That was what my dad always automatically said whenever his team was losing: "the fix is in." I think he believed it, too.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
No excuse for airmailing the throw to home, although it didn't lead to a run.
I almost feel like they should have pinch hit for Wacha there and tried to really stick the dagger in.
Kershaw threw more pitches in the third (48) than in any inning in his career.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 19 October 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
Morbs the bootleg stream on lemonparty.org isnt feezing at all. plus HD if option if you want.
― action bronson pinchot (sanskrit), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
one good play in LF. one bad one.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
Grant Brisbee @mccoveychron Puig's decisions on when to make crazy throws and such are like a three-minute accordion solo in the middle of OK Computer.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
No idea why Kershaw is still in there. He hasn't been right since the third.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
I am wastered
― reckless woo (Z S), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link
Want to research post-season meltdowns by great starting pitchers, but I'm sure someone will have a full list up tomorrow.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
RF
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
The second basemen regretted his throw to home mid-throw - hilarious slowmo replay
― reckless woo (Z S), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm a little tipsy myself.
xpost - ya - loved the head drop immediately following the throw! dodgers looking like real crud out there.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
The idea that no error is charged there is why people write passionate screeds against the error.
Think it's time to go back to my movie.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Kershaw enjoying his thumb
― House Sharknado (Andy K), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
wow
― k3vin k., Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
what the dodgers need right now is Scutaro
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
welp
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
Oh man!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
it'd be nice to just go a year without the cardinals
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
congrats, you all get a year off, go pursue your secondary hobbies
is there a lamer major leaguer than matt adams? dude looks like a douchebag bouncer
f u matt adams rules
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
uh oh
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
Nothing like watching the season end with your fourth and fifth best relievers out there. But at least Kenley Jansen will be fresh for limiting the damage in the eighth!
Shouldn't they be pulling Wacha? The game is over, he had to run the bases in the last inning, save his arm for the WS.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.stlcardinalbaseball.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/matt-adams-babe-ruth-cardinals-spring-training.jpg
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
Zachlon take a chill pill dude, dance dance revolution
― reckless woo (Z S), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:44 (ten years ago) link
Misspelling unintentional!
― reckless woo (Z S), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
i wish i was drunk
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
No. The Cardinals are an organization with class and integrity.
― House Sharknado (Andy K), Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:59 (ten years ago) link
jesus christ wacha
fire mattingly, trade kershaw
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Wacha 'would be youngest NLCS MVP since Avery in '91.'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1112/athlete.wags.90s/images/steve-avery.jpg
― House Sharknado (Andy K), Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:23 (ten years ago) link
so i just got home, what happened. :-)
― Bee OK, Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:29 (ten years ago) link
http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/images/2005/04/08/gcgY9n9Y.jpg
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/albert_chen/10/28/weaver.cardinals/T1_1027_weaver.jpg
― House Sharknado (Andy K), Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
It'll be cool to see Beltran in the WS.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
true but now i know i will want whoever comes out of the American League.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
I usually root for the AL on principle, and that's what I'll be doing this year.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 19 October 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
i usually root for the nl on principle
it's a struggle
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 October 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
Had to dvr and holy shit ^_________________^
― brand nubian wafers (bnw), Saturday, 19 October 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/s9XZXfxVHJs
― brand nubian wafers (bnw), Saturday, 19 October 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
go Tigers, or winter
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 October 2013 05:18 (ten years ago) link
yes, let the winter cold take all of them
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Saturday, 19 October 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
^too big an advantage for Red Sox
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 October 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
Want to research post-season meltdowns by great starting pitchers
if we're using this callow level of "great," Andujar in '85 obv (man that was sweet).
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 October 2013 12:40 (ten years ago) link
I did think of Andujar, who was pretty good for a few years, but I meant HOF territory (realize it's still early for Kershaw). Someone mentioned Koufax's 6-0 loss in Game 2 of the '66 Series, but it's not even close: 6 innings, 6 hits, 4 runs, only one of them earned. (Willie Davis's three-error game.)
Schoenfield has an interesting thought up today--not saying it's true, but it caught my attention.
In this day when hitters swing from their heels no matter the count or situation, willing to trade strikeouts -- lots of strikeouts -- for home runs, the Cardinals excel at that old-school stat that everyone loves to denigrate: batting average.
They put the ball in play and that leads to more hits. They had the lowest strikeout rate in the majors this season -- as they also did in 2011, when they won the World Series -- and if there’s a trend to watch in the playoffs these days, it’s that: not striking out. Since 2009, teams that had the lower strikeout rate in the regular season have won 23 of 29 postseason series. The statisticians may argue that the sample size is too small to draw any conclusions; maybe they’re right. But tell that to the Cardinals.
(The reason I'm skeptical is that the odds of putting together a long string of hits seem especially long against a great pitcher like Kershaw.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
yes, IT'S STILL EARLY for Kershaw, and then you went on to ignore that
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 October 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
I mean, obviously it did happen last night, but as a deliberate, conscious approach against the Kershaws and Verlanders and, um, Wachas, I'm skeptical.
Well...Kershaw's got at least as much of a head start on the HOF as Trout, no? He'll have two Cys and a second-place at the end of this year, to go along with a 2.60 career ERA and lots else. He could be Dwight Gooden or Tim Lincecum, sure. I'd bet he ends up in the HOF. (Which is kind of irrelevant in terms of the Andujar comparison anyway--he's great right now in a way that Andujar never was.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
Or let me put it this way: if you extend the meaning of great to Andujar, I wouldn't have bothered asking the question. I'm sure that list would be really long.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
I presumed you really meant "aces"
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 October 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Okay, that's fair. Tudor and Cox were better that year--Tudor was a lot better--but Andujar was probably perceived as the staff ace that year.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
Kershaw's got at least as much of a head start on the HOF as Trout, no?
by JAWS, Kershaw is 211th among starting pitchers, after 6 seasons.
Trout is 117th among CFs, after 2+.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 October 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link