2017 mlb alds yankees vs indians

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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.

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.