MLB 2024 Off Season

igotid88

I hate the Nationals.  And I don't like Howie Kendrick because he seems to always hurt teams I root for. But that made me happy

Jason P

Poor Clayton.  The dodgers killed him.  All they had to do was close it out with the bullpen and his confidence would be good going into the St Louis.  you can only rebuild a race car so many times ...

darwinstheory

Cards/Nats...didn't see that coming. 

Wobbie

what a beautiful morning!

pjsteelerfan

It seems that using starters as relievers backfires way more that it works

Wobbie

pjsteelerfan said:

It seems that using starters as relievers backfires way more that it works

unless their name is bumgarner.

Poncier

Wobbie said:

pjsteelerfan said:

It seems that using starters as relievers backfires way more that it works

unless their name is bumgarner.

Or Eovaldi, or Price, or Sale, or E. Rodriguez.

Cora caught lightning in a bottle last season with this maneuver, so now other teams are jumping on the trend and realizing it normally doesn't work. Starters and relievers have different ways of approaching their craft and its not interchangeable for most.

dankind

Yanks' WS to lose at this point.

Poncier

Here's hoping they do just that.

tempo_n_groove

Poncier said:

Wobbie said:

pjsteelerfan said:

It seems that using starters as relievers backfires way more that it works

unless their name is bumgarner.

Or Eovaldi, or Price, or Sale, or E. Rodriguez.

Cora caught lightning in a bottle last season with this maneuver, so now other teams are jumping on the trend and realizing it normally doesn't work. Starters and relievers have different ways of approaching their craft and its not interchangeable for most.

When I saw the Dodgers bring him in last night I knew they were toast...

Didn't Johnson and Schilling do the relief thing too?

DewieCox

I only watch the ass hole Dodgers when they’re playing a class organization like StL, so what the hell was Roberts doing? Shittiest managing in a big game since Maddon tried to give away the Cubs WS. Panic mode in a deciding game, at home, with a loaded team? 

Poncier

Johnson came in to finish up game 7 (After starting game 6) in 2001 and got the win, largely because the D'backs had lost faith in Bung Hole Kim who had become a puddle in Yankee Stadium earlier in the series, but nothing to the extent the Red Sox used starters in the pen last year.

tbergs

As a Twins fan, I don't feel so bad anymore because the Dodgers are the biggest losers of this year's playoffs now. Total failure and their drought continues.

mfc2006

So ready for tonight's game. Houston needs to come out of the gate strong and never let up. 

dankind

mfc2006 said:

So ready for tonight's game. Houston needs to come out of the gate strong and never let up. 

Yeah, I'm thinking Morton on short rest would've been a better option than Glasnow for the Rays. Should be a good one.

MayDay10

I think I am vested in the Nationals.  Would love Bryce Harper to eat a major shit sandwich

Cliffy6745

MayDay10 said:

I think I am vested in the Nationals.  Would love Bryce Harper to eat a major shit sandwich

Kinda already is, no?

mfc2006

Cliffy6745 said:

MayDay10 said:

I think I am vested in the Nationals.  Would love Bryce Harper to eat a major shit sandwich

Kinda already is, no?

I would say so.

MayDay10

he ate a shit sandwich by them getting the WC
Then a bigger shit sandwich when they had that stunning comeback win to conquer the WC game
Then an even bigger shit sandwich that the Nationals had another comeback in the DS to top the Dodgers, followed by the Phillies firing their manager.
A bigger one if they beat the Cardinals for Washington's first world series appearance since the early 30s.
And if they win the World Series, it will be a soul-crushing shit sandwich, never fully recovered from.

Wobbie

Poncier said:

Wobbie said:

pjsteelerfan said:

It seems that using starters as relievers backfires way more that it works

unless their name is bumgarner.

Or Eovaldi, or Price, or Sale, or E. Rodriguez.

Cora caught lightning in a bottle last season with this maneuver, so now other teams are jumping on the trend and realizing it normally doesn't work. Starters and relievers have different ways of approaching their craft and its not interchangeable for most.

bochy did it before cora with lincecum and bum.

yeah, those fucking d-bags won with schilling and johnson. MLB  gave their bankrupt asses a loan so they could sign schilling. thanks, bud.

DewieCox

Shildts post game pep talk was pretty epic.

F Me In The Brain

^^ Fitting for that 'classy' baseball org, the St Louis Cardinals.

(Probably the team I like least in MLB.  They do win, and they do have a great history...but I can't stand them.  Yadi can suck a giant bag of dicks.  Tony LaRussa was the world's biggest redass jackhole.  Even Jack Clark can suck it.)

I do love the people in StL, though, a great city.

Wobbie

^^^^^ agree on yadi and larussa, not on jack the ripper.

those words could come back to haunt shildt.

DewieCox

They’re already in over their head. Nobody in that division even deserved a playoff spot. I think they realize they’re playing with house money but they can beat anybody if the offense really clicks. 13 runs the other night is no indication of that either.

DewieCox

Jinkies Tampa!! 

tbergs

Astros are going to try and do their best Dodgers impression tonight...

tempo_n_groove

tbergs said:

Astros are going to try and do their best Dodgers impression tonight...

Stop it.

I'd leave Cole in the whole game at this point!

tempo_n_groove

tempo_n_groove said:

tbergs said:

Astros are going to try and do their best Dodgers impression tonight...

Stop it.

I'd leave Cole in the whole game at this point!

Nevermind.  Altuve just hit a second jack...

Take him out.

Jason P

I can't see the Astros losing a 7 game series.  Hats off to Tampa for giving them their best shot.

mfc2006

Hell yes!!!!! Should be a fun series against the Yanks!