THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

Damn. I didn't know that.

I watched every second of last night's game...up until just before Ozuna's 2-RBI double in the 9th inning. i was forced to go to a gathering in the neighborhood, and missed the rest of the game.

the twitter anecdote above helps to explain his troubles last night, but really that's been his thing all season. he has been excruciating to watch all season, and yet most of the time he comes out on top.

tensions rising...

ATLANTA -- Instead of discussing his tremendous catch and monstrous home run in the Braves' 7-6 loss to the Cardinals in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. had to once again answer questions about admiring a long fly ball that resulted in just a single.

“It’s the playoffs,” said starting pitcher Dallas Keuchel, who allowed one run over 4 2/3 innings in Game 1. “If you’re not giving everything you have, you’re not only selling yourself short, but you’re selling the team short. You’ve got to live and die with the youth in baseball.”

"This is not the first time Acuña has made this error. Nor was it the first time on Aug. 18, when he was removed from a game against the Dodgers after admiring a single that hit off the right-center-field wall.

“It’s frustrating,” Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “You have that conversation once. You’re beating a dead horse when you keep having that conversation over and over again. You’ve got to know that was a mistake. That can’t happen in the playoffs. It can’t happen in the regular season. Unfortunately, that happened tonight.”

Dump this loser in Detroit and never look back, Anthopoulos.

lol nonstory

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27767317/braves-stick-ronald-acuna-jr-game-2-cards

Playing him anyway doesn't make it a nonstory. He needs to quit admiring his own wonderfulness.

perhaps so. they weren't gonna bench him.

I'm sure none of the non-Yankee games are on terrestrial radio in NYC, right? ESPN sticking with their talkshow garbage...

this was sick

Bases loaded? Fire 99 mph on the black. 😯 pic.twitter.com/quo2AU8nna

— MLB (@MLB) October 4, 2019

Joey Wendle? ok

christ verlander is good

kenny albert + girardi + pierzynski is a pretty good booth imo. catchers love talking catcher stuff with each other and kenny knows when to lay out

maybe a little too much 'teaching the kids' tho

Rays radio team was brutalizing them (deservedly i guess)

was initially questioning the braves starting folty instead of soroka

i no longer am

His trip to Gwinnett fixed whatever his problem was. He went from really bad to really good.

Soroka seemed pretty gassed down the stretch too.

there was some utz on that dang

LET'S
GO
TWINS

OTM

quite a graphic of hr/ab -- RUTH / CRUZ / DYKSTRA -- all legends imo

you could talk me out of ruth perhaps

edwins a baller

he really is

fuck making him shave his face tho

any shots of Big Boy Caprice so far?

POLANCOOOOOOOOOOOOO

this brazen-ass dweeb pic.twitter.com/BzkurGlHLs

— Meg Rowley (@megrowler) October 5, 2019

Twins fans not making many friends here at Yankee Stadium but cracking me up. Love it. pic.twitter.com/YHTItap1yP

— Cespedes Family BBQ (@CespedesBBQ) October 5, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_nice

lol the Great Ottavino!

back to the storefront pitching lab

btw in a bar watching STL-ATL I finally saw the WE PLAY LOUD promo.

how loathsome. volume for its own sake is the horror of contemporary America.

much better: Eric Roberts walk-in tub ad (with free toilet)

what are the fascists chanting now?

I loooove seeing visitors hit cheap Yankee Stadium HRs

i am informed that Julius P and *both* his parents are rooting for the twins

I guess motherhood changes people

fuck and doublefuck

it was rudy, tbh

Edwin’s smooth face saddens me greatly.

maybe for the 7th inning stretch Rudy can be stoned

That could make me a Yankees fan for life.

Nationals looking good

man, I STILL hate those "postseason leaders" that mix World Series-only and tournament eras. Ignorant.

that was on Judge's glove side; no Swoboda.

Anyway, Maybin just followed first major league hit with a HR to dead center -- both hits off Clemens.

― Andy K, Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:28 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Curtis" Maybin, in Tim McCarver's view.

― Andy K, Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:40 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ha - I didn't realize Rajah hit Maybin the AB following his dead-center HR.

― David R., Saturday, August 25, 2007 12:02 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

watching NL, listening AL

Not sure if the Nats can use any starters in relief tonight, so I wouldn't write off the Dodgers in this one yet.

i was at maybin's debut; tbh he looked overwhelmed by andy pettitte

good dude, glad he carved out a career

47 pitches through four

0 hits thru 5

he could be done

Uh. When did Howie Kendrick become amazing and how?!

he's always been . . . a professional hitter

sorry, thru 4. i'm ready for sleep

Now pitching for the Yankees, an asshole

— C. Radbourn, Esq. (@OldHossRadbourn) October 5, 2019

Wtf was going on with Strasburg there??