Anderson much more impressive than Wright
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
lol @ Atlanta
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
I hope Turner gets drilled in his next AB.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
"Oh you want to pretend to get hit to get on base the cheap way? How about 100mph between the shoulder blades?"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
(not that anyone will remember that AB or anything haha)
Ok dodgers
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
yikes
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
all the dodgers have scored at least once, by the third inning
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Eggs Benedict warming up.
― Andy K, Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
Damn. Rays were a matter of feet from putting the series away right there.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
it's surprisingly difficult to make a baseball-related jethro tull reference
hahaha, google Gerald Bostock and softball when you have a minute
Astros in 7!
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
“I watch playoffs/world series in a weird way. Once my Twins are eliminated I root for whoever eliminates the Yankees. “Lol did someone get their feelings hurt?
― calstars, Thursday, 15 October 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
is it you?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 October 2020 13:10 (three years ago) link
Baker: "They cooked me for taking Russ Ortiz out in the World Series in 2002. In today's game that would be the thing to do. Third time through the order, 6 2/3..."— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) October 15, 2020
nah, they cooked you for giving him the ball
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 October 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
It was all the Rally Monkey's fault.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 15 October 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
well
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 October 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
Kershaw and the third time through the order.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 16 October 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
This Braves hitting reminds me of the 2019 Nats.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 16 October 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
would be amazing to see ATL drop a 15 spot in this inning
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
will it ever be enough for you?
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 October 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
you love to see it
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
damn, we don't get to see Will Smith vs. Will Smith.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
(asking again: have they faced each other before?)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
Just fuckin' no with the Astros, I'm all in for Rays/Braves
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 16 October 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
I was slammed at work and couldn't see much of the game but I saw Acuña tumble -- did he leave the game, is he ok?
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Friday, 16 October 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
At the time it looked like he broke/sprained his wrist (might be my PTSD from my vert skateboarding days), but he ended up staying in and seemed fine so shrug.ascii
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 October 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
might be my PTSD from my vert skateboarding days
looool okay toughie
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 October 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
Sixth inning playoff Kershaw ... again.
How many teams down 3-0 have forced a game 6? '99 Mets and '04 Red Sox, are there more?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
Starting to look like big trouble for the Rays.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 17 October 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
I don’t feel like watching an Astros vs Braves WS.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 17 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
Okay guys, Will Smith vs. Will Smith is happening right now.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
First time players with the same name have faced each other in the postseason.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
Will Smith prevails!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
The battle of Will Smith vs. Will Smith could not have been any better.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
Webb channeling his inner Kenny Powers meltdown
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 17 October 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
The Will Smith battle is why you can’t beat baseball.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 17 October 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
Astros series setup in perfect spot for Dusty Baker to produce the playoff nut buster crushing loss across their fan-base that he has delivered to every town he has managed within before.
― earlnash, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
I am not liking the Rays situation currently.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
LA
― calstars, Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
(xpost) I've subscribed to this theory the last few years that whenever every conceivable sign points to a game going one way, expect the opposite to happen; sports just doesn't make sense a lot of the time. So with 90% of baseball fans nauseous about the prospect of the Astros in the WS, wouldn't surprise me at all if the Rays win.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Stop trying to put hopeful thoughts in my head! (I realize the odds are pretty much 50/50)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
like a football bouncing, we just don't know where it's going to go
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
clemenza otm
betting line is rays -118 and dodgers -140, both of which i find kind of surprising
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
Or, if you believe momentum to be a myth, probability would heavily favour the Rays. A .667 team should beat a .483 team about 63% of the time, all else being equal. The likelihood of the .483 teams winning four in a row would be--I think--.37 x .37 x .37 x .37, or about a 2% likelihood. (But I'm not sure. Does every game have to be treated independently, in which case it's the same 37% for tonight? I mean, the probability of flipping a head is always 50%, but if you step back, the probability of four in a row is about 6%.)
http://sabr.org/journal/article/probabilities-of-victory-in-head-to-head-team-matchups/
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
A .667 team should beat a .483 team about 63% of the time, all else being equal.
given the unbalanced schedule other things are not equal, but yeah
it's the same 37% (or whatever) for tonight, although the starting pitcher matchup will make predicting any one game by overall records essentially meaningless
both teams have scored 21 runs in the series
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Even factoring in the cheating, I think the Astros are a much better team than their record would indicate.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
Agree with that, and to take their record literally is, I think--putting the cheating aside--wrong. It reminds me of the ILB poll a few years ago that included the 2000 Yankees as one of the worst WS winners because they were 87-74 for the season. It was, within the context of the Yankee-revolving-door, the same basic team as the '98/99/01 teams; the core was there anyway, plus other overlap. This year's Astros team is more or less the same Astros team of the last few years--not as good, but realistically closer to the WS team than to a .480 team.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Cardinals 2006 team was probably one of their worst to make the playoffs yet won it all. Looking it up they were only 83-78 that year. Same deal though, as they were in the playoffs nearly every year those days.
― earlnash, Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
Was going to mention them, too, but then I noticed they were even worse in 2007...but they do go along with the general point, though.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link