World Series 2022 -- Houston Astros vs Philadelphia Phillies

dusty otm (until the phillies run amok, of course)

No one posted beforehand. So I was saying, "Okay, this time tell me beforehand."

gentlemen, can we simply enjoy the mystery that is baseball? it’s been a great series (also, valdez out this inning)

gyac is no gentleman

If the Astros do hang on, Valdez vs. Pena is a pretty interesting MVP call.

Peña mvp for me

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.

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

If he hadn’t already gone out, this would have been a great time for Nick Castellanos to have homered.

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.)

That was truly weird, about six different ways.

fortunately for my aunt, the iggles are 8-0

I hate the astros

congrats to Dusty and Dusty only

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

Found it moving the way they surrounded Dusty in the dugout. I guess I've seen that before, but I don't remember.

I picked Astros in 5, it took a extra game. Very happy for Dusty Baker.

Joe Davis > Joe Buck

fuck the haters, my Astros take another WS, wearing my Altuve jersey RN

Congrats f. hazel

f. hazel, you and me both :)

pena, mvp. right on.

Congrats sknybrg, I thought you would be a Mets fan

Between Ortiz shooting the fake money at him and the cameo by his wife, I know Verlander has endeared himself to ILB even more.

Phillies offense stressed me out this entire series, never felt safe from them

they were like 3-for-420 with runners in scoring position tho

wonder how joe girardi feels tonight

lol phils did very well given their shit unbalanced roster, late season streaks are real but they disappear as soon as they come

Joe Davis > Joe Buck

I second this. Davis probably made more memorable calls in this postseason than Joe Buck did in the last 25 years.

Fun season

Didn't realize till last night that Pena's already 25. Late start for a rookie (for the obvious reason of Correa) that will probably come into play when he hits the free agent market down the road.

Like anything pertaining to old media, I doubt Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year is nearly as newsworthy as it was 20 years ago. (1998, McGwire and Sosa; 2001, Johnson and Schilling. Three of the four are pariahs now.) Still, I'd love to see Dusty Baker win it this year. Wasn't sure if they've ever given it to a coach, but I checked and they have, at least three times: John Wooden in 1972, Dean Smith in 1997, and Pat Summitt and Mike Krzyzewski in 2011. (They seem to have a thing about college basketball coaches.) If they do go with baseball, I suppose it'd be Judge; if the Yankees had won, for sure it's be Judge. I don't know if there is an obvious winner from some other sport this year.

Totally forgot that it was Dusty Baker's son who almost got trampled at home in 2003.

https://www.mlb.com/news/darren-baker-celebrates-dad-dusty-s-world-series-victory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV7x8WcR4g

That’s literally the first thing I think of when it comes to Baker. I had only recently started watching baseball again and I wondered who the idiot was that let a toddler on the field

J.T. Snow ought to be in the HOF for that.