MLB Thread

[Spunkygal]

14 minutes ago, mojoween said:

Gross.  Yuli Gurriel is no hero.

No, he's not, but Bellinger is!!!

[stealinghome]

This game is crazy!!! SUPER entertaining though.

[Spunkygal]

Spoke too soon....pfft.

[catrox14]

This series is bananas and it's glorious. I love baseball so much

[BitterApple]

I'm glad I don't have a dog in this fight otherwise I'd be dead on the floor right now. This is insane.

[twoods]

I can't imagine being a fan of either team and dealing with the high and lows of these games. We are not setting foot in the other room until this game is done- I've already gotten my head bit off a few times because any smile is equivalent to smirking that the Dodgers can't keep this lead (can't I just be happy?).

[cleo]

I'm rooting for the Dodgers and it has definitely been tense tv viewing.

I've also seen more facial hair the last few days than possibly the rest of my life until now. 

[navelgazer]

Definitely entertained.  Rooting for the AL West team, but I could root for LA since "Corey's Brother" Kyle is one of my favorite players. 

On this game, that's twice the home plate umpire has called strike 3 on a player prematurely headed towards first for his walk.  It's like the ump is calling that strike after the player is apparently showing up the ump by thinking they know what the ump is gonna call.  Or is it just me? 

[stealinghome]

Holy crap this game in UNBELIEVABLE. So nuts!!! That ball might still be in orbit.

Also this game is soooo long. It's been 3.5 hours and we're only in the 7th! I'm on the east coast and tomorrow is going to be murder, but I can't not watch to the end of this crazy-ass game! Who would have thought Kershaw-Kuechel 2.0 would have turned into this?

[twoods]

Is this how a game looks like whose teams are both out of pitchers? Brutal and sooo long. Morrow came out and hubby cursed and changed the channel. I guess judging by the score he knew what was coming. Game 6 with Verlander and Hill is going to be nuts.

[QuinnInND]

I'm dying here!!! My husband is from Houston and I'm a Dodgers fan. This series is just crazy and exhausting.  I'm hoping my twins sleep in tomorrow. 

And someone, please for the love of God, shut Joe Buck up. Am I the only one who wants a line drive right down his throat? 

[catrox14]

I can't even believe this game. This is WILD! LOLOL.

[Lantern7]

Yeah, but it's long AF. Couldn't the game have started at 7 p.m., with Fox not taking any NFL games starting at 4 to insure no overlap? I know sports aren't about the kids anymore, but they should see a full game without worrying about napping in class the next day.

[Mittengirl]

This is why games shouldn’t start at 8:30 p.m.

[xaxat]

Bananas! Absolute bananas!

Baseball Twitter is on fire!

[BitterApple]

No. Fucking. Way.

I cannot believe this thing is tied.

[ebk57]

This is insane. Fun, but insane  

 

And our power just went out. Dammit 

[catrox14]

$%^&*()@#@#%^)_)(&*^$@#$%&(_

[Lantern7]

While there's a break in the action and everybody reaches for the coffee . . . is Curtis Granderson playing at all?

[stealinghome]

The winner of this game might just be the team who has a pitcher left in the bullpen.

[twoods]

2 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:

While there's a break in the action and everybody reaches for the coffee . . . is Curtis Granderson playing at all?

After how much he's been stinking up the playoffs, I doubt he will see the light of day.

I agree that the last team with a pitcher wins. The bullpens are going to be absolutely exhausted after this game, which will make game 6 (and possibly 7) even more ridiculous. I'm watching the score because just looking at the game for a second is making me sick (and I don't have a team in this). 

[Lantern7]

1 minute ago, twoods said:

After how much he's been stinking up the playoffs, I doubt he will see the light of day.

Awwwwwwwww. I haven't been keeping up. The guy is the classiest of acts, and the Mets were poorer for dealing him.

[catrox14]

[Lantern7]

So, basically, this is the Too Many Cooks of baseball games. Am I right?

ETA: . .  . aaaaaaaaand it's over. Awesome. Too bad this isn't a best-of-5, because I don't think the fans can take a Game 6, let alone a Game 7.

[catrox14]

ASTROS WIN!!! WHAT A FUCKING GAME! AHHH Baseball is the literal best.

[stealinghome]

21 minutes ago, twoods said:

After how much he's been stinking up the playoffs, I doubt he will see the light of day.

I agree that the last team with a pitcher wins. The bullpens are going to be absolutely exhausted after this game, which will make game 6 (and possibly 7) even more ridiculous. I'm watching the score because just looking at the game for a second is making me sick (and I don't have a team in this). 

No way this series doesn't go 7 at this point. It's been too fucking crazy not to!!!

[theatremouse]

Even though I would not at all have minded this game being 20 minutes shorter, I'm really glad Gurriel was not involved in the deciding play.

[twoods]

The Dodgers relying on Jansen this much in the playoffs has come back to haunt them. He's going to be too tanked to go out in game 6. It's the Astros game to lose because they have it in the bag with Verlander.

[KAOS Agent]

This game was ridiculous. Baseball is awesome.

[ebk57]

I was listening to the game on my phone. Then the cable came back on just in time for the end!  Then it went out again. It's like fate ... or something ?

At least the power is back on. 

 

Oh, and I love baseball!! 

[Bort]

42 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:

While there's a break in the action and everybody reaches for the coffee . . . is Curtis Granderson playing at all?

Granderson isn’t on the Dodgers World Series roster. They dropped him for an extra pitcher. 

And... holy fuck, what a game. That was a loud ass crowd, I’m glad I got to go. 

[Mittengirl]

I just looked at the Cleveland Indians “shop” page on MLB.com.  On page 1 of the t-shirt section there were 33 items with the Chief Wahoo logo.  I am assuming MLB, Inc. takes a cut of each sale.  As long as they are making a profit on the sale of merchandise with a racially insensitive (at best) logo, I am not sure MLB has much of a leg to stand on regarding the discipline of players making racially insensitive gestures.  Especially when apologies were extended and accepted by the men involved.  Just my opinion.

[mojoween]

6 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Yeah, but it's long AF. Couldn't the game have started at 7 p.m., with Fox not taking any NFL games starting at 4 to insure no overlap? I know sports aren't about the kids anymore, but they should see a full game without worrying about napping in class the next day.

The Cowboys started at 4:25 yesterday.  There is no way in Hades FOX was giving that game to CBS so yeah, we were stuck with an 8-Something start.

I’m so glad I take vacation every week this year.  A crazy game 6 on Halloween.  This is going to be sooooo fun.

[xaxat]

Last night This morning, after the game, I decided I was too tired to take the trash to the curb.

I have no regrets.

[MyAimIsTrue]

Even though I'm on vacation this week I still couldn't stay up late enough to watch the end of the game and went to bed with it tied 7 - 7. Dammit, dammit all to hell. I need to move to the Pacific time zone or something. Mark my word I will do my best to stay awake as long as is needed for game six.

[Lantern7]

I know that newspapers are old-fashioned, but late games never make the back page with the subscription copy. In the defense of the Daily News, today's back page would've still be devoted to the Knicks shocking the Cavs, with an "ANOTHER EPIC GAME IN EPIC SERIES" banner underneath. Also, "JETS SUCK ON FIELD; GIANTS SUCK ON BYE WEEK."

ETA: Just to clarify, I think the News will probably have Game 5 up in their later editions. It's just . . . the Knicks . . . beat the Cavs. And this comes days after the Cavs lost to the Nets. You can get a pickup team with three dudes on the side, and they'd beat the Nets with little problem.

[basiltherat]

Whether Dodgers fan or Astros, let us unite in our hatred for ALL national sportscasters.  Buck or no Buck, they all stinks!  I listened to the radio broadcast (ESPN) after the 7th and it was much better.  

[MyAimIsTrue]

The only thing Joe Buck does that I like (other than shut up) is constantly refer to John Smoltz as "the Hall of Famer."

[Lantern7]

Once again: Game 5 = Too Many Cooks. And Joe Buck = creepy guy murdering everybody.

[basiltherat]

Is Joe Buck in the Hall of Fame and, if not, perhaps he is jealous and wants to be.

[bosawks]

Adding over an hour to my DVR wasn't near enough, to be safe it looks like I'll need to double the running time.

And this is why I absolutely LOVE baseball, clocks be damned!

[mojoween]

Joe Buck is nominated for a Ford Frick Award which is a pretty high honor.

I am irritated with him because it always feels like he is rooting very hard for the team which I am not.

[Silver Raven]

They called Clayton Kershaw the greatest pitcher of his generation, last night.  I almost puked.

[Crs97]

Yes, I am completely done with Kershaw being referred to as the best pitcher on earth.  He is probably a nice guy, but the sports guys are making me hate him.

Edited October 30, 2017 by Crs97

[bosawks]

So it’s Kapler for the Fightin Phils, I guess I get it.

He is one of my favorite anecdotes.  In 2004 he asked a Boston rabbi if he should play on Yom Kippur and the rabbi replied “Yes, do it, we need all the help we can get!”

[DonnaJo]

18 hours ago, QuinnInND said:

I'm dying here!!! My husband is from Houston and I'm a Dodgers fan. This series is just crazy and exhausting.  I'm hoping my twins sleep in tomorrow. 

And someone, please for the love of God, shut Joe Buck up. Am I the only one who wants a line drive right down his throat? 

When the Yankees are on FOX we watch the game on mute so as not to hear him gushing about how great the other team is (any team versing Yankees). He is so, so opinionated, which is wrong for a commentator.  Why can't they get rid of him?

[QuinnInND]

He's a pain doing the Cowboys games too. Ugh. 

[xaxat]

But he's great in Brockmire.

[Lantern7]

He was also funny in HBO's Tour de Pharmacy. Just sayin'.

[mojoween]

He seems like a great guy to have a conversation with and he was super funny on LeBatard.  It’s when he’s doing his actual job that he’s so annoying.