2018 World Series -- Boston Red Sox vs Los Angeles Dodgers

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The 2018 Dodgers Are the Most Positionally Fluid Team of All Time

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/10/23/18012922/world-series-los-angeles-dodgers-positional-fluidity-flex-score-red-sox

dozier/freese/kike in vs. sale

bellinger/muncy out

post got eaten 10 mins ago but: “kershaw’s gonna get shelled isn’t he”

JD = dumb

So which batsman will be the first to clear the green monster

Place yr bids

i think Kemp just 'shelled' Sale even tho it almost reached the Citgo sign

who had 51 pitches thru 2?

sale

oh lol

c'mon Kershiser!!

I live in Los Angeles so obviously I am a Dodgers guy through and through but I think they just played Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” at Fenway so at this point I could go either way.

— Dave Holmes (@DaveHolmes) October 24, 2018

He played Ballad El Goodo when I was there 5 years ago

— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) October 24, 2018

Having the best job sometimes means having the weirdest job. Here are the song requests I played at Fenway in 2017. pic.twitter.com/R5IXO8nbol

— Josh Kantor (@jtkantor) October 10, 2017

thought maura was DJing

aint Machado great?

Benintendi doggin' it like a white guy

I achieved a superhuman feat off a future Hall of Famer and stumbled over this thing planted in the ground.

i have the video on mute (sorry Buck revisionists), but while Shulman-Singleton are OK, it's a shame ESPNRadio doesn't have Sciambi-Mendoza.

so much for 2nd lowest WHIP.

Casey Stengel woulda hit for Freese there

on target for 9 innings in 4 hours again

Mountain Goats tied with Springsteen' requests on that fenway list, and name-dropping Joe Buck excietedly shared that Bruce is watching the broadcast tonight, but he coyley demeured prividing a source for this reaveal.

that exchange was awkward as fuck

what a duel

Bases loaded and yo boy manny macho up to bat

let's go Dogers

rosdox

Big missed opportunity for the Dodgers there.

Looking forward to the updated version of the "Clayton Kershaw can't can can't pitch in the playoffs" trope that will play out until his next start.

Kershaw is bad again

it would sure help the narrative if he pitched well.... xp

Wooooooooo!!!

What is it with the Red Sox's worst regular players and late inning three run homers this postseason?

I don't if you realize this, but it's all about execution.

it's that red sox devil magic

alex cora is a gd wizard

woooooo

Way to go, Sox!

to go to hell

Caught the last couple of innings. Kershaw shaky, Kimbrel dominant--I need Keith Law to make sense of this topsy-turvy world.

i'm just glad i didnt have any nightmares after the crowd shot of Jack White

apparently Jack White is an investor in a bat company

the more you know gif

noted nashville sounds fan

GO DODGERS
💙

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) October 24, 2018

lana otm

The first pitch of Game 2 will actually be the first pitches, plural, of Game 2, as multiple stars of the 2004 World Series will be on hand to do the honors.

The Sox in question: Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Kevin Millar, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Keith Foulke, and Alan Embree.

maybe they asked him and he declined, but it would have been very cool if dave roberts were included

cardinal sinsler

guess yall went to the Halloween movie

PUIG

Had to work late tonight

Might catch the last 1.5 hr or so depending on how long they play for

revolting

the obvious solution is to make sure the cubs win every year

percentage of audience (they're tv ratings, which are correlated with % of audience, i think: https://jalopnik.com/how-tv-ratings-work-1795820157)

i guess the 1989 plunge was because a lot of the viewing audience was dealing with the earthquake?

i'm guessing interest was way down after the long delay in resuming. (10-12 days?)

This goes back a little farther:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/wstv.shtml

Series with better ratings that '86: '73, '75 (barely), '77-'81. Even with the Yankees and Dodgers, surprised '81 was so high after the strike and split-season.

i guess the 1989 plunge was because a lot of the viewing audience was dealing with the earthquake?

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 2:19 PM (forty-five minutes ago)

i'm guessing interest was way down after the long delay in resuming. (10-12 days?)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)

In the area where both teams played there were 63 deaths, 3,757 injuries & $6B* in damage ($12+B today) due to the earthquake, which may make one reevaluate your priorities.

I'll read as much of this as holds my interest, but "lack of star power" in the cut line is mystifying. For starters, you've got Betts, Sale, Kimbrel, Price, Kershaw, Machado--there are four-to-six HOF'ers right there. Then you move onto Bogarts, Jensen, Puig, etc. Exactly how many stars was whoever wrote that line (probably not the writer) hoping for?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/red-sox-world-series-2018-mlb/574162/

― clemenza, Monday, October 29, 2018 8:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She meant the Yankees i think.

I swear when teams with a strong fanbase across the continent do well, like the Red Sox or Cards or Dodgers or Yankees, journalists yearn for the end of big teams and ugh always the same franchises and ugh payroll is so unfair. Once the Royals win the World Series however, the same journalists will cry for 'national teams' and wish baseball was more like the NFL where every american citizen cares for the Packers or something.

baseball is one of the most complainy sports out there

well actually i think it's its main strength, baseball allows a self-criticism I would love to see in other sports.

Gonna be real funny in 20 years when the european and american football have to deal with PED the way baseball had to.

i don't mind it most of the time, but it grates when certain television broadcasters make the saaaaame complaints about stuff, year after year after year. the mound visits take too long, the batters step out of the box too much, the pitchers take too long, there are too many strikeouts, not enough sacrifice bunts, pitchers aren't tough any more, pitchers are only asked to throw 6 innings and that's lame, small ball is gone, not enough hit and run, wah wah wah

i could make a bingo card with all that shit and the st louis broadcast team will give me a nightly BINGO winning percentage of at least .500

agreed, some broadcasters are dragging the sport down.

put Jason Benetti in charge of the World Series commenting imo.

the FG piece by Craig Edwards that graph came from

For the most part, the World Series has followed general viewing trends. As more options for consumers have emerged, it has become more difficult for any kind of programming to attract a large audience. There have been exceptions: the 1991 World Series between Atlanta and Minnesota, a dramatic post-9/11 Yankees-D-backs event, and the Cubs curse-breaking spectacle. But the relationship between the TV’s No. 1 show and the World Series has been strong, producing an r-squared of .83 during this time period....

I think the disappointing ratings for the series are based primarily on two factors: overrating Boston’s impact on viewership and the games themselves....

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/those-disastrous-world-series-tv-ratings/

(the impact of '89 on the Bay Area is obvious; it wouldn't account for the dip in the national audience)

The Bash Brothers A's weren't really big nationally -- they were a huge deal within baseball, but didn't transcend the sport in a way that would draw big national ratings. Plus there wasn't much interest in watching the games because everybody also viewed the '89 WS as a huge mismatch (which it was).

they were also the same market

yes it def seemed like a sweep even after Game 1

the batters step out of the box too much, the pitchers take too long

this is true tho

I can withstand the constant complaining about 5-6 of these issues at any given time. But I cannot withstand 10+

I draw the line at 10+