THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

(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

i am with u karl

go cardinals

I guess you can no longer get comps now that yr pal Matheny is gone

xp yes until you get to the BX

^ for km (zing delay)

funny way to spell HOU

don’t get ahead of yourself!

karl and i may be the only posters here who have actually lived in dc

you could stand to learn from us

but that was pre-Juan Soto

I can p much never root for the Cards bcz of

1) the Herzog teams
2) the "So Taguchi game" which I watched from the last row of Shea Stadium where the wind chill was approx 30 F

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN200610130.shtml

plus I do have an Expos shirt

Wong on the run

Gotten over the idea of quitting baseball fandom since Friday night... Upper-deck Sec. 11 had the most cretinous, drunken crowd I’ve been subjected to in 37 seasons of going to Shea. Abusing Cardinal fans, standing at random points, beer after beer -- my friend saw some fool in a Yankee jersey midgame get bathed with the contents of ketchup and mustard tubs at the concessions (victim was so shitfaced he found it hilarious and invited folks to put cigarettes out on him) ...Plus the Mets would NOT let ticketholders watch BP from the field boxes if you had a ticket for another level (as they do in the regular season), so fuck them (and "God Bless America"), no more postseason attendance for me.

Also, last row of the section = wind blowing directly on you for 5 hours.

Nice touch: Psycho theme on PA when LaRussa comes out to mound.

I don't wanna see Trachsel throw another pitch.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:32 AM

i lived in the DC burbs

pre nats though

Trea Turner looks like the callow cowhand who gets gunned down an hour into a western

van horn street and i may be the only posters here who have actually lived in montréal (although there are too many canadians to keep track of)

you could stand to learn from us. because fuck every single dc team (except for the mystics tbh)

When the series goes to DC I expect to see crowd shots of Brett Kavanaugh and Tombot (not together)

I have been to a Nats game with Tombot! beat that

Man, I didn’t realize what a major league douchebag Juan Soto is! That’s too bad because he’s to fucking good.

*grabs crotch and takes a step toward you*

Trea Turner looks like the callow cowhand who gets gunned down an hour into a western

otm

also I see from the 2006 thread that maura also froze at the So Taguchi game

maybe one of the Cards will make their classy throat-slitting gesture at Soto

That was dumb but wasn’t that in retaliation for acuña doing the same thing? (Somehow I didn’t catch all of this as it happened)

dunno, I sleep thru a third of these series now

this game is flyin'

lol Morris Buttermaker ref

didn't know Eaton was such a burner!

Howie do you do

Is this IPA gluten-free, Brebbs?

I wonder if I’ll get a free mini towel tomorrow

I can't drink tonight (meds) so the Ben & Jerry's Salted Caramel Core has come and gone.

I forgot that Davey M is (justifiably) terrified of his bullpen

Well and maybe plus his guy is six outs away

I know it sounds crazy, but I sometimes wonder if, in that situation, it's worth walking Sanchez (intentionally unintentionally) and get him on the basepaths. There are precise measurements of the situational advantage of two outs/none on vs. one out/runner on first; I don't know if anyone's ever studied pitchers pitching after running the bases.

I know you've heard this from me before, but no one should care
xp

Holy cats

i was also at that mets gm 2 2006 nlcs loss btw

the thread/series ending photo is something else gdamn -2006 NLCS New York Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals

Good. Now win the fucking game.

Exactly

That was a nice ending all-around.

Cards should've been taking more this inning. DeJong put a particularly fruitless swing on the first pitch.

Dejong’s terrible secret is that his mediocre season line was propped up by a very good April. He’s been garbage (at the plate) since early May

Juan Soto hits in CS: 1

Bryce Harper career CS hits:0

Soto > Harper confirmed

— Callis NYY (103-59) (@CaIIiss) October 12, 2019

hope you see a good game tomorrow, KM

Me too! They’re due for a multi-hit game

the thread/series ending photo is something else gdamn -2006 NLCS New York Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals

Hot damn, yes that photo is really something.

Mike Shildt says #Cardinals analytics have told him the baseball is traveling 4 1/2 feet shorter in the postseason, so far. That’s not nothing. Kudos to @craigjedwards for the question. #stlcards #NLCS

— Derrick S. Goold (@dgoold) October 12, 2019