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That pit is bottomless. It stares back with the hunger of ten thousand mouths, ravenous for the taste of soul-crushing despair. And it whispers... "there's always next year." Tribe vs Cubs. There can only be one!
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I'll be bandwagoning the Nationals (is it bandwagoning if I live in DC?) since Pittsburgh is pretty much done, too. A DC/Baltimore World Series is too much to hope for, sadly.
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RhyssaFireheart
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That pit is bottomless. It stares back with the hunger of ten thousand mouths, ravenous for the taste of soul-crushing despair. And it whispers... "there's always next year." I've stopped telling the husband that there's still plenty of time for the Cubs to choke. It's no fun to ruin his hopes like this. Still, the Cubs couldn't even win the division properly - they had to let the Cards do it for them.
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Talent is talent. Bad pitchers vs good hitters should be a bad combo for the pitching team.
Sure. But a fresh bad/OK pitcher is often worse than a tired good one. Add in the inability to get more than an at bat worth of looks, or even much of a "pass down information" and things get a lot harder real fast. By this logic there should be no such thing as a bad relief pitcher, when in fact bullpens are teeming with them.
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Talent is talent. Bad pitchers vs good hitters should be a bad combo for the pitching team.
Sure. But a fresh bad/OK pitcher is often worse than a tired good one. Add in the inability to get more than an at bat worth of looks, or even much of a "pass down information" and things get a lot harder real fast. By this logic there should be no such thing as a bad relief pitcher, when in fact bullpens are teeming with them. There indeed are. But you're overselling the statement. Relief pitchers tend to fall off faster than starters and have generally worse stuff, but that doesn't mean that their one inning performance is necessarily worse than the 7th inning performance of a starter. It also means that, if you're able to throw every pitcher in your bullpin you have a very high likelihood of getting out of each inning before those pitchers performance drops to dangerous levels. edit: I mean if ballclubs could throw 9 pitchers per game they would do it. They can't not because starters are so much better than they want to throw them as much as possible, but because they would need to have 27 pitchers on their roster in order to meet rotational needs when they only have maybe half of that.
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01101010
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GO-odbye Tribe!
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HaemishM
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Paelos
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I'm so confused and just gut-punched by his death. He was a phenom that had a Cam Newton like smiling personality when he played. He legit loved his job more than half the highly paid guys taking the field. It fucking sucks.
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Wow. I haven't heard of him, but that is terrible. What is it with MLB pitchers and boat accidents?
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Ginaz
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Wow. I haven't heard of him, but that is terrible. What is it with MLB pitchers and boat accidents?
I remember the one involving Cleveland players in the early 1990's. Sad times, esp. with Fernandez being so young.
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Shannow
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Hit a jetty going way to fast in the dark. They were wearing vests according to reports and it wouldn't have mattered. He was killed on impact, not by drowning.
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Rasix
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Guy was awesome.
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Teleku
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Yeah.... just fuck. He was legit. "Only the good die young." Can go fuck itself, and fuck 2016.
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Ginaz
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Shannow
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I'm a Red Sox fan and I'd rather see a Tribe / Cubs WS. David Price is fucking awful.
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AL worked out exactly as I hoped it would (after the Mariners crapped their pants, that is). I am tempted to fly to NE and bathe in the tears of Red Sox fans.
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Sad to see Ortiz finally go though. I always liked that dude.
Also, I know the whole "torture baseball" thing with the Giants is a bit of a meme. But fuck, it's true. They are especially going out of their way this season to make everything gut wrenching.
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Chimpy
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I hope they reverse sweep the Cubs so all these assholes around here with their stupid W flags can get bent.
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Rasix
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I just want them to lose already. I don't need to go through another even year post season of the Bum Gardener just winning every game while the rest of the team stumbles through a series.
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HaemishM
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I hope they reverse sweep the Cubs so all these assholes around here with their stupid W flags can get bent.
You shut your dirty whore mouth.
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Teleku
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See, I'd really like to see the Cubs finally win. Honestly. But Giants are still somehow in it, so fuck off and die. But like, oh man. If we manage to bubblegum and duck tape our way to another World Series Win on an even year. That's like, perfect baseball mysticism mumbo jumbo right there. It would be epic.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Paelos
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LOL the Cubes finally pulled one out against the horseshoe up it's ass team. Good.
If they win it all Theo Epstein may never buy another meal in Chicago again for the rest of his life.
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HaemishM
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Buy a meal? Shit, if the Cubs win the series, that motherfucker will OWN that city or at least the north side.
What a game. I'm sitting there in the 8th inning getting all Cubs-pressed - you know, 'GODDAMNIT, here we go again" kind of thing. San Fran has been pushing the Cubs all night with nothing but single after single by these guys who are just no name scrubs other than Buster Posey and guy-who-looks-like-he-lives-under-a-goddamn-bridge Hunter Pence. Matt Moore is striking dudes out left and right and none of the Cubs' big name hitters are hitting diddly shit.
Then Bruce Bochy decides that changing his pitcher after every hit is a good idea and holy fuck. I realize he didn't have a closer (or a true power hitter) but goddamn. It was like ADHD manager here. There's matchups and then there's just jittery knee jerk pulling a pitcher. I don't know that any of those pitchers could have stopped the Cubs but that was an EPIC bullpen collapse that wasted what was otherwise a fantastic outing by a starting pitcher.
I just hope the Cubs big bats heat the fuck up because 5 of their first 6 hitters in the lineup are flailing. Also, can the Cardinals take Jason Heyward back? Jesus, motherfucker can't even put down a bunt worth a fuck, and it's only the fact that he can run fast that the Giants didn't turn 2 on his dumbass.
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Shannow
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AL worked out exactly as I hoped it would (after the Mariners crapped their pants, that is). I am tempted to fly to NE and bathe in the tears of Red Sox fans.
Honestly, I think people here are more sad about Ortiz retiring than being knocked out of the playoffs.
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I can see that. Ortiz seems like a genuinely good guy (even if he is probably juicing).
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
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01101010
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At the expense of screwing this post season up I'll just say...
Go Tribe!
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Shannow
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Bloody Cleveland getting greedy.
PLease please dont let the Dodgers into the WS. Cubbies vs Tribe would be awesome!
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Phildo
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Definitely bandwagoning Cleveland now. My lifelong Pittsburgher parents will be so disappointed in me.
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Ginaz
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I'm not mad Toronto lost. I was actually surprised they made the playoffs and got as far as they did. At least they beat Texas because fuck those guys.
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HaemishM
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Cubs finally found where they left their bats.
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Rasix
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So close to having the best World Series ever. Also two games away from complete heartbreak. So, there's that too.
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Chimpy
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Fuck, I won't be able to even look at Facebook for the next month. And I am going to have to deal with near riots regardless of the outcome.
The Taking Care of Business versus Major League World Series.
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HaemishM
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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