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G-Fafif
Oct 14 2021 10:53 PM

Those plucky Wild Card Dodgers travel to Atlanta to take on the four-time defending NL East champion Braves…will probably not be the primary NLCS storyline.

Gwreck
Oct 15 2021 12:49 AM
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This is…not the matchup anyone needed or deserved.

Fman99
Oct 15 2021 05:05 AM
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I'm rooting for a comet to hit the stadium during play.

Lefty Specialist
Oct 15 2021 06:10 AM
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Yeah, this is not the matchup I was rooting for.

MFS62
Oct 15 2021 06:31 AM
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=Fman99 post_id=79825 time=1634295918 user_id=86]
I'm rooting for a comet to hit the stadium during play.



Great minds think alike.

I'm rooting for the comet, but I'll swallow animosity and let my real hatred emerge. - Atlanta in 6 games.



Later

Willets Point
Oct 15 2021 08:03 AM
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As someone who typically pulls for the underdogs, I feel like I should be rooting for the 88-win team that has only one World Series championship in their current location and that was 26 years ago. And yet, I still feel animosity towards the Braves from 20+ years ago plus the arrogance of ditching a relatively new stadium in the city for an elite suburb. So I guess I'm also rooting for the comet.

ashie62
Oct 15 2021 08:17 AM
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Beats Red Sox Astros.

kcmets
Oct 15 2021 10:51 AM
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I'll watch very little of this, but I'll take the Dodgers in 6 for post-erity sake.

bmfc1
Oct 15 2021 12:03 PM
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I'll go through the same exercise I did with the ALCS:

Reasons to support Atlanta: 1) NL East Rules!; 2) Freddie Freeman is a good guy (as noted every time he appears); 3) they are a good story overcoming the injury of Acuna and the incarceration of Ozuna.

Reasons to support Los Angeles: 1) they won over 100 games, that should mean something; 2) their manager is in the nightmares of MFY fans; 3) we've been rooting for the team that plays ATL all year so why stop now?; 4) they are Steve Cohen's model for the Mets so if they win again he recommits to doing the voodoo that they do so well.

Reasons not to support Atlanta: So many. So, so many. I'll start with the Chop and the fans that Chop

Reasons not to support Los Angeles: 1) they won last year so enough already; 2) Washington Baseball Team fans have adopted them for the playoffs because of Scherzer and T. Turner and I never want WBT fans to be happy; 3) their fans are front-runners and stupid.

MFS62
Oct 15 2021 12:43 PM
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=bmfc1 post_id=79843 time=1634320981 user_id=73]
I'll go through the same exercise I did with the ALCS:

Reasons to support Atlanta: 1) NL East Rules!; 2) Freddie Freeman is a good guy (as noted every time he appears); 3) they are a good story overcoming the injury of Acuna and the incarceration of Ozuna.

Reasons to support Los Angeles: 1) they won over 100 games, that should mean something; 2) their manager is in the nightmares of MFY fans; 3) we've been rooting for the team that plays ATL all year so why stop now?; 4) they are Steve Cohen's model for the Mets so if they win again he recommits to doing the voodoo that they do so well.

Reasons not to support Atlanta: So many. So, so many. I'll start with the Chop and the fans that Chop

Reasons not to support Los Angeles: 1) they won last year so enough already; 2) Washington Baseball Team fans have adopted them for the playoffs because of Scherzer and T. Turner and I never want WBT fans to be happy; 3) their fans are front-runners and stupid.



That said, what is your prediction?

Later

bmfc1
Oct 15 2021 01:13 PM
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LAD in 5.

stevejrogers
Oct 15 2021 02:06 PM
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Willets Point wrote:

As someone who typically pulls for the underdogs, I feel like I should be rooting for the 88-win team that has only one World Series championship in their current location and that was 26 years ago. And yet, I still feel animosity towards the Braves from 20+ years ago plus the arrogance of ditching a relatively new stadium in the city for an elite suburb. So I guess I'm also rooting for the comet.


Being a division rival for nearly 30 years, never mind them being a constant presence in postseason play in the course of that span (18 appearances, 16 of them as Division champions) is reason enough not to ever root for them.



Dodgers on the other hand? Still not over 1988!

G-Fafif
Oct 15 2021 02:47 PM
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This series doesn't seem worth wasting a comet on, though I will request one be held in reserve just in case the participants become too overbearing to take.

Willets Point
Oct 15 2021 03:43 PM
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How about a swarm of midges? It's embarrassing and uncomfortable but not destructive like a comet.

Frayed Knot
Oct 15 2021 04:26 PM
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I'll probably be pulling for 'Lanta

kcmets
Oct 16 2021 05:45 PM
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Side note: if there's a comet involved in any remaining post-season games

I humbly request that it be at a game that Joe Buck is covering on FOX.

Frayed Knot
Oct 16 2021 06:55 PM
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I hadn't realized until now that Pujols opted for a LAD uniform number matching his age, 55

Frayed Knot
Oct 16 2021 08:48 PM
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Did these teams have to get special permission to complete 7 full innings in under three hours?

bmfc1
Oct 17 2021 10:38 AM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 17 2021 12:11 PM


Side note: if there's a comet involved in any remaining post-season games

I humbly request that it be at a game that Joe Buck is covering on FOX.
We're in the midst of peak Joe Buck season as FOX deems him to be too important to miss any game. As a result, he is calling: [list=]

  • Thursday Night Football

    The ALCS and then the World Series

    The NFL on Sunday if FOX has a doubleheader game going to most of the country (not today but next week).
    • [/list]

    I don't hate the guy, he's funny with Howard Stern and was great on Brockmire, but I resent him dropping in for MLB now and again instead of someone that has been calling games all season long, and then we'll hear him for four days in a row from 3 different cities. (Perhaps I resent it because his father was so damn overrated.) It's as if F*x Sports thinks "the public will be outraged if Joe Davis or Guys! calls a World Series game" when no one would care. And I'm pretty sure that more people would prefer hearing Gus Johnson on the NFL. This concludes the Rudy Martzke portion of this post.

    kcmets
    Oct 17 2021 11:12 AM
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    I don't hate him either. Really, I don't hate anyone. *scratches balls and tries

    to decide whether to say, "except Trump"*     He's an attention seeking asshole

    who announced he was retiring after the 2019 World Series causing a swell of

    Joe Buck this and Joe Buck that.



    He's like a fungus that won't go away and there's no cure on the horizon.

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 17 2021 06:50 PM
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    Three innings, over an hour to play despite just 2 runs (on one swing), with multiple mound visits already including the now obligatory conference to talk about a pinch-hitter

    they should have already known all about.

    aka: another game I won't see the end of

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Oct 17 2021 07:07 PM
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    JOC STRAPS DODGERS

    Pederson avenges Tinseltown trade with Max-distance tater

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 17 2021 08:07 PM
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    You never like to lose via a walk-off, but the Dodgers can at least write off last night's loss to needing a bullpen game vs Fried.

    But tonight they had Scherzer vs an ineffective Anderson plus a 2-0 lead 5 pitches into the game. It'll be tough to see them recovering if they lose this one.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 17 2021 09:06 PM
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    Braves not that impressed by Dodgers. Certainly not intimidated.

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Oct 17 2021 09:32 PM
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    Plus Braves are Fredless the whole series

    Fman99
    Oct 18 2021 05:44 AM
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    Haven't watched a bit of this. Fuck both teams and the broadcasters. Where is that comet I ordered? Service these days, sheesh.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 18 2021 06:10 AM
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    Good Game Two, actually.

    Fman99
    Oct 18 2021 06:50 AM
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    =G-Fafif post_id=79920 time=1634559000 user_id=55]
    Good Game Two, actually.



    A game between two teams I loathe, called by announcers I can't tolerate. Not really sure how that could be good.



    I'm pretty much checked out on the 2021 MLB season.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 18 2021 06:51 AM
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    Good Game Two, actually.


    A game between two teams I loathe, called by announcers I can't tolerate. Not really sure how that could be good.



    I'm pretty much checked out on the 2021 MLB season.


    A good game, pending one's tolerance for its principals.



    Can't tolerate Ron Darling? (This isn't the Joe Buck series.)



    https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/us/media-release/turner-sports/tbs-be-exclusive-home-2021-national-league-championship-series-presented-loandepot

    Fman99
    Oct 18 2021 07:03 AM
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    Oh, that's my bad. I guess I didn't even check in on this game to see who was calling it.



    I can get behind postseason baseball, normally, but the pace of play this year, combined with the obnoxiousness of national broadcasts, and my hatred of these particular teams, all adds up.



    My son and I are watching season 1 of the Sopranos. It's much more compelling than endless mound visits and games that don't resolve until 90 minutes after my bedtime.

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 18 2021 09:24 AM
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    NLCS #2 was a good game... and if it was an hour shorter it would have been a really good game. (3:56)

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 18 2021 12:57 PM
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    And maybe it's just a case of low expectations -- plus I can always make arguments against a three-man booth -- but I've been surprised over the two-three years I've been hearing him

    that Francouer has been as good at the mic as he's been. I catch a decent amount of Braves reg season games so I hear him there too where he's essentially replaced Glavine as the top

    color guy on local telecasts. Now maybe doing fewer was Glavine's choice, I dunno, but between him being the bigger and longer-term Atlanta star and a seemingly more educated (though

    neither went to college) I found it shocking that they went with 'Frenchy' whom I had pegged as a typical dumb jock and maybe even more than most given his cave man approach to hitting,

    his reliance on his athleticism rather than trying to improve on his shortcomings as a player, and his reputation as being a totally gullible butt of clubhouse jokes wherever he went.



    But as ex-players go he's probably better than most and he went from first filling in on local casts to network choice rather quickly despite not being an obvious 'Name' hire.

    cal sharpie
    Oct 18 2021 01:21 PM
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    I agree. That is the best network team out there. I've turned on the teevee for the last couple of innings of both games and got to see some exciting baseball. Man, I really hate the Dodgers. I hate the Braves but not nearly as much as the 20-years-ago Braves.

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Oct 18 2021 03:26 PM
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    I'm strong behind the Braves in this series. They did what they needed to do, all year.



    They sent Minter to the minors to get his shit together in July, made the right trades when Ozuna and Acuna went down, they're all about Guillermo Heredia and d'Arnaud

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 18 2021 04:44 PM
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    And if it helps the whole lack of sleep thing, they drop the puck Tuesday night at 5:08 - or a good old fashioned two in the afternoon start local time.

    Of course that doesn't mean the game still won't take four hours, but at least it'll still be daylight in the east for two of those four.

    Edgy MD
    Oct 18 2021 08:04 PM
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    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

    I'm strong behind the Braves in this series. They did what they needed to do, all year.



    They sent Minter to the minors to get his shit together in July, made the right trades when Ozuna and Acuna went down, they're all about Guillermo Heredia and d'Arnaud


    They really performed well, and the best hitter in their lineup this season has typically been whoever was coming up to bat.



    But I can root for the Braves right up until the first tomahawk thingie. Good God, retire that garbage.

    MFS62
    Oct 19 2021 05:35 PM
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    Braves lead 5-2 in the top of the sixth, but Charlie Morton has thrown 96 pitches through 5. (6 walks!!)

    Time for the bullpen to step up.



    Later

    G-Fafif
    Oct 19 2021 06:55 PM
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    Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 19 2021 07:08 PM

    Cody Bellinger three-run homer to tie it at 5 in the 8th is a very Dodgers gonna Dodger moment.

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 19 2021 07:03 PM
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    Lukas Jackson definitely didn't have the cool hand tonight.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 19 2021 07:09 PM
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    Quite a bit of Dodgering as L.A. takes a 6-5 lead.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 19 2021 07:36 PM
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    As soon as Brian Anderson said the Braves were five outs from a 3-0 series lead, I sensed a Dodger rally was at hand. You can't count outs from that far away without a bigger edge than three runs.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 19 2021 07:39 PM
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    Also Freeman leaving the bases loaded in the fourth and d'Arnaud grounding into a DP to end the fifth had that augurs badly feeling. They should have been piling on, as anyone who watched the 2021 Mets waste opportunities could attest.

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 19 2021 07:40 PM
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    I was counting down outs while watching the 2003 ALCS ... I also got only as far as five before the roof started to cave in.



    TdA hit into two rally-killing GiDPs today.

    kcmets
    Oct 21 2021 07:00 PM
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    The advertising at Dodger Stadium is hands down the best.



    It's there, but not in your face.

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 21 2021 08:20 PM
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    Roberts lets their reliever hit w/a runner on 2nd and two outs (inning ending K) then brings in a new guy to start the next inning anyway???

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 21 2021 08:30 PM
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    Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 21 2021 08:36 PM

    The pitcher in question, Graterol, had retired six hitters on just 14 pitches but I guess Roberts decided he had had enough up-downs for the night.

    His replacement, Treinen, threw a scoreless inning although with a lot more work involved.



    But again, if he had already decided to yank him, why give up an RBI chance by letting a reliever (a rookie w/2 ML ABs) hit?

    kcmets
    Oct 21 2021 08:36 PM
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    Lotta empty seats in some camera shots.

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 21 2021 08:42 PM
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    6 innings >2-1/2 hours

    So what else is new?

    G-Fafif
    Oct 21 2021 08:59 PM
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    3 HRs? This Dodger lead is Taylor made!

    Benjamin Grimm
    Oct 22 2021 11:35 AM
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    I find myself hoping that the Braves wrap this one up just so that the Mets can try to talk to those two Dodgers executives that they're allegedly targeting. I really don't care which of these teams advances to the World Series.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 22 2021 08:37 PM
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    Max Scherzer will not be starting Game Six, presumably making the Dodgers blue.

    Frayed Knot
    Oct 22 2021 08:51 PM
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    'Fatigue' is cited as the reason for pushing Scherzer back.

    I think maybe the lesson from these LCS's is that maybe these starting plus relieving assignments early in series (iow, not in Game 6's or 7's) have their drawbacks.



    Scherzer, Eovaldi, Urias, and maybe others seem to have had their effectiveness diminished by their managers trying to burn the candles at both ends.

    bmfc1
    Oct 23 2021 11:01 AM
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    Don't give me this "ATL has grown on me" crap. Yeah, they're a good story but it's still the chopping Braves that you rooted against all season. And if that hasn't convinced you, anti-vacc'er Travis Tritt is signing the Anthem tonight so F*CK THEM.
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    G-Fafif
    Oct 23 2021 03:16 PM
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    Buehler will start Game Six. Scherzer says he might be available for hypothetical Game Seven. Anderson goes for the Tritters to clinch.

    nymr83
    Oct 23 2021 09:36 PM
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    I am sick at the idea that we are facing a world series between the fucking Braves and the fucking trash can bangers.

    bmfc1
    Oct 23 2021 10:11 PM
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    ATL made numerous smart movies at the deadline, especially with Rosario who was on the IL at the time and didn't have to give up a Top 5 prospect in any deal.

    G-Fafif
    Oct 23 2021 10:28 PM
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    Was happy to see Td'A ignite the winning rally with a walk. And, hey, good for Heredia.

    MFS62
    Oct 24 2021 06:02 AM
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    Didn't watch the game, but the final outcome made me happy.



    Later