MLB general postseason 2020 thread

i guess that's cool? whatever

Kershaw has a ring, I can sleep better.

congrats dodgers. urias’s two backwards k’s to seal it were badass

i went to a game at dodger stadium once c. 2008 and it was amazing and beautiful so congrats to the dodgers

Chavez ravine at sunset is magical

it really is

i sleep like shit; will this help?

nothing against the dodgers at all though, they deserve it, are very good despite their third baseman's coif, etc

Thinking of Morbs and how every year he wrote ‘see you in spring’.

also, let's not forget, fantastic uniforms

possibly the best logo in the majors

I'll recant something I said a couple of weeks ago, that the winner this year would be tainted. The Dodgers were the one team where that won't stick: big pre-season favourite, best record in baseball, and they beat the team with second-best record in the WS...Whatever happened to Mayor Jingelberries? Wasn't he a big Dodgers fan?

Sports broadcasters will have to get used to the fact that in a 30 teams league (and hopefully more soon!) 40+ years drought are the norm.

let's pause to celebrate rob manfred, who can fulfill his greatest dream for the season by handing a piece of metal to some rich guy

Turner tested positive for covid!!!!

i guess that's cool? whatever

― mookieproof, Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:40 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The last time I watched the dodgers win the World Series it was with my grandfather and father who have both no longer with us.

Mookie don’t let the shittiness of Manfred and the owners ruin everything for you.

um WHAT

Holy crap Justin Turner was pulled because he tested positive for COVID-19?!

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 28, 2020

Last time the Dodgers won the World Series I was watching with my dad while I was sitting under the dining room table

The Dodgers were the one team where that won't stick

yeah

i can't really pull for the dodgers cause they're a boring win at this point but otoh it'd be really weird if a team that's been this good for this long never won a WS. they deserve to have their greatness officialized one way or another, so i'm glad it happened during a season i wasn't taking seriously. and i'm extremely happy for kershaw, just wish puig was still there too. now i hope they crumble and suck forever so some newer funner younger teams can usurp them in the NL

the #2 payroll team beat the #27 payroll team, with the Rays' entire payroll roughly equivalent to Betts+Kershaw earnings for the year.

sadly, the Dodgers are the kind of team that will all show up at the White House and eat a spread copious Mickey D's with Trump.

but I'm happy for Dodgers fans who have suffered through the last few decades.

that's always kind of a weird day when you win the World Series and find out you have COVID

This is a long ass speech.

"I'm going to the infirmary ward!"

I don’t think they would go to the white house also the fact that the rays’ owners don’t spend money is their own problem

kill thr filibuster

it's ruining baseball

wait, what? wasn't turner just in a heap of people without mask?

congrats doyers

also good luck doyers

Yeah, better it goes to franchises that actually spend like the Nats or Dodgers.

but I'm happy for Dodgers fans who have suffered through the last few decades.

lol

I just hope we never see a 60 games season ever again.

'55, '59, '63, '65, '81, '88, and now 2020.
What a year. What a season. What a team.
Congratulations @Dodgers

— Vin Scully (@TheVinScully) October 28, 2020

MLB fans welcome to boooing the commissioner as a seasonal chaser

it's kind of funny that the doyers ended up winning both of the asterisk WS years ('81 and 2020)

Lol what’s wrong with Manfred

okay now I'm bummed they won because we might've gotten to see how they'd treat a COVID outbreak on a baseball team right before GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES

sorry, that was a dumb way to put it. i don't actually think of them as "asterisk years". this was a crazy fucking year. but they all tried, and the dodgers played really well and deserved it. but still, just that they won both of the "weird" years

okay now I'm bummed they won because we might've gotten to see how they'd treat a COVID outbreak on a baseball team right before GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES

not to get all tin-foil hat, but maybe they deal with it by not letting the test results known until mid-game?

I think manifred has his own voice in his earbuds tbh. He’s talking like he hears himself talking and is confused

and just lie about why Turner got pulled? yeah you could probably do that

I just hope we never see a 60 games season ever again.

what we're about to see is massive layoffs

no need for scouts when there are no games (and video everywhere); no need for salespeople when there are no season tickets to sell; no need for coaches when there are no short-season minor league teams

'95 was shortened by 18 games; it has 11% of an asterisk.

xpost It started already

take sides: gary bettman vs rob manfred

(obviously boo them all)

But yeah part of why I rooted for the Dodgers so much this season, other than Kershaw and Betts fandom, is really because of how they got cheated in 2017. At least it gives me a sense of restoration.

Bettman has a longer path of destruction

Manifred is just a toady

I'm taking Manfred because Bettman will outlive us all and will still be doing the same speech routine under the boos in 2176 and he's not a man he's a vampire he scares me.

If the owners in MLB suddenly caved and said we need to pay the players more manifred would start dancing but bettman is from the stern school

Wild how these little trolls end up here