(Sheehan's exclamation marks are not working their magic on me.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Lifetime postseason OPS:
Derek Jeter: .838Alex Rodriguez: .822
Who is here and who is there exactly?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
I'm not even sure what the point is with Verlander either. He almost single-handedly pitched the Tigers past the A's in two division series. He was the MVP of the 2017 ALCS. He's been bad in the WS, but he's hardly been a postseason bust during his career.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
Drifted off during the fifth.
― Andy K, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
Has Trumplander's effort been called gutsy yet?
― Andy K, Friday, 4 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
Looks like Verlander is going to get that monkey off his back after all
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
oooo they comin
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
Or maybe not, who knows at this point. This has been a good game
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
it's Schwarbin' time
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:36 (one year ago) link
What an out
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
Was really hoping the Phillies would tie it up thre
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
Great play...this should be a fun bottom of the ninth.
Didn't get home till the bottom of the fifth, so I missed the first half. Am I reading correctly that Verlander worked his way out of a couple of jams? Starting pitchers sometimes do that?
― clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
Great play, I thought it was gone
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
oh my god so close
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
Kissinger needs to die right now so Castellanos hits this out of the park
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 04:01 (one year ago) link
...
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 November 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
Damn
Man, that was a catch.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
The Great Mancini
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 November 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
Where is Karl Malone? This thread needs some levity that even my old-man wrong opinions cannot provide.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:36 (one year ago) link
can’t speak for KM but there is something about your team being bounced from the playoffs prematurely that makes me a bit more distant come World Series time. It’s a long haul until the re-start.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
i’m the opposite! what happens to me is i instantly become a fan of the team that bounced me. weird psychology at play there maybe
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
“Own me, daddy,” - TH
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
lol apparentlyi dunnopart of it is just getting to know these dudesobviously i would never with the yankees
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
I want a Game 7
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
I do too...but I started the series divided, and now I want Houston to win, so tonight would be fine.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
This can go one of two ways, 1) Valdez dominates again and is named WS MVP when the Astros win the series tonight, 2) The Phillies go homer happy again and set up an all-time unpredictable, anything can happen Game 7.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
The latter. I kinda dont want baseball to end this year!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
Yes agree, this years playoffs have been a lot of fun even if my beloved Giants weren't in.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
Great turn by Altuve--don't know how he hung in there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
If the Astros win and Valdez only gives up a run or two, I suppose he would win MVP. Short of that, though--or Javier winning a G7--Pena will win.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
Love seeing a huge classic curveball--you hardly ever do anymore.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
Valdez settling in
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
I want a game 7 because I can’t watch tonight and also I want the phils to win.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
i don't really care who wins the series, but i *would* like a Brad Lidge Moment tonight
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
I want everyone to tell me--and tell me before it happens--the exact moment when they should take out Valdez.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
(Left myself wide open there: "How about we tell you the exact moment when we take out you instead?")
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
tell us -- before it happens -- the exact moment at which you will no longer be impressed by his performance
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
There it is
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
(Not talking about current conversations in this thread)
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
Yeah--it wasn't me who gushed about his curveball.
(It amuses me that after a decade of being ridiculed by ILX's patron saint as a wide-eyed naif, you've decided I'm jaded because I wasn't thrilled three relievers pitching three hitless innings.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
No way he leaned into that.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
Wow
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
Ditto...I think Alvarez has only been so-so since the Mariners HR, but what a flair for the dramatic.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
Just needling...not sure your post was necessary in the middle of this great inning.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
Don’t needle if you don’t like getting it back. Also, don’t read ilx during the game if you get annoyed at being replied to while play is happening?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
Oh my goodness--you sound far angrier than any of my posts.
My basic point was that everybody decided pulling Verlander was the right move after he gave up the two runs. No one posted beforehand. So I was saying, "Okay, this time tell me beforehand." Twice Thomson has removed his starter this series and had it blow up. In G5, Baker left Verlander in to get out of a couple of jams, and that time it worked.
It's baseball--anything can happen, and there's no right answer.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
fwiw i would not let valdez start the seventh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
93 pitches, three straight righties to face (not that i know his splits, of course)
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link