THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

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!

was that Tom Friedman?

yer the man TT

that would be awfully good acting if it got no flesh

I *think* it hit he knob first, but it was so close can’t be bothered by him getting first.

Uh oh

Hader throwing way too many high fastballs here

Wow

God damnit

omg soto

Under the fucking glove

and the crotch grab

Yikes, that was bad.

what a Grisham thriller in RF

the beers went flying

Who is this Buckner dude in RF anyways? I’ve honestly not noticed him before.

Time to open my Pilsner.

And Buckner died this year...resurrected!

No regrets going with Hader there obviously but his location was awful. Sliders not even close and high fastballs like a foot off.

and just like buckner, the game had already busted wide open by the time it happened. feel bad for grisham

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.