2015 regular season chatter

at this rate, it is entirely in play - though not necessarily likely - that not one but both of the long-presumed AL wildcard teams (yanks, 'stros) cough up their spots. 'stros technically just did, though that could easily change

tbf yankees would prob have to lose out incl. getting swept in the final series against the orioles for this to happen, but the red sox are beating them like a rented mule, and you'd think the orioles could similarly pour it on with a little luck

speaking of bud norris being an asshole

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Chris Rock's "good ol' white baseballn days" rant to thread

to whom is he referring? puig can't piss off any palefaces from the DL

you know what gets me into a ballpark is watching bud norris dazzle the crowd with a masterful display of respecting baseball

not sure how many more american dollars he's gonna make after the way he's respected the game this season

as many as a 30 year old with an ERA just below 7 and a fucking ERA+ of 58 who was worth -2 wins this season can expect, so, not many

i wonder if Zito will last 2 innings v Angels tonight

hey, the Padres hired Don Orsillo! I like it.

i heard that the padres knew he'd be available before orsillo himself did

today's State of the Race

http://www.si.com/mlb/2015/10/03/team-entropy-update-al-west-al-wild-card-final-weekend

Crazy Angels-Rangers game.

@JATayler
Loss Ohlendorf

The winning pitcher in that crazy 11-10 Rangers-Angels game was Jo-Jo Reyes, who once went three years without winning a game over a record tying 28 consecutive starts.

He threw one pitch in the game. It was the first pitch he'd thrown in MLB since 2011.

Finally learned how to win.

to whom is he referring? puig can't piss off any palefaces from the DL

― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:55 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

puigs back btw

christian yelich 8/8 so far today. record for most hits in a DH is 9, hasn't happened since lee thomas in 1961. have to go back to 1929 for the last time it's happened in the NL.

alas, he took a walk rather than attempt to tie the record. another day in the life of our humble, selfless hero.

@jazayerli

Games of import tomorrow:

KC @ MIN
TOR @ TB
HOU @ ARI
LAA @ TEX
NYY @ BAL
CHC @ MIL
CIN @ PIT

Gametime: 3 PM EDT for all games.

Not of import (except to Shelby Miller), but rainout forces STL @ ATL doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.

Jaffe:

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The Rangers are burying the Angels in the 7th inning of their game, so it looks like Yankees will be on the road for the wild card game ... LOL.

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<3

Phillies vs Marlins ... the garbagiest of garbage game 162's ... and Ichiro came in to pitch just for the hell of it, in what might be the final game of his career.

haha xpost

did better than buehrle

and the Mets got their 90th win! big momentum for Friday

Colorado vs SF ... Bochy is managing like it's the ASG ... trying to get his entire bullpen into the game.

@JATayler
Ichiro's fastball hit 87 mph, which is faster than the average fastball of R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Dan Haren.

The Rangers are burying the Angels in the 7th inning of their game, so it looks like Yankees will be on the road for the wild card game ...

I got confused there, the Astros are also losing, and with the Angels losing, would be the second wild card and finish one game behind the Yankees. Which means the Yankees get to face Keuchel in NY rather than the invincible Keuchel in Houston.

Ya - I would think that would be the case.

Yanks have bases loaded, down 7-3

"These guys battled all year long."

Dan Jennings will not be returning as Marlins manager

is baseball on a particularly good run lately? or is it always this good?

i dunno, it's all anecdotal and my memory is selective, but shit like The Seventh Inning and the royals overcoming 95%-plus loss probability in elimination games twice in two years and bumgarner last year and the last day of the 2011 season and the cards-rangers series that year, trout and harper and all of this year's rookies, etc. etc.

i guess the giants sweeping the tigers wasn't that interesting and the decade of yankees-red sox sure had its moments, but it just seems *crazy* recently

I can't chalk The Seventh Inning up to anything but random chaos. I mean, it was a "classic" only in entertainment and surprise; not for streamlined aesthetic beauty.

the fact that we were one game away from having four teams that had 74 or less wins in 2013 in the CSes is pretty remarkable

and even then, now it just means we have 4 teams that were sub-.500 in 2012

i'd agree that this was a pretty damn good regular season overall and most of them have been exciting this decade, although in some cases second halves have been considerably more interesting than firsts (2014) and vice versa (2011). this season didn't have that many dog days at all, imo

we also had the triple crown vs trout debate and an uncountable amount of no-hitters. seriously, the yankees not being the perrenial dominant team is one of the big reasons I became a baseball fan now and not then.

also bat flips became a thing, no?

i'd kind of wandered away from baseball for awhile in favor of the nfl (as a cubs fan, i think this started with the '03 meltdown and subsequent dusty baking of that team.) but i don't watch the nfl anymore because the culture around it is so gross and i can't look past the CTE stuff anymore, and there are so many great young players (half a dozen on the cubs alone!) that i came back in a big way towards the end of last season.

it's a great time to be a baseball fan, that's for sure.