2014 NLDS: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Los Angeles Dodgers

good call on Grichuk by Karl (and Matheny)

YES I STRUCK YOU OUT DEE GORDON HAHA

Oh gawd

"this just changed the series. levels."

Nice butt tap from Puig there. <3

THEY WOKE EM UP

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol at all of the dodgers' helmets falling off whenever they do anything

I am switching to Vin on the radio but i must dump my video feed for it to work. i ... cannot... listen... to those two.

Charley Steiner and the other guy, good enough

you can probably take a nap and wait for royals-angels tbh

rare lefty homer off of kersh

hm maybe wake up from that nap

may i just say btw

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― Andy K, Monday, October 6, 2008 7:19 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is an impressive rally

wowowowow

awes

in harold reynolds parlance -- they just drained a three-point touchdown on a stolen sign

lool doyers

holy cow!

I stopped watching for 2 innings. Now I am scared to turn back on :O

^^^^DO NOT obvs

lmao

just checking in on the game now – and this is not the score i was expecting to see!

Get ready for an exciting ending. 2014 Trevor Rosethal is incapable of closing a game without walking the leadoff man and then allowing a single or double.

p prescient

Here we go

ooh, gass

rosenthal needs like uh a slider

wow this game

well that was not expected.

Yeah, sheesh!

lol awesome

you can probably take a nap and wait for royals-angels tbh

― mookieproof, Friday, October 3, 2014 8:35 PM

what happens when you listen to a Pirate fan

so there will be a playoff fap as soon as my meds break comes up

I was out and didn't see any of the game. Kershaw's linescore is quite puzzling. 6.2 innings, 10 K, 0 BB, 8 hits, 2 HR, and 8 runs. So he was in complete command...except when they were battering him around?

Mattingly left him in long enough to take the loss, so you would know he pitched badly.

what happens when you listen to a Pirate fan

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(xpost) That's a complete non-sequitur...10/0 vs. 8/8/2 was the question.

maybe read one game summary

I know how I'd react to that in real life. I'm so much nicer here.

sorry. he was in complete command, except when they were battering him around.

godfuck

has anyone said "the mighty yasiel has struck out" yet that'd be a good one

so did everyone see that Marlon Anderson tweeted that Kershaw tips his pitches out of the stretch? CK sez nah.

http://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/595475

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“I was hot. He knows me well. At that time I wasn’t thinking,” Molina said. Gonzalez “was screaming at me. I told him, ‘If you’re going to scream at me you’ve got to be ready to fight.’ I don’t let anybody talk to me that way.”

There is that Cardinal bitchiness everyone knows and loves.

eh, whatever. i'm sure adrian gonzalez was a bowl of oranges during that fight, too. you could randomly sample verbal fights from around the world on any day, type them up in any order, call it "Bitchiness" and i'm sure it would be a fitting title

i'm 100x more annoyed by cardinals whining about called strikes that are usually within an inch of the strike zone

There was a fight?!

yeah. wainwright hit puig early on (in the 3rd, i think). gonzalez was the next hitter and on his way to the plate he said that he had slept with molina's sister on the previous evening, and that it was really hot. molina countered that he had slept with gonzalez's brother two nights before that - "I was hot. He knows me well. At that time I wasn't thinking" - and things escalated from there. both wainwright and puig were calm, and they even shared an intimate butt tap as puig made his way to 1st after the hubbub.

@truebluela
One positive of the Dodgers 2014 being over: Andruw Jones is no longer on the payroll

how many ABs is that? xp

Speaking of, the immortal Ty Wigginton will finally be off the cardinals payroll after this season.

the mets will always have bonilla

Little-known fact: in an early draft of The Shining, Delbert Grady rather ominously announces, "The Mets have Bonilla; the Mets will always have Bonilla."

Any team is capable of beating another team in a 5-game series.

I know I don't post here a lot. I follow baseball pretty avidly, though. Since I've seen two people making this argument and no one making the counter-argument, I thought I would make it. I actually think that a team has a decent opportunity to show what they can do prior to the point where they've lost three games (or, better yet, to the point where they've lost four games in a best-of-seven).

Re. this year, I'm not sure why the Nats or Dodgers were better on paper anyway.

because they had better players

I think the Nationals were better than Giants (separated by eight games in the standings)--on paper, in terms of personnel. I'm less sure the Dodgers were better than the Cardinals (separated by four games in the standings). I think their series underscored how important Kershaw is to the Dodgers, and what could happen when he's not Kershaw, even for a couple of innings.

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eh, i dunno. baseball's just different. a seemingly dominant team that wins 97 games in a season is only winning 60% of the time. when the worst team plays the best team in MLB, it's not an automatic loss like it (almost always) is in football or most other sports. a sweep isn't inevitable. and no one is too surprised when a team like the twins takes 3 out of 4 from the tigers during the regular season. it's a little disappointing for the dominant team, i guess. but it's Ordinary Baseball Weirdness.

I actually think that a team has a decent opportunity to show what they can do prior to the point where they've lost three games

i mean, you're right, they do. and if you somehow could have the dodgers and cardinals play another 5 game series right now, chances are the dodgers would win. they're a better team. but it's not crazy at all for the slightly weaker team to win over the course of 5 games.

Players who performed better this year doesn't equate straight up with "better players." Peavy and Vogelsong performances obviously crucial for Giants.

they performed better this year because they're better players; they were better before the season started and will continue to be better after the postseason ends

You're probably right on the whole. I'm just not sure the discrepancy is that great and really question the premise that the results of these series lack meaning.

the results of these series lack larger "meaning" because they were FOUR GAMES. vs 162.

Yeah, I understand that that's the argument. And I already said my piece about believing that teams are afforded a fair opportunity to show what they can do in the amount of time prior to losing three or four games.

the same holds true if the losing teams had won, btw.

You DO know that most of these were one-run contests? They are literally decided by a handful of fungible events.

Like last night? I don't think wild pitches and bases loaded walks are more fungible events than hits or strikeouts.

no one's saying the games lack meaning. there's a reason we don't end the season at game 162. you just have to divorce yourself from the idea that the postseason is about deciding who the best team is when there's like a million better ways to determine that. it's a contest.

It's entertainment (will post about this shortly)...

Short series, least of all 3 of 5 like the one my Mets won vs the Reds in '73, are a crapshoot. Were the Mets anywhere as good as Cincinnati? No fucking way.

Anyway,
ALCS = scrappy heroes
NLCS - villainous bastards

The Cardinals are the person who takes the parking spot you've been waiting for, clicker on, for three minutes. They'll step out, shirtless and tan, sunglasses hanging off the backs of their ears, and wave off your complaints. In their mind, they'll think they addressed your complaints politely. In reality, they yelled something like, "U jelly?" or "U mad bro?" and walked away holding the hand of someone insanely hot.

The Giants are more insecure, and it manifests itself in a mad desire to prove something over and over and over again that can't really be proven:

Giants fan: Why did you write that the Giants aren't the best team in baseball?

Pundit: Because they aren't.

Giants fan: /recites stories of recent success

Pundit: I think they have a lot of talent, but they also have ...

Giants fan: /complains

Pundit: You literally won a game last night with a bases loaded walk, a pitcher error, and a wild pitch.

Giants fan: /talks about knowing how to win

Giants fan: /mentions 'even year'

Giants fan: /clicks on 30 articles about the Giants

Giants fan: /complains about lack of Giants coverage

Giants fan: /screenshots postseason predictions and MS Paints "lolololol" over all of them

Pundit: I cover soccer as of five seconds ago. Please stop talking to me.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/10/8/6946969/alcs-nlcs-giants-cardinals-royals-orioles

god, the idiots going on about how bryce harper has "no class" need to get punched in the anus

Harper reminds me of hockey. I don't know why.