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Post by foreverred9 on Oct 14, 2020 10:43:12 GMT -5
Karma finally seems to be getting to the Astros.
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Post by soxin8 on Oct 14, 2020 11:56:36 GMT -5
When Maldonado tripped on Margot's bunt, did anyone besides me immediately think of Ed Armbrister and this play in the 75 WS?
Now I remember azblue warned me about bringing up bad memories so maybe I can balance that with good ones? no one would know Ed Armbrister today in New England if Dwight Evans hadn't done this in the top of the ninth in game 3:
If you are too young to remember the 75 WS, game 6 is considered one of the greatest WS games ever played. Evans game saving catch
Everyone here is probably aware of the Fisk homerun that won it but some might not know that homer would never have happened without this clutch 2out 2strike Bernie Carbo smash in the bottom of the 8th.
Even if you do remember them, hope you enjoyed looking at them again.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 14, 2020 15:12:03 GMT -5
'75 was the year i saw the light !! thanks for posting. what a different world. they had like 3 camera's. still so exciting to watch.
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Post by soxin8 on Oct 14, 2020 15:26:25 GMT -5
Dear God, I want to first thank You for the two victories of the Rays over the Astros. While I did not pray for that, I did devoutly wish for it. If You do not mind, I will take partial credit, as infinitesimal as that part must be given Your glory. However, I want to make it perfectly clear that at no time did I ever wish for the second Astros loss to be as agonizing as humanly possible for the team and its fans. Such a thought did not even cross my mind, and a mere defeat of any sort would have been entirely satisfactory. Even turning five Astros hits into outs by having them hit directly at, or just within the reach of a Rays fielder, while giving them just two cheap hits, would have seemed unnecessary to me, and yet I can see the point of it -- three extra hits usually amount to two runs, so there's your tie game to agonize over, plus an extra inning to try to win it. But arranging those hard outs and cheap hits in such a fashion as to cost the Astros seven runs or more? [*] That would have been inconceivable, and after the fact it remains nearly so.
So that one's all on You. I love it! [*] Statcast total hits by xBA was 12.9 rather than 10. The hard outs were the Bregman and Correa liners to SS in the first and second, Tucker's deep fly outs to Kiermeier in the third and sixth, and Springer's GDP ball in the 9th. The two cheap hits were Gurriel and Reddick's singles to start the ninth. If anyone wants the details of how changing all of those leads to 7 more runs (and has 2 on and 2 out in the eighth), ask me!
I know eric wasn't being serious when he attributed the outcome of this game to the Creator. But in case you missed it, there is an extraordinary amount of evidence that he did intervene in at least one game known as the 3 16 game. fanbuzz.com/college-football/sec/florida/tim-tebow-john-316/www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/10spot-divisional/tim-tebow-phenomenon-gets-eerie--adam-schefter-10-spotTim's starting quarterback career pretty much ended the next week in Foxboro, but before he left, God seemed to give him his moment while getting over 90 million people in each game to google John 3:16. Another thing I thought was kind of interesting was the birthday of the wide receiver who caught the 80 yard slant to win the game on the first play of overtime: www.google.com/search?q=demaryius+thomas+birthday&rlz=1C1GCEU_en&oq=demaryius+thomas+birthday&aqs=chrome..69i57.9288j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8If you didn't know, Tim is doing a lot of work these days with special needs students: blog.easterseals.com/what-message-do-tim-tebows-special-needs-proms-really-send/
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Post by Oregon Norm on Oct 14, 2020 17:04:31 GMT -5
Politics and religion were the two things they told me to stay away from in the barracks. This isn't the military, and you are certainly welcome to your religious ideas. But do not post them on the board, please. We can barely keep the politics straight.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Oct 14, 2020 17:41:21 GMT -5
Dodgers down 2-0 in the 4th after Freeman does his Casas impression . Dodgers are in big trouble if they lose tonight, Kershaw has been so good this year but has been pushed back to game 4 with back spasms. Urias goes tomorrow, and not sure how he'll fare against this Braves lineup. He just might be able to hold onto that lead.
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Post by radiohix on Oct 14, 2020 19:11:30 GMT -5
We get it Mr Smoltz...You don't like advanced stats. Add: As a matter of fact, I sometimes question if you even like baseball 😂
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Post by ericmvan on Oct 15, 2020 11:08:39 GMT -5
We get it Mr Smoltz...You don't like advanced stats. Add: As a matter of fact, I sometimes question if you even like baseball 😂 The Buck and Smoltz team is fairly terrible.
Smoltz is good when he's talking about which pitch might be thrown in a given count and situation. Otherwise he's boring and devoid of insight.
Meanwhile, Buck didn't remember the three-batter rule until the last two games, after someone presumably reminded him. Before that he made several comments about managers "sticking with" a pitcher who had faced just a better or two. He did this twice in one game, so Smoltz was apparently not listening to him.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 15, 2020 20:00:24 GMT -5
Crap, they live. How disgusting would it be for the Asstros to become only the second team in history to come back from 0-3 ?
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2020 21:01:48 GMT -5
Lol at kershaw. Can’t help but feel bad for him but he got out pitched by Bryse Wilson.
Add, that bullpen isn’t helping
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2020 21:06:54 GMT -5
Crap, they live. How disgusting would it be for the Asstros to become only the second team in history to come back from 0-3 ? I’m rooting for a game 7 that would be awesome
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 15, 2020 21:11:45 GMT -5
Good call on Graterol, Chaim.
He would have been a more frustrating Kelly to watch if we got him. How does a guy with an easy 101mph fastball and a sharp slider only have 5Ks per 9 innings this year? If you can't miss a bat a game like this will happen eventually.
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Post by patford on Oct 15, 2020 22:18:20 GMT -5
I'm starting to feel bad for Mookie. It's the same post season malaise which plagued him with the Red Sox.
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Post by RedSoxStats on Oct 15, 2020 22:22:17 GMT -5
He had an .899 OPS coming into tonight
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 15, 2020 22:27:57 GMT -5
I'm starting to feel bad for Mookie. It's the same post season malaise which plagued him with the Red Sox. Coming into tonight's game, his 30th career playoff game, he had a .248/.341/.376 career playoff slash line with just 1 home run. He had some big moments for us in the 2018 playoffs (especially defensively), but was largely invisible at the plate through most of the run; he finished the 2018 playoffs with a .210/.300/.323 line. He hit against the Padres, but he's been anemic so far against the Braves (.437 OPS) and I suppose he'll have at least one more game to find it. It's a strange thing to watch Mookie often flounder with the bat in October, but I guess trading for a former MVP doesn't guarantee much in the chaos of the postseason.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 15, 2020 22:58:51 GMT -5
Elimination day tomorrow.
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Post by kjkramer on Oct 15, 2020 23:07:42 GMT -5
Mookie is becoming the Anti Reggie Jackson and Mr. NON-October
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 15, 2020 23:11:44 GMT -5
Bellinger hasn't exactly been a playoff dynamo either.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2020 23:19:07 GMT -5
Not everyone can be Steve Pearce
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Post by jkfer98 on Oct 15, 2020 23:32:26 GMT -5
Pretty nice seeing the Yankees and Dodgers blow it after all the whining their fanbases have done for 10 months.
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Post by electricityverdugo99 on Oct 16, 2020 6:25:21 GMT -5
Kershaw, Betts, Jansen, Bellinger. There's a lot of known underperforming players on that team who constantly struggle in the postseason.
Add the fact that Buehler just came back at the start of the postseason and they have zero trust in anyone not named Dustin May out of the bullpen.
This might be one of the most talented teams I have known to not make the world series. This team in this abbreviated season had the best winning percentage in Dodger's history.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 16, 2020 6:34:05 GMT -5
If the Dodgers don't turn it around fast, they will be the equivalent of the Yankees and Phillies. Expensive, star studded teams whose current crop haven't won jack.
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Post by radiohix on Oct 16, 2020 8:15:33 GMT -5
Death, taxes and Kershaw's melting in a pivotal playoffs game lol
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 16, 2020 9:30:59 GMT -5
Mookie now has a sub-.700 OPS in 30 career playoff games.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 16, 2020 9:38:30 GMT -5
I just hope that the Rays can close out Houston tonight.
I don't even want anybody else to even force a Game 7 after being down 3-0. I want that to remain the exclusive domain of the 2004 Red Sox.
And the thought of the Astros, the cheating Astros, the sub-.500 Astros doing it, is kind of nauseating. If somebody, other than the 04 Red Sox, can pull off this feat, they're not a team that would be a worthy "successor".
And yet on the other hand, it would almost serve Manfred right to expand the playoffs and see a sub-.500 team win the World Series.
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