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
Great! That's all I'm asking for. I think that's reasonable around 90 pitches. I'd give him a baserunner before pulling him--we'll see.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
dusty otm (until the phillies run amok, of course)
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
No one posted beforehand. So I was saying, "Okay, this time tell me beforehand."
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
gentlemen, can we simply enjoy the mystery that is baseball? it’s been a great series (also, valdez out this inning)
― sknybrg, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
gyac is no gentleman
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
If the Astros do hang on, Valdez vs. Pena is a pretty interesting MVP call.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
Peña mvp for me
― They do the Shug a loo, do the Shy Tuna, do the Kemba Walker (fionnland), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Gyac, I can be stubborn about my opinions. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying there's room for a difference of opinion there.
I think I'd go with Pena too.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
bothers me that espn resets all the individual stats for each series while mlb dot com shows cumulative playoff stats
espn is wrong, but i guess it's useful for mvp-ness
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
If he hadn’t already gone out, this would have been a great time for Nick Castellanos to have homered.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
If it were just Pena with the bat, maybe Valdez, but Pena's been fantastic in the field, too. They still have to win.
(Not sure which broadcast I have on, but if you don't the same one, they just said there hasn't been a home team clinch the WS at home since 2013...that's kind of amazing.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
That was truly weird, about six different ways.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
fortunately for my aunt, the iggles are 8-0
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
I hate the astros
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
congrats to Dusty and Dusty only
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
Okay you won a real one, can you please fade from the spotlight now, there are other, much cooler less tainted teams that would like to play baseball well too
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
Found it moving the way they surrounded Dusty in the dugout. I guess I've seen that before, but I don't remember.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
I picked Astros in 5, it took a extra game. Very happy for Dusty Baker.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
Joe Davis > Joe Buck
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
fuck the haters, my Astros take another WS, wearing my Altuve jersey RN
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link