2017 mlb alds yankees vs indians

yeah, I'm exaggerating, but he's been so crucial this season.

not even into the fourth and another staring pitcher is out.

glad to see the Indians winning thou

obv weird things can happen in baseball but this clev teams is significantly better than last yrs that was up 3-1 in the ws imo

christ these games are long

Bruce is a nice pick up

Good thing Sanchez can hit, he looks a bit out of control when I see him play behind the plate. I'd think the movement on his mitt would drive pitchers crazy.

could be a 4 hour no hitter

Jaime Garcia has "2018 Mets Opening Day starter" written all over him.

— Jon Tayler (@JATayler) October 6, 2017

Games in Christ's day were about 82 minutes

but of course there were spitballs

also I'd say fuck Jon Tayler, but i am as ignorant of his identity as he is of Jacob "Christ" deGrom's

Yankees games are always slow as molasses, even worse is when they play the Red Sox.

Bauer really doesn't look to be really working slow at all.

quite a strike zone bauer's getting

yeah the calls have been absurdly one-sided

as Tom Seaver used to dickishly say as a Mets broadcaster, "Swing the bats, boys"

Nice 2 hitter.

"Not to pick on Sanchez, but if you didn't know better you'd think he has a mitt that's not broken in yet." -- Tom Hamilton on Indians radio

— Tyler Kepner (@TylerKepner) October 6, 2017

that was sort of easy

Cleveland is good. They get a good start with their bullpen, they are tough. The lineup is better this year than last year.

I think they're the best team in the league

best in MLB I suspect and I kinda think Kluber is the best pitcher in the game right now.

Really glad to see Jay Bruce doing well

santa maria!

/vasgergian

38 pitches for kluber in the first

damn.

welp, tie it up and lose Encarcion.

RIP

best in MLB I suspect and I kinda think Kluber is the best pitcher in the game right now.

― nomar, Friday, October 6, 2017 4:23 AM (nineteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nm

With Kluber positioned for Games 2/5, that's a big advantage. Would love to see Edwin have a huge post-season...

― clemenza, Thursday, October 5, 2017 11:48 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ditto.

omg

holy cats!

OMG

!!!

What a great AB

gary frozen

which ends first, this or cubs-nats

got out of it

finally home, looks like i missed a good game but seeing the finish

wow, what a break

what do you think, should he get second.

cameraman was shielding himself?

correct call

11

the women beater holds

hope the Indians hold

WTF?

Darnell Coles is still in the league?

dont want them to score on something like that

bee are you on twitter

they got him!

How about Yanks-Dodgers so we can party like it's 1949

or even 1981

but no

the yankees are really fuckin good but i am pretty shocked that cleveland isn't even making the alcs!

3 outta 5, it's anybody's ballgame. By run differential these were the 2 best teams in the league.

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

Did Trevor Bauer’s support for Trump cost Indians the ALDS? https://t.co/t1vshTIkkl pic.twitter.com/UBcrIeHGw4

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 12, 2017

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

hmm

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.

Sleep well

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.

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.

Important question: what's blue collar baseball?

yeah it's a pretty amorphous term, seems to refer to non-established stars in this case?

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.

No baseball player is blue collar. Minimum salary is $500k right? So

iirc the 2004 red sox were supposed to be blue collar because johnny damon and kevin millar were scruffy

marketing is a helluva drug

white people who would've had mullets in 93

No baseball player is blue collar. Minimum salary is $500k right? So

Only Matt Stairs, even if he's a billionaire now.

greatest player ever out of new brunswick, presumably

Canadian HRs, OK?

1. Walker 383
2. Stairs 265
3. Votto 257
4. Morneau 247
5. Bay 222

Fergie Jenkins is 32nd all-time with 13.