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Re: BASEBALL 2019---LET'S DO IT!
« Reply #600 on: October 07, 2019, 04:11:11 pm »
FS1 also.
All they talked about for 3 innings Saturday night was how great Snell looked, and how to beat Gerrit Cole.
Osuna made me nervous.......

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Me too. How does he come out and finish up the 8th inning with such efficiency and then fall apart in the 9th? Thank God for Will Harris.


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« Reply #601 on: October 08, 2019, 11:48:13 pm »
Come on Astros....do your part.      :2popcorn:


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« Reply #602 on: October 10, 2019, 04:47:12 am »
Come on Astros....do your part.      :2popcorn:


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Hey Dodgers...

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

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« Reply #603 on: October 10, 2019, 04:47:21 am »
Come on Astros....do your part.      :2popcorn:


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@DCPatriot  :beer:

Congratulations on the exciting conclusion of Gm 5 tonight.  The Nats ticket as been punched for the NLCS.

Now my team has to get to work tomorrow.
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« Reply #604 on: October 10, 2019, 04:48:52 am »
Hey Dodgers...

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!


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Can we offically call the Dodgers the Buffalo Bills of MLB?
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« Reply #605 on: October 10, 2019, 04:54:48 am »

 :silly:

Can we offically call the Dodgers the Buffalo Bills of MLB?

Actually that's what the Braves are. 

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« Reply #606 on: October 10, 2019, 07:26:08 am »
@DCPatriot  :beer:

Congratulations on the exciting conclusion of Gm 5 tonight.  The Nats ticket as been punched for the NLCS.

Now my team has to get to work tomorrow.

ROFL!!!

Still can't believe it!   I'm numb.

...and the GD announcers on MLB, including Harold Reynolds act like somebody died.   Sooooo Solemn.    :laugh:
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« Reply #607 on: October 10, 2019, 09:29:52 am »
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

"Journalism is about covering the news.  With a pillow.  Until it stops moving."    - David Burge (Iowahawk)

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« Reply #608 on: October 10, 2019, 11:27:07 am »



Anyone watching last night...the diving final out of the Series by Michael A. Taylor, could see that he still doesn't feel like he's contributed enough to celebrate like his teammates.

He's so humble...being sent down to Triple A for most of the season because of his high number of strikeouts.

Dusty Baker called him the best Centerfielder he's ever seen. ....back then.
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« Reply #609 on: October 10, 2019, 12:02:13 pm »
ROFL!!!

Still can't believe it!   I'm numb.

...and the GD announcers on MLB, including Harold Reynolds act like somebody died.   Sooooo Solemn.    :laugh:

Now If the Yankees don't make it  to the WS, they'll need to put the COB office, and coastal baseball illuminati of suicide watch.

Here is a fun fact....   Kershaw's post season record is now 9-11, 4.43 era, and 1.105 WHIP.  He may be Cooperstown bound, but it won't be for his post season record.
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« Reply #610 on: October 10, 2019, 01:45:21 pm »
ROFL!!!

Still can't believe it!   I'm numb.

...and the GD announcers on MLB, including Harold Reynolds act like somebody died.   Sooooo Solemn.    :laugh:

Good thing that Kendrick guy can hit cause his glove SUCKS!!!!  :bolt:

Congrats @DCPatriot and all the other Nats fans out there.  Hoping the Astros bats will wake up again tonight.
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« Reply #611 on: October 10, 2019, 03:03:36 pm »
Hoping the Astros bats will wake up again tonight.

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Hear! Hear!


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« Reply #612 on: October 10, 2019, 03:52:51 pm »

@Polly Ticks

Checking on you. You okay? What a gut punch yesterday for the Braves.

@AllThatJazzZ

LOL - thank you!  Yes, I'm hanging in there.  I actually missed most of the carnage. I had to leave home right when the game started to go to my son's house to babysit (very few things trump baseball, but my baby granddaughter definitely does!), and by the time I got there it was pretty much all over but the shouting.  Or maybe I should say the cursing?

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« Reply #613 on: October 10, 2019, 04:33:13 pm »

Ah, baseball, you do break my heart ... but I still love you!

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Now see, no one told me about that part before I got hooked.  **nononono*

Tonight is our night to move up or to stay home. Our starting pitchers have struggled and our bats have been fairly cold. I'd love to watch the game like this  :pop41: But I fear it might be more like this  :0001:.

BTW, I have such a soft spot for Brian McCann. I'm glad for him that he's finally able to retire, relax and rest those knees. I remember his saying that he was so exhausted at the end of game 7 of the 2017 WS, he didn't have another inning left. God bless him.


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« Reply #614 on: October 10, 2019, 04:37:56 pm »
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Now see, no one told me about that part before I got hooked.  **nononono*
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it the most, it stops.

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« Reply #615 on: October 10, 2019, 05:51:08 pm »
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it the most, it stops.

---A. Bartlett Giamatti, from "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, 1977---a decade before he became president of the National League.

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You forgot the Kleenex alert.  :nono:


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« Reply #616 on: October 10, 2019, 05:54:43 pm »
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You forgot the Kleenex alert.  :nono:

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« Reply #617 on: October 10, 2019, 06:10:20 pm »


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No such rule in my house. It's my Astros and I'll cry if I want to.  22222frying pan


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« Reply #618 on: October 17, 2019, 11:01:57 pm »
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« Reply #619 on: October 18, 2019, 12:16:04 pm »
How the new dead ball is faking out players, fans and even cameramen
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It was a deep fly ball off the top of the wall that set up one of the loudest storylines of this postseason: Ronald Acuna Jr. "hoisted a mighty blast that wasn't quite as mighty as he believed" in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, began an early home run trot that cost him a double, then got chastised by his Atlanta Braves teammates and his "beyond miffed" manager. Acuna's presumption was, presumably, also noted by his opponents. "I was always aware when a runner made a mistake like that," TBS broadcaster Ron Darling said during the game.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27853940/how-new-dead-ball-faking-players-fans-even-cameramen
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« Reply #620 on: October 18, 2019, 03:04:35 pm »
Hello??    Buehler?   Bueller??

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I feel like that pajama-wearing geek in the Coca-Cola spot sitting in the bleachers watching his team get their asses handed to them...standing up yelling:

"Just because 'Your' team wasn't good enough or lucky at the right moment to advance...there's STILL a lot of exciting baseball to be played."

Screw the Yankees and their 'trillion' dollar payroll.  They've been trying to buy pennants since Jesus was a boy in Nazareth.

The pitching and hitting matchups between the Astros and Nationals are the best in the sport.

(If it's truly a 'Dead' ball for the playoffs, it has to benefit the Nationals...who, IMO have more 'Punch n Judy' gap busters among their lineup bats)
 
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« Reply #621 on: October 18, 2019, 03:10:09 pm »
Hello??    Buehler?   Bueller??

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I feel like that pajama-wearing geek in the Coca-Cola spot sitting in the bleachers watching his team get their asses handed to them...standing up yelling:

"Just because 'Your' team wasn't good enough or lucky at the right moment to advance...there's STILL a lot of exciting baseball to be played."

Screw the Yankees and their 'trillion' dollar payroll.  They've been trying to buy pennants since Jesus was a boy in Nazareth.

The pitching and hitting matchups between the Astros and Nationals are the best in the sport.

(If it's truly a 'Dead' ball for the playoffs, it has to benefit the Nationals...who, IMO have more 'Punch n Judy' gap busters among their lineup bats)

I'm still here, @DCPatriot  and still watching as much of the games as I can.  And I can totally get behind your 'screw the Yankees cheer'!
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« Reply #622 on: October 18, 2019, 04:06:18 pm »
Hello??    Buehler?   Bueller??

@DCPatriot

(If it's truly a 'Dead' ball for the playoffs, it has to benefit the Nationals...who, IMO have more 'Punch n Judy' gap busters among their lineup bats)

Altuve, Brantley, and Correa are pretty nice in the capacity too, when needed.  Still with the arms being paraded by both sides out there, I have a sneaking suspicon that we might be seeing some low scoring games.

If we can finish off the Stankees, it will be an outstanding series, featuring 8-10 probable future HOF'ers.
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« Reply #623 on: October 18, 2019, 04:08:15 pm »
How the new dead ball is faking out players, fans and even cameramen


I think I have seen about 3 "bat flips" on long outs this post season.  Kind of "Willie Mays Hayes" funny if you ask me.
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« Reply #624 on: October 18, 2019, 10:00:12 pm »
Altuve, Brantley, and Correa are pretty nice in the capacity too, when needed.  Still with the arms being paraded by both sides out there, I have a sneaking suspicon that we might be seeing some low scoring games.

If we can finish off the Stankees, it will be an outstanding series, featuring 8-10 probable future HOF'ers.

@DCPatriot @catfish1957

We need one out of three and they need to run the table.  I like our chances.

I'm trying to recall the last world series that was anything like what I imagine a 2019 Astros vs Nats series would be like.  1960 maybe?
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