# MLB: Post-season **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 29, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860 "2014-09-29T14:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/541 "2014-10-08T00:22:29Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Well, I am a Dodgers fan and I’m also really sick of the Giants and the Cardinals. I really don’t want to have to root for whoever wins the AL, because I hate the AL game. This is just weird. I understand preferring the National League system, where the pitcher has to that, and where the manager has to deal with that. Hell, despite being a fan of an AL team myself, I actually prefer the NL system. But the idea that a baseball fan would hate the American League game just because of that difference is a little bizarre to me. Shrug. Anyway, if you’re sick of the Cardinals, maybe you can ask your own team why they can’t beat them despite spending about as much money on players as both of those teams combined. 🙂 Cards deserved to win the series. My main hope for the NL now is that the Nationals can come back and beat the Giants, and then beat the Cards in the LCS. The most annoying result of this game, for me, is that we are now going to get days and days of talk about how Clayton Kershaw might not be a big time playoff pitcher; about how he might just be a regular-season guy, who doesn’t have what it takes when the pressure’s on. Blah blah blah. It will all, of course, be idiotic bullshit, but we will be bombarded with it nonetheless. ---
**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 8, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/542 "2014-10-08T00:29:45Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > All I can say is, the Cards had better curb-stomp the dog-ass Giants next round. I’m done for the year. You’re already awarding the current series to the Giants? I don’t know I should feel about that… ---
**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 8, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/543 "2014-10-08T00:37:47Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > The most annoying result of this game, for me, is that we are now going to get days and days of talk about how Clayton Kershaw might not be a big time playoff pitcher; about how he might just be a regular-season guy, who doesn’t have what it takes when the pressure’s on. Blah blah blah. It will all, of course, be idiotic bullshit, but we will be bombarded with it nonetheless. From what I can tell, there wasn’t anything wrong with Kershaw: the problem was that the Dodgers didn’t have anyone they could trust to give the ball to when Kershaw was starting to get tired. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/544 "2014-10-08T00:41:57Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > This is just weird. > > I understand preferring the National League system, where the pitcher has to that, and where the manager has to deal with that. Hell, despite being a fan of an AL team myself, I actually prefer the NL system. But the idea that a baseball fan would hate the American League game just because of that difference is a little bizarre to me. Shrug. > . What, I can’t be a little hyperbolic? I don’t like AL ball. Sure, hate is overly harsh, but it is often a slog to watch. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/545 "2014-10-08T00:42:30Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > The most annoying result of this game, for me, is that we are now going to get days and days of talk about how Clayton Kershaw might not be a big time playoff pitcher; about how he might just be a regular-season guy, who doesn’t have what it takes when the pressure’s on. Blah blah blah. It will all, of course, be idiotic bullshit, but we will be bombarded with it nonetheless. Yep. Idiots gotta be idiots. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/546 "2014-10-08T01:23:19Z")
Kershaw can pitch his ass off, and if the rest of the team doesn’t come up with some run support… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/547 "2014-10-08T01:53:14Z")
Well, that was painful. Still plenty of time for the Nats to come back. But what a pathetic way to put the team 2 runs in the hole. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/548 "2014-10-08T02:04:08Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Well, that was painful. > > Still plenty of time for the Nats to come back. But what a pathetic way to put the team 2 runs in the hole. Almost as bad as MadBum’s throwing blunder that handed the first game to the Nats. At least Gonzalez came out pretty strong again in the next inning. Let’s go Nats! ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/549 "2014-10-08T02:04:45Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Sorry. Adams, not Holiday. Don’t know what i was thinking. I get my pudgy guys named Matt confused, apparently. Holiday is more on the ripped side. Go Cards! ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/550 "2014-10-08T02:14:26Z")
Is Werth planning on getting on base any time in this fucking series??!? And Fox LOVES the super slo motion came shit. They are showing all kinds of random bullshit in super slomo. Guys adjusting gloves, flipping bats, spitting. Oh! I gotta go! That JJ Watt Verizon commercial is on again! I try to catch it during every commercial break! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/551 "2014-10-08T02:15:56Z")
I guess I just don’t understand why Kershaw was pitching on short rest at all. The Dodgers would still have to have won Game 5. Kershaw has to win one of the two remaining games, and another starter who isn’t Clayton Kershaw has to win the other, so why not let them both start on full rest? ---
**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 8, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/552 "2014-10-08T02:22:53Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I guess I just don’t understand why Kershaw was pitching on short rest at all. The Dodgers would still have to have won Game 5. Kershaw has to win one of the two remaining games, and another starter who isn’t Clayton Kershaw has to win the other, so why not let them both start on full rest? This way the “other starter who isn’t Clayton Kershaw” could’ve been Zach Greinke. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/553 "2014-10-08T02:29:24Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > This way the “other starter who isn’t Clayton Kershaw” could’ve been Zach Greinke. Right, I believe the thinking was Kershaw on 3 days rest + Greinke \> Kershaw on regular rest + Haren Whether you buy it, I don’t know, but Mattingly apparently did. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/554 "2014-10-08T02:33:03Z")
What I love about NL baseball–do you pinch-hit for your pitcher, who’s actually doing pretty well, in the top of the fifth in an elimination game with a runner on second when you’re down by a run? Matt Williams says “yes.” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/555 "2014-10-08T02:47:40Z")
Stupid observation after watching way too much baseball: The mid- or end-inning score box in the Nationals-Giants game on Fox looks like the German flag. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/556 "2014-10-08T03:11:10Z")
Well, we’re halfway to an I-70 series, which I’d love to see (if for nothing else just to see how many people are still mad at Don Denkinger after 29 years). ---
**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 8, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/557 "2014-10-08T03:11:50Z")
I would feel a lot better if the Giants would produce some actual offense here… ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/558 "2014-10-08T03:20:46Z")
I missed the end of the Cards game, but in reading the recap, I note that Trevor Rosenthal once again put the tying run on base. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/559 "2014-10-08T03:21:51Z")
Another bomb by Harper. Game tied. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/560 "2014-10-08T03:23:05Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > I missed the end of the Cards game, but in reading the recap, I note that Trevor Rosenthal once again put the tying run on base. Tying _and_ go-ahead runs. The man’s a machine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860.md?page=29)