2017 Baseball Season: Let's Play Two! (1 Viewer)

[Warrior]

I've watched zero MLB games this season but as a front running Dodgers fan I tuned in for a few seconds last night after a lengthy search to locate the channel. The games are on TBS? I've only seen Happy Days reruns on that channel. Puig is batting in the 8 slot for LA? They must have the greatest line up since the '27 Yankees to do that. I didn't see Larry King though. And the Astros are in the American League? The last time I watched them JR Richards and Nolan Ryan were wearing those horrible rainbow-type uniforms and they were in the NL West.

Yeah, TBS and FS1 whatever the Christ that is are carrying the games.

Puig hit a bloop single last night and did a bat flip like he hit the ball 500 feet.

Puig gonna Puig.

Larry King is there, they stuffed him and jammed into his seat behind home plate sitting next to his 27 year old wife/nursemaid.

Have to give the Dodgers credit, they moved to LA into that stadium over half a century ago and have put about .47 cents into it since, what a dump, some of those seats in the nosebleed section aren't actually in California near as I can tell...................

 

[lancer]

Yeah, TBS and FS1 whatever the Christ that is are carrying the games.

Puig hit a bloop single last night and did a bat flip like he hit the ball 500 feet.

Puig gonna Puig.

Larry King is there, they stuffed him and jammed into his seat behind home plate sitting next to his 27 year old wife/nursemaid.

Have to give the Dodgers credit, they moved to LA into that stadium over half a century ago and have put about .47 cents into it since, what a dump, some of those seats in the nosebleed section aren't actually in California near as I can tell...................

Chavez Ravine is outdated but the upside is most of the fans only have to be in the seats for a couple of innings since they arrive in the 2nd and leave by the 7th. Also, those nosebleed seats are actually above the brushfire line so the fans can escape more rapidly. California is a way of life. -- Al

 

[lancer]

The AL East lives to fight another day. Sure glad because I have no real interest in the other 2 teams. The AL Pennant requires an AL East team to be in the finals, I believe. :wink2: -- Al

 

[Warrior]

The AL East lives to fight another day. Sure glad because I have no real interest in the other 2 teams. The AL Pennant requires an AL East team to be in the finals, I believe. :wink2: -- Al

Yup, the MFY's live to fight another day thanks to Quasimodo sticking his 6 foot long tree trunk of an arm up and robbing a Cleveland player of a 310 foot pop up two run home run to right at Williamsport East........................no games tomorrow in either series as NY and Boston will be getting rained on all day and night....................

 

[Louis Badolato]

After the most heartbreaking loss I can ever remember the Yankees having in a playoff game, the Yankees, who blew an 8-3 lead, shut out Cleveland for a 1-0 victory. I got my win in the ALDS, so I am again getting more than I hoped for. If by some miracle they can force a game 5, I will be thrilled even if they get smoked in Cleveland. This young team is getting playoff tested a year early. I just keep thinking this incarnation of the Yankees has a bright future. Judge robs a short porch homer, Byrd hits one out . . . the Baby Bombers are growing up right!

 

[jazzeum]

Theoretically, the Yankees should be up to 2-1 but even if Girardi made the appeal, who's to say the Yankees would have won the game?

Obviously Girardi is persona non grata with Yankee fans right now and Girardi said that if the Yankees decide to change managers, he is at peace with that decision. We know that is what Steinbrenner senior would have done but his son is smarter and more thoughtful than George. However, if the Yankees do decide to make the change, there will be no shortage of suitors for Girardi’s services.

 

[Warrior]

Theoretically, the Yankees should be up to 2-1 but even if Girardi made the appeal, who's to say the Yankees would have won the game?

Obviously Girardi is persona non grata with Yankee fans right now and Girardi said that if the Yankees decide to change managers, he is at peace with that decision. We know that is what Steinbrenner senior would have done but his son is smarter and more thoughtful than George. However, if the Yankees do decide to make the change, there will be no shortage of suitors for Girardi’s services.

If he gets canned, he'll be unemployed for about 12 seconds.

You can play the "they should be up 2-1" game all day long; if Quasimodo's arm was 3 inches shorter, he doesn't make that catch and they go home; exhibit A is how he butchered a catchable line drive into a triple................"ALL RISE!!"..................:rolleyes2:

And how hot was it at the toilet last night, Chapman was drenched in sweat like he was being questioned by the police, his cap was soaking wet, never seen anything like it.................good job Bruce last night too, four K's.............

 

[Louis Badolato]

Theoretically, the Yankees should be up to 2-1 but even if Girardi made the appeal, who's to say the Yankees would have won the game?

Obviously Girardi is persona non grata with Yankee fans right now and Girardi said that if the Yankees decide to change managers, he is at peace with that decision. We know that is what Steinbrenner senior would have done but his son is smarter and more thoughtful than George. However, if the Yankees do decide to make the change, there will be no shortage of suitors for Girardi’s services.

Any Yankee fan who wants to fire Girardi is a moron. The guy gets the most out of his players, no matter what. So he didn't challenge a bad call. That doesn't mean the Yankee bullpen, which had been badly overused (getting 26 outs 3 days earlier) wouldn't have blown the game anyway. He has a team of rookies playing the best team in baseball well enough that some fans are complaining we should be up 2-1 not down 1-2, so I am certainly not going to be stupid enough to want him gone. If he gets one more win and forces a game 5, in my eyes he's the manager of the year.

 

[jazzeum]

“good job Bruce last night too, four K's.............”

Sometimes you’re a hero, sometimes not.

 

[Warrior]

And the Red Sox season ends not with a bang but with a whimper as they lose to the AAAstros 5-4. They were down 2-1 early, had a **** ton of chances to score including bases loaded and no outs, but couldn't, also had a runner thrown out by two miles at home plate. They managed to go up 3-2, had Sale cruising along, left him in a batter too many and it cost him, a monsterous blast to tie the game, the they brought the closer in an inning too soon and he crapped himself, giving up not one, but two runs, the insurance run off the bat of the corpse of Carlos Beltran; what's this guy, 70?

I seriously thought he was out of baseball, but nope, there he is with the wall ball double.

Then the tease; a lead off inside the park home run to make it 5-4, then the next three batters went down in order and adios Red Sox.

Oh well, bye bye baseball 2017............................................

 

[Warrior]

Nats lose 2-1 on a pop up that dropped in between three players.

Unbelievable.

Bullpen couldn't get it done, so now the Cubs are one game away from advancing.

Good Christ; not them again in the WS, it will be unwatchable.

 

[jazzeum]

The Champs are tough to take down. The Nats have a big challenge ahead of them.

 

[Panzer ace]

Nats lose 2-1 on a pop up that dropped in between three players.

Unbelievable.

Bullpen couldn't get it done, so now the Cubs are one game away from advancing.

Good Christ; not them again in the WS, it will be unwatchable.

Scherzer did all he could, you hate to see that type of effort get wasted by the bullpen.

 

[Warrior]

Scherzer did all he could, you hate to see that type of effort get wasted by the bullpen.

The Nats are now 0-2 in games where their starter took a no no into the 5th inning.

I read a stat where four of their big guns are 4-45 in the series; look no further than that.................

 

[jazzeum]

You can’t blame this on the pen. They gave up 2 runs (although Scherzer was credited with one of the runs). Give the Cubs credit.

 

[sammy719]

Sorry George on the Sox loss, They still picked up another AL East title and that is saying something in itself, it's a tough division that beats up on its own all season long and sometime I wonder if all those battles don't catch up with teams from the East come playoff time??

 

[lancer]

The Nats are now 0-2 in games where their starter took a no no into the 5th inning.

I read a stat where four of their big guns are 4-45 in the series; look no further than that.................

As usual, George hits the nail on the head. A team can't win if it doesn't hit and score. In 3 games the Nats have 11 total hits and 4 of those hits came in the 8th inning of the their win in Game 2. That means they have 7 hits over the other 26 innings, and 1 run scored in those innings. Nats are lucky to even be in this series at this point as the Cubs have had only that one bad inning. Now it's up to the Nats most inconsistent starter, Roark, to try to salvage a win and get this series back to DC and Strasburg. That is asking too much if the offense stays in hibernation. How bad does your offense have to be to waste 2 starts that took no-hitters into the 6th and 7th innings? -- Al

 

[lancer]

Used to be that the playoffs were all about pitching, and starting pitching at that. Not this year. It must be the inevitable result of the decline of the starter as a major player and the rise of the relief pitcher as the major ingredient to baseball success. Through tonight's Nats game, there have been 14 playoff games, meaning 28 possible chances at a quality start. There has been a grand total of 7 QS in the 28 chances and 4 of those belong to the Nats/Cubs series (4 in 6 chances). Starters are lucky to get past 2 innings in these playoffs. I hardly recognize what is going on. I suppose we are on the verge of eliminating the need for a SP at all.:rolleyes2: Well, that will make the O's happy, anyway.:wink2: -- Al

 

[Warrior]

Used to be that the playoffs were all about pitching, and starting pitching at that. Not this year. It must be the inevitable result of the decline of the starter as a major player and the rise of the relief pitcher as the major ingredient to baseball success. Through tonight's Nats game, there have been 14 playoff games, meaning 28 possible chances at a quality start. There has been a grand total of 7 QS in the 28 chances and 4 of those belong to the Nats/Cubs series (4 in 6 chances). Starters are lucky to get past 2 innings in these playoffs. I hardly recognize what is going on. I suppose we are on the verge of eliminating the need for a SP at all.:rolleyes2: Well, that will make the O's happy, anyway.:wink2: -- Al

The Red Sox/AAAstros announcers were talking about pitching and now at the college level, they are building strong bullpens vs strong starting staffs and it's bleeding into MLB as well. The Red Sox burned Sale today after Porcello didn't have it, the theory being Pomeranz would start game 5 but have Price ready to go if he ran into trouble, so they are already depending on a bullpen arm rather than a starter.

The Indians got to the WS by having Miller come out of the bullpen and mow down hitters inning after inning, it's a new trend in baseball.

 

[lancer]

As usual, George hits the nail on the head. A team can't win if it doesn't hit and score. In 3 games the Nats have 11 total hits and 4 of those hits came in the 8th inning of the their win in Game 2. That means they have 7 hits over the other 26 innings, and 1 run scored in those innings. Nats are lucky to even be in this series at this point as the Cubs have had only that one bad inning. Now it's up to the Nats most inconsistent starter, Roark, to try to salvage a win and get this series back to DC and Strasburg. That is asking too much if the offense stays in hibernation. How bad does your offense have to be to waste 2 starts that took no-hitters into the 6th and 7th innings? -- Al

Sorry, I forgot the run the Nats scored in Game 2 that didn't come in the 8th inning, meaning the Nats have scored 2 runs in the other 26 innings, not 1 as I stated above.:redface2: BFD. -- Al