NIGHTY NIGHT
― calstars, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
There is a some things to like about this Yank club, much more blue collar than usual. I kinda dig seeing old dogs like CC getting a win tonight, as he had been good for so long.
Either way, the Astros series should be really good. I had a feeling this year's playoffs were going to be really good, it's one of those seasons where the top clubs (outside maybe the the Twins - sorry) were all pretty good.
― earlnash, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
calstars is trash clearly, how could one root against st tito
― marcos, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
I hate the Yankees so much. But this was a great comeback.
Cleveland dominated in Game 1 and could still start Kluber twice on regular rest, you can't plan it much better than that.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
(just playin calstars)
― marcos, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:53 (six years ago) link
but yea what the fuck happened to kluber
yeah that's key, yanks only where they are because Kluber wasn't Kluber anymore.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
anyway as a hard astros bandwagonner i'd rather they face the yankees than the indians.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
It happens. There are two guys left that have that kind of onus setting on them with Kershaw and Verlander.
― earlnash, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
lol Marcos
― calstars, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:57 (six years ago) link
There is a some things to like about this Yank club, much more blue collar than usual.
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― qualx, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:57 (six years ago) link
I'm happy for CC, dude about drank himself out of baseball and has really came back to be a quite an effective player again this year. It would be cooler if it was with the Tribe, but he's been a Yank for a long time. I've always liked that guy.
― earlnash, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
some Greatest Pitching Staff Ever!
That said, this is a hungry Yanks club, probably the most since 96.
yeah those words don't mean any actual thing, sorry
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:01 (six years ago) link
i'm sure this year's Oakland A's were "hungrier," it's hard to eat in a ballpark that gets flooded with shit.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
yeah CC is cool, the rest is bland / made bland by media.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
or downright vile, like Aroldis Weinstein Chapman.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
I always liked Gardner too, he's been good and underrated for a while, and one of the least slappable long term Yankee stars ever.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
i'd slap him
― qualx, Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:12 (six years ago) link
amazing. the Indians lost three games in the ALDS. they lost two games in the regular season— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) October 12, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
maybe this will be the thing that'll cause them to change the team name! ........
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 12 October 2017 05:05 (six years ago) link
They should keep the name "Tribe" and just change their logo to the cover of The Low End Theory
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 October 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
^^
― marcos, Thursday, 12 October 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
man what a fucking disappointment
Disappointed too. Yankees-Cubs would be the worst WS for me--last year's winner and the team that's won a million.
― clemenza, Thursday, 12 October 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
How about Yanks-Dodgers so we can party like it's 1949
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 October 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
or even 1981
but no
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
the yankees are really fuckin good but i am pretty shocked that cleveland isn't even making the alcs!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
3 outta 5, it's anybody's ballgame. By run differential these were the 2 best teams in the league.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
yeah. i was convinced the tribe was just going to mow down all comers but seeing the astros murtalize the sox was chastening. i now believe they are the best team. and now i get that uniquely perverse playoff sensation of watching what used to be hated villains magically transform into the good guys and i will delight in every wound they inflict on los yanks
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
Did Trevor Bauer’s support for Trump cost Indians the ALDS? https://t.co/t1vshTIkkl pic.twitter.com/UBcrIeHGw4— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 12, 2017
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Corey Kluber on health: "I don’t feel like I need to get into details right now. I was healthy enough to go out there and try to pitch.”— Travis Sawchik (@Travis_Sawchik) October 12, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
hmm
― nomar, Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
i'm hoping for a Cubs/'Stros series, but it would be ok to see the Dodgers in there as well.
i'd sleep through a Nationals/Yankees series.
― nomar, Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
Sleep well
― calstars, Thursday, 12 October 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Nobody's outright saying that Kluber wasn't hurt, so I'm taking that to mean that he was hurt. In which case this was a collosal fuck up by the entire Cleveland organisation.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 12 October 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
totally... i mean obviously Carrasco is no Kluber but he was probably the 4th or 5th best pitcher in the AL this year, and they could have run him out there twice.
― nomar, Thursday, 12 October 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
Important question: what's blue collar baseball?
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 October 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
yeah it's a pretty amorphous term, seems to refer to non-established stars in this case?
― k3vin k., Friday, 13 October 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
The '93 Phillies were "blue-collar": rough and tumble, no glamorous stars, cast-offs, looked like they should have been in a bar band or something. To a certain extent, I think it can be code for white--but the Phillies did have Mariano Duncan, Kim Batiste, and Ben Rivera in prominent roles. I remember it as a mostly white and disheveled-looking bunch, though: Dykstra, Kruk, Mitch Williams, Incaviglia, etc.
The Jays at the time were viewed as aristocratic and machine-like by contrast, best exemplified by Alomar.
― clemenza, Friday, 13 October 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
No baseball player is blue collar. Minimum salary is $500k right? So
― calstars, Friday, 13 October 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
iirc the 2004 red sox were supposed to be blue collar because johnny damon and kevin millar were scruffy
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 October 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
marketing is a helluva drug
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
white people who would've had mullets in 93
― qualx, Friday, 13 October 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
Only Matt Stairs, even if he's a billionaire now.
― Andy K, Saturday, 14 October 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
greatest player ever out of new brunswick, presumably
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 October 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
Canadian HRs, OK?
1. Walker 3832. Stairs 2653. Votto 2574. Morneau 2475. Bay 222
― Andy K, Saturday, 14 October 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
Fergie Jenkins is 32nd all-time with 13.
― Andy K, Saturday, 14 October 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link