MLB: Post-season

[mhendo]

@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.

[Suburban_Plankton]

@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…

[Thudlow_Boink]

@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.

[asterion]

@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.
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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.

[wonky]

@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.

[silenus]

Kershaw can pitch his ass off, and if the rest of the team doesn’t come up with some run support…

[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.

[mhendo]

@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!

[RetroVertigo]

@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!

[Cubsfan]

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!

[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?

[Thudlow_Boink]

@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.

[Ulf_the_Unwashed]

@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.

[Ulf_the_Unwashed]

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.”

[asterion]

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.

[fachverwirrt]

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).

[Suburban_Plankton]

I would feel a lot better if the Giants would produce some actual offense here…

[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.

[mhendo]

Another bomb by Harper. Game tied.

[Ulf_the_Unwashed]

@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.