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Playoff Beisbol 10/10/12

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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

178 thoughts on “Playoff Beisbol 10/10/12”

  1. Cardinals up 4-0 in the top of the second. Looks like the Nationals might regret shutting down Strasburg.

    1. 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?

        1. 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).

          2. 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.

              1. I don't think I hate anything (even, for example, the Yankees) as much as I hate Saints fans.

  6. 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.

  11. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. So, according to preseason hoops in Fargo tonight the Wolves bench is greatly improved.

  18. 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.

    2. I've already sent the link to my yankees fan co-worker who spent the last two days bitching about him.

  23. Jeter gets a defensive sub? Has Girardi given up on this game?
    I betcha he doesn't even PH for Arod next inning.

    2. 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.

  28. I believe that I just read that the Nats let Teddy win a race again today.
    They want this less than Girardi.

    1. 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.

  44. Safe to say that Joe Girardi will now be considering among the best managers in baseball, incorrectly.

  45. 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.

  51. Let's try this again.

    That was the dumbest Yankee fan ever, and that's saying something. Stick the ball in Swisher's glove, you yutz.— King Kaufman (@king_kaufman) October 11, 2012

    1. 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...

    3. You're doing it right. Because you aren't an editor or above, the <script> tag is stripped, rendering your tweet rather lamely.

  52. 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.

    1. Cal Ripken has really, really tried to not act like he's biased in favor of Baltimore the entire series.

  53. The baseball gods really don't want me to make it to the end of any O's playoff game, do they?

      2. The Twins were the ones to make the initial comeback in that one. The O's had this one all the way.

      1. 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.

    1. Did you see that Prince had a homerun?
      Little purple guy's getting up there in age, but when he makes good contact... watchout!

      1. The presenters are nearly as comical as the award.
        httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biNUtKJhcVE
        The recipient is no joke.

        1. Sure, Wendy (or Lisa) got to speak those lines at the show, but Prince wrote them, and spoke them himself on the album.

  67. 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.

    1. 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

      2. 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!

        1. I don't understand how that's "Number Munchers" at all. More like static Tron.
          MECC is rolling over in its grave.

              1. 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.

                1. 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.

                2. 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.

                    1. 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?

      1. Yeah, that pansy has never hit a home run in the ninth inning to tie a playoff game ... oh, wait ....

    1. 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."

  71. 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."

  73. 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.

        2. 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.

    1. 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.

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