# MLB Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 5, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791 "2012-10-05T11:22:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/461 "2012-10-23T03:17:38Z")
Mercifully, it’s just about over. Congratulations Giants! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/462 "2012-10-23T03:35:49Z")
Hm, it’s not raining at all down here in San Jose. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/463 "2012-10-23T03:39:26Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#): > > Mercifully, it’s just about over. Congratulations Giants! Unless they go to a rain delay. With 2 outs in the 9th. Of a 9-0 game. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/464 "2012-10-23T03:40:15Z")
The Giants’ NLCS celebration will take place on an ark. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/465 "2012-10-23T03:43:46Z")
YES! Exactly the way they planned it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/466 "2012-10-23T03:45:05Z")
Yay! The Giants win the Pennant! ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/467 "2012-10-23T03:49:59Z")
Tigers in 3! Just trying to help out my Senior Circuit friends… ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/468 "2012-10-23T03:53:08Z")
Congratulations to the Giants for a well-played, hard-fought series. Y’all deserve to go to the World Series. Dad’s kind of bummed, but some double chocolate cake will make the pain go away. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/469 "2012-10-23T04:04:01Z")
So the Yankees manage 2 runs in their final 3 games, and the Cards just 1. Whoda thunk it? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/470 "2012-10-23T04:51:51Z")
Wow, the Giants won it. I love it, but really didn’t expect it. Congratulations to the Cardinals for their strong season, they’re a class outfit with classy fans. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/471 "2012-10-23T05:02:32Z")
It’s baseball, folks. It’s never over 'til it’s over. All the doom and gloom over just having to win three ballgames. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/472 "2012-10-23T06:32:59Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > Wow, the Giants won it. I love it, but really didn’t expect it. Congratulations to the Cardinals for their strong season, they’re a class outfit with classy fans. I’ll be rooting for the Tigers, since I’m an American League fan, but it was exciting listening to the NL series. And I now have two former roommates from St. Louis who are probably cursing the Giants right about now 😛 Though for what it’s worth, the Cardinals are my favorite NL team. Sorry to see them out of it this year. They were the NL representative in the 1987 WS, the very first WS I ever paid attention to. Not to mention that my last name is Osborne, and the Cards had Osborne “Ozzie” Smith\*, as well as Donovan Osborne 😃 - It’s weird finding out that your last name also works as a first name… ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/473 "2012-10-23T12:29:27Z")
The best thing about the World Series being Tigers vs Giants is that the “This time it counts” All-Star Game" was actually decided, pretty much, by members of the two teams who really care about home-field advantage in the World Series. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/474 "2012-10-23T13:21:08Z")
Dear Stl Cardinals, Please watch [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqfg4dPEueI) one minute Dick’s Sporting Goods ad. Love, Cardinal Nation Looking forward to watching two great teams slug it out in the WS. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/475 "2012-10-23T14:26:50Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Meh, rookie made a bad play on a very weird hit (nice slo-mo replay by Fox showing the bat hitting the ball at least two or maybe three times). The kind of thing that happens when you’re starting a rookie at a key spot in a Game 7 - too bad Furcal threw his arm out a few months ago. I swear, I never thought I’d see the day when I was wishing Furcal was back in the line-up. Overall, the Cards went further this season than anyone expected (even them). They have some young pitchers with a lot of potential, their rookies got some experience in the postseason, and now we can stop talking about Matheny not having any managerial experience. I’m optimistic about next season. (Not to mention still happy that the Angels have been done for a while now.) And now that the NLCS is over, go Giants! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/476 "2012-10-23T14:39:00Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > All I can say is that the Giants enjoy the favor of the baseball gods, for the moment. There’s no explanation for what they’re doing tonight. I’ve never seen a shortstop break the wrong way on a ground ball. In Kozma’s defense, he was moving that wrong direction \*\*\*just as \*\*\*Pence was swinging, not after the ball was hit. Kozma was trying to fill the gap between short and third, and Pence’s slow grounder, normally an easy play at short, rolled past Kozma on the second base side. It is a “baseball gods” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/477 "2012-10-23T14:50:30Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > In Kozma’s defense, he was moving that wrong direction \*\*\*just as \*\*\*Pence was swinging, not after the ball was hit. Kozma was trying to fill the gap between short and third, and Pence’s slow grounder, normally an easy play at short, rolled past Kozma on the second base side. > > It is a “baseball gods” thing. Perhaps. But throwing home on a chopper while playing at double-play depth was a “rookie trying to do too much in a big game” thing. Not that it mattered in the end. I really hope the Cards don’t get too enamored by Kozma’s unsustainably playable Sep/Oct and think he’s some sort of solution at SS. MI and an actually useful bat or two for the bench are the key areas to address this off-season. That and teaching Matheny not to order sac bunts, basically ever. Hey, Marco Scutaro should be available… ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/478 "2012-10-23T14:55:56Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > \ > That and teaching Matheny not to order sac bunts, basically ever. > > Hey, Marco Scutaro should be available… That, and when to pull his pitchers earlier. Scutaro is 36 and having a career season. Great timing, and he should cash in with someone, somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/479 "2012-10-23T16:14:03Z")
> [@BetsQ](#): > > I swear, I never thought I’d see the day when I was wishing Furcal was back in the line-up. Considering some of the people they’ve tried to put at shortstop in recent years (Ryan Theriot, Brendan Ryan, Greenes Tyler and Khalil), I’m quite happy to have (a healthy) Furcal there. > [@](#): > > Overall, the Cards went further this season than anyone expected (even them). They have some young pitchers with a lot of potential, their rookies got some experience in the postseason, and now we can stop talking about Matheny not having any managerial experience. I’m optimistic about next season. (Not to mention still happy that the Angels have been done for a while now.) To me, the surprising thing is not how far they managed to get without La Russa or Pujols, but how far they managed to get without making any major acquisitions during the season. Even with the loss of some key players for much of the season, they made it all the way to Game 7 of the NLCS with almost all players who were in the organization at the beginning of the season. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/480 "2012-10-23T17:57:17Z")
I think the 9th inning last night showed that a directive must have been issued: this game will finish tonight. I’ve never seen it rain so hard in a baseball game; if they didn’t suspend it then, there is no such thing as a rain suspension during a Game 7. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791.md?page=25)