The baseball playoffs thread 2018

[SquarePeg]

I didn't think it was referring to the movie. I assumed there was some pitcher who liked to streak...

 

[Gary A.]

A filler story.

 

[jcdeboever]

The Dodgers will turn it around tonight. They are gonna thump them. Wouldn't surprise me if it's a blow out.

As far as the appearance of Roberts, it's a long, brutal season. Playing on the West coast doesn't help. He is probably putting in 100+ hours a week. Additionally, he is probably feeling a great deal of pressure being out managed by Counsell at every turn. Counsell is kind of beating him up in the alley. I'm kind of surprised. Counsell maybe the best manager in the NL, which is hard for me to say but I'm starting to think that. LA is such a huge market, huge expectations, huge payroll. He will be the fall guy if they can't win it all and that is sad because he is one heck of a skipper. We're in a new era of baseball my friends.

 

[Gary A.]

The Dodgers will turn it around tonight. They are gonna thump them. Wouldn't surprise me if it's a blow out.

As far as the appearance of Roberts, it's a long, brutal season. Playing on the West coast doesn't help. He is probably putting in 100+ hours a week. Additionally, he is probably feeling a great deal of pressure being out managed by Counsell at every turn. Counsell is kind of beating him up in the alley. I'm kind of surprised. Counsell maybe the best manager in the NL, which is hard for me to say but I'm starting to think that. LA is such a huge market, huge expectations, huge payroll. He will be the fall guy if they can't win it all and that is sad because he is one heck of a skipper. We're in a new era of baseball my friends.

I was about to make the same claim, that Roberts was being out-coached.

 

[jcdeboever]

The Dodgers will turn it around tonight. They are gonna thump them. Wouldn't surprise me if it's a blow out.

As far as the appearance of Roberts, it's a long, brutal season. Playing on the West coast doesn't help. He is probably putting in 100+ hours a week. Additionally, he is probably feeling a great deal of pressure being out managed by Counsell at every turn. Counsell is kind of beating him up in the alley. I'm kind of surprised. Counsell maybe the best manager in the NL, which is hard for me to say but I'm starting to think that. LA is such a huge market, huge expectations, huge payroll. He will be the fall guy if they can't win it all and that is sad because he is one heck of a skipper. We're in a new era of baseball my friends.

I was about to make the same claim, that Roberts was being out-coached.

Roberts is very bright. Milwaukee is gonna run out cards here and Robert's could turn the tables. I've seen it before. Robert's ran out of cards last year and Houston won the WS. In other words, he gasped their bullpen.

 

[Gary A.]

Roberts needs to be relentless.

 

[Gary A.]

Boston up 2-1, into the bottom of fifth.

 

[Gary A.]

Pearce belts one out!

 

[jcdeboever]

Pearce belts one out!

Pearce=mini Turner

 

[JonA_CT]

JBJ got into that one a little.

 

[Gary A.]

Grand Slam for Boston ... game’s over.

 

[SquarePeg]

JBJ with the GS! Wow! But not to worry, per the announcers, Bregman will win it single handedly any minute now...

And look at all those empty seats. Those orange towels will come in handy tonight.

 

[SquarePeg]

Uhoh games overlapped by 3 mins. MLB will start scheduling them at 4pm and 10pm just to be safe and not miss any ratings points.

 

[jcdeboever]

Wow

 

[Gary A.]

Five hours and fifteen minutes later ... Dodgers barely win.

 

[SquarePeg]

They needed that one bad! I went to bed after the 9th. I can’t imagine watching that whole thing. Hopefully they burned up the Brewers pen and Kershaw has a good game today.