10-27-2015, 08:22 PM | #4241 |
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One pitch into the game and Collins is looking like an idiot for not DH'ing Conforto and playing Lagares in CF. How neither Conforto nor Cespedes caught that is a joke.
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10-27-2015, 08:57 PM | #4242 |
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Miami Marlins fan is back again behind home plate for the second World Series in a row. Bright orange jacket and all.
Just seems so out of place. |
10-27-2015, 09:36 PM | #4243 |
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Daniel Murphy with a sweet hit to get things started for the Mets offence. On fire. Not trying to swing for the fences either, and then makes a great play running the bases. Great game so far, minus Cespedes little oops to start things off, defences are tight, and pitching is great. AND GRANDERSON JACKS ONE WOOOOOOO
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10-27-2015, 09:42 PM | #4244 |
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Harvey settling in too, looks great.
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10-27-2015, 09:47 PM | #4245 |
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Just waiting for his moment to do a run-in attack. Cubs failed with the Back to the Future stuff but Miami can still salvage something out of it by association.
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10-27-2015, 10:07 PM | #4246 |
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I was bummed the Jays didn't advance but I'm glad I won't have to deal with any Gorgeous Dale Newstead posts for approximately ~300 days
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10-27-2015, 10:08 PM | #4247 |
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oh wait nvm
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10-27-2015, 10:09 PM | #4248 |
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10-27-2015, 10:10 PM | #4249 |
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lol I don't understand, have I broken some cardinal rule of baseball? Would love to know why I'm the sultan of uncool in the baseball forum
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10-27-2015, 10:13 PM | #4250 |
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Can't make any excuses for Harvey there. Needed a shutdown inning, didn't do it.
And now the Royals are about to jump into their bullpen. This doesn't bode well. |
10-27-2015, 10:52 PM | #4251 |
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Mets will be putting one up in the 8th, this current inning.
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10-27-2015, 10:56 PM | #4252 |
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Called it
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10-27-2015, 10:58 PM | #4253 |
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Lagares had a pretty sweet at bat
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10-27-2015, 11:27 PM | #4254 |
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how them knuckles Vito?
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10-27-2015, 11:32 PM | #4255 |
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That was a dagger in the heart of a team if I've ever seen one. The only trustworthy guy in the bullpen blows it.
I really can't see how the Mets escape this with a win. Hope deGrom is on his A-game tomorrow. |
10-27-2015, 11:34 PM | #4256 |
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haha, I wouldn't say "blows" it. One run games are notoriously fucking hard to save. Everybody's number is up eventually, the key is he didn't implode and we're onto extras.
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10-27-2015, 11:44 PM | #4257 |
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He did blow it, though. I can't be mad at him because he's been money all season and postseason but he had the chance to lock down the biggest game of his life and he surrendered a moonshot. Sucks.
And this Mets bullpen is not gonna survive a battle of the bullpen with the Royals. They just won't. |
10-27-2015, 11:49 PM | #4258 |
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Jonathan Niese disagrees with you
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10-27-2015, 11:58 PM | #4259 |
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lol why the fuck did they bother activating noted clutch pinch hitter Juan Uribe on the roster when they are just having Cuddyer take hapless swings.
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10-28-2015, 07:14 AM | #4260 |
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Damn. Hard game 1 loss. Granderson is coming through huge next game to carry the Mets.
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10-28-2015, 07:23 AM | #4261 |
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What a clusterfuck of emotions last night. The Hosmer error invoked memories of Buckner only for Alex Gordon to be like "nope". Truthfully I knew the game was lost after that, and I said as much when it happened.
Familia definitely gets a share of the blame. Not as much as the offense for continually failing to capitalize or Harvey for letting up those 2 runs in the 6th when he needed to clamp down, but he did still blow the save in the biggest game of his life. It happens. Just really unfortunate timing. Not winning that ballgame after that error is just a really bad omen I think. That may well be the only error the Royals commit all series, and they couldn't turn it into a win. Sucks. But at the end of the day I never saw the Mets taking both games in KC. This team has come out guns blazing in the face of adversity all year. Gotta win tonight because the series is most certainly over if you let the Royals take a 2-0 lead. They're too good. |
10-28-2015, 07:00 PM | #4262 |
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Former Red Sox GM Ben Cherrington taking at least a year off from baseball after declining management jobs from both the Yankees and Phillies recently. Got hired at Colombia University as a teacher for their sports management program.
Would likely have become the assistant GM with the Yankees to replace the guy who recently left and likely as the possible new GM for the Phillies. |
10-28-2015, 07:16 PM | #4263 |
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Cherrington's insight would have been a nice refresher for the Yankees.
Teaching.......interesting. |
10-29-2015, 11:43 AM | #4264 |
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Anthopoulos rejected the Jays' contract extension. Mildly surprising but kind of what a lot of people expected would eventually happen when they got a new president. He should easily get a job elsewhere.
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10-29-2015, 11:48 AM | #4265 |
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10-29-2015, 12:35 PM | #4266 | |
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Basically it's just a ridiculously huge demotion, especially since 1B coaches really have fuck all to do. |
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10-29-2015, 12:43 PM | #4267 |
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They hand out butt pats and keep the guys' batting gloves safe.
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10-29-2015, 01:09 PM | #4268 |
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Fucking hate everything
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10-29-2015, 01:25 PM | #4269 | |
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what I'm actually reading about the move though is that he may be trying to use it to transition into more of a manager role, and could feel that "on-field experience" may help him in that regard, which I guess kind of makes sense? |
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10-29-2015, 02:39 PM | #4270 |
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Might be. Just seems that first base coach duties are relatively light, enough so that I'm not sure how much experience there would be to glean from it. He'll probably be expected to be an infield coach or something in addition to 1B coach, as there's not too much he'd need to do in-game.
Feel like if you want to become a manager, you're best off trying to land a minor league gig where you can properly run a team and then work your way up from there. But who knows. I hope it works out for him somehow because it'd make for a nice story. |
10-29-2015, 02:40 PM | #4271 |
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Pretty sure eventually all 30 big league manergial jobs will be taken by former catchers anyway.
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10-29-2015, 03:07 PM | #4272 |
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Ausmus has been working out well so far!
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10-29-2015, 03:43 PM | #4273 |
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Some management news:
* Marlins hired Don Mattingly as their new manager. * Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos rejected a contract extension and has left the team. * Padres hired former D'Backs 3B coach Andy Green as their new manager. |
10-29-2015, 04:59 PM | #4274 |
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Interested to see what Mark Shapiro does with the team.
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10-29-2015, 05:23 PM | #4275 |
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Whoa. Double A left the Blue Jays?!
I don't think all the moves at the trade deadline warranted him to fall on his sword. Somebody will snatch him up. |
10-29-2015, 06:44 PM | #4276 |
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Well I dunno, they offered to extend him with a handsome deal, so it's obviously about his motivations vs the team not wanting him. He's clearly not thrilled about suddenly having someone to answer to vs Paul Beeston who's a marketing guy and not a baseball guy.
I'm not overly concerned. One of the Jays analysts made the point that Mark Shapiro hasn't exactly come to Toronto looking to lose. |
10-29-2015, 11:53 PM | #4277 |
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Biggest problem moving forward with Shapiro is if he tries to be the new sheriff in town and takes a resentful attitude towards the Toronto faithful weary of this controversial beginning to his tenure. The "I know better than you attitude" really only holds weight if you have actual success (within the organization) to draw upon. The community and players have a fondness for AA and aren't going to pleased with this. He needs to be smart and respect what he's coming into, and not be a giant (yet typical to these kinds of roles) dickwad about it, or else the attendance and fanbase as well as players willing to come play in Toronto will dwindle fast. This is a fickle city with baseball, they demand results or they don't go to ball games.
The most concerning thing is if he starts trying to work from a shoelace budget perspective and doesn't make winning moves, but instead rebuild or status quo moves. The writing will be on the wall at that point that this guy in this situation is completely up his own ass and he simply won't last. |
10-29-2015, 11:54 PM | #4278 |
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shoestring budget* SHOELACES ARE EXPENSIVE YO
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10-30-2015, 05:17 PM | #4279 |
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After the Marlins hire Donnie Baseball as manager, they turn around and fire GM/Manager Dan Jennings.
Mattingly mad a big mistake taking the Miami job. Loria is a basketcase. And this move proves it. |
10-31-2015, 10:04 PM | #4280 |
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They hired Don Kelly?!
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