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« Reply #175 on: May 06, 2017, 11:04:12 pm »
Although, I must confess that I will be checking out Yanks/Cubs to night...MORE than Caps/Penquins.    :shrug:
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« Reply #176 on: May 07, 2017, 01:19:29 am »
Live - Top 7th   
New York Yankees 8
Chicago Cubs 2


Damn Yankees.

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« Reply #177 on: May 07, 2017, 11:48:05 am »
Live - Top 7th   
New York Yankees 8
Chicago Cubs 2


Damn Yankees.

They're back.....damnit!    ^-^
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« Reply #178 on: May 07, 2017, 03:37:52 pm »
Tigers are tearing it up tonight with all their minor league call ups.

currently 7-2 over Seattle in the top of the 5th without Miggy, JD Martinez, Iglesias, and Jacoby Jones.

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We don't see eye to eye it seems...on anything.

..but baseball.

You were the first person I thought of, my friend...when the A's walked off in the 9th.

That was a helluva slide, though.    ^-^
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"Journalism is about covering the news.  With a pillow.  Until it stops moving."    - David Burge (Iowahawk)

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Hello Darkness, my old Friend...stood up too fast once again! Paul Simon 2024.

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« Reply #179 on: May 07, 2017, 03:43:31 pm »
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We don't see eye to eye it seems...on anything.

..but baseball.

You were the first person I thought of, my friend...when the A's walked off in the 9th.

That was a helluva slide, though.    ^-^

I went to bed because I figured the Tigers had it wrapped up.

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« Reply #180 on: May 07, 2017, 11:19:37 pm »
Its got to be a real pain playing in Oakland with all those damn seagulls.

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« Reply #181 on: May 07, 2017, 11:22:55 pm »
I went to bed because I figured the Tigers had it wrapped up.

The September fade has come early to Arizona.  You lucky devil. @Cripplecreek, you're playing us Tuesday.  Time to run up the standings.
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« Reply #183 on: May 08, 2017, 06:39:23 pm »
Astros currently 19/9 .679  Best in baseball currently!

Go Stros!

Yep, great fun to watch.
Solid 1 to 9 lineup.
Deep bench.
Kuechel looking strong.
Marisnek hitting in the .280's?

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« Reply #184 on: May 08, 2017, 06:48:06 pm »
"September Fade" came early to the Diamondbacks this year.   **nononono*
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« Reply #185 on: May 08, 2017, 06:53:23 pm »
"September Fade" came early to the Diamondbacks this year.   **nononono*

I don't think so....just a rough stretch.   ^-^
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« Reply #186 on: May 08, 2017, 07:50:34 pm »
I don't think so....just a rough stretch.   ^-^

I hope you're right...that's a bad case of Silent Bat Syndrome they have going on.
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« Reply #187 on: May 08, 2017, 07:53:31 pm »
Tonight: Three game set begins between the Mess and the Giants. The Mets: up and down of late, scoring
five or more in nine straight until Sunday's debacle against Miami. The Giants: nosediving. Who will
come out of it the worse wreck?

Tonight's pitchers: Jacob deGrom (Mets; won his last start despite surrendering a season-high five earned) vs.
Matt Moore (Giants; took the loss surrendering nine runs in three and a third during that 13-5 waxing by the
Dodgers last Tuesday).


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« Reply #188 on: May 08, 2017, 08:49:38 pm »
Freakin K-Rod.   **nononono*

4 blown saves this year with 2 of them in a row.


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« Reply #189 on: May 10, 2017, 02:44:35 pm »

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« Reply #191 on: May 10, 2017, 03:15:24 pm »
That was an awesome slammer.

The look on the D-Back pitcher's face was perfect.

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« Reply #192 on: May 10, 2017, 03:59:39 pm »
The look on the D-Back pitcher's face was perfect.

It was.  I said it before.  The Diamondbacks' September fade came in May this year, and the odds are they aren't going to be worth a damn this season.   :shrug:
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« Reply #193 on: May 10, 2017, 06:50:23 pm »
Fight to the ... tie? Extra innings moving toward extinction

Buster Olney




It was sometime around midnight that the Chicago Cubs' search for the run that would end the extra-inning madness against the New York Yankees became desperate. With Chicago batting -- I think it was in the bottom of the 16th inning, although sleeplessness has added a hazy halo around some of the details -- somebody in the Cubs' dugout started firing a barrage of sunflower seeds toward the field. Dozens of seeds, one at a time; a couple reached the third-base foul line, and then one or two bounced onto the field, with third-base umpire Alan Porter glancing over.

Players occasionally launch seeds like this onto the field from game to game, but the sudden eruption in the sixth hour of play Sunday suggested a brilliant attempt to alter the karma of the baseball gods. Rally seeds. But like the hitters for both teams in overtime, the sunflower ploy failed; the Cubs did not score, again, and at the end of the half-inning, the player responsible for the seeds threw out another handful, like the last burst at the end of a fireworks show.

The next inning, Kyle Schwarber donned a catcher's mask in the dugout, and Ben Zobrist wore a helmet backward. Anything to end the game, which finally concluded after 18 frigid innings, 6 hours and 5 minutes, and 583 pitches. As a reporter looking for interesting stuff to happen, I thought it was fun, a baseball marathon to be recounted to grandchildren in a quarter-century. I love the chance for chaos -- the baseball landmark for chaos might be the rain-delayed, 19-inning game between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves that started on July 4, 1985, and ended with the promised fireworks just before breakfast.

more at:   http://www.espn.com/blog/buster-olney/insider/post/_/id/16653/olney-fight-to-the-tie-extra-innings-moving-toward-extinction

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« Reply #194 on: May 10, 2017, 06:58:55 pm »
Fight to the ... tie? Extra innings moving toward extinction

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« Reply #195 on: May 10, 2017, 06:59:38 pm »
One of the most beautiful phrases in the English language: extra innings.


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« Reply #196 on: May 10, 2017, 07:03:26 pm »
One of the most beautiful phrases in the English language: extra innings.

I agree.   Heresy!!   :smokin:

Felt like breaking something after scanning that piece.

I don't give a fig how many gazillions of $$$ they have invested in a player.

If you're concerned?  You've got a bench.

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« Reply #197 on: May 10, 2017, 07:04:24 pm »
One of the most beautiful phrases in the English language: extra innings.

 :beer:

Also known as "free baseball".

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« Reply #198 on: May 10, 2017, 07:04:32 pm »
The longest American League game to end in a tie was a 24-inning contest between the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics on July 21, 1945.

Seems like the Tigers had one a few years back that went 18 or 19 innings

In 1962 the Tigers and Yankees played a 22 inning game that went 7 hours.
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« Reply #199 on: May 10, 2017, 07:20:12 pm »
@Cripplecreek
The longest American League game to end in a tie was a 24-inning contest between the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics on July 21, 1945.

Seems like the Tigers had one a few years back that went 18 or 19 innings

In 1962 the Tigers and Yankees played a 22 inning game that went 7 hours.

In 1964, the Mets and the Giants played a 23-inning game---and it was the second game of a doubleheader!
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