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Roberts bungled that game by using 9 pitchers in 11 innings. Hill was pitching great, taking him out after 60 pitches was hubris of the highest order. After Jansen the Astros got into the shit-end of the bullpen and you knew they were going to win. Roberts thinks he can do anything. He’s no Indiana Jones.
At least we’ve got a series now….
Darvish vs McCullers…not feeling real confident about this one. If Roberts pulls Yu after a few dozen pitches we are good. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Springer’s like “fuck it, hugs bro.”
I suggest that you can blame Whitey Herzog as the first, or at least the most notable, skipper to overmanage pitching. Loo, agree?
The cowardly sports media won’t mention the juiced ball. They just marvel at all the HRs.
Culberson is getting some flack in the media for over-celebrating his HR. It was kind of weird watching him flip out. They were still down by one run.
Holy shit! One of the best World Series games, ever! Damn, that was entertaining, juiced ball, or not.
Wilco – do you have tix for any of the three games in Houston?
I wish, prices are out of my range my friend. Standing Room Only tickets are going for over $600 and prices are rising after last nights game.
I hear you, brother. My daughter went to one of the 2010 WS games, and asked me to tag along with her and a friend. SRO were around mid 4’s. I passed, and still kind of kick myself to this day for not pulling that trigger. Maybe find a good watering hole near the yard…
I really appreciate this sentiment. I like baseball players celebrating. But I don’t consider what Puig is doing to be celebrating and I think he he looks like a total dumbass. All that licking the bat, and bat flipping singles, wagging his toungue, throwing his glove to the ground—- it’s just contrived adolescent bullshit.
Girardi out as Yanks manager.
whoa! wonder what Nightengale guy has to say about that in re: Giants.
who would take Girardi’s place?
No replay review of that call
I almost pulled the trigger on season tickets for 2018 last week. I created a spreadsheet and ran the numbers, using conservative figures of what I could make if I sold the 2017 World Series tickets I would have had access to and regulars season games for next year. Assuming I sold tickets to all the “big games” and didn’t use them for myself, I would have made a decent to potentially very good profit, escpecially if Houston made the PS next year. The seats I was looking at were right on the aisle of the lower deck next to the right field foul pole . Primo seats for getting balls tossed to you from players before and during the game. Not to mention great foul ball seats.
The deal breaker was when I found out the Astros have a rule that says you cant sell your tickets to more than 50% of the games and not at a profit of more than 50% above face value.
They have a system that monitors StubHub and a couple of the other ticket broker sites. The only way I could make it work would have been by selling the actual hard copy tickets for each game. There is no way I could have made that work, so it was a no go. It was a fun idea while it lasted.
Depending on how high prices for the WS continue to rise, I probably could have broken even even if I didn’t sell one ticket for next season. The WS profit would have paid for the season tickets by themselves.
Sounds like restraint of trade which is usually illegal…
Wow. No idea they monitored the resale so tightly. When I had season tix at the phone park (first three seasons), we would take the tickets we were trying to sell to games with us, and sell a bunch to the scalpers. I wasn’t trying to make a profit…just to get back as much as possible, and to set me up with prime games and possibly post-season tix. Of course, mid-week games against the Expos, etc., you could not give away! Go Stros!
That seems like bullshit to me. You buy the tickets and they tell you what you can do with them.
Better investment (still), but obviously not as fun – buy or swing trade Nvidia. Approximately $33k in realized profits and another $21k in unrealized profits this year alone. LRCX is another winner.
good chance Beede has married the highest maintenance chick in history.
wow. Hope Beede guest stars a lot more often in real baseball games in his career at something beside photo shoot.
She certainly hot enough.
So her career seems completely nowhere…
He’s Hunter Pence without the annoyance of a successful baseball career to look back on.
lulz!
I musta missed something. What did Culbertson do?
OK, just saw it. Meh. If I was a fringe player like Culbertson, I’d be pretty jazzed as well. I mean, unless the team was down 6 or something.
What Kenley Jansen said . . .
Hallelujah on the Stros..written in the stars..Stros in 6.
Thoughts from the Flappers on Girardi…would love to really go outsise the box and move Bochy with the rest of his staff to the wime cellar…I mean front office…
No rooster sighting imminent today. lol
thanks,you just reminded me I’ve got to change out the POTD
Per Tim Kurkjian, last night was the first game ever in which 5 home runs were hit in extra innings, Not World Series history, baseball history. Kurkjian likes to say that any time you go to a baseball game you’ll see something you’ve never seen before. Most of the time he’s right.
McCullers was really good in his last start against the Yankees. Maybe he can do it again.
I really hope the Astros can pull it out. That town deserves a WS champ. And fuck the Dodgers.
Weird with the Girardi firing. A team seemingly on the cusp busting out and they can the manager. They must already have someone they like better lined up. Seems a little over the top. He damn near got them to the Series.
I watch a lot of Yankee games. He makes too many moves, often resting guys too often. I don’t think there’s anything special about Girardi
I heard one of the announcers say that Dodgers starters went through the order a third time the fewest times in MLB. I guess that’s their formula, but it sure didn’t work out last night. I have no idea where to find that stat.
Unc called out Roberts last night couple times, esp for blowing up Jansen. I think his later moves like double switching out good players and counting on 6 out save a little more questionable but hindsight yada yada.
Look at this way tho—mop up guys immediately after Hill threw 3 shutout innings. Hinch left his stud guy Verlander in and by end of 6 Stros were down 3-1.
Notice today Keuchel was adamant and said for all to hear that ball is juiced.
Isn’t it ironic tho that Giants, who lost dang near 100 games this year have kept their mgr, while 3 teams now who either won division or finished second and won about 100, have fired theirs?
281 reg season wins btw Was NY Bos this year.
Talk about overmanging Roberts cooked his own ass pulling Hill after 4 innings at only 60 pitches wtf??? He was steamed I don’t blame him.
And freaking Puig, I would of laughed my ass off if that ball in the corner stayed in play and he’s chasing it down with no glove..If They don’t have those stupid corners with 4ft walls that would of stayed in..
Yeah, WTF was that all about. I haven’t seen that since Little League.
Last night was the first real adversity the Dodgers have faced in months. For the moment, they have lost the homefield advantage they played all season to attain. Their bullpen experienced failure last night. I would think the Dodgers are still the favorite to win the Series, but it’s great to see Houston make their presence known last night. If the Astros win Game 3, it would be awesomely hilarious.
The Astros should have the pitching advatage in Game 3. The Astros are very familiar with Yu Darvish from his time with the Rangers. On the other hand, the Dodgers faced McCullers once in his rookie season in 2015.
Good point, Wilco. Go Stros!
yahoo sports has posting of Marshawn Lynch practicing (while he is suspended from Raider activities) vs. his old HS, Oakland Tech. pretty funny, he is in Raider uni and helmet, lines up and runs through them couple times. Also gets stopped dead and gang tackled. Once they get him down one kid grabs Lynch’s helmet while he is on the ground.
Probably illegal and insurance companies would throw a fit, but kids must have dug it.
Raiders will be in Buffalo without him. iirc Bills were his first team and I think there were also some run ins with buffalo police. Car he was driving got stopped, one of guys in it had a piece and some stolen phones yada yada
There are some videos of Lynch in Buffalo that are pretty damn funny.
I think managers make these preemptive pitcher moves in post season because they’d rather be skewered for sins of commission, not omission…
Willie, I don’t think citing Verlander getting dinged in the 6th is really an indictment of his pitching. Or an endorsement of the strategy of pulling your starter after 2 trips through the lineup. Pulling Hill after 4 is lunacy, regardless of the next 3 innings. You can’t pitch 4-5 innings of relief a game. The Giants proved this over and over this last 1.5 seasons.
I mean, really, if this is the new reality, then they need to add 3 spots to every lineup for all the relievers that will be needed.
The 3rd time through the LU stuff with Hill is just through playoffs WS. Maeda has dominated in relief too. Stros guy McCullers threw 4 innings relief Game 7 vs. Yanks, right?
Cool list:
I just saw a video of Dr J dunking at age 63. I am 6’6 and the last time I could get up to dunk was probably in my early 30s. And that was with a clear court, no dribbling and getting a running head start from damn near half court, lol
Well, cool, the Kings are on the TNT broadcast tonight.
and up 16 right now after 40 in 1st Q. see what happens. I like Fox.
Yeah, I like his speed, and it’s under control.
Chris Webber is making excuses for Cousins’ reputation, and Marv Albert isn’t really buying it.
Matt Herges is the Giants’ new bullpen coach!
Excitement!!
I know I’m definitely stoked.
Hergie should put the Giants over the top…
Stanford pulls one out in Corvallis.
41 for DMC, who gets last laugh in return to Sac. Final 4+ minutes KIngs had Fox Hill Bogdanovic Cauley-Stein and Randolph on floor.
Great effort from DMC, but he doesn’t give that kind of effort every game.
Sac is still better off with the trade.
“Still we’ve only had one run scored that was manufactured. It’s millennial. This is millennial baseball right now. You get up, you take a big swing, you strike out. You don’t try to get the runners over very often. Nobody bunts. Nobody hit-and-runs. We’re a team that has to get guys on and we got five hits. I mean, six runs and five hits is what you call efficiency, except if you lose.”
Who said this? In my opinion, probably the biggest phony, hypocrite, and most hated Dodger, not named Lasorda . . . Steve Garvey . . . and yet, I agree with him.