Playoffs
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Brewers bullpen completely shutting the Rockies down. Rockies better hit better than this in Game 2 or they’ll be going back to Denver down 2 games. Yikes.
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Wow, that’s a really close fair/foul ball. It looks foul by just a hair.
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MOOOOOOOOOSE
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Pitching to Moustakas and throwing him 4 fastballs down the middle is a mistake. His slider is almost unhittable. Maybe because Yelich is on 3rd he didn’t want to throw a wild pitch but I mean. That’s really frustrating. Trust your best pitch.
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Moose, Soria, Cain, Cedeno, Albers. 5 ex Sox/Royals on this Brewer team.
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Brewers with 11 wins in a row. Rockies scored in one of 27 innings. This is a team on a roll right now.
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So far 1 playoff game has ended under 3 hours. Brewers have played 4 games all at least 3.25 hours long while giving up a total of 3 runs. How does that happen? MLB you have a problem and it’s called length of games.
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@wissox Pitching changes are the worst. They kill at least an hour of the game. Especially during the playoffs. They need to force all relievers to ride in on a cart and get delivered to the mound.
But to add to it, there are so many “extra” things that baseball allows and shouldn’t. Managers shouldn’t be able to leave the dugout. That means no mound visits, no umpire arguments, nothing of the sort. Players shouldn’t argue at all. You argue even a little, you’re gone.
Touching the bases on a Home Run is a waste of time.
A pitch clock should absolutely be installed.
Switching innings needs to become faster. High School players can flip an inning in under two minutes easily.
Catchers should have courtesy runners so innings can get flipped quicker.
There are plenty of things that can be done to speed the game up and make it more compelling.
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@Kcmatt7 All of those are true, but we’re also in an era of huge strikeout numbers. Those take a lot of time particularly when a pitcher goes 0-2 on the batter, then nibbles on the corners missing or inducing foul offs, suddenly, it’s 3-2 and batter fouls off 3 or 4 pitches. Of course between each pitch is checking on runners, batters stepping out, etc.
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@wissox people love home runs and home run hitters. So K numbers aren’t going down. We have to find a way to cut down game time and still see the excitement of guys hitting 50+ HRs a season.
MLB is trying to have their cake and eat it too.
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@Kcmatt7 haha its called sports center. Only way to watch multiple games action without a nap.
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@dylans I can’t even stand SC anymore… I just read about everything the next day if I don’t watch it live. Deadspin is the best for this, imo.
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Football does a great job of filling in the void between plays. There’s only about 15 minutes of actual action in a 3 hour football game.
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@Kcmatt7 box scores are what i grew up on and what i fall back on. The time investment for sports is too great at this juncture. I’m stoked about the Chiefs, but have only watched highlights. I really only make time for KU bball. I’ll watch every minute of those games!
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DVR is the best way to watch games, but of course, a game that ends at 11PM it’s really hard to do so.
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@wissox I just start watching the DVRed game about 50 mins late, then fast forward. You catch up to the live feed at the very end, and have to watch a few ads, but generally it works pretty well with that amount of lead time.
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Update: Game 1 4 hours long! Watched blue bloods in the middle and then Seinfeld and still only missed the 7th and 8th innings!
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Update 2 Game 1 of ALCS 4 hours long! If Rip Van Winkle was still around, he’d go back into another 100 year snooze! 37 pitchers combined being used in LCS games so far. Brewers manager takes out a starter who’d given up 2 hits, no runs, no walks and only 74 pitches. 2 innings later lead gone. The better arms in his pen used the day before in a bullpen game where the starter is a reliever. This is insanity! Make it stop!
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I turn to Yahoo sports to see who’s playing tonight in MNF and it’s the big main story. Buried on their main page is the NLCS. Unbelievable.
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3.5 hour games the last two. Still only one sub 3 hour game in the entire postseason.
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Anyone happy the Red Sox are back in the World Series? I’m not.
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@wissox Not happy but I am feeling a little ratified in my suspicions about the way the world works: money buys achievement, elections etc.
So my goal is to conduct my own experiment by winning Tuesday’s $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot. I will take the >$900 million cash option and scientifically investigate whether money can indeed buy happiness.
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@wissox Can we just fire Boston into the Sun and replay the ALCS?
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@mayjay Of course you’d share it with some of your screen name only friends I’m sure. That would make me happy which in turn would make you happy.
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@wissox I was thinking a cruise to the Bahamas for everyone who has approved of some of my jokes. We could make it interesting by having no nametags and seeing if we could all figure out who everbody is. HEM would be easy, of course, with those round glasses.
