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Friday, October 05, 2012
Wild Card Playoffs OMNICHATTER
5:00 PM Eastern: STL (Lohse) at ATL (Medlen)
8:30 PM Eastern: BAL (Saunders) at TEX (Darvish)
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I'm a Cardinals fan, so I just stood back and observed -- and ducked. Good to see Braves fans showing some passion.
Product placement.
edited: so I don't look so drunk
Edit: Aha, here's one. Mitch Moreland for Soto.
Oh, it gets better. Fred Mistake-a-minute Manfra just now: "The Rangers have spent 178 days in first base."
I was on a plane watching the NL wild card game (thanks Virgin America!) and when the infield fly thing happened the whole plane murmured in disbelief.
They must have thought he was too stereotypically L.A., and they wanted to get away from the "yacht rock" sound.
This isn't really that relevant, with the 1-day rosters not needing starters Washington should have plenty of pinch-hitters avai...wait, the Rangers have 11 pitchers on their roster? Then why did Holland come in the ga... never mind.
That seems inexplicable (I know, Ron Washington is the Rangers' manager is a perfectly reasonable "explanation"). Who couldn't see this coming? You might want to pinch-hit Moreland for Soto. How can you accomplish this without losing the DH? I dunno, maybe starting Napoli at 1B and having Young DH? Pinch-hit Moreland for Soto, move Napoli to C, leave Moreland in the game at 1B. Do the Rangers seriously not have somebody who can help Washington out with this kind of stuff?
I always find it fun that so many fans get just as outraged at a call like in the Packers-Seahawks game on last play, as something not quite as game-changing as that....
Strike out of side [X]
Right, because you would expect the fans to sit quietly and take it up the ass like good little ####### instead.
Joe Dimino tweeted 13.5% as called vs. 26.2% if they'd called it correctly.
According to THT's win prob (with a 4.5 RPG environment), the Braves would have had a 24% chance of winning if the call was made correctly, and had a 10% chance of winning after it was blown.
EDIT: Coke to Kiko. FG has it at 9% after the bad call (13% before he play).
Why would anybody get worked up about a call in an exhibition game?
Let's see ... MLB.com says he's taller than everyone except Jim Johnson.
Pretty unusual catcher.
Looking at Dimino's tweet again, it's not clear what the 13.5% was for - it could have been before the play.
This is evil.
Just for the joy of watching the life fade out of their eyes.
"I always find it fun that so many fans get just as outraged at a call like in the Packers-Seahawks game on last play, as something not quite as game-changing as that....
Right, because you would expect the fans to sit quietly and take it up the ass like good little ####### instead."
hmm, not sure those statements follow very logically. maybe "just as" caused confusion.
There have been two steals - McLouth and Reynolds (!)
Going back to April of this year, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been terribly excited to see Brian Matusz facing Josh Hamilton, and 3-pitch strikeout would have been WAY down the list of likely outcomes.
Gameday has that play as a wild pitch.
That was a WP by Holland (it didn't get very far from Soto, but that's how it was scored, according to MLB Gameday).
My post #812 originally noted that MLB Network was airing Joe Torre and Co. facing the Inquisition over The Call, but I figured other remarks around mine were already discussing it. I came in late to the party.
The DirecTV listing does say "MLB Tonight: Wild Card Edition", but every time I've flipped over there, even just now during the inning, they've been showing ads. I guess they have to find some way to pay Harold Reynolds for his irreplaceable "analysis".
edit: WOO HOO! Actual programming just now (23:35 EDT). Greg Amsinger, Cal Ripken's lil bro, John Hart, and...wait for it: Omar Vizquel.
Former Cardinal Torre upholds the call? Shocking.
Because Buck wants to keep the bat in case something happens. Or at least that is what it is according to Cal.
Torre's career by games played:
Braves 1037
Cardinals 918
Mets 254
You too are free to set yourself on fire if you like. It's a wide ranging option.
If Lew Ford gets picked off, Buck might have wished he'd left Thome in to run for himself.
Too soon?
I'm so excited for Buck and the O's right now.
You got any tickets?
The league is going to drop in the umps from the Braves/Cardinal games, and add a few of the replacement refs from the NFL (the ones that were fired by the lingerie football league for incompetence)....then they are going to force the Orioles to use the Cardinals bullpen. Trout has been traded to the Rangers for the rest of the game.
Walks, hits, home runs. Possibly errors.
Don't watch many Yankees games, eh? A-Rod thinks Hamilton has it easy.
Well, there's your walk. But I can't say that walking Napoli is the worst outcome in this situation.
Of course, if this skinny runt shanks a base hit that makes it a different situation.
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