THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

that doesn't sound like a dave martinez kind of move

also . . . idk.

i mean yes, it's a do-or-die game, but the goal is to win the world series, not beat milwaukee and get crushed by the dodgers. and i don't see how they can beat LA without scherzer/strasburg/corbin operating at full strength

True, but assuming it's like a Straburg "throw day" ... two innings?

The Ringer MLB Show guys also suggested that the first game in the Atlanta series is more must-win than usual for the Braves because of Flaherty in Game 2.

ugh i don't think i can bear it! Dodgers relief pitching will be the end of me .

keuchel has G1 for the braves, presumably soroka for G2

I have no idea whether ATL has been sandbagging the last 10 days or if they really ran out of steam at the worst time.

You're actually going to do this for a wild-card game? I mean, sometimes the Blue Jays beat the Astros.

https://www.mlb.com/news/brewers-nationals-position-by-position

They might instead limit themselves to two or three pertinent questions, starting with "Is Max Scherzer lights out?" If yes, that's enough right there.

The Unbearable Search for Content.

hypothetical starting pitchers as relief pitchers probably a moot point anyway with scherzer starting, of course

The Brewers will win in 11 innings tonight because Dave Martinez will try to get six outs from Rodney.

Scherzer has not been very Scherzer post-injury.

see above

ohhhh lol max

Off to a good start!

Yessssssssss baby

Do your dance, YG, do your dance.

will this game end before midnight eastern y/n

Daym.

Might be over soon!

wow. ok, so...imo get strasburg in but that's me

def not lights out

scherzer has only thrown 20 pitches - he can still throw a game 2 or 3.

i was promised lights out

thames was so on that

i’m not sure that working insanely fast is in max’s best interests

Strasburg has had a 1.50 era or something since Max’s injury.

if Martinez waits til it's 5-0 before pulling Max, would that be... Mathenaging?

oooh warning track power

By the way, I meant "Lights Out" in the Angry Samoans sense.

I think the ol' band Heston wd be good walkup music for Keston Hiura

Ball seems to be flying today this might be a high scoring one

"today"

what are Soto's defensive metrics like?

i've already broken out the Svedka + seltzer, which could be a mistake

I’m on strong beer #2.

cheers TT

no chance Hader comes in before the 8th?

i don’t have the sound on — has ron given the ‘max doesn’t have his best stuff but he’s battling’ speech yet

"I've never seen him work this hard to get thru 5 innings"

Darling's been better compared to the other postseason gigs I've heard

his game always seems to dip compared to his work in the Mets booth

lol dozier getting jobbed

I hate Moustakas

Yeah those weren’t even close

game has slowed waaaay down

should be a tense finish

Bottom of the 7th gonna be the inflection point here. Strasberg is cruising and Hader is almost certainly going 2.

"But we can't have robot umps. What if the baseball morphs into a head of cabbage on the way to home plate? Who will make the call?" https://t.co/x3HJEDXWUf

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) October 2, 2019

SHUTDOWN INNINGS from drew pom

is grandal related to bill cowher

have advanced to a can of Pilsner Urqueil

not lookin good for the DC Swamp Drainers

Noooooo the satellite went out

robles looked really uncomfortable in the box and i cannot blame him

Oh! I got a couple Urquell in the fridge!

ALTUVE¡¡¡¡¡

That crack of the bat and the sound of the crowd was **kisses fingers**

Dual abusers collapse! What an ending!

hahahaaaaaa, great finish

The Astros just don't know when to stop quitting.

Springer will walk it off -- I'm calling it now.

Nailed it.

The elation of knowing the Chapman’s sweating shit grin will be replayed over and over and over for the foreseeable future.

I appreciated that response.

We can now put the 2010s in the books as the greatest decade of New York baseball in a century.

Mets pennants: 1
Yankees pennants: 0

After the 2016 World Series I coulda told the yanks fans to not rely on Chapman in postseason crunch time.

https://imgur.com/a/NnmiyV0

As a Yankee fan I am disappointed, but as a baseball fan I must really appreciate the great heart and talent of Jose Altuve and the rest of the Astros. They were the better team. I wish
them the best in the WS. And like the Brooklyn fans of old I say, “Wait For Next Year.”

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 20, 2019

We can now put the 2010s in the books as the greatest decade of New York baseball in a century.

Really? Better than the 80's?

The Mattingly teams were definitely the most boring Yankee teams of the last century.

Yankees World Series appearances
1980s: 0
2010s: 0

The Yankkes played the Dodgers in the 1981 World Series

^^^^^^

admittedly the '80s are a close second

but Mike fuckin' Scioscia

Giuliani avoiding the word "till" up there til he gets his hand out of it.

The Mattingly teams were definitely the most boring Yankee teams of the last century.

They had Rickey for awhile!

I... got my info from a tweet that's been deleted. Shame on me.

Those 80s teams were shitty but far from boring. The hirings and firings and Bronx Zoo melodrama kept on, and Winfield in addition to Rickey. Donnie Baseball was a joy.

Most boring Yankee decade was def the ten years pre-George, the Bobby Murcer/Mel Stottlemeyer teams

If we're talking about ten consecutive years, then those pre-George years were definitely the worst. But if we're dealing with decades, then they still won three WS titles, Whitey and Mickey, Maris' record ...

The '80's teams had some good players but not a single memorable team, the hirings and firings were a sad joke because the team wasn't winning (as opposed to the 70's).

The '85 team was sort of memorable in that they took the Jays to game #161, Mattingly and Henderson (and Brett) had a great MVP duel, Billy Martin was brought back again (4th time?), and--game #162--Neikro won his 300th. Maybe just memorable from a Toronto perspective.

Possible cheap win by Osuna last night.

Steinbush bought em in '73, so'65-72 was the nadir of the CBS years. In NYC they're often called the Horace Clarke era.