Baseball 2011

RalphSnart · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:00 am

Stinkfist.

This is a real game 6 right here.

Mr Red · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:02 am

Goddamn it. Bottom of the Cards lineup coming. I really doubt they can pull two 2 run comebacks out of their hat, consecutively.

Bongzilla · **Joined:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:29 pm **Posts:** 1722

I don't have a dog in this fight but these last couple of innings have been great..

heavythisaxe · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:18 am **Posts:** 1930

Berkman v. Feldman for all the marbles...and Berkman prevails...

Mr Red · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:24 am

Off the hook. What an insane game.

heavythisaxe · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:18 am **Posts:** 1930

As awesome as the back and forth is, the Cards are leaving a shit ton of runners on base...mixed emotions...the glory of the comeback, the agony of the inability to seal the deal...

Mr Red · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:27 am

What a steal Berkman was for St. Louis. He's having a hell of a game. I thought my eyes were fucking up when I checked and he'd scored four run here, on top of his hitting and RBIs.

Mr Red · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:30 am

It definitely feels like Texas will ultimately win a war of attrition. Washington has really only pulled Young from the starting lineup. All the other heavy hitters are still in there.

Mr Red · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:41 am

I'm so glad to be wrong so many times tonight! Totally awesome! Bring on Game 7!

Bongzilla · **Joined:** Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:29 pm **Posts:** 1722

Wow! That was awesome...

RalphSnart · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:45 am

This is like that Cubs NLCS. You know Texas will lose Game 7. You know they will. Because they were this close. It's scripture.

Freese is the fucking man...clutch doesn't even begin to cover what he's done, at least three times in the playoffs.

heavythisaxe · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:18 am **Posts:** 1930

Mr Red wrote:

I'm so glad to be wrong so many times tonight! Totally awesome! Bring on Game 7!

^ This...time to get even more shit faced celebrating the Cards win...I'd sell a kidney for a ticket to tomorrow night's game...Freese seriously wrecked shit up...

whoshotthefrog · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:17 pm **Posts:** 2371

Adam · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:51 am

That was a crazy game, glad I got home in time to watch the last few innings. The more of this series I watch though the more I find myself rooting against LA Russa and Pujols.

Adam · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:00 pm

Quote:

Troy Renck of the Denver Post reports that the Rockies "will make another aggressive run" at the Astros' Wandy Rodriguez over the offseason.
It's not surprising, as the Rockies claimed Rodriguez on waivers in August but were unable to work out a deal for the left-hander. Renck says that the Rox were willing in August to take on the remainder of Wandy's contract (he'll make $36 million over the next three years if his 2014 option is picked up) but balked at the Astros' asking price of Drew Pomeranz and Wilin Rosario. Assuming Colorado is still willing to absorb the rest of Rodriguez's contract, the Astros seem likely to lower their demands over the winter.

That's a ridiculous asking price, not even taking into account financials.

I like Wandy Rodriguez, would be happy to see him land in Colorado but if the Rockies give up their prized possession in the Ubaldo trade for him I will not be happy.

Adam · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:59 pm

Matt Holliday now off the WS roster. With the way Allen Craig is playing that the Cardinals probably wont notice his absence (might even be better off) but given Holliday was the one piece to that team I could root for his absence will be felt by me.

whoshotthefrog · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:17 pm **Posts:** 2371

Adam wrote:

Matt Holliday now off the WS roster. With the way Allen Craig is playing that the Cardinals probably wont notice his absence (might even be better off) but given Holliday was the one piece to that team I could root for his absence will be felt by me.

All this does is allow LaRussa to make an extra bench move which he probably won't need to make, but as we all saw in Game 5 sometimes over analyzing the matchups can turn out to be costly.

Hoodoo Operator · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:13 pm **Posts:** 382

RalphSnart wrote:

This is like that Cubs NLCS. You know Texas will lose Game 7. You know they will. Because they were this close. It's scripture.

Giants/Angels in 2002... Giants had it in game 6 when Baker handed Ortiz the "game ball." After they blew that one, even SF fans knew that game 7 belonged to Anaheim.

Oscar Gamble · **Joined:** Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:33 pm **Posts:** 77

Best World Series in a long, long time.

Mr Red · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:05 am

Hoodoo Operator wrote:

RalphSnart wrote:

This is like that Cubs NLCS. You know Texas will lose Game 7. You know they will. Because they were this close. It's scripture.

Giants/Angels in 2002... Giants had it in game 6 when Baker handed Ortiz the "game ball." After they blew that one, even SF fans knew that game 7 belonged to Anaheim.

True, true. This one only really felt like a contest for that first half inning when Texas jumped up 2-0 to start.

In all a very satisfying World Series and really MLB season. I had a hell of a lot of fun watching it this summer. Baseball is the greatest game invented by man.

Hot stove time!!!

Mr Red · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:41 am

I do kind of feel bad for Ron Washington. But really, the guy is just a glorified bench coach. He was pretty thoroughly outmanaged in this series, even with all of LaRussa's missteps. That's two years in a row the guy has gone into the World Series with easily the better team and walked away with no titles to show for. This team is built to be top-knotch competitive for awhile, so I don't think Nolan Ryan is going to have any choice but to fire Washington and pick up someone with big game experience like Francona to manage.

Bullio · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:25 pm **Posts:** 724

For a World Series I couldn't have cared less about, I got way more entertainment than I was expecting. Game 7 was pretty anticlimactic, though.

Adam · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:02 am

Bullio wrote:

For a World Series I couldn't have cared less about, I got way more entertainment than I was expecting. Game 7 was pretty anticlimactic, though.

+1.

Ended up finding myself disappointed that St. Louis ended up winning. Once Holliday was removed the roster I had more interest in seeing the Rangers win their first WS than anything else. Oh well.

The only thing I thought Washington did that was really wrong was not start his best pitcher last night. I am sure his players (at least at the time) appreciated his loyalty to his guys but it always seemed like a bad decision. Napoli batting so low in the lineup was wacky too but I don't think the reason they lost.

But lets bring on the hot stove indeed.

Demon Lung · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:13 pm

after what derek holland did how was he not the starter last night. the rangers deserved to lose. its like someone said yesterday. baseball is a weird sport. like when buckner let the ball roll through his legs i game 6 in 85. when shit like that happens in baseball. the team it happens to loses

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