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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #75 on: October 14, 2016, 11:01:29 PM »
Cleveland Indians 2016 Postseason Game Plan:

1. Get the lead

2. Give the ball to Andrew Miller
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« Reply #76 on: October 14, 2016, 11:04:48 PM »
3. Lose to the Jays.


Sounds like a perfect 3 step plan to me!
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #77 on: October 15, 2016, 07:01:43 PM »
Andrew Miller simply isn't fair. 10 strikeouts in 3 and 2/3 innings in this series. The Blue Jays lineup has some great hitters, but you wouldn't know it from how this series has gone so far.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #78 on: October 16, 2016, 12:20:39 AM »
Is there any better way to end a game than a grand slam?


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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #79 on: October 16, 2016, 07:51:58 AM »
I was always partial to a strikeout off a cut fastball, but I'm biased.

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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #80 on: October 16, 2016, 11:54:59 AM »
Is there any better way to end a game than a grand slam?

The Indians won a game this year (against the Blue Jays, funnily enough) on a walk-off inside the park home run, which I was a big fan of. My current forum avatar is Tyler Naquin's reaction after doing that.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #81 on: October 17, 2016, 11:41:15 PM »
Tonight's a night I'm going to be telling my grandkids about. Trevor Bauer has to leave the game after only 2/3 of an inning, but the bullpen carries the team through the rest of the game, putting the Indians one win away from the World Series.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #82 on: October 18, 2016, 12:13:51 AM »
Do you even have kids? :D
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« Reply #83 on: October 18, 2016, 12:16:20 AM »
No, and that's kind of the point. This game will be remembered far into the future.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #84 on: October 18, 2016, 12:18:32 AM »
OBJECTION!
you still lied about having kids >:(









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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #85 on: October 18, 2016, 02:02:22 AM »
The Jays are going out in the way that is usually reserved for my Canucks - the team technically has a good season but gets eliminated in the playoffs in a manner where they seemingly double-down on their most frustrating habits that annoyed you all season.  It ends up making the whole season feel like some con where they tricked you into getting excited but were secretly terrible.  In this case the Jays bats have all gone cold at the same time, like they did for the first six weeks or so of the season and all of September and during little pockets of misery throughout.

Obviously your team doesn't win the championship every year but there are years you go out with a hard fought loss where either team could have done it.  You get feedback that your team is good, but only one team is going to win and it wasn't yours this time.  I'm fine with that.  But getting swept while playing the way they are?  That sort of thing actually makes me angry.  I feel ripped off.  It's okay to lose, but you don't you DARE play like **** in doing so.

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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #86 on: October 18, 2016, 02:11:14 AM »
Considering this same thing happened to the Red Sox in the previous series, I'm not sure this is the Jays' bats going cold as much as it is the Indians' pitching being just that good.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #87 on: October 18, 2016, 07:22:22 AM »
As long as it's not a sweep, I'll be satisfied at this point. Given it's Sanchez against Kluber on short rest, I'm hopeful this will last to Wednesday.
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« Reply #88 on: October 18, 2016, 07:59:29 PM »
And the good Sanchize comes through to prevent the sweep.
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« Reply #89 on: October 18, 2016, 08:04:38 PM »
And tomorrow we send out a guy with 11 major league innings under his belt.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #90 on: October 19, 2016, 07:17:23 PM »
The Cleveland Indians, after losing their #2, #3, and #4 starting pitchers, not to mention playing without their all-star left fielder nearly the entire season, are in the World Series. My condolences to Shaymin and all the other non-asshole Blue Jays fans.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #91 on: October 19, 2016, 07:19:45 PM »
I don't know where you keep finding these pitchers, but congrats and best of luck in the World Series.

Check Andrew Miller's urine plz
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« Reply #92 on: October 19, 2016, 07:22:52 PM »
Good scouting and the best damn pitching coach in all of baseball. Mickey Calloway's so good at his job he managed to get Ubaldo Jiminez a big money deal.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #93 on: October 21, 2016, 02:03:12 AM »
Cubs offense is lighting it up! One win away from the World Series to decimate the Indians! Let's hope Steve Bartman is kept away from Wrigley Field for this one. Poor old Bartman. Just some poor schmuck who went to the game and had no idea it would change his life forever.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #94 on: October 21, 2016, 03:28:24 AM »
Guy's name is now Dale Evans. Works as a manager of a Shop 'n Save in Portland, OR. Was assigned the role years ago for the Witness Protection Program. Doesn't really work well since we know his alias and place of work.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #95 on: October 21, 2016, 06:47:38 PM »
I guess even the Witness Protection Program doesn't want to protect him.
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #96 on: October 22, 2016, 10:58:48 PM »
It's gonna happen this year! Bank on it!

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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #97 on: October 22, 2016, 11:44:35 PM »
Congrats to Cubs fans from a White Sox fan. I will be less forthcoming with goodwill in four years when the Cubs have done this five times in a row and the White Sox are still wandering aimlessly in the wilderness.
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« Reply #98 on: October 22, 2016, 11:52:28 PM »
Bring 'em on!
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Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: insanolord vs. Shaymin
« Reply #99 on: October 23, 2016, 02:23:00 AM »
And now the series is set where a team that hasn't won since 1948 will be seen as feelgood-story-ruining villains if they win.  If Cleveland wins the 2016 team might end up known as "the guys that ruined it for the Cubs".  Oh and lets all thank the Cavs for ruining the "Cleveland never wins" narrative mere months before this World Series.  Cleveland holding both the NBA and MLB titles simultaneously would turn the city from sympathetic to obnoxious. ;)

Though I found that the TV announcers were being a little too enthusiastic about the Cubs win tonight.  They haven't really won anything.  Making it to the World Series is not what any fan truly cares about.  Joe Buck said something like "everyone will remember where they were on October 22 2016" which is ridiculous.  An anchor on Sportsnet said "the curse is over".  What?  The curse is over if they win the World Series.  While 71 years since a World Series appearance has a certain pathetic narrative to it, it's the 108 years that really matters.  ****, the NFL, NHL and NBA didn't even exist in 1908.  The oldest person alive today was only 8 years old at the time.  If the Cubs lose that will just ADD to the "curse" and commentators prematurely acting like they won the whole thing will be seen as tempting fate.