The baseball playoffs thread 2018

SquarePeg · Oct 23, 2018

Huge rainbow over Fenway right now. They just showed it on the local news.

Yaz throwing out the first pitch. Meh - he's not a fav or mine. James Taylor singing the anthem. He plays a couple of shows at Fenway every summer and always sells out. Everyone here loves Sweet Baby James.

The network talking heads on MLB were debating if Roberts would get applauded when introduced. IMO - he will get a standing O, guaranteed.

jcdeboever · Oct 23, 2018

SquarePeg said:
Saw this cool grid online today. Disregarding the stuff about the MLS Revolution because...soccer, talk about spoiled. The current generation have no idea how sweet they have it. I was born in 1965 and while we had a few scattered WS and Super Bowl appearances and the occasional Bruins or Celtics title run/win, I grew up in loserville!

Now it's Title Town - what a run over the past 18 years. Hopefully more to come.
2001 Patriots win Super Bowl
2002 Revolution lose MLS Cup
2003 Patriots win Super Bowl
2004 Patriots win Super Bowl, Red Sox win World Series
2005 Revolution lose MLS Cup
2006 Revolution lose MLS Cup
2007 Patriots lose Super Bowl, Red Sox win World Series, Revolution lose MLS Cup
2008 Celtics win NBA Finals
2009 None
2010 Celtics lose NBA Finals
2011 Patriots lose Super Bowl, Bruins win Stanley Cup
2012 None
2013 Bruins lose Stanley Cup Final, Red Sox win World Series
2014 Patriots win Super Bowl, Revolution lose MLS Cup
2015 None
2016 Patriots win Super Bowl
2017 Patriots lost Super Bowl
2018 Red Sox advance to World Series

jcdeboever · Oct 23, 2018

Freeze man gonna have a big game

jcdeboever · Oct 23, 2018

Joe Buck needs to go away. What is it? I don't get it. I'd love to see Smoltzy just cold cock him right upside his head. Just super random on TV, live

davidharmier60 · Oct 23, 2018

Don't get me going on Joe Buck!

Gary A. · Oct 23, 2018

jcdeboever said:
Joe Buck needs to go away. What is it? I don't get it. I'd love to see Smoltzy just cold cock him right upside his head. Just super random on TV, live

The Master of the Obvious.

jcdeboever · Oct 23, 2018

Dodger baseball, work the count, get on base, drive them in. Pick their opponent apart, wear them down. These veterans are brutal on a pitcher.

SquarePeg · Oct 23, 2018

Good game so far.

Gary A. · Oct 23, 2018

There is no joy in Mudville ...

grrr8scott · Oct 23, 2018

How many home runs has Wood given up this post season? I cringed when they brought him in. Oh well, we’ll beat Price tomorrow, then Ryu pitches game 3 at home.

jcdeboever · Oct 24, 2018

Boston looks unbeatable. Them boys can mash.

SquarePeg · Oct 24, 2018

What a game! LAD looked sloppy in the outfield but I’m assuming that was just unfamiliarity with Fenway. The lack of foul territory can be hard to manage on the balls down the line on both sides.

So many pitching changes, on both sides, even when the current pitcher wasn’t in trouble.

Hoping Price carries over some of that swagger and attitude from his last start into tonight’s game.

Cold and rainy here today but the rain is expected to stop around 5. It should be very similar conditions to last night.

Gary A. · Oct 24, 2018

Boston, despite the score, is less overwhelming than I feared. One lucky/unlucky pitch and one unlucky/lucky swing made the game lopsided. If LA can split the series tonight ... I see a lot of great baseball where every game will be dearly contested to the end. To be honest, the matchup looks more like twin siblings battling it out than two different teams.

PS- Fenway sucks. It is so antiquated and sucky that it interferes with the play ... both mentally and physically. It is time for a new park, one with a cover so the players don't freeze to death playing a summer game. :cool-48:

JonA_CT · Oct 24, 2018

Gary A. said:
Boston, despite the score, is less overwhelming than I feared. One lucky/unlucky pitch and one unlucky/lucky swing made the game lopsided. If LA can split the series tonight ... I see a lot of great baseball where every game will be dearly contested to the end. To be honest, the matchup looks more like twin siblings battling it out than two different teams.

PS- Fenway sucks. It is so antiquated and sucky that it interferes with the play ... both mentally and physically. It is time for a new park, one with a cover so the players don't freeze to death playing a summer game.

What a unique sport that encourages a different lay out and a true home field advantage, though!

People make arguments about this for hockey too. International hockey rinks are wider than NHL rinks and the style of play is a little different. I guess the NHL rink happened to be standardized to a rink of the past in Montreal. I’ve heard people say that it should go back to the old days where every rink was a little different — make teams built to those specifications and have a true home rink advantage again. I don’t watch enough hockey to have an opinion though!