According to Tom Haudricourt, baseball says it must be so because they want conditions to be “consistent with the first four games” of the series.
If you can get past the stupidity of MLB's "logic," consider this: at twenty minutes to game time, the temperature in Milwaukee is 77°F. Miller Park does not have air conditioning or ventilation.
Three words come to mind: Severe swamp ass.
Do they offer complementary baby powder at customer service?
I thought I wanted to be at this game. Well, forget that!
Lame. I've always thought that a positive feature of baseball was that teams are forced to adapt to changing circumstances. Some gimmicks go over the line (like Houston's dumb hill in CF), but generally speaking, you have to deal with different ballpark conditions, different lighting conditions, different weather (or non-weather as in the case of a dome), etc.
I first saw that hill during a web gem (Edmonds? No, an Astro. Something's telling me Berkman). My thoughts were, "Wow, that was sweet. Also, that hill needs to be taken out back and shot."
Yeah, that was Berkman. I remember the highlight you're talking about.
Isotopes ballpark, the lab, has a hill, too. I've never really understood the attraction.
Outfielders don't have to run so far; the ball will roll back to you, don'tchasee?
Another downside to the roof: being forced to put it in a particular state. What if it had been open for Milwaukee's first two games, but now it was 35 degrees outside? Leave it open? I hope they make it to the World Series, have a gorgeous day for game 1, and then for game 6 or 7, it's snowing. I bet they'll just leave it closed for the rest of the year. Lame.
This is why I dread having an office in the same building (and perhaps on the same floor) as Bud Selig in the near future.
In a related story, MLB has ordered the Red Sox and Yankees to face each other in the ALCS. Baseball says it must be so because they want conditions to be “consistent with the first four months of the season".
Funny, but thinking about it makes me want to tear off my toenails. 2
You know what, Gameday Audio? I'm in no rush to hear you. You just start running whenever the hell you feel like it.
Yep, it just plain won't work for this returning three-time MLB.tv subscriber. F*&^ you right in the ear, MLB.com.
I'm not getting any Gameday Audio either. I've been forced to tune in the ESPN Radio feed.
That's a thing?! Alright, off I go.
Berman?! Ugh, why can't anything be purely good?
Yeah it ain't pretty, but it's all I got.
Oh, I thank you regardless. I know you wouldn't have put that clown in front of this mic.
Incredibly, I think Berman might be the best one in the booth. He's paired with Sutcliffe, right?
No, Buck Martinez.
Martinez was on the TBS broadcast with some other dude. Berman-Sutcliffe did this series on ESPN radio.
My bad, I guess Buck was on tonight't radio. I didn't listen to this one, but I heard all the other Diamondback-Brewer games, and Sutcliffe was on all of them.
If it was Sutcliffe, believe me, I would have mentioned him first.
Buck isn't great, though. Lots of homespun old-timey stuff. "You have to favor the hot hand in the playoffs, even at the expense of the better player."
The other day, the crew for this series was definitely Berman-Sutcliffe. I almost drove my car off the road.
I went out and got some dinner to bring back to the office. Berman. Pfft.
I like both of these teams. Whoever wins this game will be the team I'm pulling for to win it all.
I would have said the same easily until I was around some Brewers fans, who easily eclipsed the Cubs as the most tedious fans I've ever encountered at a game.
Still, given the menu, I might end up cheering for the Brewers if they break my heart here anyway.
I know the feeling. After the Vikes/Saints NFC Championship Game a couple years ago, I thought I would pull for the winner of that during the Super Bowl. But after that ridiculous loss, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Are you going to pull for the Lions when they get to the Super Bowl? Because you know that's happening soon.
I will always cheer for a boy named Suh.
You out-Bermaned Berman!
"Should the Tigers get praise for winning, or should the Yankees be blamed for losing? It's a great PTI debate!"
I realize PTI just follows the media and reacts, but this isn't a good debate. For Godsakes ESPN, just congratulate the Tigers, no matter how much you don't want to do so.
Who?
Are you commenting on PTI, or the Tigers?
I'm listening to ESPN radio, so either way, if I comment on every stupid thing said, it's going to be a long night.
Can't think of a sarcastic, if somewhat cliched, response.
Can't we just give credit where credit is due? The SSS gods.
Berman: "And with two outs the fans get up and start waving their white Brewer hankies...and I don't mean Tom Henke."
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Maybe there's an option like there is on MLB.tv where you can listen to the game with only ambient park noise.
100% less information, 5000% less annoying. Well, the math checks out.
A lot less misinformation, too.
Ooh, that would have been the way to go.
I'm not sure that ambient noise would be less information. Doesn't Berman subtract from the sum total of human knowledge?
After the Henke non-pun he attempted, yes, I believe that's true.
Supposedly the HD TV feeds, if using the 5.1 audio, have the announcers only on the center channel. Disconnect and all you hear is the crowd.
Apparently, the Diamondbacks have been to the postseason more times than any other team since 2001 aside from the Yankees. Well, huh (taken from ESPN Radio; I can't be sure but a quick'n'dirty check in my head seems to confirm).
Uh? Including 2001, they've been to the postseason four times. I don't think I need to say anything else.
Yeah, that's definitively and horribly wrong.
Edit: The Braves, Red Sox, and Twins seem to be tied for second with 6 (since 2001).
Edit 2: Oops, forgot Cardinals with 7.
Cards have seven. I don't think anyone has eight or nine. The Yankees have ten.
So yeah, the Diamondbacks are tied for 6th place, so... that's cool too, I guess.
This was definitely not bakef. It wasn't bakef at all.
OMG.
I...well, I don't know what to say. Apparently the truth was so close I couldn't see it.
Five for Boston, too. That's actually more than I would have thought. Well, at least I'm drinking and not getting paid to tell people things.
Six for the Sawks. Never mind. Six for the Braves! WOOOOOOOO
Okay, they were way off. And I wasn't thinking much. And I forgot that I have a favorite team that's eclipsed this.
If legitimate mistakes are more your speed, I was thinking the Diamondbacks had five, at least, but that's their haul since the six-division format started.
Did he mean 2nd place in playoff appearances since 2001 made by teams that Randy Johnson played for at one time?
Could be. Could also be second in playoff appearances in the Mountain Time Zone (the Yankees are omnipresent).
Ooh, I like.
'cept Zona is Mountain Standard Time, which is Pacific Daylight Time, which is not Mountain Daylight Time. So they might actually be FIRST!!!111one11!!
In other words, I was 100% correct.
You forgot the omnipresent Yankees. Back to the corner for you. And put your pointy hat back on.
When Michael C. Hall does radio commercials, I still sort of expect him to kill someone.
Ok, I just can't seem to write an Anthony Michael Hall joke here that I like.
I appreciate that you tried, though.
I'd rag on him, but he had a pretty nice second career with "The Dead Zone." Good for him.
Fans booing the HBP. Yes, Milwaukee, Ian Kennedy wanted to hit Rickie Weeks so badly that he drilled a strikeout machine to fill the bases with one out in a decider.
I want to get excited when the pitcher gets a hit to lead off, but then Willie Bloomquist steps in and good vibes die.
Jeez. They die x2.
Garth "Clockwork" Iorg.
That might be Berman's biggest stretch ever.
Garth Iorg Chart.
Dane's World Iorg. Chart.
Buck's attempting to determine whether it's a pitcher's or hitter's league based on how many pitchers have 20 wins and how many hitters have a .300 BA.
This is a good one. Start watching, dudes who aren't watching.
Sorry. Still pretending to work. They are still pretending to pay me.
As long as you're following, that's good enough.
About to leave for the last meal Sheenie gets to eat for a day. Then we got some atoning to do. Historically, there's about a 50/50 chance Sid is sitting in the front row of the temple.
"Big players come alive in big situations," says Buck. Yeah, except for all those times they don't, which has been ESPN's entire talking point since last night.
Uh, thanks, Rickie.
Buck rags on the decision. "If you're going to have him bunt in this instance, why did you bat him here to protect Prince Fielder?" Not that I'm on board with the "protection" thing, but hahaha.
Nifty catch there.
Nice catch.
OMG, Chris Young.
Hey, everyone. Watch this game.
Yuniesky Betancourt?! I reject this ending to the Diamondback season. I will hate humanity if this stands. I mean, more so.
Agreed. I had just told the trinket to watch Betancourt suck with me (because he's really terrible.) then he went and got that hit.
I suppose I've got little room to bitch because Bloomquist had three-hit games in both games I went to, but still.
There are not many things as tasty as a deschutes inversion IPA.
Agreed. That was to be my last purchase, but BevMo was out. It's probably only been three months since I had it (it's omnipresent in WA but not so common here) but it feels like a lifetime. They have Mirror Pond everywhere, but it's the only guaranteed Deschutes offering in town.
err, you were at Bevmo and you couldn't find anything to drink??? There ARE other IPAs out there.
Oh, I was just fine at BevMo. That just happened to be my first choice last time.
Will it make you sad to know that they've been carrying it, and the organic ale, at my local grocery store for ~7 months?
I would never wish the lack of Inversion on anyone.
Hey, I've had that before, and agree.
I've probably had a couple hundred bottles of that. Damn, I miss hop country.
Ugh, Berman and Buck fellating F-Rod as if he's still the guy who destroyed everyone in the 2002 postseason.
Time passes, dudes. Really.
Yeah. He hadn't even beat a girlfriend yet in 2002.
Oh, for frick's sake. Let's not let this reject be a hero.
Redemption???
Haha, Chip.
I want to see a walk followed by a grand slam.
You got the walk.
Not the slam.
Ryan Roberts, hero?
That neck art is way more obscene than Neck Tat's tat.
I haven't seen a minute of any Arizona games, just stills at mlb.com. Who is the ponce with all the tat art?
Roberts. Ponce is an insult not used often enough on this side of the atlantic, imo.
He's good, though.
Boo. ooo. ooo.
F*&^ing lame.
Who is the PBP guy on Milwaukee radio? He sounds like a slice out of the 1930s. Very staccato delivery.
Is it someone other than Uecker?
Dunno. Doesn't sound like him. At least not like the Uecker I remember.
Huh, then I got nuthin for ya. I've never heard anyone else on their broadcasts.
A Sean Burroughs sighting!
If I understood that ad correctly, Nissan gets a vote for the Heisman trophy for some reason, and they've given it to the fans for some even worse reason. Awards are important!
Makes some noise!!!11one!!@11
Holy crap, dudes. HOLY CRAP
Threatening!
un-Ullgered.
Hoo boy, Bloomquist with a chance to be a hero...
Squeeze!
Excitement!
Huh, that's one way to do it.
a-hahahahahaha!
Not a suicide, but I still love the squeeze play.
Ah, bummer. Nevermind what I subsequently said about Gibson. The safety squeeze might have even been Willie's own doing.
I think it was Gibson. It looked like Parra was expecting the play.
"Fielder" is just the wrong name for Prince. He should have an unpronounceable symbol.
It's hard to field when someone gets in the way.
Details. Don't mess with my storyline. Bull/China shop.
We really miss Henry Blanco.
What? Is that Henry Blanco?
So, I guess we aren't missing Henry Blanco that much.
I really like Kirk Gibson as a manager. That took a lot of balls to call a squeeze right there.
Hey, it looks like I got here just in time to see the important part of the game.
There were a lot of important parts. NICE TO FINALLY SEE YOU, BHIGGUM
James L. Brooks tweets that seemingly out of nowhere, the Simpsons is picked up for two more years. It's going to live longer than I do.
Awesome. Bart, had he aged, would be careening toward middle age by now.
If it was a live-action show, you could have the original Bart play Homer now.
Whoa. That's...accurate.
I'm making a call right here. Go-Go with the walk-off hit.
Next inning? Or is it a three-run homer?
If GoGo hits a 3-run jack or grand slam while down a couple of runs a la Jason Giambi, I will stop believing in everything.
I didn't say which inning, but if he does it in the 10th, it can only break a tie.
still a possibility.
Close enough?
sabr sabr
RT @msimonespn: Only 2 players have a game-tying hit ON THE ROAD in 9th or later of winner-take-all game: Mickey Rivers, Willie Bloomquist.
Extras. Of course. This has been a crazy last week and a half.
This is actually the first real close game in this series. Good time for it.
I meant baseball in general. The end of the season, three five gamers. The tense game last night.
Indeed, 'tis true.
Its made me feel a lot better about playoff baseball, for sure.
/still riding high from lack of AL East teams.
Hey, its Joe Piscopo. I figured he was dead.
Hmmm, the Brewer fan in the yellow shirt behind left handed batters is making me re-think my rooting interests.
Looks like yes, but she's wearing a yellow shirt now, making it a lot easier to find her.
That was nice of her.
Greinke warming up. Other thing I love: managers not limiting themselves to having crappy relievers pitch after their top relievers are done.
particularly when that leads to Cheeseburgers being eaten.
Can GoGo score on a sacrifice bunt?
He'd certainly try.
Cards score a run in the first after a triple and double lead off the game.
SOSO.
clutch
I swear I've seen this before...
Huh. For some reason watching Go-Go jump up for the Brewers isn't as exciting as it was in 2009
Not for us, but seriously, has anyone ever scored the winning run in extra innings of a winner-take-all game twice in his career? That's amazing. Also, Go-Go came in for defensive purposes and ends up reaching base and scoring the winning run on a hit by the guy that he normally platoons with.
Fuck.
That's what Morgan said twice on TBS. He had already said it once and the woman reporter shoved a microphone in his face while he was yelling at the crowd. Oops.
I have never said it on television, I'll give me that.
Neither has nyjer. That was tony plush.
I feel like this would be a fun life long goal for me to have.
Aaand my brackef takes a hit.
There are a lot of brackets up in smoke.
Hey, I actually got a point!
Me too. Sigh.
Mine is brokef.
And now game two!
Nice interview, Prince.
That was awesome.
Glad he agreed to it. Seriously, man, if you don't want to give an interview, just don't!
Lynx trailing by just 4 at the half despite having 10 PF to just 2 for the Dream. Lynx trailed at the half in the first two games and lead the series 2-0. Can finish a sweep tonight.
Atlanta pissed and moaned about the foul disparity and it apparently worked.
But, the Lynx bolt out of the gate in the third to take the lead. Minneapolis, the city of champions!
I suppose I ought to be a good Minnesota transplant and switch over.
If St. Louis wins this, it'll be the centraliest CS ever, right? Three Central teams and one that could be?
Will ANYONE watch the World Series??? DIS-ass-ter!
Well, 2005 had the Sox, the Cards, and the Stros.
So it's tied for the centraliest.
But you're right, Texas plays in the Central Time Zone. (But the Tigers do not.)
Hate, hate in-game manager interviews. What a worthless idea.
Nick Punt-o eh?
Big comeback for the Dream here...
Uh-oh.
Looks like it's gonna be just a bit short.
Crazy, a likely MN championship.
Looks like the Lynx will manage to hold on. Up by five now, with 35 seconds to go. Time to play the foul game, sigh.
And the Lynx are gonna win the series! The Lynx have won it!
Lynx win!
that looks very Mak-ish.
Lindsey Whalen looks bored
I hope the rioting in downtown MPLS doesn't get too ugly.
So, how many championships do the Lynx get before the Wolves get one?
The Wolves are going to get one??? Yay!
Man, the Cards radio guys really made it sound like Holliday got a hold of that ball.
It looked like it went more up than out.
Nicky P!
Nice play by Punto for the last out there.
I can't help thinking that we'd be in the playoffs right now if we'd only hung on to Delmon, Go-Go, and Nicky Punto.
Oddly fitting if Carpenter has a CGSO in the final game of the season and LDS.
way to go Howard...putting a damper on their celebration
holy crap nibbish, that bracket is impressive.
The list of people who picked all four of the winning teams:
The Dread Pirate
*Runs out and puts $1000 on Brewers winning it all*
That's a lot of zeros for this NLDS series for us. Just four of us picked the Cards to win: The Dread Pirate, zooomx, AMR, and FTLT.
The NL saved my bracket. Let's go Cards!
holy cr@p. Carpenter almost pulled a mini-Black Jack!!!
Someone start a Hall of Fame campaign for that guy in 10 years!
Hey, whomever is keeping score in the brackef! Who picked the Snakes in five? THIS GUY!!!!! Gimmee my two points, damnit. I won't win, but I won't finish dead lastest either.
See: spoon's brackef.
or nibbish's.
Now that I look at the brackefs more, I note there's an error with Milt's choices. He has Detroit winning the ALCS, and Texas the World Series. Checking back, he has Texas over Detroit in five games.
no, that's someone else's mistake....
Did I at least get the number of games wrong in all of them? Because it can't be proper dead last unless nothing about my predictions came true.
Took my bag of popcorn and Mike's Hard Lemonade next door to watch with my (Cards fan) neighbor; great game.
MLB has ordered the roof closed at Miller Park for this afternoon's game.
If you can get past the stupidity of MLB's "logic," consider this: at twenty minutes to game time, the temperature in Milwaukee is 77°F. Miller Park does not have air conditioning or ventilation.
Three words come to mind: Severe swamp ass.
Do they offer complementary baby powder at customer service?
I thought I wanted to be at this game. Well, forget that!
Lame. I've always thought that a positive feature of baseball was that teams are forced to adapt to changing circumstances. Some gimmicks go over the line (like Houston's dumb hill in CF), but generally speaking, you have to deal with different ballpark conditions, different lighting conditions, different weather (or non-weather as in the case of a dome), etc.
I first saw that hill during a web gem (Edmonds? No, an Astro. Something's telling me Berkman). My thoughts were, "Wow, that was sweet. Also, that hill needs to be taken out back and shot."
Yeah, that was Berkman. I remember the highlight you're talking about.
Isotopes ballpark, the lab, has a hill, too. I've never really understood the attraction.
Outfielders don't have to run so far; the ball will roll back to you, don'tchasee?
Another downside to the roof: being forced to put it in a particular state. What if it had been open for Milwaukee's first two games, but now it was 35 degrees outside? Leave it open? I hope they make it to the World Series, have a gorgeous day for game 1, and then for game 6 or 7, it's snowing. I bet they'll just leave it closed for the rest of the year. Lame.
This is why I dread having an office in the same building (and perhaps on the same floor) as Bud Selig in the near future.
In a related story, MLB has ordered the Red Sox and Yankees to face each other in the ALCS. Baseball says it must be so because they want conditions to be “consistent with the first four months of the season".
Funny, but thinking about it makes me want to tear off my toenails. 2
You know what, Gameday Audio? I'm in no rush to hear you. You just start running whenever the hell you feel like it.
Yep, it just plain won't work for this returning three-time MLB.tv subscriber. F*&^ you right in the ear, MLB.com.
I'm not getting any Gameday Audio either. I've been forced to tune in the ESPN Radio feed.
That's a thing?! Alright, off I go.
Berman?! Ugh, why can't anything be purely good?
Yeah it ain't pretty, but it's all I got.
Oh, I thank you regardless. I know you wouldn't have put that clown in front of this mic.
Incredibly, I think Berman might be the best one in the booth. He's paired with Sutcliffe, right?
No, Buck Martinez.
Martinez was on the TBS broadcast with some other dude. Berman-Sutcliffe did this series on ESPN radio.
My bad, I guess Buck was on tonight't radio. I didn't listen to this one, but I heard all the other Diamondback-Brewer games, and Sutcliffe was on all of them.
If it was Sutcliffe, believe me, I would have mentioned him first.
Buck isn't great, though. Lots of homespun old-timey stuff. "You have to favor the hot hand in the playoffs, even at the expense of the better player."
The other day, the crew for this series was definitely Berman-Sutcliffe. I almost drove my car off the road.
I went out and got some dinner to bring back to the office. Berman. Pfft.
I like both of these teams. Whoever wins this game will be the team I'm pulling for to win it all.
I would have said the same easily until I was around some Brewers fans, who easily eclipsed the Cubs as the most tedious fans I've ever encountered at a game.
Still, given the menu, I might end up cheering for the Brewers if they break my heart here anyway.
I know the feeling. After the Vikes/Saints NFC Championship Game a couple years ago, I thought I would pull for the winner of that during the Super Bowl. But after that ridiculous loss, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Are you going to pull for the Lions when they get to the Super Bowl? Because you know that's happening soon.
I will always cheer for a boy named Suh.
You out-Bermaned Berman!
"Should the Tigers get praise for winning, or should the Yankees be blamed for losing? It's a great PTI debate!"
I realize PTI just follows the media and reacts, but this isn't a good debate. For Godsakes ESPN, just congratulate the Tigers, no matter how much you don't want to do so.
Who?
Are you commenting on PTI, or the Tigers?
I'm listening to ESPN radio, so either way, if I comment on every stupid thing said, it's going to be a long night.
Can't think of a sarcastic, if somewhat cliched, response.
Can't we just give credit where credit is due? The SSS gods.
Berman: "And with two outs the fans get up and start waving their white Brewer hankies...and I don't mean Tom Henke."
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Maybe there's an option like there is on MLB.tv where you can listen to the game with only ambient park noise.
100% less information, 5000% less annoying. Well, the math checks out.
A lot less misinformation, too.
Ooh, that would have been the way to go.
I'm not sure that ambient noise would be less information. Doesn't Berman subtract from the sum total of human knowledge?
After the Henke non-pun he attempted, yes, I believe that's true.
Supposedly the HD TV feeds, if using the 5.1 audio, have the announcers only on the center channel. Disconnect and all you hear is the crowd.
Damn, nice oppo shot, Upton.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo
Apparently, the Diamondbacks have been to the postseason more times than any other team since 2001 aside from the Yankees. Well, huh (taken from ESPN Radio; I can't be sure but a quick'n'dirty check in my head seems to confirm).
Uh? Including 2001, they've been to the postseason four times. I don't think I need to say anything else.
Yeah, that's definitively and horribly wrong.
Edit: The Braves, Red Sox, and Twins seem to be tied for second with 6 (since 2001).
Edit 2: Oops, forgot Cardinals with 7.
Cards have seven. I don't think anyone has eight or nine. The Yankees have ten.
So yeah, the Diamondbacks are tied for 6th place, so... that's cool too, I guess.
This was definitely not bakef. It wasn't bakef at all.
OMG.
I...well, I don't know what to say. Apparently the truth was so close I couldn't see it.
Five for Boston, too. That's actually more than I would have thought. Well, at least I'm drinking and not getting paid to tell people things.
Six for the Sawks. Never mind. Six for the Braves! WOOOOOOOO
Okay, they were way off. And I wasn't thinking much. And I forgot that I have a favorite team that's eclipsed this.
If legitimate mistakes are more your speed, I was thinking the Diamondbacks had five, at least, but that's their haul since the six-division format started.
Did he mean 2nd place in playoff appearances since 2001 made by teams that Randy Johnson played for at one time?
Could be. Could also be second in playoff appearances in the Mountain Time Zone (the Yankees are omnipresent).
Ooh, I like.
'cept Zona is Mountain Standard Time, which is Pacific Daylight Time, which is not Mountain Daylight Time. So they might actually be FIRST!!!111one11!!
In other words, I was 100% correct.
You forgot the omnipresent Yankees. Back to the corner for you. And put your pointy hat back on.
When Michael C. Hall does radio commercials, I still sort of expect him to kill someone.
Ok, I just can't seem to write an Anthony Michael Hall joke here that I like.
I appreciate that you tried, though.
I'd rag on him, but he had a pretty nice second career with "The Dead Zone." Good for him.
Fans booing the HBP. Yes, Milwaukee, Ian Kennedy wanted to hit Rickie Weeks so badly that he drilled a strikeout machine to fill the bases with one out in a decider.
I want to get excited when the pitcher gets a hit to lead off, but then Willie Bloomquist steps in and good vibes die.
Jeez. They die x2.
Garth "Clockwork" Iorg.
That might be Berman's biggest stretch ever.
Garth Iorg Chart.
Dane's World Iorg. Chart.
Buck's attempting to determine whether it's a pitcher's or hitter's league based on how many pitchers have 20 wins and how many hitters have a .300 BA.
This is a good one. Start watching, dudes who aren't watching.
Sorry. Still pretending to work. They are still pretending to pay me.
As long as you're following, that's good enough.
About to leave for the last meal Sheenie gets to eat for a day. Then we got some atoning to do. Historically, there's about a 50/50 chance Sid is sitting in the front row of the temple.
"Big players come alive in big situations," says Buck. Yeah, except for all those times they don't, which has been ESPN's entire talking point since last night.
Uh, thanks, Rickie.
Buck rags on the decision. "If you're going to have him bunt in this instance, why did you bat him here to protect Prince Fielder?" Not that I'm on board with the "protection" thing, but hahaha.
Nifty catch there.
Nice catch.
OMG, Chris Young.
Hey, everyone. Watch this game.
Yuniesky Betancourt?! I reject this ending to the Diamondback season. I will hate humanity if this stands. I mean, more so.
Agreed. I had just told the trinket to watch Betancourt suck with me (because he's really terrible.) then he went and got that hit.
I suppose I've got little room to bitch because Bloomquist had three-hit games in both games I went to, but still.
There are not many things as tasty as a deschutes inversion IPA.
Agreed. That was to be my last purchase, but BevMo was out. It's probably only been three months since I had it (it's omnipresent in WA but not so common here) but it feels like a lifetime. They have Mirror Pond everywhere, but it's the only guaranteed Deschutes offering in town.
err, you were at Bevmo and you couldn't find anything to drink??? There ARE other IPAs out there.
Oh, I was just fine at BevMo. That just happened to be my first choice last time.
Will it make you sad to know that they've been carrying it, and the organic ale, at my local grocery store for ~7 months?
I would never wish the lack of Inversion on anyone.
Hey, I've had that before, and agree.
I've probably had a couple hundred bottles of that. Damn, I miss hop country.
Ugh, Berman and Buck fellating F-Rod as if he's still the guy who destroyed everyone in the 2002 postseason.
Time passes, dudes. Really.
Yeah. He hadn't even beat a girlfriend yet in 2002.
Oh, for frick's sake. Let's not let this reject be a hero.
Redemption???
Haha, Chip.
I want to see a walk followed by a grand slam.
You got the walk.
Not the slam.
Ryan Roberts, hero?
That neck art is way more obscene than Neck Tat's tat.
I haven't seen a minute of any Arizona games, just stills at mlb.com. Who is the ponce with all the tat art?
Roberts. Ponce is an insult not used often enough on this side of the atlantic, imo.
He's good, though.
Boo. ooo. ooo.
F*&^ing lame.
Who is the PBP guy on Milwaukee radio? He sounds like a slice out of the 1930s. Very staccato delivery.
Is it someone other than Uecker?
Dunno. Doesn't sound like him. At least not like the Uecker I remember.
Huh, then I got nuthin for ya. I've never heard anyone else on their broadcasts.
A Sean Burroughs sighting!
If I understood that ad correctly, Nissan gets a vote for the Heisman trophy for some reason, and they've given it to the fans for some even worse reason. Awards are important!
Makes some noise!!!11one!!@11
Holy crap, dudes. HOLY CRAP
Threatening!
un-Ullgered.
Hoo boy, Bloomquist with a chance to be a hero...
Squeeze!
Excitement!
Huh, that's one way to do it.
a-hahahahahaha!
Not a suicide, but I still love the squeeze play.
Ah, bummer. Nevermind what I subsequently said about Gibson. The safety squeeze might have even been Willie's own doing.
I think it was Gibson. It looked like Parra was expecting the play.
"Fielder" is just the wrong name for Prince. He should have an unpronounceable symbol.
It's hard to field when someone gets in the way.
Details. Don't mess with my storyline. Bull/China shop.
We really miss Henry Blanco.
What? Is that Henry Blanco?
So, I guess we aren't missing Henry Blanco that much.
I really like Kirk Gibson as a manager. That took a lot of balls to call a squeeze right there.
Hey, it looks like I got here just in time to see the important part of the game.
There were a lot of important parts. NICE TO FINALLY SEE YOU, BHIGGUM
James L. Brooks tweets that seemingly out of nowhere, the Simpsons is picked up for two more years. It's going to live longer than I do.
Awesome. Bart, had he aged, would be careening toward middle age by now.
If it was a live-action show, you could have the original Bart play Homer now.
Whoa. That's...accurate.
I'm making a call right here. Go-Go with the walk-off hit.
Next inning? Or is it a three-run homer?
If GoGo hits a 3-run jack or grand slam while down a couple of runs a la Jason Giambi, I will stop believing in everything.
I didn't say which inning, but if he does it in the 10th, it can only break a tie.
still a possibility.
Close enough?
Extras. Of course. This has been a crazy last week and a half.
This is actually the first real close game in this series. Good time for it.
I meant baseball in general. The end of the season, three five gamers. The tense game last night.
Indeed, 'tis true.
Its made me feel a lot better about playoff baseball, for sure.
/still riding high from lack of AL East teams.
Hey, its Joe Piscopo. I figured he was dead.
Hmmm, the Brewer fan in the yellow shirt behind left handed batters is making me re-think my rooting interests.
Is it this one?
Those may be she.
Looks like yes, but she's wearing a yellow shirt now, making it a lot easier to find her.
That was nice of her.
Greinke warming up. Other thing I love: managers not limiting themselves to having crappy relievers pitch after their top relievers are done.
particularly when that leads to Cheeseburgers being eaten.
Can GoGo score on a sacrifice bunt?
He'd certainly try.
Cards score a run in the first after a triple and double lead off the game.
SOSO.
clutch
I swear I've seen this before...
Huh. For some reason watching Go-Go jump up for the Brewers isn't as exciting as it was in 2009
Not for us, but seriously, has anyone ever scored the winning run in extra innings of a winner-take-all game twice in his career? That's amazing. Also, Go-Go came in for defensive purposes and ends up reaching base and scoring the winning run on a hit by the guy that he normally platoons with.
Fuck.
That's what Morgan said twice on TBS. He had already said it once and the woman reporter shoved a microphone in his face while he was yelling at the crowd. Oops.
I have never said it on television, I'll give me that.
Neither has nyjer. That was tony plush.
I feel like this would be a fun life long goal for me to have.
Aaand my brackef takes a hit.
There are a lot of brackets up in smoke.
Hey, I actually got a point!
Me too. Sigh.
Mine is brokef.
And now game two!
Nice interview, Prince.
That was awesome.
Glad he agreed to it. Seriously, man, if you don't want to give an interview, just don't!
Lynx trailing by just 4 at the half despite having 10 PF to just 2 for the Dream. Lynx trailed at the half in the first two games and lead the series 2-0. Can finish a sweep tonight.
Atlanta pissed and moaned about the foul disparity and it apparently worked.
But, the Lynx bolt out of the gate in the third to take the lead. Minneapolis, the city of champions!
I suppose I ought to be a good Minnesota transplant and switch over.
If St. Louis wins this, it'll be the centraliest CS ever, right? Three Central teams and one that could be?
Will ANYONE watch the World Series??? DIS-ass-ter!
Well, 2005 had the Sox, the Cards, and the Stros.
So it's tied for the centraliest.
But you're right, Texas plays in the Central Time Zone. (But the Tigers do not.)
Hate, hate in-game manager interviews. What a worthless idea.
Nick Punt-o eh?
Big comeback for the Dream here...
Uh-oh.
Looks like it's gonna be just a bit short.
Crazy, a likely MN championship.
Looks like the Lynx will manage to hold on. Up by five now, with 35 seconds to go. Time to play the foul game, sigh.
And the Lynx are gonna win the series! The Lynx have won it!
Lynx win!
that looks very Mak-ish.
Lindsey Whalen looks bored
I hope the rioting in downtown MPLS doesn't get too ugly.
So, how many championships do the Lynx get before the Wolves get one?
The Wolves are going to get one??? Yay!
Man, the Cards radio guys really made it sound like Holliday got a hold of that ball.
It looked like it went more up than out.
Nicky P!
Nice play by Punto for the last out there.
I can't help thinking that we'd be in the playoffs right now if we'd only hung on to Delmon, Go-Go, and Nicky Punto.
Oddly fitting if Carpenter has a CGSO in the final game of the season and LDS.
way to go Howard...putting a damper on their celebration
holy crap nibbish, that bracket is impressive.
The list of people who picked all four of the winning teams:
The Dread Pirate
*Runs out and puts $1000 on Brewers winning it all*
That's a lot of zeros for this NLDS series for us. Just four of us picked the Cards to win: The Dread Pirate, zooomx, AMR, and FTLT.
The NL saved my bracket. Let's go Cards!
holy cr@p. Carpenter almost pulled a mini-Black Jack!!!
Someone start a Hall of Fame campaign for that guy in 10 years!
Hey, whomever is keeping score in the brackef! Who picked the Snakes in five? THIS GUY!!!!! Gimmee my two points, damnit. I won't win, but I won't finish dead lastest either.
See: spoon's brackef.
or nibbish's.
Now that I look at the brackefs more, I note there's an error with Milt's choices. He has Detroit winning the ALCS, and Texas the World Series. Checking back, he has Texas over Detroit in five games.
no, that's someone else's mistake....
Did I at least get the number of games wrong in all of them? Because it can't be proper dead last unless nothing about my predictions came true.
Took my bag of popcorn and Mike's Hard Lemonade next door to watch with my (Cards fan) neighbor; great game.