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Post by Frayed Knot » Fri Oct 25, 2024 5:12 pm

The twelfth WS matchup between these two teams, but the first since 1981
Games 1 & 2 in L.A.

8:08 first pitch on FOX
Gerritt Cole vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Oct 25, 2024 5:25 pm

... wherein the best players will hit Home Runs every other at bat and the best pitchers will hurl three hitters, striking out 12 batters every start. Because ... oooooh! ..... it's the World Series! It's the playoffs! The stakes are higher. And when the stakes are higher, the best players will turn on their magic buttons and play to the very best of their abilities. Because the best players can play their very best whenever they fucking feel like it but would rather wait until they're lucky enough to get to play in the ... ooooooooh! World Series to play their best.
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Post by Centerfield » Fri Oct 25, 2024 5:27 pm

I'd love to see Juan Soto have an awful series, with multiple errors, and have him booed off the field as the Yanks get swept.
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Post by MFS62 » Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:08 pm

In case you were wondering which team top root ... against.
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Post by Gwreck » Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:01 pm

This is the least appealing or interesting World Series matchup since Satan’s Series of 2009. No thanks.
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Post by Frayed Knot » Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:32 pm

btw, it's not Yamamoto, it's Jack Flaherty
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Post by The Hot Corner » Fri Oct 25, 2024 8:44 pm

Well, I'm not overly interested in this series. I do however, hope that the Dogers win in 4 (or 5) games so they can celebrate their vitory in Yankee Stadium III in front of the Yankees and their misguided fans.
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Post by Frayed Knot » Fri Oct 25, 2024 8:51 pm

Gwreck wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:01 pm This is the least appealing or interesting World Series matchup since Satan’s Series of 2009. No thanks.
Not liking either team is understandable. I just don't think that makes it uninteresting.
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Post by Gwreck » Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:49 pm

Frayed Knot wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 8:51 pm
Gwreck wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:01 pm This is the least appealing or interesting World Series matchup since Satan’s Series of 2009. No thanks.
Not liking either team is understandable. I just don't think that makes it uninteresting.
I didn’t say it was uninteresting because the teams are unlikeable. The Dodgers, Braves, Phillies, Astros have all been in the World Series recently and those were all more interesting matchups.

This series is uninteresting because there’s no juice to the matchup. No underdogs, no surprises, no teams that have engineered a turnaround. The Dodgers have won 98+ games for 6 straight years. The Yankees haven’t had a losing season in 30 years. The idea that this is some sort of giant rivalry is laughable: there’s a vanishingly small number of people who were there when both teams were in NY and going it at regularly, and sure, there are people that remember a rivalry from the late 70s but even that was >40 years ago. On the strategy front, the most interesting potential decisions are all ruined by the universal DH: Ohtani’s not pitching, but there’s no question about where he plays. Same with Stanton. The bullpen game strategy would actually be challenging if there was an AB to be taken in the games.

This is an uncompelling and uninteresting series regardless of how one feels about the teams.
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:39 pm

Whoa what a finish to game 1. Freddy grand slam in the 10th
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Post by Centerfield » Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:39 pm

Wow.
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Post by Frayed Knot » Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:41 pm

Never been happier to see a Freddie HR!!
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Post by Centerfield » Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:42 pm

Hey. Let’s take an injured pitcher and throw him into the fire against the Dodgers in game 1. What could go wrong.
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Post by Frayed Knot » Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:48 pm

Yanx added Nestor Cortes to the roster for this round in exchange for IF Jon Berti.
This gave them a 13th pitcher but also left rookie Oswaldo Cabrera as their only backup IF, which may have come into play as he wasn't able to smother that inning starting single.
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Post by Centerfield » Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:55 pm

I’m sure Yankee fans will be very understanding of Boone’s decision to use Nestor.

Hey. Sometimes moves don’t work out. It happens.
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Post by Fman99 » Sat Oct 26, 2024 5:56 am

I will take my cues from this thread as to whether or not I should even look at the results. Otherwise the blinders are on. I do like the idea of the MFYs losing it at home in front of fans that got soaked at $2k per ticket.
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Post by metirish » Sat Oct 26, 2024 6:40 am

What a nice surprise to wake up to
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Post by Frayed Knot » Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:10 am

Gwreck wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:49 pm This series is uninteresting because there’s no juice to the matchup. No underdogs, no surprises, no teams that have engineered a turnaround.
This is an uncompelling and uninteresting series regardless of how one feels about the teams.
Gotta say, this is the first time I've heard the argument that having the top teams and several of the games top stars in the WS makes it a less interesting matchup.
Also didn't know that this one was unique in using the universal DH.
Personally I prefer seeing two first place teams playing for the championship over last year's AL's 4th best vs NL's 6th
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Post by metirish » Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:54 am

Centerfield wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:55 pm I’m sure Yankee fans will be very understanding of Boone’s decision to use Nestor.

Hey. Sometimes moves don’t work out. It happens.

A.quick look on Twitter and the concensus seems to be that Boone should be fired 😆
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Post by Edgy MD » Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:57 am

And here is his head.

Gotta say, extra innings can be fun without that stupid free runner.
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Post by The Hot Corner » Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:08 am

After the Dodgers eliminated the Mets to advance to the World Series, I texted my childhood friend, life-long southern California resident and ardent Dodgers fan to congratulate him. Then I told him, that now they had to defeat the Yankees. His reply was, "The Yankees season must end in tears!"

Freddie Freeman's historic home run to crush the Yankees hopes last night was a wonderful start toward that mission.
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Post by stevejrogers » Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:27 am

Frayed Knot wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:10 am
Gwreck wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:49 pm This series is uninteresting because there’s no juice to the matchup. No underdogs, no surprises, no teams that have engineered a turnaround.
This is an uncompelling and uninteresting series regardless of how one feels about the teams.
Gotta say, this is the first time I've heard the argument that having the top teams and several of the games top stars in the WS makes it a less interesting matchup.
Also didn't know that this one was unique in using the universal DH.
Personally I prefer seeing two first place teams playing for the championship over last year's AL's 4th best vs NL's 6th
Yeah I’m wondering if this was the Mariners and Rockies*, take out actual history and plug in the MFY and MFD recent histories, I’m thinking G’s feeling of personal indifference wouldn’t be as pronounced as it is with two long standing franchises hated by the Met faithful.

*Suddenly realizing that after the events of early October I think they might be the ONLY NL franchise that we don’t have some sort of intertwining history, both current or past, either past or current division chase rivals (Cubs, Pirates) or postseason series opponents with. MAYBE the Fish would count if they haven’t been in the NL East their entire existence, and often the franchise seems to have an inferiority complex hatred towards us.
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Post by Edgy MD » Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:31 am

While Freeman's numbers in that situation are undeniable, it's hard to say that there's a right way to pitch through Ohtani, Betts, and Freeman with the game on the line and the winning run in scoring position.

That said, intentionally walking Mookie to load the bases for Freeman probably isn't the way you should do it. You can at least try to be cute and perfect to Betts and if you lose him on a walk or a hit-batsman, you do.

But just surrendering to him means you don't have that option with Freeman. You have to come right after him, and he knows it. And that's what Cortes did.

I think part of the appeal of walking Betts there is psychological. You're one batter closer to running through the three-MVP gauntlet, so you fool yourself that you're that much safer.

His limping through the Mets series aside, he probably scares me more now than he ever did as a Brave. I think part of that is that the Mets can't easily put in a lefthanded specialist to go after him with the game on the line.
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Post by Gwreck » Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:42 am

Frayed Knot wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:10 amGotta say, this is the first time I've heard the argument that having the top teams and several of the games top stars in the WS makes it a less interesting matchup.

Personally I prefer seeing two first place teams playing for the championship over last year's AL's 4th best vs NL's 6th
No one said it’s a generally a bad thing having first place teams advance. These particular teams make it a “meh” matchup.
Also didn't know that this one was unique in using the universal DH.
This is a lazy argument and you know better than this. The point clearly was that the universal DH particularly hinders strategy in this matchup of these two teams.
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