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Edgy MD
Aug 07 2019 12:22 PM

Braves up 6-0 over the Twins after three.

The only other day game concerning the Mets is the Nats at the Giants, which starts at 3:45 EST. There's no bad outcome for that one, but a Giants win is certainly preferable.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Aug 07 2019 12:29 PM
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Twins turn their 2nd triple play in 2 weeks in that Braves game

Frayed Knot
Aug 07 2019 12:33 PM
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Cardinals @ Dodgers -- 3:10 EDT today, noon local time -- is also a game concerning us.

Dodgers aren't getting caught by anyone, but the Redbirds are in the midst of things mucking up the WC works.

Edgy MD
Aug 07 2019 12:40 PM
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Yeah, that one too.

The Dodgers are starting somebody named "Dustin May." I have no idea who that is, but I was always taught that dust in May meant it would be a hard year for the crops.

Lefty Specialist
Aug 07 2019 12:48 PM
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Scoreboard watching = FUN.

Scoreboard watching after the Mets have already put it in the books = FUN+

HahnSolo
Aug 07 2019 01:25 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:

Yeah, that one too.

The Dodgers are starting somebody named "Dustin May." I have no idea who that is, but I was always taught that dust in May meant it would be a hard year for the crops.

He's Gingergaard, man.

https://a.espncdn.com/photo/2019/0803/r578695_608x342_16-9.jpg>

Edgy MD
Aug 07 2019 01:26 PM
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That's some salad. I hadn't realized that CBS had rebooted Room 222.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Aug 07 2019 02:11 PM
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Gingergaard.

That's gold, Jerry

HahnSolo
Aug 07 2019 02:18 PM
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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Gingergaard.

That's gold, Jerry

Can't take credit for that one. It is good, though.

Centerfield
Aug 07 2019 02:55 PM
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Our allies not getting the job done today.

bmfc1
Aug 07 2019 04:25 PM
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LAD beats STL!

Edgy MD
Aug 07 2019 05:59 PM
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That's St. Louis' fifth loss in a row, dropping them, the Mets, and the Brewers into a three-way virtual tie, only one game behind Philadelphia for the second Wild Card spot.

The Mets have the better run differential than those three other teams.

Tonight's rooting interests:
[list]
[*]Pirates over the Brewers (this is a tough one, as the Bucs are already down 5-0 and haven't gotten a hit through the first two innings.

[*]D-Backs over Phillies (rooting for Vargas to get blown over like a card castle under a fan)

[*]Orioles over the Yankees (just because)

[/list]

Edgy MD
Aug 07 2019 09:13 PM
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The Brewers beat the Bucs 8-3, so they keep pace with the Mets, but if Arizona, currently up 4-0 over Philadelphia, finishes the job, the Mets will be within a half game of the Phils, and that would mean within a half game of both the Phillies and the Brewers — in other words, within a half game of that second Wild Card slot.

As much as I'm enjoying the raucous LFGM crowds of the last few days, the online exchanges I've had suggest that Phillies fans currently hate their team (the bullpen drives them nuts, and Gabe Kapler, whose firing they frequently demand in the middle of a game, is out of his depth), as do the Nationals fans (the bullpen drives them nuts and the team let Bryce Harper walk this past winter and might well let Anthony Rendon walk this next winter).

Braves fans don't hate their team, but it's never exactly been a mad love affair down there either. Folks are just there to do the chop thing.

G-Fafif
Aug 08 2019 01:17 AM
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Vargy and the Phillies lose. We're a half-game out.

Fman99
Aug 08 2019 05:34 AM
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Amazing turn of events. Turns out that a 13-1 run in July/August will boost your postseason hopes. Who knew?

Frayed Knot
Aug 08 2019 05:36 AM
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I just love the fact that this NYM run has made me care about the out of town scoreboard.

It's much tougher to care when you hate the sport as much as many of us did a few months ago.

G-Fafif
Aug 09 2019 03:36 AM
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Phillies lose, dropping them into a second-place NLWC2 tie with the Mets and Cardinals, a half-game behind the Brewers. D'Backs are 1 1/2 back, Giants 3, Reds 4 1/2.

In the NL East, Brave loss to Marlins lifts us to within 8 of first place.

G-Fafif
Aug 09 2019 03:41 AM
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Friday's games of parochial interest...

Nats @ Mets 7:10

Braves @ Marlins 7:10

Cubs @ Reds 7:10

Rangers @ Brewers 8:10

Pirates @ Cardinals 8:15

D'Backs @ Dodgers 10:10

Phillies @ Giants 10:15

Frayed Knot
Aug 10 2019 08:00 PM
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btw, Another thing not to overlook while watching the O-o-T-S is that the Braves have now lost two-of-three to the Marlins, and that even when they're winning the back end of their games

are no prettier than ours were earlier in the season or that Washington's have been all year.

- tonight, in a game that was 0-0 thru 7, the Braves went up 3-0 and then 6-2 before coughing up four in the bottom of the 9th then lost via a walk-off/Sac-Fly in the 10th

- earlier this week in Minnesota, they gave up 2 in the 9th to lose on Monday

- on Tuesday they led the Twinkies 11-0 in the 6th, then held on to win 12-7

- on Wednesday it was 7-0 Braves in the 6th, but eventually a much tighter 11-7 win

And this, like the Nats, is all AFTER they fixed their pen at the deadline. Recent imports Mark Melancon, Shane Greene, and (incumbent) Sean Newcombe were tonight's goats in the Atlanta pen.

So, among all the other good stuff this week, we've picked up 1.5 games on 1st place NLE just since Thursday

Oh yeah, and the Astros are up 20-2 in the 8th inning at Camden Yards. Or, as Baltimore fans would call it: Saturday.

And the Yanx lost today making that two of three to the Blue Jays

Johnny Lunchbucket
Aug 10 2019 08:15 PM
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I want the division at this pace

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 10 2019 09:55 PM
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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

I want the division at this pace

Then I'm gonna hafta revise "two first place finishes in 31 seasons" to "two first place finishes in 30 seasons".

Benjamin Grimm
Aug 11 2019 05:14 AM
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Or "two first-place finishes in five seasons" if you wanna be optimistic about it.

Frayed Knot
Aug 11 2019 02:36 PM
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Braves hang on for the four-game split with Miami

But it still wasn't easy. Game ended 5-4 Braves with Marlin runners on 1st & 3rd in bottom 9

Edgy MD
Aug 15 2019 08:11 PM
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Use up all your hits on the Yankees, Cleveland.

Edgy MD
Aug 20 2019 10:38 PM
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I think it was mentioned in another thread, but your special guest best friend tonight was Pittsburgh, beating the Nats 4-1, by (you guessed it) burning down their bullpen.

Most everybody else currently jockeying with your heroes won and stayed even, but I guess there's no harm in celebrating the Cards' win over Milwaukee, putting the Brewboys a game and a half behind the Mets.

Wait a minute. Yes there is. Rooting for the Cards just feels gross.

Edgy MD
Aug 21 2019 09:25 PM
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Cubs up 12-11 on the barely-still-in-it Giants (thanks for the secondbaseman) in the eighth inning. Pitchers' battle.

Milwaukee and the Cards in a delay with the Brewers holding a 5-3 lead. There's probably no bad outcome to that one.

Washington Krush Grooved the Pirates 11-1.

Phillies completed their sweep of Boston with a 5-3 win at Fenway

Atlanta finished off the Marlins 5-0.

So, really, nothing came up particularly Millhouse today apart from another exciting Mets win (despite losing the starter after four), and whatever outcome happens in the beertown battle. Also, Hunter Strickland failed to negotiate a bench press and knocked himself silly while breaking his nose. Reports suggest he won't miss much, if any, time, but this is the second busted schnozz for the Nationals' rotation this season.

Lefty Specialist
Aug 22 2019 05:53 AM
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So, Cards fall out of first into the second wild card, with the Mets gaining a net 1/2 game. Mets and Phils now tied at 1.5 out of the WC with identical 66-60 records.

Willets Point
Aug 22 2019 11:41 AM
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My daughter and I went the Red Sox/Royals game on August 7 before a torrential downpour forced us to leave in the 10th inning. Today, with neither of us present, the game was completed in 12 minutes.

Edgy MD
Sep 02 2019 03:52 PM
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Phillies, Cubs, and Braves all win. Arizona up 8--0 on San Diego.

Looks like the only rival the Mets can hope to gain on today is Milwaukee.

Of course, they sure gained a game on Washington.

Edgy MD
Sep 11 2019 06:56 PM
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Marlins tie it up with the Brews!

LWFS
Sep 11 2019 08:38 PM
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Brews untie it, and keep it that way.

The Cubs are just underway in Whale's Vagina, and ain't nobody scoring. Vaya con dios, Daddys.

But-- BUT-- the Bravos are helping, in their own way: up 3-1 in the 9th... but with two on and a coiled Maikel Franco PHing. Carry on, my Me-lan-con.

[UPDATE: he DID!]

G-Fafif
Sep 11 2019 08:46 PM
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One more night at The Party.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/zn9EzpH4W9o[/youtube]

G-Fafif
Sep 12 2019 02:30 AM
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Cubs lose. We're 2 GB them and the Brewers; tied with Philly; 1/2 GA ARI.

Centerfield
Sep 12 2019 01:25 PM
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Hey Marlins. Can you win a fucking game please? Thanks.

Centerfield
Sep 12 2019 02:52 PM
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My god these Marlins are worthless. They lost 7 straight to the Brewers and Nats.

Of course I'm sure they'll start hitting the minute they arrive at Citi later this month.

bmfc1
Sep 13 2019 02:15 PM
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The Pirates just scored a run this way: Newman singles; (this is one sequence) he steals but it's ball 4 so Contreras doesn't have to throw but he does and it goes into CF so Newman gets to 3d, then Almora (CF) throws it in but it misses everyone and Newman scores.

https://www.mlb.com/pirates/video/jon-lester-ball-to-bryan-reynolds

Frayed Knot
Sep 13 2019 04:23 PM
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The Pirates just scored a run this way: Newman singles; (this is one sequence) he steals but it's ball 4 so Contreras doesn't have to throw but he does and it goes into CF so Newman gets to 3d, then Almora (CF) throws it in but it misses everyone and Newman scores.

https://www.mlb.com/pirates/video/jon-lester-ball-to-bryan-reynolds

This game started out well anyway.

The Pirates went up 4-0 in the top of the 1st w/Lester on the ropes for Chicago ... and then by the 3rd in was 10-4 Cubbies

Frayed Knot
Sep 13 2019 05:07 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

The Pirates just scored a run this way: Newman singles; (this is one sequence) he steals but it's ball 4 so Contreras doesn't have to throw but he does and it goes into CF so Newman gets to 3d, then Almora (CF) throws it in but it misses everyone and Newman scores.

https://www.mlb.com/pirates/video/jon-lester-ball-to-bryan-reynolds

This game started out well anyway.

The Pirates went up 4-0 in the top of the 1st w/Lester on the ropes for Chicago ... and then by the 3rd in was 10-4 Cubbies

So Pittsburgh closes to 10-7 in the top of the 5th and then even had a chance for more but left the bases loaded.

Then, if the bottom of the 5th, the Cubs went out 1-2-3 ... or did they? The 3rd out, a bang-bang play at 1st, was over-turned.

Not a big deal most of the time ... except here the Cubs put up 7 straight runs after starting their run with the bases empty and three out (no HRs either).

17-7 Cubs, top of 6

iow, probably not a good night for WC contenders to plan on gaining ground on the Cubs.

bmfc1
Sep 14 2019 05:06 PM
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The Nationals are getting their sorry asses kicked by the Braves again today. Charlie Culberson tried to bunt and got hit in the face by the pitch. He was carted off the field. The pitched was called a strike. The Braves manager was unhappy. (Mickey would never stand up for his players this way.)

https://twitter.com/yayroger/status/1173001730239410176

Frayed Knot
Sep 14 2019 06:04 PM
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I was watching that one during that inning. And while I can understand why Snickers Bar was mad, I'm not so sure he was correct.

The problem is that, if you're bunting, you don't have to make a forward move with the bat to have it called a strike, the simple

absence of a backward move can be construed as 'having offered at it'. Culberson's only move really was to put the bat in front of

his face hoping to deflect it, but the ball missed the bat completely.

Tough way to take 'Strike One' in an AB, but the HP ump shouldn't be altering the rules in order to express sympathy.

G-Fafif
Sep 15 2019 12:21 PM
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Jason Vargas gave up a grand slam to Christian Vazquez. Crimson Hose lead crimson dopes 5-1 in the 4th.

Frayed Knot
Sep 15 2019 05:28 PM
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Even if we continue to win, sooner or later somebody is going to have to do us some favors.

-- Cubs won again today; 4 wins in a row, 8-6 in September

-- Nats win; only 6-8 in Sept (they went into a mini-tailspin following their 7-run/9th inning win vs us) but have now won four of their last seven

-- Brewers also won today; 11-3 in September

-- at least the Phils managed to lose today; 7-7 now this month

-- the DBacks are the only ones really playing their way out of contention; they came into our series on a roll but have now lost 6 of 7 (four to us then twice this weekend to Cincy)

Edgy MD
Sep 15 2019 05:47 PM
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The Phils will phade. They're phaking it with their pitching staff.

Frayed Knot
Sep 15 2019 06:23 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:

The Phils will phade. They're phaking it with their pitching staff.

Also, their next 11 games are at Atlanta (3) then at Cleveland (3) then at Washington (5 in 4 days)

Following a week-plus like that, the fact that they end the season at home with 3 vs the Marlins is of little consolation.

Edgy MD
Sep 15 2019 07:20 PM
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If the Phils, Brews, D-Backs beat out the Mets, well, they deserve to lose.

Cubs and Nats are who they really have to target at this point.

G-Fafif
Sep 18 2019 10:13 PM
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Brewers lose. Cubs lose. We're three out with ten to play.

kcmets
Sep 19 2019 01:22 PM
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Phillies just lost, not that I pay attention to OoTS's all day.

Gwreck
Sep 19 2019 01:39 PM
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That also means an extra win for Atlanta.

Admittedly, it's getting way ahead of ourselves, but it'd be ideal if the last 3 games against Atlanta meant nothing to the Braves (currently 4.5 behind LA for best league record/getting to face the WC team in the first round of the playoffs).

Centerfield
Sep 19 2019 02:14 PM
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If that last Atlanta series means anything, it will have meant a lot of things went right.

But if we get there, I don't see Atlanta laying down. Assholes.

Edgy MD
Sep 19 2019 02:24 PM
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I kinda hope they don't.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 19 2019 03:18 PM
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yeah, gotta earn it.

Centerfield
Sep 19 2019 03:49 PM
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Brewers up 3-1 on the Padres. I think the entire 2015 KC team is playing in this game. I hate it already.

Lefty Specialist
Sep 19 2019 06:18 PM
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Brewers win 5-1, pushing the Mets a half game further back.

nymr83
Sep 19 2019 07:51 PM
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the Phillies loss today was huge, bringing them even with us in the loss column. we control our destiny with regard to one more team now. Cubs down 3-1 right now and it feels like a "must lose" for us!

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 19 2019 08:34 PM
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Cubs just tied it in the 9th

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 19 2019 08:36 PM
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Going to extras

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 19 2019 08:51 PM
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Carpenter homers off Kimbrel, Cards take a 5-4 lead to bottom 10th.

This is a very big game for us

Edgy MD
Sep 19 2019 09:05 PM
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And it's a victory for the St. Louisians! Cublicans fall a game out!

Time for everybody to become Pittsburgh fans. They've to stop Milwaukee's run.

Bobby Wahl needs to remember his fealty to the Mets — and switch up Josh Hater's vitamins or something.

Centerfield
Sep 20 2019 02:28 PM
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Down 1-0 to the Cubs, the Cards load the bases with no one out top 6.

Yadier F. Molina up.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 20 2019 02:30 PM
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I love Yadier Molina.

(ew)

Centerfield
Sep 20 2019 02:31 PM
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Base hit! 2-1 Cards.

We may now resume our hate of YFM.

Frayed Knot
Sep 20 2019 03:13 PM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 20 2019 03:35 PM

Cubs get 1st & 2nd/none-out in their half of the 7th ... don't score.

btw, the Cubs have a Wick and a Wieck (apparently also pronounced WICK) in their relief corps, and both have pitched in this game.

Does that mean they've been ... Wait for it! ... burning the candle at both ends today?

Wieck is a lefty (which is I guess how they tell them apart) and was originally drafted by the Mets (7th round - 2014)

Frayed Knot
Sep 20 2019 03:34 PM
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And in the top of the 8th, the Cards get 2nd & 3rd w/one out ... and they don't score.

btw, 2-1 game, not yet into the bottom of the 8th, and already well over 3 hours.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 20 2019 04:04 PM
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2 outs to go. I love St Louis and all their super fans

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 20 2019 04:15 PM
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2 outs, tying run on 1st, Zobrist batting

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 20 2019 04:16 PM
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Grounds out to first. VICTORY

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 20 2019 04:18 PM
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Go Indians

Go Marlins

Go Pirates

Frayed Knot
Sep 21 2019 06:31 PM
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One of the biggest problems is having to rely on help from the Pirates down the stretch.

They've now not only lost seven straight but are being out-scored 73-22 over that time!

And those numbers don't even include tonight's game which they're currently losing as well.

And after they finish up this set with the Brewers they have three with the Cubs starting on Tuesday.

Edgy MD
Sep 22 2019 07:44 AM
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The Pirates' second half has been an epic steamrolling — from a 41-45 first half that saw them ahead of some of the teams now bucking for the Wild Card, to a 21-45 homestretch that has me suspecting they decided to play with ankle weights to get into better shape.

MFS62
Sep 22 2019 02:11 PM
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Feh! The Pirates should be disbanded.

They're down 4-0 to the Brewers in the seventh. They don't even put up a decent fight.

Later

Edgy MD
Sep 22 2019 02:50 PM
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The policy of making the trade deadline a "hard" deadline, to keep teams from tanking?

Didn't work.

Chad ochoseis
Sep 22 2019 03:15 PM
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In a bit of brilliant scheduling, the allegedly ready for prime time Browns were moved to Sunday night, making the Indians an easy StubHub ticket this evening. So I'll be biking downtown to watch the Tribe beat the Phillies, helping both themselves and the Mets.

A continued National collapse would boost our slim hopes, but they have five upcoming games against the Phils, so we also need the Phils to lose a few against other teams.

Chad ochoseis
Sep 22 2019 07:24 PM
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The good news is that it's 10-1 Indians in the top of the 8th. The bad news is Ollie Pérez is on the mound.

Edgy MD
Sep 22 2019 07:59 PM
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Way to represent. We need a forum delegate at all relevant games.

The Phils may be our best phriends right now. Unlike the Mets, and despite being a game and a half behind the Mets, they still control their fates to a meaningful extent, going into a five-game series with Washington.

If the Phils somehow sweep, they'll pull within a game of DC going into their final series, so they are one motivated pack of ponies.