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Post by jmei on Oct 8, 2014 11:13:46 GMT -5
Friday, October 10
8:00 PM ALCS Gm 1 Royals @ Orioles Shields (14-8), TBD TBS
Saturday, October 11
4:00 PM ALCS Gm 2 Royals @ Orioles Ventura (14-10), TBD TBS
8:00 PM NLCS Gm 1 Giants @ Cardinals TBD, Wainwright (20-9) FOX
Sunday, October 12
TBD NLCS Gm 2 Giants @ Cardinals Pitchers TBD FS1
Monday, October 13
TBD ALCS Gm 3 Orioles @ Royals Pitchers TBD TBS
Tuesday, October 14
TBD NLCS Gm 3 Cardinals @ Giants Pitchers TBD FS1
TBD ALCS Gm 4 Orioles @ Royals Pitchers TBD TBS
Wednesday, October 15
TBD NLCS Gm 4 Cardinals @ Giants Pitchers TBD FS1
TBD ALCS Gm 5* Orioles @ Royals Pitchers TBD TBS
* if necessary
Thursday, October 16
TBD NLCS Gm 5* Cardinals @ Giants Pitchers TBD FS1
* if necessary
Friday, October 17
TBD ALCS Gm 6* Royals @ Orioles Pitchers TBD TBS
* if necessary
Saturday, October 18
TBD NLCS Gm 6* Giants @ Cardinals Pitchers TBD FOX
TBD ALCS Gm 7* Royals @ Orioles Pitchers TBD TBS
* if necessary
Sunday, October 19
TBD NLCS Gm 7* Giants @ Cardinals Pitchers TBD FS1
* if necessary
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Post by GyIantosca on Oct 8, 2014 11:30:33 GMT -5
Wow the Cards have the Dodgers number. I love the fact Crawford made the last out.
I rooting for the Royals and if not them then the O's.
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Post by p23w on Oct 8, 2014 14:27:57 GMT -5
My Cardinal fan/friends are insufferable. They taunted me that Kershaw was a choke artist (and compared him to Pedro). Insufferable is probably too kind. I wanted the Nats to advance, but they didn't deserve it. Leaves me with the Giants in the NL. Don't know any baseball fans from the Bay area, so I guess I'm safe.
KC versus the O's. Hmmmm. I'll go with the Royals. Memories of drunk Oriole fans taunting Big Papi about PED's and the spectra of a manager that I have a visceral dislike for trump my allegiance to the Ripken's.
Nice to see new teams and faces in the ALCS, not too interested in the reappearance of the same old teams for the NLCS.
In the end it's just not the same without the Red Sox in the final four.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Oct 8, 2014 19:21:53 GMT -5
This feel like a mid-80s set of series to anyone else?
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Post by Don Caballero on Oct 8, 2014 20:37:18 GMT -5
I'm torn between the Royals (because Ned Yost is awesome) and the Giants (because McCovey Chronicles is the best fan blog in any sport). Should be fantastic.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Oct 8, 2014 22:19:15 GMT -5
I'm torn between the Royals (because Ned Yost is awesome) and the Giants (because McCovey Chronicles is the best fan blog in any sport). Should be fantastic. Hopefully they both win and get to watch two great teams battle it out in the world series...i'm just glad the dodgers lost but preferably i'd like to see KC or SF take it (gotta root for peavy). |
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Post by Don Caballero on Oct 8, 2014 22:25:56 GMT -5
Hopefully they both win and get to watch two great teams battle it out in the world series...i'm just glad the dodgers lost but preferably i'd like to see KC or SF take it ( gotta root for peavy). Damn straight, Peavy is a class act and by all means look like a great dude. It's great to see him having success in San Francisco and he still looks like a bad version of Jeremy Renner, which is awesome by itself. |
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 8, 2014 22:52:40 GMT -5
This feel like a mid-80s set of series to anyone else? In a way it does, although it is strange because when you think of the Orioles and Royals heyday, you think of the 1970s and early to mid 1980s (although the O's were plenty good in the 2nd half of the 1960s). Both teams won a last gasp World Series and disappeared off the map for a long time, yet even though they were very experienced post-season teams, they never matched up in the post-season. Baltimore usually got everybody but KC and KC usually ran into the Yankees. The Giants/Cards series was a good 1987 Series, but to me this is a 2010s decade series as they are the head of the class for the NL in the 2010s and they have been alternating pennants with the Giants taking 2010 and 2012 and the Cards taking 2011 and 2013. I guess that means it's the Giants' turn to win even though I think it will wind up being the Cards beating the O's in the Series. |
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Oct 9, 2014 10:52:58 GMT -5
I'm torn between the Royals (because Ned Yost is awesome) and the Giants (because McCovey Chronicles is the best fan blog in any sport). Should be fantastic. Hopefully they both win and get to watch two great teams battle it out in the world series...i'm just glad the dodgers lost but preferably i'd like to see KC or SF take it (gotta root for peavy). Wait a minute, the Royals are a "great team" now? This is a team that outscored it's opponents by 27 runs in the regular season playing in a very soft division. |
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Post by Don Caballero on Oct 9, 2014 18:46:20 GMT -5
Wait a minute, the Royals are a "great team" now? This is a team that outscored it's opponents by 27 runs in the regular season playing in a very soft division. They are a great playoff team. That top of the rotation is very solid, the bullpen is historic, and the offense has some great (albeit under performing) talent, which bodes well for the short burst of post-season baseball. They remind me of the 2012 Giants and the 2006 Cardinals, and we all saw how that turned out. |
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 10, 2014 9:40:55 GMT -5
Wait a minute, the Royals are a "great team" now? This is a team that outscored it's opponents by 27 runs in the regular season playing in a very soft division. They are a great playoff team. That top of the rotation is very solid, the bullpen is historic, and the offense has some great (albeit under performing) talent, which bodes well for the short burst of post-season baseball. They remind me of the 2012 Giants and the 2006 Cardinals, and we all saw how that turned out. There was absolutely no way to predict it. One bad bounce and they're done after the wild card game. You're calling them great based on results only. |
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Post by ramireja on Oct 10, 2014 12:15:23 GMT -5
They are a great playoff team. That top of the rotation is very solid, the bullpen is historic, and the offense has some great (albeit under performing) talent, which bodes well for the short burst of post-season baseball. They remind me of the 2012 Giants and the 2006 Cardinals, and we all saw how that turned out. There was absolutely no way to predict it. One bad bounce and they're done after the wild card game. You're calling them great based on results only. And you guys are also being intensely critical of his casual use of the word "great." He said "Hopefully they both win and get to watch two great teams battle it out in the world series." He's not trying to have a discussion about how historically good the Royals are. Lets ease up a bit. |
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Post by jmei on Oct 10, 2014 12:55:10 GMT -5
This is actually really, really cool: www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/baseball-joe/blog/the-power-of-jabo-100114 FOX Sports 1 is going to do a simultaneous alternate broadcast of game 1 of the NLCS. Instead of the vortex of terribleness that is Joe Buck, Harold Reynolds, and Tom Verducci, this alternate broadcast is going to feature Kevin Burkhardt, Gabe Kapler (!!!), C.J. Nitkowski, and Rob Neyer breaking down the game from a more in-depth perspective. They're going to feature more integration of sabermetric principles, both by using advanced stats to analyze the game but also highlighting stuff like pitch-framing and optimal bullpen use. Really exciting stuff. ADD: here's Neyer elaborating on it: www.fangraphs.com/blogs/discussing-the-nlcs-powered-by-jabo-with-rob-neyer/ |
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 10, 2014 13:29:35 GMT -5
That is so awesome. I really hope it's as good as it sounds.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Oct 10, 2014 14:32:39 GMT -5
That makes me so pissed I'm not going to be home tonight.
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Post by jmei on Oct 10, 2014 16:40:34 GMT -5
That makes me so pissed I'm not going to be home tonight. Dont worry, it's tomorrow night. |
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Post by onbase on Oct 10, 2014 16:47:19 GMT -5
They are a great playoff team. That top of the rotation is very solid, the bullpen is historic, and the offense has some great (albeit under performing) talent, which bodes well for the short burst of post-season baseball. They remind me of the 2012 Giants and the 2006 Cardinals, and we all saw how that turned out. . One bad bounce and they're done after the wild card game. You're calling them great based on results only. Not no way. Steamer did. |
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 10, 2014 20:18:37 GMT -5
Hello? Anyone home?
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 10, 2014 20:27:45 GMT -5
:-(
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 10, 2014 21:07:13 GMT -5
There was absolutely no way to predict it. One bad bounce and they're done after the wild card game. You're calling them great based on results only. Not no way. Steamer did.I'm sure they predicted it when they were down 7-4 in the 8th with Lester pitching. |
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Post by iakovos11 on Oct 10, 2014 21:12:49 GMT -5
And why exactly do we want to Shields to be our #1?
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 10, 2014 21:16:56 GMT -5
I'm yanking Shields right now with the bases loaded in the 5th. For Finnegan.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 10, 2014 21:21:35 GMT -5
That strikeout was a friggin gift for the 2nd out with the bases loaded.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 10, 2014 21:23:35 GMT -5
And why exactly do we want to Shields to be our #1? No friggin clue. Maybe we could trade for Lackey. |
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Post by pedroelgrande on Oct 10, 2014 21:49:59 GMT -5
BIG GAME JAMES LOL.
I want nothing to do with Shields. I'd rather stink next year.
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