never see a 60 games season ever again.

what we're about to see is massive layoffs

no need for scouts when there are no games (and video everywhere); no need for salespeople when there are no season tickets to sell; no need for coaches when there are no short-season minor league teams

'95 was shortened by 18 games; it has 11% of an asterisk.

xpost It started already

take sides: gary bettman vs rob manfred

(obviously boo them all)

But yeah part of why I rooted for the Dodgers so much this season, other than Kershaw and Betts fandom, is really because of how they got cheated in 2017. At least it gives me a sense of restoration.

Bettman has a longer path of destruction

Manifred is just a toady

I'm taking Manfred because Bettman will outlive us all and will still be doing the same speech routine under the boos in 2176 and he's not a man he's a vampire he scares me.

If the owners in MLB suddenly caved and said we need to pay the players more manifred would start dancing but bettman is from the stern school

Wild how these little trolls end up here

wild how you imagine that MLB owners would ever cave

I don’t imagine! That’s the thing I’m saying that manifred is a true mouthpiece

ok fair

oof

. @Ken_Rosenthal: “He tested positive yesterday. They got those positive results back this afternoon. Ran a test today, came back positive again. This is NOT a case of a false positive… he was asked not to go on the field. He insisted upon it, the Dodgers insisted upon it.” pic.twitter.com/GG7PTbluuo

— Sarah Spain (@SarahSpain) October 28, 2020

That's going to undermine sympathy going back to the Houston WS just a little bit...How could he/they be so stupid?

(I don't mean to be callous, obviously I hope he's fine, but geez.)

Absolutely shameful.

they, for sure

i guess they collectively thought

[the value of justin turner in this one game, playing free, without a mask] > [the collective risk of any covid-19 it spreads]

flags fly forever, i guess

actually flags are notoriously annoying to deal with and have to be put up and taken down all the time, it sucks. they get beat up too

The Justin Turner story is blowing my mind. If 10-15 Dodgers players go on to test positive then this should be as big a scandal as the Astros trash can banging was. I want to be happy for the Dodgers finally winning but I think we're only scratching the surface of this story and it could blow up in their faces big time.

Just scratching the surface, yes--did they know before the game? Wouldn't they time the testing so you'd have results before the game, rather than the 7th inning? That doesn't make sense.

There's a long Rosenthal story in The Athletic that I haven't had a chance to read yet.

"MLB said it learned in the second inning that the result of Turner’s test from Monday had been inconclusive; the league had been shipping hundreds of tests from Texas to its lab in Utah each day, and the results typically came back in the early evening. Once the uncertainty about Turner arose, the league asked the lab to expedite his test from earlier Tuesday. When the result came back positive, league officials told the Dodgers to remove Turner from the game.

Why didn’t the league exercise an abundance of caution and get Turner off the field immediately after learning he might be positive? Apparently, because inconclusive results are not uncommon, and the standard procedure was to run a second test.

Would Game 7 have been played on Wednesday if the Rays had rallied to defeat the Dodgers? The league said it would have reviewed the matter with its medical advisors, but similar circumstances during the regular season normally led to postponements."

More:

https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/mlb/news/justin-turner-covid-positive-test-timeline-dodgers-world-series/r1rqb78k3e1r18gbfq1ork5k7

yeah I'd think they'd have to postpone Game 7 a few weeks?

i have an idea, though:

fucking...wear a mask?

what is wrong with everyone

who gets an inconclusive test, with the possibility it's positive, then doesn't wear a mask?

It's pretty funny to me the amount of Trumpian-level gymnastics Justin Turner performs to cover up his bald spot and he can't even bother to wear a mask after he tests postive for COVID.

idiots

I hope he gets a lengthy suspension.