ESCO!!!!! ?

16 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Good for Cleveland. Hard not to root for them. I'd kill to have Francona manage the Twins. 

I've thought that for awhile but I've heard he thinking about withdrawing from baseball because of health reasons. IMO Francona is the main reason that CLE even made it to the play offs.

19 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Kluber was never a Guardian.

Do you think that when Kluber faces the Guardians, he doesn't think of them as the team he used to play for?

On 10/6/2022 at 11:17 PM, ashbury said:

Mods can delete this if the answer to that is no.

Guards over Rays, Jays over Ms, Cards over Phils, Mets over Pads

Hope your not Betting

On 10/6/2022 at 9:17 PM, ashbury said:

Mods can delete this if the answer to that is no.

Guards over Rays, Jays over Ms, Cards over Phils, Mets over Pads

Wow, you should come to Vegas

On 10/6/2022 at 9:17 PM, ashbury said:

Mods can delete this if the answer to that is no.

Guards over Rays, Jays over Ms, Cards over Phils, Mets over Pads

Mods, please hunt down the hacker who broke into my account and posted this drivel.

21 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Mods, please hunt down the hacker who broke into my account and posted this drivel.

1 out of 4, = tied for best prediction % on TD! Congrats Ashbury?

Gotta say, I'm a big fan of the new postseason format.

 

More teams in the postseason was inevitable, and they've done it well.

 

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

Gotta say, I'm a big fan of the new postseason format.

 

More teams in the postseason was inevitable, and they've done it well.

 

Agree. Wish I had the time to watch more of it

6 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Gotta say, I'm a big fan of the new postseason format.

 

More teams in the postseason was inevitable, and they've done it well.

 

I like it also, especially the 3 game series in the same ballpark, no sense dragging it out  two more days for travel. Road teams won three of four anyways.

3 hours ago, LVTwinsfan said:

I like it also, especially the 3 game series in the same ballpark, no sense dragging it out  two more days for travel. Road teams won three of four anyways.

All four games 2's are immediately elimination games, no matter what. Intense 1st round.

8 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Agree. Wish I had the time to watch more of it

Concur. Between naps, watching college FB, and playing bananagrams with Mrs Chief it was tough to squeeze 'em all in. 

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

Concur. Between naps, watching college FB, and playing bananagrams with Mrs Chief it was tough to squeeze 'em all in. 

You should join me in Fort Myers … good times!

I love the SPing, Bieber, McKensey, Musgrove, McClanahan, Glasnow & Castillo were all great!

5 hours ago, Squirrel said:

You should join me in Fort Myers … good times!

I'm ranked #3 in the world by the WBA (World Bananagram Association.)

Should be #2, but you know how it is with Russian judges.

21 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Gotta say, I'm a big fan of the new postseason format.

 

More teams in the postseason was inevitable, and they've done it well.

 

For sure. I hated the prior format. This feels more like post season baseball.

Phillies stay hot…..

Memorandum

Re: Putting on plays, making things happen 
 

Juan Soto and now Bryce Harper have laid down sacrifice bunts.

Both times, the runner came around to score. 
 

 

cc: Rocco Baldelli

32 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Memorandum

Re: Putting on plays, making things happen 
 

Juan Soto and now Bryce Harper have laid down sacrifice bunts.

Both times, the runner came around to score. 
 

 

cc: Rocco Baldelli

I haven't checked since the WC series ended, but I know at one point the percent of runs scored in those series via the homerun was like 75%. I mean the team people like to point to as "putting on plays, making things happen" kings around here are the Guardians who scored 100% of their runs via the HR to advance. I don't know that expecting your offense to do what the Phils are doing today with 2 outs is really a sound strategy.

At the end of the day you just need dudes to get outs when you're in the field and get hits when you're at the plate. The Twins simply didn't play baseball well this year. We need aces! How'd that work out for Fried today? Or the Mets with Scherzer, deGrom, and Bassitt in a 3 game series? There's so many "clearly if the Twins just did this they'd win cuz this is how you win" messages thrown around when the reality is you just need good baseball players to play good baseball. The Twins haven't done it in the postseason for 2 decades. Haven't done it much in the regular season for 2 years.

42 minutes ago, chpettit19 said:

I haven't checked since the WC series ended, but I know at one point the percent of runs scored in those series via the homerun was like 75%. I mean the team people like to point to as "putting on plays, making things happen" kings around here are the Guardians who scored 100% of their runs via the HR to advance. I don't know that expecting your offense to do what the Phils are doing today with 2 outs is really a sound strategy.

At the end of the day you just need dudes to get outs when you're in the field and get hits when you're at the plate. The Twins simply didn't play baseball well this year. We need aces! How'd that work out for Fried today? Or the Mets with Scherzer, deGrom, and Bassitt in a 3 game series? There's so many "clearly if the Twins just did this they'd win cuz this is how you win" messages thrown around when the reality is you just need good baseball players to play good baseball. The Twins haven't done it in the postseason for 2 decades. Haven't done it much in the regular season for 2 years.

The spirit of my post was more fun than seriousness. Juan Soto and Bryce Harper have laid down sacrifice bunts this postseason. That’s interesting, no!? There is a lesson for the Twins in there somewhere, but why bother anymore. No, I do not expect the best hitters on the Twins to lay down sac bunts every time a runner reached first base. 

Cleveland and Tampa Bay played two low scoring games. Good for Cleveland. 

You mentioned Scherzer and deGrom. Why not mention Wheeler and Darvish? Two pitchers the Twins could have had in free agency. See, we could play this tit for tat game forever, and probably will, but really I was just making a comment that even two of the biggest power hitters in the game are bunting when the situation calls for it. Would Correa have laid down a bunt?   

Ist game of series. Wow, if you're the Braves or Astros, so much for having an "Ace" on the mound, eh?

Watching Sea @ Hou through the family room window from the deck. At first we thought Alvarez swung and missed. When my co-watcher realized it was a walk-off dinger instead there were several expletives uttered.

And that is why we run hard out of the box boys and girls....

Donaldson 

9 hours ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Memorandum

Re: Putting on plays, making things happen 
 

Juan Soto and now Bryce Harper have laid down sacrifice bunts.

Both times, the runner came around to score. 
 

 

cc: Rocco Baldelli

Really stupid. Early innings with two of the best hitters in the game. Really stupid. 

I think I hate the Dodgers more than the Yankees. 

Seattle's the only AL team in this field that I'm at all excited to see win.

The one appealing thing about seeing Houston advance is that it could set up a rematch of the 2017 World Series against the Dodgers, or alternatively if SD wins their series, a rematch against Darvish who took some of the worst of Houston's cheating-aided offense.

On 10/12/2022 at 12:56 AM, USAFChief said:

I think I hate the Dodgers more than the Yankees. 

That’s been proven geometrically impossible, as much as the pieces appear to fit.

Also upsetting: appreciation for Dusty Baker must intersect with loathing for the Astros.

Math sucks.

On 10/12/2022 at 12:56 AM, USAFChief said:

I think I hate the Dodgers more than the Yankees. 

I don't. But I don't hate them less either.