Baseball 2018

rickenvox said:
Close enough traitor. We gave you the Raiders you know.
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No, you gave them back, which is much worse.

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rickenvox said:
Actually I don't usually care. But everyone suddenly cares about the World Series.
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It's the series. Even when your team isn't in it, you still watch. And I didn't really root for the Sox to win, but rather for what the bums do in grand style. It's almost as good as your team winning.

But truth be told I watched the game during commercials for the Sharks / Ducks game. Again, Beat LA.
 
335clone said:
It's the series. Even when your team isn't in it, you still watch. And I didn't really root for the Sox to win, but rather for what the bums do in grand style. It's almost as good as your team winning.

But truth be told I watched the game during commercials for the Sharks / Ducks game. Again, Beat LA.
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2 years defeats on home ground. Oh well. I helped set up the Ducks stores at the Pond so I had free access to a private suite for the first two years when I worked for Disney. Couldn't care less now.
 
This Series was popular for good reasons: two well known cities and fanbases with long traditions; good teams well matched; classic stories of villainy (Machado), redemption (Price), and the Man Who Came To Town (Puig), to say nothing of a fall from grace (Kershaw, Roberts).

That's an easy sell.

Then, add on some interesting baseball games. You could argue (persuasively) that Friday was more like an overlong war movie directed by some avant garde type, but it was tremendous: the heroic nature of Eovaldi's performance will stay with baseball fans for a long time. Kinsler's error threatened to place him beside Buckner in the annals of Boston Gloom. And then Muncy sending home an exhausted but game crowd, while the East Coast diehards stayed up 'til four, watching their souls get crushed in slow motion.

And that was just Game 3.

Game 4 was tremendous - and when we tied it in the 8th, I turned to my wife and said "we have this. I don't know how, but somehow we're going to win." Cue Devers, Pearce, Kelly. These guys are straight out of central casting.

People complained about 'the new baseball,' but every at-bat was incredibly contested. The plays and decisions mattered.

It was compelling baseball.
 
The only way it could have been better was for Sale to drill Machado in the ribs or the hands, and then strike out the next guy.
 
There's a great article somewhere that shows 3,000+ of Sale's pitches, including his throws at Machado last year. They are such obvious visual outliers that it's hysterical. Three thousand pitches all around the plate, and then two that are .... "a little bit inside," as Sal Maglie once used to say.

Frankly, I'm delighted he was not a significant story during the Series.
 
iT's aLl dAvE rObErTs' fAuLt!

Or, you know, maybe the team that won 16 more games during the season was a little better. Worth considering.
 
Danhedonia said:
iT's aLl dAvE rObErTs' fAuLt!

Or, you know, maybe the team that won 16 more games during the season was a little better. Worth considering.
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Why can't it be both? Boston was clearly the better team, yet Roberts squandered every possible chance the bums had. Not that I'm complaining however. Roberts managed his bullpen like an amateur. The bums also tried to play big ball AL style baseball, which isn't their thing at all.
 
Because when "it's both," it's bullshitting on the nature of competition: someone's better, at least for the duration of the contest.

Here's what we've heard about the Red Sox all year, in sequential order:
March/April:
- They'll be lucky to get the WC; the Yankees are clearly the class of the AL East now that they have Stanton
- JD Martinez? Consolation prize.
- David Price was a terrible mistake
May/June:
- The Red Sox haven't played any good teams yet
- Now that the Yankees are in first, their rematch with the Astros should be epic
July:
- The Red Sox have been lucky
August/September:
- The Red Sox have too many weaknesses to survive the post-season
- That Astros/Yankees rematch should be epic once Aaron Judge returns
- The A's are the best team in baseball
October:
- Yankees in 4!
- Astros will probably sweep
- Dave Roberts blew the World Series

Yup, there were all kinds of stories about the best record in baseball, but it wasn't until the last week of the season that people have even begun to grudgingly call the Red Sox the Best Team In Baseball. And sadly, now they are overdoing it ("History?" Please, this is not the '76 Reds or '98 Yankees).

The Red Sox lack a ginormous ego. Their stars aren't the type to blare boomboxes outside the opponents' locker room (lulz @ Judge), troll by posting opponents' past failures (Bregman, whose dad I know and if he's anything like the old man is a total asshole).

Instead, they just win. And win. And win.

Maybe because their players are better than the ones on the other teams this year.
 
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