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IST ALCS 2019: HOU vs MFY — Astros R Us

G-Fafif
Oct 10 2019 08:24 PM

Been a huge Houston fan for minutes now.

Gwreck
Oct 10 2019 09:53 PM
Re: IST ALCS 2019: HOU vs MFY — Astros R Us

Out of the four remaining teams, preferred choices to win the World Series, ranked:



1. Houston

100. St Louis

999. Washington

Lefty Specialist
Oct 11 2019 05:53 AM
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From the immortal Ball Four:



Now, the Astros are a team that likes to go out on the town,

We like to drink and fight and fuck till curfew comes around

Then it's time to make the trek,

We better be back to Buddy's check,

It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.



Now, Edwards is our catcher and he's really No. 1,

Dave Bristol said he drinks too much and calls some long home runs,

But we think John will be all right,

If we keep him in his room at night,

It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.



Now, our pitching staff's composed of guys who think they're 'pretty cool,'

With a case of Scotch, a greenie and an old beat-up whirlpool,

We'll make the other hitters laugh,

Then calmly break their bats in half,

It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.



Now, Harry Walker is the one that manages this crew,

He doesn't like it when we drink and fight and smoke and screw,

But when we win our game each day,

Then what the fuck can Harry say?

It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.



Now let's go pound some Budweiser.

Centerfield
Oct 11 2019 06:57 AM
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You can do this Houston.

MFS62
Oct 11 2019 07:20 AM
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That song would make me proud to be an Astro, too.

Go 'Stros!



Later

metirish
Oct 11 2019 08:46 AM
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I am friends with a few really die hard MFY fans, they also happen to loathe the Mets , it's all good fun of course but christ they can't win this ...I will never hear the end of it

Frayed Knot
Oct 11 2019 12:55 PM
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=Gwreck post_id=24230 time=1570766013 user_id=56]
Out of the four remaining teams, preferred choices to win the World Series, ranked:



1. Houston

100. St Louis

999. Washington



My preferences

#1 - the team named Not-the-Yankees

#2 - three way tie

Frayed Knot
Oct 11 2019 03:31 PM
Re: IST ALCS 2019: HOU vs MFY — Astros R Us

btw, should the Yanx get eliminated in this series, this decade (2010-19) would represent the only one of the last ten with no MFY appearance in a World Series (last appearance/win = 2009)

and also the second in the last ten with no MFY WS win (the 1980s saw only their 1981 loss to LAD in six games)

G-Fafif
Oct 12 2019 08:22 PM
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Not a promising Game One.

batmagadanleadoff
Oct 12 2019 08:32 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

btw, should the Yanx get eliminated in this series, this decade (2010-19) would represent the only one of the last ten with no MFY appearance in a World Series (last appearance/win = 2009)

and also the second in the last ten with no MFY WS win (the 1980s saw only their 1981 loss to LAD in six games)


That's great. The Yankees win the pennant at least once a decade and for the Mets, it's two first place finishes in 31 seasons. You know what? I'm rooting for the Yankees. Because fuck the Wilpons. They should be tarred and feathered and chased out of town at torchlight by crazed villagers, like in Frankenstein.

bmfc1
Oct 12 2019 08:35 PM
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Bregman is one of the few non-Mets I like but take a damn pitch.

kcmets
Oct 12 2019 08:41 PM
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I'm aggravated and not happy.

Frayed Knot
Oct 12 2019 08:47 PM
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This game would have been a helluva lot more interesting had the Astros, y'know, shown up.

Frayed Knot
Oct 13 2019 08:22 PM
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Geez Houston, ya wanna leave a few more runners on base?!?

Frayed Knot
Oct 13 2019 08:48 PM
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Six innings; 2:39

Imagine where they'd be if this were a high-scoring game?

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 13 2019 09:53 PM
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Just hit a home run already, Houston Twins

G-Fafif
Oct 13 2019 11:26 PM
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Carlos Correa makes it all better.

Fman99
Oct 14 2019 09:08 AM
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Watched none of this game. Between Houston leaving all of those on, plus it being a MFY game, plus the national broadcasters, and the pace of play, well, let's just say, not really sucking me in.

Centerfield
Oct 14 2019 10:27 AM
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This is the first time baseball has made me happy since Dom Smith touched home plate.

Frayed Knot
Oct 14 2019 04:34 PM
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Watched none of this game. Between Houston leaving all of those on, plus it being a MFY game, plus the national broadcasters, and the pace of play, well, let's just say, not really sucking me in.


4:49 was the final time of game which, 11 innings or not, is fucking ridiculous for a game with a total of 5 runs & 13 hits. We're MLB, and we make sure to end prior to One AM!! (even if just barely)

Some of that is the extra commercial time, but so was NINE mid-inning pitching changes (5 NYY, 4 HOU). That, in my mind, is the biggest easily fixable culprit.

Some of that goes away next year if they go through with the proposed three batter minimum. I'd prefer simply making the changes quicker rather than rule changes which dictate strategy.

Eliminating the on-field warmups on top of the bullpen warmups would save probably a minute or more per change (hey, it's something). Last night two different pitchers threw more warmup

tosses after they were called in (8) than they did actual pitches: Sabathia faced one batter and threw just 5 pitches, Ryan Pressley threw 3, while four others threw a dozen pitches or less.

That's 48 Additional warm-up pitches thrown by six hurlers who then amassed a combined total of 52 actual pitches!

Oh, and the mound visit limit seems to have gone out with the bathwater as well. I've heard no mention of it during the playoffs so far and no one seems concerned with running out of them.

Fman99
Oct 14 2019 08:21 PM
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Yeah, fuck all that, exactly.

Frayed Knot
Oct 15 2019 05:26 PM
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Houston turning to some red hot Joe Smith action trying to protect their 4-0 lead in the 8th

G-Fafif
Oct 15 2019 05:54 PM
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Houston Astros, American heroes.

Frayed Knot
Oct 15 2019 06:07 PM
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The Astros have now done something they failed to do in the 2017 ALCS: win a game in the Bronx.

That series two years ago was entirely a home win affair with the 'stros winning games 1, 2, 6, & 7 but none of the middle three.



Game 4 tomorrow is reportedly in serious danger of being washed out which would push it to Thursday and Game 5 to the scheduled off day on Friday.

The series would then go straight on to Games 6 & 7 (if needed of course) in Houston over the weekend with no "travel day" break in between.

Frayed Knot
Oct 16 2019 10:16 AM
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Game Off!!





Talking heads (and maybe even us) now have 24 hours to debate whether this found day off in exchange for the final four games being in a row benefits the Stros or the Yanx

G-Fafif
Oct 17 2019 08:43 PM
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Astros 6 MFYs 1 in the 6th inning of the 4th game of what is, tentatively speaking, a not altogether objectionable ALCS.

G-Fafif
Oct 17 2019 08:48 PM
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6-3. Forget I said anything.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 17 2019 09:42 PM
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CC ends his CCareer with a mid-at-bat injury

Gwreck
Oct 17 2019 09:52 PM
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Astros >>> Twins. Keep it up.

G-Fafif
Oct 17 2019 10:30 PM
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Astros win, 8-3. 4:19 well spent.

Frayed Knot
Oct 18 2019 03:47 AM

Between the fielding errors (4), the inability to hit w/RiSP (0-7), plus the HBPs (1) & Wild Pitches (2) it's amazing the effect the YSIII crowd had on the game.

Oh wait, you mean those were the stats from the home team?!? ... never mind!



You KNOW that had those been Houston stats (they made one error) the "raucous crowd", along with assorted 'ghosts' would have been cited not just as A cause but as THE cause.

But, instead, the home teams are 1-3 in this series and sub-.500 overall during these playoffs as a whole.





btw, how those WPs (on Loaisiga) weren't charged as passed balls to Sanchez is a mystery.

I guess they figure that, with Sanchez, balls that hit his glove on a fly aren't necessarily destined to be caught.

MFS62
Oct 18 2019 04:52 AM
Re:

Frayed Knot wrote:

You KNOW that had those been Houston stats (they made one error) the "raucous crowd", along with assorted 'ghosts' would have been cited not just as A cause but as THE cause.


Speaking of "raucous crowd":

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/yankees-fans-zack-greinke-social-anxiety-032417563.html

Weren't we taught to not make fun of the afflicted?



Later

Centerfield
Oct 18 2019 09:42 AM
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Stay classy Yankee fans.



I wonder if they would make taunt an opposing player with cancer. I wouldn't put it past them.

Ceetar
Oct 18 2019 09:44 AM
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I would assume the Yankees are going to whine about the ball if/when they lose this series, like employing lumberjacks in a tiny stadium isn't basically a juiced environment already.

Lefty Specialist
Oct 18 2019 11:25 AM
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It would behoove the Astros to win it tonight, as Game 6 would likely be a bullpen game with Gerrit Cole going on full rest in a potential Game 7.

Centerfield
Oct 18 2019 12:50 PM
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I had no idea that Houston only had three starters. I guess they left Wade Miley off the roster. Just now found out Lance McCullers had Tommy John. And Charlie Morton is no longer on the team. This is how little I pay attention to the American League.



Does Nolan Ryan still pitch for them? How about Mike Hampton?

Willets Point
Oct 18 2019 12:57 PM
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Brad Peacock started 15 games this season and is on the roster.

Frayed Knot
Oct 18 2019 02:10 PM
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I had no idea that Houston only had three starters. I guess they left Wade Miley off the roster.


Yeah, Miley was the next guy in line but a poor September -- if you can call: 5 starts with 11.1 combined innings while giving up 21 Runs on 28 Hits "poor" -- left him not only out of the rotation

but off the roster entirely.

Peacock last started in late June with only some time off (injury I assume) and a handful of relief appearances since then.

Their 'bullpen day', if they need one, will probably involve 24 y/o Mexican rookie Jose Urquidy who they're apparently high on and who made a couple of starts prior to the Greinke trade then was called

back up in September.



Their plans for avoiding a bullpen game apparently involves hitting grounders to Yanqui infielders as a method for padding their run total.

And if that's not enough they'll probably go back to just hitting drunks in the outfield grandstands with batted balls.

41Forever
Oct 18 2019 03:02 PM
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Yankees fans are savages, too! Horrible.



[url]https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/yankees-fan-mock-zack-greinke-for-social-anxiety-disorder/

G-Fafif
Oct 18 2019 06:07 PM
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Justin Verlander currently letting down a nation.

Frayed Knot
Oct 18 2019 07:59 PM
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Anytime that the rookie Alvarez, or Gourriel at 1B, or even the supposed MVP Bregman for that matter, feel like maybe joining this series they'd be a welcome addition.

Frayed Knot
Oct 18 2019 08:14 PM
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Well that was a bit of an odd game.

G-Fafif
Oct 19 2019 02:59 PM
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“Bullpen game” sounds like “spa day”.

Frayed Knot
Oct 19 2019 05:46 PM
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Brad Peacock and Chad Green are to be the starting mound opponents in this [CROSSOUT]spa day[/CROSSOUT] bullpen game.

Either that or they're the remaining suspects in some baseball-themed version of CLUE, I haven't figure out which.



Brad Peacock ... on the mound ... with the baseball is to start tonight's affair at precisely 8:08 EDT

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 19 2019 09:52 PM
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That's one.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 19 2019 09:53 PM
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(Houston leading 4-2 in the 9th, 1 on, 1 out, Lemhieu up)

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 19 2019 09:58 PM
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Motherfuck

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 19 2019 10:17 PM
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Altuve!! MFYs walk home

Frayed Knot
Oct 19 2019 10:18 PM
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Little Big Man!!





http://onceuponatimeinawestern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Dustin-Hoffman-as-Jack-Crabb-in-Little-Big-Man-1970-white-02-300x233.jpg>

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 19 2019 10:18 PM
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Each teams wife-beating closer surrendered a two run homer

Gwreck
Oct 19 2019 10:19 PM
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Screw you, Chapman.

Frayed Knot
Oct 19 2019 10:22 PM
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Ken Rosenthal finally finds someone his own height to talk to.

Double Switch
Oct 19 2019 10:30 PM
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Glad not to have to endure an MFY-Nats WS. Because I would not have.

G-Fafif
Oct 19 2019 10:34 PM
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Luv, luv ya 'tuv!

LWFS
Oct 19 2019 11:08 PM
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Double Switch wrote:

Glad not to have to endure an MFY-Nats WS. Because I would not have.


I mean, we swallowed '09, and MFYs-GDPhils was much more straining on the constitution. But I'm still GDglad we didn't have ta.

Frayed Knot
Oct 20 2019 05:38 AM
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Thus ends a decade of Yanqui-less World Series (the first since the nineteen-teens) ... and yet the sport survives.

Fman99
Oct 20 2019 05:39 AM
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Missed the ending because of tired-old-man-itis, but, happy to see how it turned out.

MFS62
Oct 20 2019 05:51 AM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

Ken Rosenthal finally finds someone his own height to talk to.


Altuve may be the shortest player in the major leagues, but today he doth stand astride the world like a Colossus.



Later

Frayed Knot
Oct 20 2019 06:04 AM
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=Fman99 post_id=24793 time=1571571559 user_id=86]
Missed the ending because of tired-old-man-itis ...



The fuckin' thing running 4:09 might have a bit to do with it also. And you can't even blame the length on the whole 'bullpen game' strategy as, despite each side using seven pitchers

and only one hurler going more than two innings (Jose Urquidy for HOU @ 2.2 IP), there were only three mid-inning pitching changes made (all by the Astros) which is probably right

around the usual amount.



It does get a bit frustrating though when you get a two-minute break for a pitching change only to have the new guy end the inning with one pitch which of course immediately leads to

a fresh commercial break this time for three minutes - iow, nearly six minutes are burned with one pitch being thrown. Each of the three in-inning pitching changes last night occurred

with two outs and that first-pitch out situation happened in two of them while the other lasted all of five pitches.

bmfc1
Oct 20 2019 06:22 AM
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https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1185754650101846016

nymr83
Oct 20 2019 07:03 AM
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Double Switch wrote:

Glad not to have to endure an MFY-Nats WS. Because I would not have.


I mean, we swallowed '09, and MFYs-GDPhils was much more straining on the constitution. But I'm still GDglad we didn't have ta.


1996 is still the World Series i hate most

Frayed Knot
Oct 20 2019 07:03 AM
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Not just a great catch [Brantley: above] but also how quickly he got up and the speed/accuracy of the throw he got off - although Buck & Smoltz let Judge off the hook a bit for his running.

It's a tough situation for a runner (and they didn't show the best angle until several replays into the next inning) but he went too far towards 2nd. He's not getting to 3rd even if Brantley

short-hops that ball and if it gets by him he's running forever no matter where he starts. But if he's 20-30 feet from 2nd (instead of practically at the bag) he gets there anyway on a

non-catch and at least gives himself a fighting chance to get back to 1st if it's caught.

Edgy MD
Oct 20 2019 08:25 AM
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I wonder what it's like trying to throw to a base when Judge's massive back is screening you from your target. Brantley = hero.



But I'd particularly like to thank the Twins for not giving the Yankees a proper warmup before this series.

Lefty Specialist
Oct 20 2019 09:39 AM
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We are all Astros today. Pound that Budweiser, boys.

Frayed Knot
Oct 20 2019 09:42 AM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

Ken Rosenthal finally finds someone his own height to talk to.


Altuve may be the shortest player in the major leagues, but today he doth stand astride the world like a Colossus.


Sort of like this, maybe?



[fimg=300]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHS5FugXUAA4zYr.jpg[/fimg]



You figure that the TV folks get enough kicks out of showing the contrast the other way around that, after last night, it's only fair.

MFS62
Oct 20 2019 10:17 AM
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Love that picture. He out-Lurches Lurch.

Later

Willets Point
Oct 20 2019 10:39 AM
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Well that was definitely the SECOND best Game 6 of an LCS between Houston and New York ever.

Fman99
Oct 20 2019 08:41 PM
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Willets Point wrote:

Well that was definitely the SECOND best Game 6 of an LCS between Houston and New York ever.


Truth!

Centerfield
Oct 21 2019 08:24 AM
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I watched the replay on MLB network last night. That ninth inning was a thing of beauty. I mean, I obviously wouldn't have felt that way had I watched it in real time, but the joy the Yankees felt in the top of the 9th. So much fun. Knowing they would be moping off a few minutes later.



And then Chapman gets the first two outs. A seemingly harmless walk to Springer. Brantley had been double-switched out of the game, so you figure that Altuve wouldn't get much to hit. But you know, baseball.



Was surprised how quickly Buck was on that call. He knew it was gone even with that high fence out there. Plus he stopped talking immediately after his call and let the scene unfold. I know he gets a lot of grief, and some of it deserved, but that was a nice job.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 21 2019 08:37 AM
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Willets Point wrote:

Well that was definitely the SECOND best Game 6 of an LCS between Houston and New York ever.


And the second-best left field to first base double play in league championship series history

Frayed Knot
Oct 21 2019 01:08 PM
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=Centerfield post_id=24843 time=1571667875 user_id=65]... A seemingly harmless walk to Springer. Brantley had been double-switched out of the game, so you figure that Altuve

wouldn't get much to hit. But you know, baseball.



You can't really pitch around Altuve there since it would push Springer to 2nd and set up getting beat by a broken bat bingle Luis Gonzalez style.

And on the Houston side, you don't want to steal 2nd there because that would then guarantee they'd pitch around Altuve.






Was surprised how quickly Buck was on that call. He knew it was gone even with that high fence out there. Plus he stopped talking immediately after his call and let the scene unfold.

I know he gets a lot of grief, and some of it deserved, but that was a nice job.


I was just thinking a gapper and wondering if Springer could score from 1st. And they would almost HAVE to send him w/2 outs (plus there was no Jeter there to handle the relay so the success rate

goes up some 97%) . There are cheapie HRs to LF in that park but not where he hit it. And while I don't mind the various celebrations that go on for HRs these days (some of them anyway),

Altuve's lack of antics while circling was a refreshing sight even as he had more reason to clown it up than most.



Buck is usually a solid p-b-p guy. There are always a lot of network related junk you've got to do in his position but that's not his fault and it helps if he's got a solid color guy like Smoltz to take most

of the nuts and bolts stuff. I think mostly the fans of all 30 teams just need to step back from the idea that he's personally leading a campaign against their team.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 21 2019 03:12 PM
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My issue with Buck isn't his game-calling per se, or his network-shilling, but rather, there's something underlying his tone that makes it seem as though he hates what he does for a living. Baseball's just not enough fun when he calls it, even when it's very fun, even when his calls are good ones.



Maybe that's unitentional, maybe not. Maybe he's just too high and mighty. But in the sense that's there's only 1 man in the world do do the national play by play of baseball's biggest games, I would choose a guy with a better energy, and more friendly companion, than Buck.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Oct 28 2019 09:47 AM
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Yanks whack pitching coach Larry Rothschild

Lefty Specialist
Oct 28 2019 12:07 PM
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Betting Rothschild winds up in Philly with Gerardi.

Edgy MD
Oct 28 2019 03:31 PM
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He might just as soon end up in the Flush.