Wow, the first game already started. A quadruple header today. Life is good.
Cardinals @ Nationals, Carpenter v. Jackson - in progress
Giants @ Reds, Zito v. Leake – 3:00 pm CDT
Orioles @ Yankees, Gonzalez v. Kuroda – 6:30 pm CDT
Tigers @ Athletics, Scherzer v. Griffin – 8:30 pm CDT
Cardinals up 4-0 in the top of the second. Looks like the Nationals might regret shutting down Strasburg.
Is Strasburg any good? I don’t remember seeing him mentioned in any of the minor league reports here.
Looks like another Adam Johnson to me.
Carpenter can rake.
w00t! more baseball that isn’t at an unreasonable hour for me.
That is always a nice thing. I hated being so out of sync with the baseball season when I’ve been in Europe.
Speaking of, when’s your return ETA? Will you be in the land of Ladbrokes and Paddy Power through the end of the WS?
I’m here through the middle of November, so yes.
Hmmm, I was considering having you visit a bookies for me, but neither William Hill, Paddy Power, nor Ladbrokes list World Series winners odds. Best I can do is AL Pennant (and no NL Pennants for whatever reason).
They may be waiting for the ds to clear. I’ll stop in and have a look for you.
True. I’ll give it a week.
When we were in Vegas in May, I almost talked Sheenie into putting $10 on the Falcons to win the Super Bowl at 30:1 (just to infuriate the Saints lovers in her family). Whoops.
you just love to twist the knife, eh DPWY.
I don’t think I hate anything (even, for example, the Yankees) as much as I hate Saints fans.
It isn’t looking good for the bastardized ‘Spos.
that half inning featured less runs than I expected.
I do have the Nats in 5 for the brackef…. I’m not optimistic.
I picked against the locals here, so win-lose (or lose-win, whatever)
paging sean: could we have a sidebar link to the brackef? some of us want to wallow in how far out of it we are already.
Some of us don’t want to wallow!
Thus the Curse of Teddy begins.
Came here to say that.
Can’t believe people want to talk about Strasbourgh when it’s about TR.
Neck Fat in.
KungFu Panda tee’d off on one
Short porch!
YeeHAW! And a Lew sighting in the dugout.
I really hope JI JIM takes advantage of that porch sometimes in the next 2 games.
I think that the only thing that the Nats can do is say that one of the other presidents lodged a protest about that final race, and that Joe Torre agreed with the protest, that TR is disqualified, and the race goes to someone else.
I still really wish after building it up so far that Teddy was gonna win, that he still would have lost, somehow. I would have then picked the Nats to win the WS.
did Adam Jones lose that ball in the lights?
Ugh, that was Delmonesque.
Delmonesque.
Kuroda has 13 wild pitches. He threw 3330 pitches in the regular season. Does Martin really have to worry that much about wild pitches, considering it happens on average every 256 pitches? That’s ignoring who the catcher was even; it may not have been Martin for most of the wild pitches.
So, according to preseason hoops in Fargo tonight the Wolves bench is greatly improved.
O’s take the lead! A one-run lead! With only two innings until the seventh!
I leave for 5 minutes and miss leadoff dinger? The O’s should have been polite and kept walking until I got back and then gotten the dinger.
If you draw walks, the HR would kill the rally, though
That’s fine. They were clogging up the bases anyway.
Derek Jeter is actually helping his team by playing hurt, right?
The Cap’n is cap’ning his tail off.
His range at short is so huge to start out with, he’s just leveling the playing field.
I am going to link this article to every person I facebook I know complaining about A-Rod.
Meh. Arod has never won a world series without jeter.
Jeter has never won a WS without Mo or Posada.
Or herpes.
I’ve already sent the link to my yankees fan co-worker who spent the last two days bitching about him.
I really don’t like when people turn me into an A-Rod sympathizer.
This guy’s been so ridiculous, he’s almost turned me into a Yankee sympathizer.
That isn’t going to help.
I’m already thinking about taking a sick day tomorrow.
Goooo Oooooos!
One letter away from the Twins season.
JeteK!
Jeter gets a defensive sub? Has Girardi given up on this game?
I betcha he doesn’t even PH for Arod next inning.
You can’t be unclutch if you’re sitting on the bench!
I guess: Os haven’t lost a game they’ve led after 7 innings. Why think they’re likely to win now or even come back and tie it?
Maybe Girardi surprises me and puts in Ibañéz, but I’m doubting it.
If he puts in Ibañéz, I may have to reevaluate my opinion of the man.
Nope, still not gonna.
Doucheira is the greatest defensive 1b EVAH!
I want a helping of mashed taters
TOMEI! Or not. Boo.
He has a lineout, a groundout, a flyout, and a stikeout.
What’s left?
DUBIOUS! Boone Logan is Nook Logan’s younger brother!
I believe that I just read that the Nats let Teddy win a race again today.
They want this less than Girardi.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!!!
u8ijholvdghnjukgafhadgs i/
..still a hold…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Girardi looks like a freaking genius
For real?
Twitter is going to explode.
That’s one. Ibanez to pinch-hit for Arod? Unbefreakinglievable. And then he jacks a donger.
Seemed the obvious move to me that he couldn’t do because, you know, A-Rod.
He could have done that last game and might be looking at a sweep.
I turn it on in time to see Raul Ibanez hit a home run while pinch hitting for A-Rod?
Nothing makes sense.
At least this crap doesn’t happen against just the Twins.
Calvin schiraldi moment?
that sinker looked like a sinker Nick Blackburn would throw
Oh, SUMB!TCH!!
I just. wow.
Now we need a 3b error by Arod’s replacement to lose it in extras..
Detroit just scored in the other game, too.
Well, okay. This is just going to make it better when the O’s win, right?
and Detoilet strikes first, too
Safe to say that Joe Girardi will now be considering among the best managers in baseball, incorrectly.
Kinda like Jeter totally out of position and making an amazing cutoff to home from the first base line
I don’t understand why everyone thinks this move was so genius!!!!?!? If Raul struck out the media would have ran him out of town.
That effing blows.
Nice strike zone. Beauty. Has it been like this all night?
And now the double play. Wonderful.
I hate that a team can pinch-hit for ARod and have it work out for them.
Will the O’s pinch hit Lew Ford for Thome? Only time will tell.
OFFS, swing the bat you guys!
Let’s try this again.
It was soooo obvious that Swisher didn’t catch the ball live that I was confused about why the umpire couldn’t make the call and had to go diving into the crowd. Then I realized it was Angel Hernandez out there…
You’re doing it right. Because you aren’t an editor or above, the <script> tag is stripped, rendering your tweet rather lamely.
Give that guy some credentials!
Is this the actual Yankee feed through TBS? I don’t know if Dick’n'Bert want the Twins to win as much as these guys want New York.
Cal Ripken has really, really tried to not act like he’s biased in favor of Baltimore the entire series.
He may be overcompensating.
The baseball gods really don’t want me to make it to the end of any O’s playoff game, do they?
Come on, JI JIM.
“There aren’t many better at first.” Except for everyone.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Totally on the pitcher.
I don’t care, I’m blaming douche.
Sure, now they blame the pitcher for that.
Nice work, Doucheira.
**Happy clap**
ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
That was the worst game I’ve ever seen.
Joe Nathan, circa 2004 would like a word.
Top 10, anyway.
The Twins were the ones to make the initial comeback in that one. The O’s had this one all the way.
I need some Raul gifs in the outfield right about now.
You are shitting me.
This pretty much leaves me speechless.
FACT! Ibañéz has a 2.467 OPS!
Can Girardi start Ibañéz over Arod tomorrow?
.827 WPA tonight.
So, that’s like 1 2/3 wins!
Not to mention the clutchiness of keeping Arod’s flaccid bat on the bench for the rest of the game/series/playoffs/parade.
Over to the Tigers/A’s. I haven’t quite quite enough of a gutpunch yet.
Did you see that Prince had a homerun?
Little purple guy’s getting up there in age, but when he makes good contact… watchout!
The presenters are nearly as comical as the award.
The recipient is no joke.
Sure, Wendy (or Lisa) got to speak those lines at the show, but Prince wrote them, and spoke them himself on the album.
I’ve been putting the acute on the wrong letter:
RAÚL “LIKE FOUR AARON BOONES” IBAÑEZ!
Damn, does it ever annoy me when the Yankees come out looking like the plucky, never-say-die team that could. I’d rather they won 10-1 in all three games than advance like they’re about to.
I expect the A’s, Nats, and O’s all to be gone by tomorrow night, ruining any enjoyment of the playoffs I was hoping for
Yeah, I’ll stop caring about the postseason real quick once that happens.
Ruining my fun and my bracket. Total buzzkill. *Double-checks the participant list.* At least I have a fun adaptation of Number Munchers to play!
I don’t understand how that’s “Number Munchers” at all. More like static Tron.
MECC is rolling over in its grave.
Are you saying it isn’t a great moment in Muncher history?
No, and I fully expect to be banned for that.
It was worth it.
I decided to call it Number Munchers since the players are munching numbers. I can see how you’d be confused.
Because I’m a Minnesotan between the ages of 30 and 40?
They’re not being munched, they’re being laid upon by snakes.
The snakes are munching them. Listen, you have no chance here. I made the thing, and if I want to say they’re doing something, I can. I could have called it “Snakes Laying Upon and Eating Numbers,” but that’s not a thing, so I didn’t. You also may notice that the “Rome” challenge didn’t feature Kevin McKidd beheading a guy for kidnapping his children.
You should have had it so that the end result of the munching had to be a multiple of 7. Troggle spaces, ‘safe’ spaces and a requirement that all players upload a video of themselves reenacting a great moment in muncher history.
But whilst wearing a mask, so none of us give up our secret identities.
I did consider adding multiples and such. I didn’t name the thing first, though…I just created the game first, then considered titles.
Whatever.
Just don’t do “Pick-A-Dilly Pair” trying to match four cards of different suits from a deck, or “Oregon Trail” when really people are driving to Chicago on I-94/90.
I’ll be doing both of those now, ya poor bastard. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo
Okay, if you go with the “Drive to Chicago” idea for “Oregon Trail”, can you make it transparently like Grand Theft Auto or some other video game, but just call it “Oregon Trail” for stupidity’s sake and clumsily draft some bad OT references onto it?
Wow, dude, I really might run this challenge. That sounds like some stupid fun.
Just came to me that this challenge should have been “Snakes on a Plane”
Okay, now you’ve nailed it. That’s a missed opportunity.
Yeah, like the 2001 Yankees? Yeah, that worked out real well for them.
I wonder if this makes Raul a True Yankees™
Is there any question? He is more than the pansy that he pinch hit for, anyway.
Yeah, that pansy has never hit a home run in the ninth inning to tie a playoff game … oh, wait ….
I may have purged any memory regarding that of which you speak.
Is Aaron Boone in that group?
IBAÑEZ in October 2012:
.545/.615/1.364/1.979/1.699
Last number is WPA over four games.
Ugh. Terrible baserunning.
He fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is “Never pitch to RAÚL IBAÑEZ when death is on the line.” But only slightly less known is this: “Never make the first out — or the last out — at third base.”
More than anything, I’m sad that I never got around to typing this thought in the top of the 12th:
“O’s better score at least one here because Ibañéz is due up first and he’s going to hit a donger.”
Hell of a play by Donaldson there.
If the A’s and O’s lose, I’ll be bummed, but I’m still the only person that has the Cards in the NLCS or WS or as World Champion. They win it all and I think I win the Brackef.
Which stage is rationalization and which stage is talking to oneself on the internet?
I hear you babbling.
Yuuup.
Thanks for listening. I’m back to denial. O’s can win the next two on the north side of NYC. A’s have got to be slightly favored tomorrow. Wait, who’s pitching? I blame the Sox for folding the last week so the Tigers didn’t have to try too hard to win things.
Making it interesting, Oakland. Let’s make sure that’s not all you’re doing.
A comeback against Dancey McSavesalot would be good for my mood.
That was good for my mood. Now, make it count!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh man, this game just got interesting.
Wow, Valverde you suck.
Heh.
“that was a nasty pitch from valverde.”
no, it was a ball.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!
That was a pretty good call, actually.
awesome.
Four more playoff games tomorrow. All of which could be decisive.
It took all day, but a game had a happy ending.
Gints extending their series to a fifth game is not happy?
Cards exposing the fraud that is the Teddy Roosevelt race-wins is not happy?
And, hey, RAÚL IBAÑEZ made things tricky for the Yankmes going forward. While they obviously have a better chance to advance with RAÚL IBAÑEZ’s show today, it might muck things up going forward.
Okay, series extensions are fairly happy occasions, even if I was just hoping for the Reds to finish the Giants and move on.
is it a good idea to pie the guy that just got over a nasty eye infection?
Sure, as long as you don’t eat the pie afterward.
Dubious! A source tells me that it was disinfectant foam!
Dang, the MLB.com replay clips don’t show what Valverde’s “Blown Save, Loss in Playoffs” dance is.
Dancy Mcfailypants.
Totally. Awesome. I’m just happy that Coco Crisp brought his shiv to the ballpark.