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Post by dd on Oct 23, 2018 23:30:13 GMT -5
Lol f you Arod chants. You guys are right. It's a bleeping riot. :-) They're still out there chanting Papi for a while then AROD sucks then ... who knows, can't understand them, but they know. :-)
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 23, 2018 23:37:17 GMT -5
Lol f you Arod chants. You guys are right. It's a bleeping riot. :-) They're still out there chanting Papi for a while then AROD sucks then ... who knows, can't understand them, but they know. :-) They're so much louder than the Fenway crowd. It kinda makes me sad. And how freaking sick is it to have confidence in Kimbrel right now?
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Post by dd on Oct 23, 2018 23:38:42 GMT -5
It's a bleeping riot. :-) They're still out there chanting Papi for a while then AROD sucks then ... who knows, can't understand them, but they know. :-) They're so much louder than the Fenway crowd. It kinda makes me sad. It IS the Fenway crowd, No?
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 23, 2018 23:41:02 GMT -5
They're so much louder than the Fenway crowd. It kinda makes me sad. It IS the Fenway crowd, No? The Fenway crowd was probably loud. I'm with Jerry, I think Fox turned down the sound on the crowd noise.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 23, 2018 23:42:26 GMT -5
It IS the Fenway crowd, No? The Fenway crowd was probably loud. I'm with Jerry, I think Fox turned down the sound on the crowd noise. It's not just Fox, because it's been all post season. But I have a hard time believing they'd want to downplay that. They have sounded much quieter than every other park. I'll easily believe a conspiracy though.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 23, 2018 23:49:39 GMT -5
The Fenway crowd was probably loud. I'm with Jerry, I think Fox turned down the sound on the crowd noise. It's not just Fox, because it's been all post season. But I have a hard time believing they'd want to downplay that. They have sounded much quieter than every other park. I'll easily believe a conspiracy though. If you ignore the volume and concentrate on the number of times the fans were active, you come away with a different picture. All night whenever a Sox pitcher had 2 strikes on a Dodger, the fans were up and cheering.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 23, 2018 23:51:01 GMT -5
Fivethirtyeight now as the Sox at a 72% chance to be the WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS. And they give us a 62% chance to win tomorrow. Price versus Ryu is a HUGE mismatch that favors the Sox imo, especially if Price keeps throwing 96 and dialing back the velocity back from 5 years ago.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Oct 23, 2018 23:52:17 GMT -5
What a great win! Listened to it over mlb.com on my phone driving from Dallas airport to our Abilene Airbnb. Watched some while eating at Chilis.
One down, 3 to go. In Cora we trust!
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 23, 2018 23:57:29 GMT -5
It's magic:
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 24, 2018 0:00:34 GMT -5
And they give us a 62% chance to win tomorrow. Price versus Ryu is a HUGE mismatch that favors the Sox imo, especially if Price keeps throwing 96 and dialing back the velocity back from 5 years ago. The one outliar is the freezing temperatures tomorrow. Price's fingers have been a problem in the past in legit freezing temperatures. Hopefully it doesn't rear it's ugly head tomorrow.
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Post by dd on Oct 24, 2018 0:02:08 GMT -5
It's magic: What time is it where you are? ?
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Post by telson13 on Oct 24, 2018 0:07:15 GMT -5
Sale set the tone vs the Yankees in game 1 but hasn’t been great since. And somehow Sox still 3 wins away. Just think about that for a second I seriously thought he was pretty damn good today. He wasn't hit hard, and was squeezed on more than 10 borderline pitches, which would have completely changed his pitching line if he got even half of them. Even without considering the squeezing, his xFIP for the game was only 2.40. The other team had a .444 BABIP against him and he didn't give up much hard contact at all. I’ve gotta think the illness and time off wreaked havoc on his command. The tiny zone def made it much worse. Overall I feel pretty good that he can come back and pitch (very) well if need be.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 24, 2018 0:07:36 GMT -5
It's magic: What time is it where you are? ? I am 12 hours ahead of Boston (but we don't change the clocks twice a year.) So I mostly get morning baseball but sometimes middle of the night baseball. I've seen the majority of every game this year although a few I had to watch from archives.
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Post by incandenza on Oct 24, 2018 0:09:49 GMT -5
My company is based on the west coast so I end up working 7 am - 7 pm half the time. The dynamics of the fan bases is pretty interesting. I'd guess the Dodgers have a higher population in their area than the Yankees. The big market/small market concept though is based on revenues so, when there's a disparity between the two factors, you can assume that baseball is either more or less popular in that particular market on a per capita basis. Last year's big market team ranking was: Yankees Red Sox Phillies Mets (believe it or not) Dodgers. The most glaring difference is between The Rangers in a much smaller city than the Astros yet, are a large market team whereas the Astros are mid market. Sports in general don't do well in the Houston area. Dallas-Fort Worth is a slightly larger metro than Houston. But also this:
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Post by telson13 on Oct 24, 2018 0:20:13 GMT -5
The Fenway crowd was probably loud. I'm with Jerry, I think Fox turned down the sound on the crowd noise. It's not just Fox, because it's been all post season. But I have a hard time believing they'd want to downplay that. They have sounded much quieter than every other park. I'll easily believe a conspiracy though. I was at G2 in 2004, about 15 rows back in RCF, behind the bullpen. When Schilling was walking out to the BP, it was pretty loud, but less “hard” cheering than just excited murmur. Curt was in RF about 50 feet away, head down and in the zone, slow rolling and very serious. I was talking w my cousin, getting amped up, and I looked up and saw him. I started roaring. And all around me, so did everyone else. In the bleachers, the sound was deafening, and it rolled like a wave down the park as everyone realized he was coming out to warm up. I have a LOUD voice at full volume (years of running...big lungs I guess), but I could barely hear myself. I’ve never seen/heard anything like it. It was frenzied. Schilling took about 5 steps, and just stopped. He started looking up, slowly, right towards us in RCF. The look on his face was...almost shock. He was soaking it in, that energy. So idk if things have changed, but the crowd that night was like standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier with F-14s taking off. Still gives me chills. Maybe they are drowning out crowd noise on broadcast...
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Post by ericmvan on Oct 24, 2018 0:22:25 GMT -5
Benni 4-4! Remember when we were talking about him batting 9th in this game earlier today? I'm totally taking credit for his 4-4.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 24, 2018 0:25:10 GMT -5
Fenway Park World Series crowds never disappoints. I now fully believe Fox turned down the sound on the game
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Post by ericmvan on Oct 24, 2018 0:30:06 GMT -5
Best ab by Leon in months Leon silencing the haters. One swing is probably not predictive at all, but it would be hysterically funny if he went on one of his tears. Sorta like Bill Gates winning PowerBall.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 24, 2018 0:36:41 GMT -5
The dynamics of the fan bases is pretty interesting. I'd guess the Dodgers have a higher population in their area than the Yankees. The big market/small market concept though is based on revenues so, when there's a disparity between the two factors, you can assume that baseball is either more or less popular in that particular market on a per capita basis. Last year's big market team ranking was: Yankees Red Sox Phillies Mets (believe it or not) Dodgers. The most glaring difference is between The Rangers in a much smaller city than the Astros yet, are a large market team whereas the Astros are mid market. Sports in general don't do well in the Houston area. Dallas-Fort Worth is a slightly larger metro than Houston. But also this: Good chart, small thing but Rangers are in the suburbs, Arlington. Remember the Houston Rockets and Aeros ? Also the Rockets don't do all that well.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 24, 2018 0:38:30 GMT -5
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 24, 2018 0:45:29 GMT -5
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Post by ericmvan on Oct 24, 2018 0:47:53 GMT -5
I seriously thought he was pretty damn good today. He wasn't hit hard, and was squeezed on more than 10 borderline pitches, which would have completely changed his pitching line if he got even half of them. Even without considering the squeezing, his xFIP for the game was only 2.40. The other team had a .444 BABIP against him and he didn't give up much hard contact at all. His perphrials have been good. But he pitched 4 innings. I love advanced stats and agree with a lot of what u said but playoff baseball is all about results . My original statement wasn’t sale bashing, more like amazement on how good this team is If outs get turned into hits by luck and strikes get turned into balls by incompetence, you end up pitching an inning less than you would have, or even more.
And no, playoff baseball is not all about results. No one blames Rivera for costing the Yankees the 2001 WS, for instance. So sometimes it's obvious that the results are all bad luck and zero lack of skill. All we're doing here is pointing out an instance where it's less obvious.
The good luck / umpiring version of that outing is 6 1 1 0 9. The actual quality was probably along the lines of 5.1 3 1 1 0 8.
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Post by telson13 on Oct 24, 2018 0:54:17 GMT -5
That man put up an 11-WAR season. Just in case anyone forgot (looking at his stat line, which was impressive but not ludicrous...because he played in an era dominated by pitching) how insanely good he was in his prime.
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Post by ericmvan on Oct 24, 2018 1:13:10 GMT -5
Best thing about this game, by far:
Each team's bullpen included the team's 5th starter, a really good lefty. Both entered the game in the 7th inning with the score 5-4, with 2 outs and men on 1st and 2nd. But one guy was brought in after a lefty PH was announced and had the platoon advantage ... except that he himself has a sizeable reverse split. The other guy, who has a big platoon split, was brought in to face a lefty hitter, who was then pinch hit for somewhat predictably ... except that the pinch-hitter had a reverse split.
So E-Rod had a nice platoon advantage (although not nearly as big as you might guess) and Wood had an equivalent platoon disadvantage (same caveat).
Each guy threw just one strike to that first hitter.
Swap the results of those two pitches and the Sox lose 7-5.
It's rare that you see a game come down to two PA that are even roughly similar. This one's either silly or beautiful or both.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 24, 2018 1:16:43 GMT -5
Brockstar making Taco Bell happy:
Chris MasonVerified account @bychrismason 2h2 hours ago
Brock Holt won’t be getting his free taco: “I’m going to stay away from the Taco Bell... you end up on the toilet all night.”
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