THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

ugh

a Superteam is thriving tonight (so far)

sorry Hadrian, I know you wanted the easier path to a trophy

You'd say he had a bad season

But it's a 'season' that has lasted 12 years (so far) and he literally is not the same kind of pitcher now as he was at the beginning. So, not a season.

don't print those tickets (anachronism) yet

(xpost) True...but his most infamous meltdowns were early, when he was at the top of his game. If they'd all been later, I'd take your point as valid.

If Gerrit Cole can't hold a four-run lead against a WC team, I say they just suspend the postseason for the rest of time and start drawing straws to determine the WS winner every year.

"That's why you play the games"

xxp

that's pretty strict... ALL of the meltdowns have to come later? My specific point was not him being a worse pitcher now btw.... last year's WS was pretty "infamous."

As for the "pressing" theory, when he threw 8 scoreless against ATL last year in the DS last year, why didn't he press that night?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kershcl01.shtml#all_pitching_postseason

I will now suspend CK choker talk in deference to the game at hand. Resume on Kershaw thread afterward perhaps.

i only want to make the point that i DO think less of clayton kershaw as a person because of his postseason performance

the dejuiced ball again?

Karl, wait til you read about Kershaw's lunch with Giuliani

Girardi has generally been fine this week, aside from a slide or two into "age of analytics" snorting

God knows better than a Smoltz

wow Correa

Pierzynski has been OK when he talks nuts & bolts with Girardi, but then he comes out with stuff like "The Rays have gotta do something."

“They’ve got to score three runs at least.”

Cole goes one more?

yeah really hoping Pierzynski doesn’t get either LCS

Does FS1 have those games?

NL is TBS, AL shared by Fox network and FS1 (eg on Sunday)

More Rays pitchers tonight than Braves pitchers last night.

so Cole wd next go Game 3 Tuesday in the Bronx

Finally can watch, so I saw Cole's 8th.

I'll be very unfashionably old-school here: give him one baserunner in the 9th (or one really long AB). He's thrown 107 pitches, but he sure didn't look like he was throwing tired.

No need to now...and I guess they weren't anyway.

Left Pagan in too long.

calstars' fave Astro!

Is there an Esteban Yan in the house?

Imagine a Houston-Washington World Series where Dubya sees all the games and the DC pols attending get to use him as "a bipartisan cuddle toy" (stole that off Twitter).

visiting team was outscored 29-8?

didn't know Cole's voice was this high

God would be indifferent to your career if she existed

congrats to all those who picked the Astros

He was tipping his pitches based on his glove height. When Glasnow brought the ball to his mitt, he positioned his hands at the height of his collar bone before delivering a fastball, and he lowered it a couple of inches before a curveball.

for sure, but remember too their camera shenaningans from playoffs last year. That's a mighty impressive record you have at home there!

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/texas-sports-nation/astros/article/Astros-insider-How-Rays-starter-Tyler-Glasnow-14513434.php

definitely feels like either of the AL teams could beat either of the NL teams pretty handily

Astros vs Nationals would be a good one, Yanks vs Cards would be a no-win situation.

They'd have to stretch Scherzer and Strasburg to the breaking point (if that's even possible), but I wouldn't be shocked if the Nationals go on to win it all. They strike me as made-to-order for one of those postseason miracle teams.

Dick Nixon helps the Angels celebrate their first division title, 1979

pic.twitter.com/nj9oBGL4j2

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 11, 2019

i assume we're all heavily cheering for the st louis cardinals, correct??

Tanana? Grich?

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Grich

What? No good lord

mikolas already looking much better than last time out. watching a control artist have no control was unbearable

jeez, are these guys doubleparked?

Karl dear, I will just barely be able to root for the St Looies against the Stanks should it come to that. Don't ask for more.

ya hear that? these teams' fielders just stand there like statues

YANNNNNN

(I am trying to force myself to be enthusiastic about Washington)

(if Murphy was still there i'd probably be watching Local Hero)

xp to morbs
i pledge that i will not!

just bought a ticket for tomorrow's game :D

oooh

after Soto and Rendon the Nats lineup gets kinda boring

surely this guy's forebears called themselves MEE-ko-las