5 to go.
4 to go.
3 to go. Meshak with a great inning.

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forsberg_us wrote:

I'd feel a lot better if we could manage 5 in the 8th.

I'd feel a lot better if Craig Kimbrel snuck into Rosenthal's jersey.

Okay Trevor. This is what it means to be the closer. You close, huge pressure, all on your shoulders, and you're the guy that's going to get us into the NLCS.

So let's see that arm, trust Yadi, and throw to the glove, there's champagne waiting for you.

And here's Johnny Bench.

One out to go here. Let's go.

Jesus there's a hit. Crawford now.

And we will see you in the NLCS!!!!!!

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Team has brass nuts, I'll give them that.

So is Kershaw on suicide watch yet ? 

Game 1: at NL higher seed, Oct. 11, 8 p.m., FOX

Game 2: at NL higher seed, Oct. 12, time TBD, FS1

Game 3: at NL lower seed, Oct. 14, time TBD, FS1

Game 4: at NL lower seed, Oct. 15, time TBD, FS1

Game 5: at NL lower seed, Oct. 16, time TBD, FS1-*

Game 6: at NL higher seed, Oct. 18, time TBD, FOX-*

Game 7: at NL higher seed, Oct. 19, time TBD, FS1-*

Post dispatch has a story on it now....sounds like waino has been hurting.

No question he's been fighting it???  He was pitcher of the month in September. He didn't seem to be fighting it then.

forsberg_us wrote:

No question he's been fighting it??? He was pitcher of the month in September. He didn't seem to be fighting it then.

There you go, trying to analyze Mathenaging again. Just go with it at this point. He's defied logic and common sense all the way to the NLCS the last three years.
 

artie_fufkin wrote:

don.rob11 wrote:

So is Kershaw on suicide watch yet ? 

He was pretty testy with the media. Of course, a few of the questions were idiotic.
Reporter: "How long will it take you to get over this?"
C.K.: "I don't know. When I do, I'll give you a call."
 

I didn't hear all of the post game, but what I did hear from Kershaw.... This guy has all the respect in the world from me now. He's about 10 minutes from taking another loss in the postseason to a team that he has 95% figured out with 5% disaster he can't seem to avoid, and some jackass reporter throws a mic in his face and says:

"How crushed were you when Matt Adams hit the home run?"

I have no idea how he did it, he was clearly annoyed but was like "Is that a real question? How do you think? .... Not great, not great."

I'm pretty sure I'd have used my 200+ million dollar arm and blasted him squarely in the face, then took that microphone and beat him with it. I'd have been arrested, and suspended, and I'd know I could afford bail money. Maybe it would wake up the country to the fact that the media should be forced to "fuck off" instead of getting 100% instant access to a guy that's still bleeding over something that just ended his team's season. I've never liked this. The media reporters should be waiting behind a closed door until the players feel like talking about it. 

Okay cool then at least he threw himself to the lions willingly, but still.... God damn, I have no idea how a man can stand there and ask a question like that without expecting to just get decked....

Kershaw was pretty tolerant of "Why do you struggle against the Cardinals?" questions. I just felt that one was over the top. I know some guys are notoriously evil to the media (McGwuire and LaRussa both were described as "terse" at best), but sometimes the media is seriously evil to the players. 

At some point this is going to end up in a fight where a professional athlete just mauls a reporter. Ron Artest style! I mean ... Metta World Peace style!