can't believe i'm gonna be rooting for the team with the biggest payroll in MLB to beat the yankees
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
almost like your reasons for hating the yankees are kind of arbitrary!!
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
lol
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
their history of evil is a given, kev
a Cubs-Yanks WS would be Hillary-Trump all over again
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
i'd rather root for the cubs but i'd have much less confidence in them
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
the yankees winning the pennant at all this year is just disgusting to think about
i do not & will never want the yankees to win anything but this team is likeable to me i see it
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
qualx, shame on you for giving up on this series already, you must be one of those Momentum clowns!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
btw before he redeemed himself with the batting heroics, Judge nearly making 3 outs on the basepaths in one inning was LOL.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:21 (six years ago) link
if the astros ended up winning the series...
last time two 100-game winners faced each other in the world series was...1970? reds vs o's?
― Currently (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 03:55 (six years ago) link
it's kind of crazy to see how often, in the last 20 years, 100-game winners have been eliminated before reaching the WS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_100_win_seasons
― Currently (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
that's baseball, etc etc
Scrolled through, and you're right--1970. A number of times one side was one or two wins short. Tried searching most-total-wins for a Series, but you need the right search term or you just get the Yankees for most total Series wins.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
w/out looking it up i know that the year before, the Mets had 100 and the Orioles... 107? (looksup; 109)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
I also remember that I was wearing a junior-size Mets jacket in 1970 and a nun in my parish who was from Baltimore japed at me, "You better get a jacket with the Orioles on it."
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
excellent and true jape
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
it's been weird listening to the astro's radio feed of these games and hearing ads for churches
― na (NA), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
btw I really hate hearing from raspy white journeymen like Todd Frazier after postseason wins every year. "The Yankee gods must've been watching over us." May his decline phase come soon.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
saw someone touting him for the mets next year -- if only to give player-manager david wright an occasional day off
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
plz no
I remember Astro pitching coach Brent Strom as a Mets rookie in '72
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4325/35973930825_82bff7eb1c_c.jpg
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
fuck fox's homer Yankee kru
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
happily i watched 3 innings last night in a gay bar w/ bad music on
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Astros' 2nd shows a PRODUCTIVE OUT sometimes doesn't produce.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
can't stand the hyping of the yankee stadium crowd by the announcers , as if it were more special than any other baseball crowd.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
also not a huge fan of the 2-3-2 home/away format, game 3 and 5 are pretty key and they get to be in the ballpark of the team with less reg. season wins.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
they're all pretty key
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
xp agreed but I also like having a minimum # of travel days. don't much like the idea of a 3-man rotation or a dominant reliever pitching six games in a series
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
imo the biggest downside is that the team w/ more wins can lose 4-1 and only get 2 home games
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
trying to rationalise my hatred for the current score.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
Need 2-3 quick runs vs Tanaka; pray when the relief starts.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
fuck the yankees now and forever
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9mOa2Nh.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
btw in my i.v. chair today i caught Steven Schirripa, who played Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri on The Sopranos, on some AM radio show (hyping his role in the new Woody Allen film). He and the hosts were ripping Puig, Cespedes, Cano, and Beltran for hot-dogging instead of running. Some of the Sopranos actors were good at playing racist dickheads for a reason...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
is frazier really a better fielder than headley? if you're gonna play both and have one DH i'd have thought it would be the other way around
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
frazier is definitely a better fielder than headley
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
i guess the home team is winning every game in this one
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
yanks are driving the ball when they pull, which is something they've never done against keuchel in history
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
gasp
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
they've scored more runs against him today than they have in all his starts against the yanks since 2015
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
you better keep your gasping shoes on
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
I'd still be fairly confident going back to Houston that the Astros can win, but I won't say I'm not surprised at the way this is going--what I meant in the earlier post that the Cleveland series felt ominous to me. That wasn't supposed to happen at all.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
AND HERE COMES BRAD PEACOCK
― Andy K, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
astros should've taken a cue from the dodgers and taken their slump in september
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
Nothing in the PS is supposed to happen except the Twins losing the WC game.
If Verlander is 'money' again Friday, there is the question of who pitches G7 (besides, inevitably, Keuchel in relief)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 October 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
...i suppose they have to hope McCullers strikes twice?
I heard Morton
― timellison, Thursday, 19 October 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
(Might have just been radio speculation though)
they'd be silly to start morton, gotta think they go with verlander in a must-win G6
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 October 2017 01:01 (six years ago) link
We were talking about a G7!
― timellison, Thursday, 19 October 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
ah got it--they kind of have to roll with mccullers, i think, considering how well he pitched for 6 yesterday
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 October 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link