Baseball: The Thread

[Bob]

Okay, the Cardinal game made my heart the size of a basketball.

Wow....

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I'm glad the nats are gone.

Cards fans need to make sure they have strong hearts, how many times can they keep going to their last season ending strike and survive?

[JimJ]

Well it was a great season for the O's.  Looking forward to next year!

Yeah, this season did the impossible and got me interested in baseball.  Thinking about going up to Baltimore next season to see a few games.

[Bob]

Made the mistake of watching espn this morning to see if Yankees or Detroit won game in extra innings.    I see that Detroit won on my phone, but espn is showing several minutes of Yankees tying game in 9th and blubbering how this comeback will be remembered forever.   Oh, then they show a second of one of detroits runs in the 12th (only show a bit of one run) and nothing of Detroit getting the save.

And of course, they then have SEVERAL bits about Jeter getting hurt.  Then some baseball guy said that "this injury will super impact and override all baseball teams".   REALLY?

Jesus espn, get over your Yankees and dodgers all time love and crap reporting.   

[k1]

I fell asleep in the 8th. All those extra innings O's games took a toll on me.

[SJP]

Well, I was at what was supposed to be a game today, but ended up not happening.  First time I've ever seen a game called on the chance that there would be rain as opposed to rain actually stopping play.  They could've played in it.  I certainly could have sat in it...especially with the rain not starting until two hours after scheduled game time.  Then, there was the drunken loser who threatened to smash our car if we didn't let him get into the line in front of us in the parking garage... (SPOILERED FOR LANGUAGE)

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And by threaten, I mean he actually yelled things like, "DON'T FUCKING TRY ME!  YOU'D BETTER BACK THE FUCK UP!" and came less than an inch of scraping the paint off of our car.  We'd already been stuck in the parking garage for half an hour, it's my Dad's birthday, and this jerk has to do things like that.  I only live about 20 miles from Comerica Park, and it took three hours from the parking garage to get home.  Not the most fun of nights.  Now that I've had a chance to calm down a bit, I realize this idiot was lucky we were nice, if grudgingly and under duress, to let him in...this is downtown Detroit, after all, and there had to be several people there that would've had no moral qualms about punching his lights out or worse for yelling at a complete stranger like that.

Anyway, game's rescheduled for tomorrow afternoon, and I'm going to try and make it, since I'll be downtown for Evil Dead the Musical later on that night and it's playing right across the street.

Made the mistake of watching espn this morning to see if Yankees or Detroit won game in extra innings.    I see that Detroit won on my phone, but espn is showing several minutes of Yankees tying game in 9th and blubbering how this comeback will be remembered forever.   Oh, then they show a second of one of detroits runs in the 12th (only show a bit of one run) and nothing of Detroit getting the save.

And of course, they then have SEVERAL bits about Jeter getting hurt.  Then some baseball guy said that "this injury will super impact and override all baseball teams".   REALLY?

Jesus espn, get over your Yankees and dodgers all time love and crap reporting.   

We've gotten used to this sort of coverage.  We just assume no matter what team we're playing, Joe Buck is automatically going to start rooting for the other side without coming out and saying it.  But if Joe Girardi's going to get all upset about a blown call and begin wanting Instant Replay instituted immediately in a game where no Yankee scored a run, Detroit's got eight words for him:

Armando Galarraga.  Perfect Game.  We got over it.

[Bob]

I'm rooting for the Tigers and sooooooo tired of ESPN "Yankee Love" reporting.  If at all possible, go to the game!

My sister and brother in law are going to Cardinal game today.   Since they went to WS game 6 last year, I approve them going.

[SJP]

And...huzzah!  Much more pleasant evening this time around, for a multitude of reasons.  I did miss the ninth inning, because I had to go across the street to catch Evil Dead: The Musical (I was concerned I was going to have to miss one or the other though I bought tickets a week ago for Evil Dead), but I caught all the good stuff.  Seeing at least one playoff game in my life was worth it, I think.

[Bob]

Good job for the Tigers chomping on the Yankees.

[k1]

Sox traded Mike Aviles to Toronto for John Farrell. 

It's a step in the right direction, but pretty much any of the candidates this time around were a step in the right direction.  I'm thinking Ausmus goes for the job with the Jays now that he didn't get the one in Boston.

[k1]

Bobby V is the gift that keeps on giving..

http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/rob-bradford/2012/10/24/bobby-valentine-might-want-check-his-facts

He made TONS of comments that went against what actually happened in his Costas interview.  In some cases HE was the one who originally spilled stories to the media only to then turn around and claim he has no idea where the media was getting this misinformation from.

He's gone and I still can't stand him.

[NRRork]

Goddamn it, Tigers, you're doing it wrong!

[k1]

Seriously un-Verlanderish.

[SJP]

Well, hey, Verlander does have his bad days...Sabathia had a VERY bad day when he went against us.

Nice thing is, Verlander usually doesn't have the same screw-ups in a pitching cycle, if we can get back to him in the rotation (EDIT: Wow, I really fumbled writing this sentence the other night.  Me speak English good).  But even in Game 2, our pitching was great, but our hitting looked like mid-season stuff when we were struggling.

About halfway through game 3 now, and they've at least gotten on base a number of times.  Sanchez allowed two, but that's still excellent pitching on his end all things considered.  Just need to close the deal...

EDIT: Annnnd no deal closing tonight.  Now it's just up to the statistically unlikely (but potentially hilarious) 4 game comeback.

[k1]

Never say never. I seem to remember about 8 years ago something happened that humiliated a certain Yankees franchise.