Master Index of Archived Threads


Wild Card Games Live Thread

Ceetar Oct 03 2018 12:43 AM

Minimal interest so why bother with separate threads? PLAYOFF GAMES I'm watching the statcast broadcast on ESPN2. Much better experience.

Ashie62 Oct 03 2018 01:05 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Jeff McNeil reminds me of Danny Murphy

Frayed Knot Oct 03 2018 01:53 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

The Cubs have been held to one or fewer runs 39 times* this season (Mets = 36) or just under 1/4 of the time. They don't just want Lester to continue to deal, they very well might NEED him to. * 11 times shutout plus 28 games with only one run scored including the play-in game loss on Monday which put them into this do-or-die situation

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 03 2018 02:21 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Muffy batting at Wrigley with the chance to impact a playoff game. wonder how this goes

Ceetar Oct 03 2018 02:39 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

apparently I'm rooting for the Rockies.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 03 2018 02:42 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

I'm strong for the Rocks. Cubs owners are gay for Trump, they can go fuck themselves.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2018 04:02 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Same. For the reasons JCL mentioned, plus a whole raft of underrated, exciting talent (Arenado, Story, Dahl, etc.). Who knew? Anyways... Been squeaky bum time for about an hour, now.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2018 04:12 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

More bum squeak: two on, one out with an apparently creaky Contreras to bat. Final Boss (who I didn't realize is Rox folk) just missed his spots to Baez, and put Murphy on intentionally.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2018 04:17 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Final Boss gets a potential DP grounder, only Baez hugs Arenado after the tag. No interference? Ever since hitting extras, this game has been slowly turning into something of a weird-baseball pu pu platter.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2018 04:20 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Something wearing blue called Caratini grounds out meekly to end the threat and the eleventh. Moodwise, Alex Rodriguez sounds like he's taking hits of nitrous between batters.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2018 04:27 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Veteran lefthander/late Cajun chef Justin Wilson, just brought in to replace Whole Camels (middle-relief edition), post-PH, is out after retiring Carlos Gonzalez, in favor of Kyle Hendricks, the eighth Cub hurler. So many relievers. This may as well be a college-town White Castle, I've seen so many sliders offered.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2018 04:51 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

13th. Two-out rally thanks to Hendricks leaving two-strike fastballs up and over the plate to Story and Parra. TONY WOLTERS smacks a hanging change into center, and at long last, we've got a development! 2-1, Purples.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 03 2018 05:01 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Just go back to bat, Gore. its 1 am

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2018 05:09 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

OK THX BYE CHI

A Boy Named Seo Oct 03 2018 05:19 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Fun baseball game. Loved the bat flips on walks, great atmosphere tonight! I still have a bias against the Rockies I can't quite shake. I still think of them as that expansion team with shitty vest uniforms, where the elevation at the home park could turn Dante Bichette or Vinny Castilla into goddamn stars. But I will root for the AAAA Albuquerque Isotopes guys over the Brewers in the DS round.

smg58 Oct 03 2018 10:25 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Frayed Knot wrote: The Cubs have been held to one or fewer runs 39 times* this season (Mets = 36) or just under 1/4 of the time. They don't just want Lester to continue to deal, they very well might NEED him to. * 11 times shutout plus 28 games with only one run scored including the play-in game loss on Monday which put them into this do-or-die situation You look at the performance of their lineup as a whole, and you wonder how that is even possible. Just flukey, or is their more to it than that?

bmfc1 Oct 03 2018 10:52 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

That would hurt. [tweet:2vqdwl7y]https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1047359459453030403[/tweet:2vqdwl7y]

Frayed Knot Oct 03 2018 11:30 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Smell ya later, Cubbies!! 4.5 games up on September 6th. Not quite 7.5 w/17 to go, but still not good. And then two losses *At Home* in two days when a win in either/or sends you on. The Cubs have been held to one or fewer runs 39 times* this season (Mets = 36) or just under 1/4 of the time. They don't just want Lester to continue to deal, they very well might NEED him to. You look at the performance of their lineup as a whole, and you wonder how that is even possible. Just flukey, or is their more to it than that? Kind of weird in that I heard that the 39 times 'one or none' RS is the second most in all the majors (and now it's 40), yet they're 4th in the NL in runs scored* so that implies some sort of 'feast or famine' tendency. And even a sub-par/injured year from Kris Bryant can't explain it all. * How 'bout a game where both Charlie Blackmon and Anthony Rizzo are switched out even before regulation innings were up and the final crucial innings are played with those two reduced to cheerleading roles?!? * Three wins, three days, three timezones for the Rox. The good news now is that they get to stay in town for a day before hitchhiking their way up the turnpike to Milwaukee for Thursday's kickoff. * And finally, while you of course expect a 13 hour game to run a long time (4:55 was the official time) the problem was that it took them over three hours just to get thru the first 8 innings, and that from a game that was only 1-1 with about 10 hits and 2 walks combined at the time. So just for kicks I'll bring up Game 7 of the 1960 World Series: 19 runs, 23 hits, 5 walks, 0 combined strikeouts!!, 9 pitchers; 2 hours 36 minutes Yeah, I know, shutup grandpa * yet somehow only 6th in RS/G Avg., lots of extra inning games maybe?

Benjamin Grimm Oct 03 2018 01:31 PM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

I see that the Oakland starting pitcher for tonight's game only pitched 24 innings in 2018! He's started 8 games, usually going about 1 or 2 innings. I guess this is a "bullpen game". If I was an Oakland fan (and I guess I am for one night) that would make me pretty uneasy.

Lefty Specialist Oct 03 2018 01:40 PM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

* Three wins, three days, three timezones for the Rox. Actually two wins and a loss, which is why they were in Chicago in the first place.

Ceetar Oct 03 2018 01:42 PM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I see that the Oakland starting pitcher for tonight's game only pitched 24 innings in 2018! He's started 8 games, usually going about 1 or 2 innings. I guess this is a "bullpen game". If I was an Oakland fan (and I guess I am for one night) that would make me pretty uneasy. gotta feel less uneasy than planning to let Cahill or Jackson throw a ton of the innings though. HR/FB rates can be a little fluky and random, but their two best starters, Cahill and Jackson both are at 10%+ and they're playing in Yankee Stadium. Shawn Kelley hasn't given up a home run as an A in 16.2 IP. So I'm sure he'll get in there. Familia too, is pretty good on that front.

MFS62 Oct 03 2018 02:13 PM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

I'll be rooting for the (I hat myself) Braves. And Rockies. Later

Centerfield Oct 04 2018 12:32 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Any thoughts I had of watching are out the window with that Judge HR. The A’s, Twins and Rangers are contractually bound to lay down for the MFYs.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 04 2018 01:45 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Hey, they're hanging in there, and keep putting runners on/taking VERY good ABs against Severino. RiSPy in almost every inning so far, including this 5th. Only problem is, Severino just got pulled. For Betances. (Who's essentially, like, the same guy, right? There's something to be said for a different look.)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 04 2018 01:51 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Well, a more effective version of Severino, apparently, as two-on-no-out-heart-of-lineup-coming-up becomes three-out-none-in. 5 LOB in the last two innings alone for your road dogs.

Centerfield Oct 04 2018 01:57 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Not even worth watching. No way Oakland wins.

Fman99 Oct 04 2018 02:00 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

I really hope Oakland wins. These fans on TV are insufferable.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 04 2018 02:16 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Jam-shot-and-weird-spin double for Judge, followed by bobbled-in-center double. 3-0, man on third, no out. Thanks, Rodney!

Frayed Knot Oct 04 2018 02:17 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Maybe, Fernando, if you straightened your hat then your pitches would be more accurate.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 04 2018 02:21 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Does he still shoot an "arrow" after an outing like this? Does he do it by himself, like, in the clubhouse bathroom? Sad ground-aimed bathroom arrow? Anyway, Treinen. Who probably should have been in instead of Imaginary Legolas.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 04 2018 02:36 AM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Well, then.

MFS62 Oct 04 2018 08:58 PM Re: Wild Card Games Live Thread

Oh, boo-hoo, I'm all broken up. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/chase-utle ... 43023.html Later