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The Giants had it in 2010, but the Orioles have it in 2012: TORTURE!!
1103. Sebastian
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:44 PM (#4265224)
Sit down, Raul.
1104. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:44 PM (#4265225)
Extras.
CHECKLIST:
---EVERGREEN---
Conradian Play [X ]
Web Gem [X X X X]
Baserunning blunder [ ]
Play at the plate [ ]
Replay review [ ]
Ump blows call [ ] (Blown call eliminates team [ ])
Dramatic late-inning homer [X ] (WERTH)
Double Play ends an inning [ X]
1-2-3-4-5-6 inning [ X]
Strike out of side [X ]
Stolen base [ X]
Caught stealing [X ]
Gamesmanship []
Shapeshifting Strike-zone [X ]
THIS TRAIN! [X]
"They're down to their last X...." [ ]
Pitcher gets a hit [ ]
Non-pitcher bunts [ X] (AND IT WORKED)
Regular Season pitcher warms up [X ] (Playoff starting pitcher warms up in pen [X ])
Game needs to start on TNT (with exception of A's vs. Tigers) [ X]
---SF at CIN specific---
Dusty Baker with Giants [ X]
WILD BRIAN WILSON APPEARS [ X]
Cain perfecto flashback [ ]
Buster Posey does something awesome [X X ] (GRAND SLAM and THE THROWOUT PORTION OF A STRIKEOUT/THROWOUT DP)
Joey Votto gets back to normal, does something awesome []
Big Red Machine referenced [ X]
Willie Mays referenced [ ]
---STL at DC specific---
Strasburg in the Dugout [X ]
Crowd chants "We Want Strasburg" [ ]
Bryce Harper does something awesome [ ] (Harper strikes out instead [ ])
Pujols mentioned [ ]
FREESE! [ ]
Teddy [X ]
Flashback to game 6 of 2011 WS [ ]
Davey Johnson managerial career recap [ ]
Matheny's playing career [ ]
---BAL at NYY specific---
Raul Effing Ibanez comes to the plate [X ]
Orioles hold one-run lead at any point of the game [X]
Yankees get run in half-inning immediately after Orioles score [ ]
Thome career retrospective [ ]
Buck Showalter as Yankee manager [ ]
Joe Saunders' Wild Card performance flashback [ ]
Ichiro does something awesome [ ]
Tyler Teagarden shows up []
A-Rod strikes out, assuming he even plays now that Raul Ibanez is Mr. Effing October [X ]
---DET at OAK---
Bernie Lean explained [ ]
Verlander no-nos flashback []
Prince Fielder robbed of extra-bases [ ]
Moneyball mentioned [ ] (Mention of Brad Pitt [ ])
Pat Neshek's son mentioned [ ]
Trout mentioned in any way (fish or player) [ ]
Miguel Cabrera does something awesome [ ]
Verlander hits 98+ MPH after 80 pitches [ ]
Mention of the tarps [ ]
1105. Lassus
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:44 PM (#4265226)
Wait what happened? I don't understand that sequence from Raul.
1110. NJ in DC
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:45 PM (#4265234)
NunEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE in at short. This should be good.
1111. Austin
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:46 PM (#4265235)
1995 Yankees-Mariners
Yeah, that's certainly the best counterargument. I'm too young to remember the series personally, so all I really know about it is The Double. What were the expectations and the emotions coming into the series? What were the first four games like?
EDIT: And I'm only talking about the DSes. Of course there have been much better LCS and WS.
Yeah, that's certainly the best counterargument. I'm too young to remember the series personally, so all I really know about it is The Double. What were the expectations and the emotions coming into the series? What were the first four games like?
Game Two was the greatest baseball game I have ever seen.
For someone who professes not to care about baseball, Amazing GF is amazingly profane-rant-y about the lack of televised A's playoff game so far tonight.
EDIT: "######### this is stupid. Somebody hit a ####### home run and end this ####### Yankees game, ########."
Yeah, that's certainly the best counterargument. I'm too young to remember the series personally, so all I really know about it is The Double. What were the expectations and the emotions coming into the series? What were the first four games like?
If this is The Game That Saved Baseball In Seattle, MLB Network runs a special answering all those questions and more. Watch for it this off-season.
That 1995 series was the end of an unbelievable Mariners season, Came from 13 back to tie the Angels on the last day, then The Big Unit one the playoff game.
Fun fact - they could have IBB'ed Edgar (he of The Double) and pitched to a raw rookie named Alex Rodriguez.
The game that made me cry. Good quality. Go to the 8th minute to see the relevant dramatics, replete with Dave Niehaus (RIP) on the mic.
1131. Austin
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:53 PM (#4265270)
Here is Game 2. Which is utterly awesome even if you don't account for the fact that it's the auspicious postseason debut of one Mariano Rivera.
Wow. That's some game. I particularly like that the winning run was thrown out at the plate immediately after the tying run scored in the 12th.
boteman - Thanks for the heads-up. I'll keep an eye out for it.
1132. Baldrick
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:54 PM (#4265271)
Incredibly exciting buildup to the playoffs from the Mariners. An unbelievable run that brought them from 13ish games out to winning the division in a one-game playoff. Griffey went out for a couple months in the middle of the year, and then the team exploded when he came back. Johnson won the Cy Young award with an absolutely ridiculous season. It was the Mariners' first playoff appearance ever. It was the precise moment when the Mariners went from laughingstock to genuine adoration in the Northwest.
And for the Yankees it was the first time the team had been good in...a long time. Tensions were high, to say the least.
During game 1, some Yankees fans threw batteries onto the field, at Mariners players, etc. From my perspective as a kid in the Northwest, that's the exact moment when the Yankees went from 'I don't like them' to cartoon villains.
In retrospect I get that it was an incredibly small minority of the fans, and that the fans of many teams can behave inappropriately. But I assure you that the tension and anger of Mariners fans was very real and very strong due to that incident.
Game 2 went like 15 innings and somewhere around 14 hours.
When Johnson came out in relief just two days after winning game 3, I knew deep down that it was going to happen. And then The Double.
1133. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:54 PM (#4265272)
Well, here comes the end. I'm prepared for it with heavy heart and baby walrus.
(Also, again, if Teixeira hits the walk-off, any family he still has in Maryland is going to need to be put into protective custody.)
1134. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:56 PM (#4265281)
If Jeter hits the walk-off, he'll just be hated even more. If Ichiro hits the homer, he'll receive boos but won't be at Jeter levels...
1135. fra paolo
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:57 PM (#4265282)
Leyland is really pushing the small-ball buttons tonight.
For someone who professes not to care about baseball, Amazing GF is amazingly profane-rant-y about the lack of televised A's playoff game so far tonight.
A's/Tigers is on TNT (or tbs, whichever one it is). Is that not an option for you?
Game 4 and Game 1 were also pretty good for being the third- and fourth-best games in the series. But even without them, the two top-25 all-time playoff games would probably put this at least in the top spot among LDSs.
Its best competition is probably this one (sorry, A's fans).
1143. Rennie's Tenet
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 09:59 PM (#4265292)
Very interesting that I took a couple years away from baseball because they cancelled the World Series, and now I find out I missed the greatest game ever.
A's/Tigers is on TNT (or tbs, whichever one it is). Is that not an option for you?
Apparently not. It's Amazing GF's TV, so we got what we got.
She got sick of waiting for somebody to do something in the Yanks/O's game, so she suggested turning that off and just listening to the radio broadcast.
Better than listening to Buck ####### Martinez, any-damn-way.
1167. Weekly Journalist_
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 10:07 PM (#4265322)
Gb wanted a walrus...hes getting a manatee
1168. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 10:07 PM (#4265323)
ALSO! The O's could use a real 1B, though they may not realize it.
1173. Weekly Journalist_
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM (#4265329)
Yay jobber!
1174. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM (#4265330)
Well, here comes the walkoff. Who's the most likely ot do it? It'll be A-Rod, isn't it? Because that'd just be the perfect way to twist the knife in us.
1175. Lassus
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM (#4265333)
I guess I said this last time, but every time I see Joba Chamberlain I'm surprised.
Random Q: What happened to the Russell Martin who hit 293 / 374 / 469 when he was 24? For one year he was Yogi Berra, and then he became a journeyman. Did he get hurt?
Random Q: What happened to the Russell Martin who hit 293 / 374 / 469 when he was 24? For one year he was Yogi Berra, and then he became a journeyman. Did he get hurt?
No idea. What's weird is he then spent a couple if years as a good OBP, no power guy and now his average has cratered but he has good power. He's like three different people.
1200. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM (#4265370)
He turned away after it was hit. Didn't he see that it was coming?
I noticed it and Cal just said it, but it seems like Wieters was basically telling him to look out but he was looking the other way.
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Fortunately, I don't have to. Phew
CHECKLIST:
---EVERGREEN---
Conradian Play [X ]
Web Gem [X X X X]
Baserunning blunder [ ]
Play at the plate [ ]
Replay review [ ]
Ump blows call [ ] (Blown call eliminates team [ ])
Dramatic late-inning homer [X ] (WERTH)
Double Play ends an inning [ X]
1-2-3-4-5-6 inning [ X]
Strike out of side [X ]
Stolen base [ X]
Caught stealing [X ]
Gamesmanship []
Shapeshifting Strike-zone [X ]
THIS TRAIN! [X]
"They're down to their last X...." [ ]
Pitcher gets a hit [ ]
Non-pitcher bunts [ X] (AND IT WORKED)
Regular Season pitcher warms up [X ] (Playoff starting pitcher warms up in pen [X ])
Game needs to start on TNT (with exception of A's vs. Tigers) [ X]
---SF at CIN specific---
Dusty Baker with Giants [ X]
WILD BRIAN WILSON APPEARS [ X]
Cain perfecto flashback [ ]
Buster Posey does something awesome [X X ] (GRAND SLAM and THE THROWOUT PORTION OF A STRIKEOUT/THROWOUT DP)
Joey Votto gets back to normal, does something awesome []
Big Red Machine referenced [ X]
Willie Mays referenced [ ]
---STL at DC specific---
Strasburg in the Dugout [X ]
Crowd chants "We Want Strasburg" [ ]
Bryce Harper does something awesome [ ] (Harper strikes out instead [ ])
Pujols mentioned [ ]
FREESE! [ ]
Teddy [X ]
Flashback to game 6 of 2011 WS [ ]
Davey Johnson managerial career recap [ ]
Matheny's playing career [ ]
---BAL at NYY specific---
Raul Effing Ibanez comes to the plate [X ]
Orioles hold one-run lead at any point of the game [X]
Yankees get run in half-inning immediately after Orioles score [ ]
Thome career retrospective [ ]
Buck Showalter as Yankee manager [ ]
Joe Saunders' Wild Card performance flashback [ ]
Ichiro does something awesome [ ]
Tyler Teagarden shows up []
A-Rod strikes out, assuming he even plays now that Raul Ibanez is Mr. Effing October [X ]
---DET at OAK---
Bernie Lean explained [ ]
Verlander no-nos flashback []
Prince Fielder robbed of extra-bases [ ]
Moneyball mentioned [ ] (Mention of Brad Pitt [ ])
Pat Neshek's son mentioned [ ]
Trout mentioned in any way (fish or player) [ ]
Miguel Cabrera does something awesome [ ]
Verlander hits 98+ MPH after 80 pitches [ ]
Mention of the tarps [ ]
1999 Cleveland-Boston, also.
1995 Yankees-Mariners
Indeed. Game 5 is one of the better postseason games ever - and it wasn't the best game in the series.
Check forty years ago. Same two teams. That was something.
I think the NLCS that year was fairly dramatic as well.
Yeah, that's certainly the best counterargument. I'm too young to remember the series personally, so all I really know about it is The Double. What were the expectations and the emotions coming into the series? What were the first four games like?
EDIT: And I'm only talking about the DSes. Of course there have been much better LCS and WS.
First time I wept openly at a baseball game.
Swisher — 2 for 14
Cano — 2 for 16
A-Rod — 2 for 15
How the hell were they up 2-1?
Here is Game 2. Which is utterly awesome even if you don't account for the fact that it's the auspicious postseason debut of one Mariano Rivera.
Look up Wieters' and Jones' numbers.
My excitement system places it #1 among all playoff games, which is pretty good.
EDIT: "######### this is stupid. Somebody hit a ####### home run and end this ####### Yankees game, ########."
Joey Cora, is that you?
If this is The Game That Saved Baseball In Seattle, MLB Network runs a special answering all those questions and more. Watch for it this off-season.
Fun fact - they could have IBB'ed Edgar (he of The Double) and pitched to a raw rookie named Alex Rodriguez.
The game that made me cry. Good quality. Go to the 8th minute to see the relevant dramatics, replete with Dave Niehaus (RIP) on the mic.
Wow. That's some game. I particularly like that the winning run was thrown out at the plate immediately after the tying run scored in the 12th.
boteman - Thanks for the heads-up. I'll keep an eye out for it.
And for the Yankees it was the first time the team had been good in...a long time. Tensions were high, to say the least.
During game 1, some Yankees fans threw batteries onto the field, at Mariners players, etc. From my perspective as a kid in the Northwest, that's the exact moment when the Yankees went from 'I don't like them' to cartoon villains.
In retrospect I get that it was an incredibly small minority of the fans, and that the fans of many teams can behave inappropriately. But I assure you that the tension and anger of Mariners fans was very real and very strong due to that incident.
Game 2 went like 15 innings and somewhere around 14 hours.
When Johnson came out in relief just two days after winning game 3, I knew deep down that it was going to happen. And then The Double.
(Also, again, if Teixeira hits the walk-off, any family he still has in Maryland is going to need to be put into protective custody.)
A's/Tigers is on TNT (or tbs, whichever one it is). Is that not an option for you?
Its best competition is probably this one (sorry, A's fans).
A ludicrous Overstock.com marketing idea.
EDIT: Coke to Larry.
Also, I again want to assert hat the O's are probably frontrunners for Swisher if the Stinks don't resign him.
You are not alone.
All three of the next three batters will hit a home run.
Apparently not. It's Amazing GF's TV, so we got what we got.
She got sick of waiting for somebody to do something in the Yanks/O's game, so she suggested turning that off and just listening to the radio broadcast.
Better than listening to Buck ####### Martinez, any-damn-way.
I was unaware of that incident. Had to Google.
Maybe one should be more careful when already on rehab (for TJ).
Where's the 1B? Are the Orioles trading for Morneau or something?
Swish can play 1B. Actually, if he were a full-time 1b, I'd expect he'd be an excellent one. He just hasn't been called upon to do it much, lately.
(Please don't flame me.)
No idea. What's weird is he then spent a couple if years as a good OBP, no power guy and now his average has cratered but he has good power. He's like three different people.
I noticed it and Cal just said it, but it seems like Wieters was basically telling him to look out but he was looking the other way.
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