thank you Bud Selig for not having 2 wild cards
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
btw seriously lolling at all the Rays fans who left in the 8th, you guys missed the most epic comeback of all time
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
"all the Rays fans"
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2011-09-28&team=Rays&dh=0&season=2011
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
congratulation, Manuel "Manny" ArÃstides RamÃrez Onelcida
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Manny+Ramirez+Tampa+Bay+Rays+Photo+Day+iZXVQJ4mEdAl.jpg
― cocaine snorting suburbanite who says "retard" (buzza), Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:31 (twelve years ago) link
he looks high
― Bee OK, Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:56 (twelve years ago) link
Dan Johnson just saved the Tampa Bay Rays season. This Dan Johnson.
Before tonight, he had a -7 wRC+. As noted in that leaderboard, the only Major Leaguer with a worse offensive season in at least 90 PA was Roy Halladay,
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
I showed my class all the Tampa Bay/Boston highlights this morning, trying to create some sense of the timeline (a split-screen would have come in handy). Baseball hardly exists for Canadian kids ever since the Jays stopped winning, but, thanks to my expert narration, they seemed to understand the improbability of all that happened.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
sportscenter did a great dual highlight timeline thingy last night
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
When they turn it into a movie, either De Palma or a resurrected Abel Gance gets the assignment.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
I can't even remember for sure which game ended first now, tho I suspect it was Boston's
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
it was
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Price has to be a little rattled from that start/Teix's salami. Hope he can pull it together.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they need him 2 be solid
take cliff lee out of the equation & tb beats tx last yr p handily
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sure he'll be fine -- pitchers have bad starts sometimes
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Longoria gave Boston just enough time to walk into the clubhouse and watch their season end
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'll be rooting hard for the Rays for as long as they last. Coming back like they did last night was just tremendous. They caught a break in not having to face Rivera, but it still required some mysterious combination of luck, karma, divine intervention, character (old-fashioned, I know--I have to believe there's some of that in there somewhere), and god only knows what else. It would be so great to see them knock out the Yankees in a divisional final after Girardi's decision not to use Rivera (which I totally understand).
I think the gap between Andino and Longoria was three or four minutes. (I'm not sure, but one may have even been just before midnight and the other just after.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Verducci has an exact timeline up--not quite right:
12:02: Robert Andino wins the game for Baltimore with a single. The Red Sox, as it turns out, have three minutes to live.
12:05: Longoria hits a home run off Scott Proctor to win the game for Tampa Bay.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
From FanGraphs:http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ALWCracebytime.png
― francisF, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
wow
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, there will almost certainly not be anything like this for a long time
Not just the Boston collapse or the insane way yesterday shook out, but even Carl Crawford's tragic involvement in everything is just ridiculous and too weird to believe
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
did Crawford end the season with an obp over .300?
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
nein
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
lolwow
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
dianagram (NYC): Matt Moore .... best pitching prospect to hit the majors since __________. (Prior? Wood? Verlander? other?)
Jason Parks: Kershaw
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/hash/94/dc/94dcb347e4290011e732ed531a4fb48a.jpg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
rewatched the 2011 yankees-rays game 162 yesterday, so satisfying
― na (NA), Monday, 6 July 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link