All-Purpose MLB Thread! (2019-2021)
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macadocious
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What did I miss?
macadocious
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Ah, i didn't see that. That is very quiet, but I could make out "Rob just doesn't get it" numerous times. Which, I would agree with.
Tetsujin
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It appears all the Giants needed to be good was for their closer to get absolutely annihilated by the A's two nights in a row.
SLAB
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Idk how, but It also somehow taught Gabe Kapler to stop managing like a dang robot. Those two loses were the best thing to happen to this season.
Löwenherz
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At least the Mets were in the World Series a mere 5 years ago ... just as the Kings were bringing in Vlade to rescue us from a then nearly-decade long playoff drought.
Our dumpster fire can be seen from space.
SLAB
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Wow, I don’t recall that at all. I had to go check the Wiki to see if it was accurate. Lol
Tetsujin
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it should be noted that the best player from that team promptly went on to become the most injured man in baseball, culminating in him breaking his ankle stepping in a gopher hole at his ranch and then coming back this season only to promptly give up on the Mets literally in the middle of a game without telling anyone.
Löwenherz
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And I own that man’s A’s jersey. Bought two months before the All-Star on a legit contender was traded at the deadline.
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SLAB
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Hunter Pence officially retires (sad) and the Giants cut Samardzija (good riddance).
I really wish this final season would have gone better. I wasn’t asking for much, just ride off into the sunset on a positive productive season, make the playoffs, and win one more World Series.
Do it for Hunter now, Giants.
I really wish this final season would have gone better. I wasn’t asking for much, just ride off into the sunset on a positive productive season, make the playoffs, and win one more World Series.
Do it for Hunter now, Giants.
The only reason this game isn't tied right now is that Houston had an error which cost them a run and the A's had an error which extended an inning and resulted in 4 runs. So we're back to the typical A's post-season BABIP shenanigans. Also I don't think Houston has won a game yet this post-season where the other team didn't gift them a handful of runs. So frustrating. The A's have been coming back to win games in the 8th and 9th inning a lot this season though so I'm not counting them out yet.
The ball flies out of Dodger Stadium in daylight hours (before the marine layer sets in).
Good thing this whole series is scheduled as day games then?
No, that's probably a bad thing. Not that the A's don't have plenty of power of their own, but that was the first time in 8 tries that the Astros have beat the A's in a 9 inning game this year and you have to figure if this were a normal afternoon game at the Coliseum that 5 runs would have been enough. Can't get too caught up in one game tough. We'll try it again tomorrow.
Well, it's fitting that this post-season ends on a BS strike call that would have loaded the bases. Add that to the Matt Olson homerun that Reddick robbed in the 4th inning and I'm going to say that the A's offense brought the tie-ing run to the plate in the bottom of the 9th. Yeah it's a bit of a stretch but the hitters did their job in this series. The best bullpen in baseball this season coughed up 17 runs in 4 games and the starters weren't much better so what are you going to do. The Astros don't even deserve to be here so I hope someone else manages to knock them out in embarrassing fashion.
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