artie_fufkin wrote:

Mags wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

AL baseball is painful to watch

Launch angle baseball is painful to watch.  I'm catching up on Animal Planet and ID programs and watching some movies for the 15th time on TCM and Fox movie channel. 
 

I watched Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary on PBS, then finished off Breaking Bad, which I started binge-watching over the summer. And I can go to the gym anytime I want, because the only team I care about right now is the Bruins, and their games are available on the widescreen right there in the fitness center.
 

I've been boycotting Burns ever since his series on baseball that so sorely neglected Musial.  Breaking Bad has no appeal for me but that's a combination of personal and generational.  I don't think I would have watched baseball  this past summer if there had been anything on t.v. that I really wanted to watch.
 

Gio not happy with blue .....

That inning reminded me of the top of the eighth in the 2003 NLCS .... Oops. Sorry, Dusty.

More white guys clogging up the bases.

I'm done. I have to work tomorrow and then drive to Vermont for a couple of college visits this weekend. This game may still be in progress by the time I get back on Sunday anyway.

don.rob11 wrote:

Awwwwwwwww
Poor Johnny

Wish I had seen that.
 

I can say with confidence if I was on a team that was behind 3-0 in a 7-game series and one of my teammates hit the ball out of the park to make the score 1-0 in the second inning, I wouldn't be doing a home run dance.

I dunno.  This Yankees team is quite the opposite of the Yankees teams of recent times.  The key players on the team are young and not high priced free agents.  The only thing that truly links them to the Yankees teams of the past is their ability to absorb bad contracts.  They had quite a bit more salary sitting on their bench last night than they did in the lineup.

"This Yankees team is quite the opposite of the Yankees teams of recent times."

I don't have a whole heck of a lot of issues with the players. I have a small cabal of Yankees' fans among my friends here in Red Sox country and they've awakened in all their obnoxiousness.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (10/19/2017 3:12 pm)

Good night, Cubbies.

I haven't been watching any of the post season except when it can't be avoided.  But I confess that I've been checking the box scores and following the game status in the each series.  I pretty much agree with every point made here.  There are two Yankees that I have no use for -- both ex-Cubs, for at least certain critical times.  Castro and that Cuban relief pitcher who drives 100 mph in a 45 mph zone because he has to adapt to the culture.  Otherwise, I'm O.k. with Yankees.  For me, my main problem with the Yankees has always been the N.Y. based press.

When I noticed the score was 9-1 to9night, I had to watch.  Joe Maddon is the guy that i like to see in this spot.  Unfortunately, the announcers -- especially Ron Darling -- seem to be Cubs fans.
 

How do you allow your starter to give up 6 runs in 2 inning in an elimination game vs the best pitcher in baseball?

"that Cuban relief pitcher who drives 100 mph in a 45 mph zone because he has to adapt to the culture"

My one comfort, and I'm not sure that's the right word, was that in order to win their first championship in more than a century, the Cubs had to sell their souls to acquire a wife-beating asshole who would be in prison if he couldn't throw a baseball 100 mph. And not only did Chapman leave three seconds after the trophy presentation, on his way out the door he had the temerity to question The Great Maddon's strategizing.