AL Wild Card: Tampa Bay Rays vs. Cleveland Indians

i think i want the Indians but this is my least compiling game.

wow - i had no idea Salazar was doing so well!
maybe i never took him seriously because he sounds like a character from futurama.

oh shit - i was looking at his AAA numbers for this year, not ml. still impressive either way.

I picked the Indians. Just a feeling.

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CLEVELAND -- Of the many reasons the Indians won an AL wild-card spot with a stunning September surge, manager Terry Francona joked that it had nothing to do with his final days in Boston.

"We stayed away from chicken and beer," he cracked. "That helped."

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9727219/a-usual-day-unusual-life-tampa-bay-rays-manager-joe-maddon

Raburn (RF tonight) will make a crucial error/misjudgment and hit a crucial home run.

DYoung v RRaburn

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KK

Isn't the season over, brownie?

I didn't know jackshit about Salazar til today.

wow, great start for the umps

shut up morbs!

:D

umps get it right

what's up with the weird echo sounds, hate it

i like Tito, but shut up dude

I thought it was just my TV. Driving me nuts.

at start of year, BP Prospects Guide pegs Salazar as potential "electric #3" or great setup man

what's up with the weird echo sounds, hate it

― brownie, Wednesday, October 2, 2013 8:21 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea this is weird/awful

i have a much better feed tnite, but it's hard to tell here

i think the echo is gone

wowwww lame gotta leg out 3 there

i'm guessin he's not a burner?

Casey Stengel always found a place on the field for as many bats as possible, so he woulda played Raburn too.

good luck brownie

ty

i-76-ish series imo

in the stars tbh

one weird trick = Masterson is in the bullpen for the whole posteseason

delMON

fuuuuuuccccccckkkkkkkk

Tampa Bay Rays @RaysBaseball
Delmon Young hit a go-ahead HR for #Rays and was intentionally walked in a playoff game. *Things people didn't expect to hear in 2013*

spencer tracy coaching the rays

huge dp

i wanted to hit just to make it interesting

christ

to a

god. of all the douche nozzles to hit a home run

a base hit would be nice right about now

nahhhhhh

come the fuck on

http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Indians.jpg

pretty sure these dudes meant well, but that is p. unfortunate

yeah

damn

With runners on base during a playoff game, Nick Swisher strikes out.

but you saw that coming with that swing on strike two

besides racism, Tribe would likely get swept by Boston

tbf it's not like boston fans are any less racist

ouch

I've probably seen almost every Swisher playoff at-bat. He doesn't seem to be the poised/patient hitter he is during the regular season.

xpost

Prior to tonight, Swisher had 181 postseason PAs with 46 Ks, 24 BBs. That's no good.

"I'm sure it was dropped on accident."

Looked like DeJesus said, "The fuck," annnnd then we see a couple Cleveland fans yell at him.

Ten LOB for Cleveland so far.

you can't do that in the post season

he should have had that

wd be less embarrassing if Indians' season HAD ended in August

b-b-ut mook, they cheered Ortiz when he said "This is our fucking city."

100

two sudden death games and they win both, that is sort of impressive

Kipnis crying? Aw, man.

Two sudden death AWAY games.

Oh, wait, nm.

Yes, both away.

Time for bed.

three, almost

who starts Friday?

no rooting interest but sudden death games still way stupid

moore, on full rest, i'd imagine

This was a sorta gradual death game, though.

sudden death games still way stupid

yeah

but is it worse than nothing? i guess it seems bad because we're used to one wild card getting a full share, but still

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Delmon Young now has the game-winning RBI in each of his team's last 5 postseason wins.

yeah i know it's different for MLB but i sort of like it because these teams didn't win their division.

i keep thinking they should make it 2 out of 3 but god i don't really want more october baseball

no, it's not stupid. October never proved who the best team was.

oh well. congrats to the rays and their fans. i'm still happy with our season anyway. love tito, love chris antonetti, hope we can get a power hitter or two in the offseason, but whatever happens i'm sure the attendance will be better next year. the future looks bright!

the indians are God's team

having one wild card seems more fair to me -- and often enough that team would have won a different division -- but yeah, win your division + everyone television loves sudden death

TBS is embarrassing

i sort of like the new guys viewpoint

and really like Keith Olbermann as host. never knew he was a baseball fan.

you are right about the rest however.

yeah pedro's gr8

and really like Keith Olbermann as host. never knew he was a baseball fan.

hmmmmmmmmmm

lol i was too young and disinterested at the time but i'm sad that there are people who think of olbermann as primarily not a sportscaster

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