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Joey Freshwater posted:Minter starting game 5 lol Did not see that coming but him as opener makes as much sense as anything
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elentar posted:the Braves knocked out the Astros three times ('97, '99, '01) but the Astros won back-to-back revenge series in '04 and '05 culminating in that 18th-inning grand slam that was the last the Braves would sniff of the postseason for 5 years, I think that debt is paid You've made me remember Joey Devine and now I'm really sad.
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elentar posted:Did not see that coming but him as opener makes as much sense as anything Roberts seems to stress R/L matchups so opening with a lefty seems like an okay strategy?
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Sab0921 posted:Also - is there some corner of the internet or media outlet that is nice to the Astros somewhere that I'm missing?
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Spoeank posted:I'm glad to see you fly through the stages of grief before the series is over because while it's funny to watch the Dodgers eat poo poo year after year, I'm starting to feel for ya bud. Just get one and get the monkey off your back. Maybe some day I'll be cynical and bitter enough to blame Kershaw for not being as paranoid about signs in Game 5 as Alex Wood was in Game 4.
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Oct 16, 2020 20:01
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Dodgers and Astros both staging miraculous comebacks only for the Astros to win the WS again would be insanely funny And by god that’s what I want to see
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Sab0921 posted:Same, even with the sign stealing. I think people legitimately expect the color commentary of Astros games to be nothing but badmouthing them
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Oct 16, 2020 20:57
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Intruder posted:I think people legitimately expect the color commentary of Astros games to be nothing but badmouthing them They could do this while still being upbeat about the team this year! Say stuff like "the baseball world is angry at the Astros for what they did, and this team is now on a mission to prove they are good and can win without stealing signs" But that is decidedly not how the conversations on national broadcasts have gone.
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Team went to the World Series and was a bad Greinke pull away from winning it all again without sign stealing. Pretty sure they've already proven they're good. and you have to be watching different broadcasts than I am - they've called the Astros joyless, talk about the dark cloud of cheating and on and on and on.
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GalacticAcid posted:Dodgers and Astros both staging miraculous comebacks only for the Astros to win the WS again would be insanely funny I ... agree with a GA post? 
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No Safe Word posted:I ... agree with a GA post? I've also fallen into agreeing with GA on replay. The endless replays in Texas/OU last week brought me around
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Oct 16, 2020 21:43
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The obvious Yankees-Dodgers matchup turning into the Braves-Astros is pretty funny.
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I think calling them a "media darling" is a bit much but there's definitely been an odd little thing where in not wanting to directly reference what the Astros actually did announcers have talked about them in the language of underdogs and adversity. Its been weird and no fun.Sab0921 posted:Team went to the World Series and was a bad Greinke pull away from winning it all again without sign stealing. Pretty sure they've already proven they're good. They're still a talented bunch of guys. But they also cheated to win.
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Oct 16, 2020 23:07
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It didn't say that - and nothing has been identified that they did anything other than the trash can thing which the report said was abandoned in early 2018. The only other thing is Jomboy and a fake Beltran niece talking about buzzers. The Astros definitely didn't earn the benefit of the doubt, but to me, it's nonsense (however, given their actions in 2017 - I get why you and the rest of the universe think otherwise).
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Alright I laughed at this https://twitter.com/LeBatardShow/status/1317215469233950720?s=20
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Sab0921 posted:It didn't say that - and nothing has been identified that they did anything other than the trash can thing which the report said was abandoned in early 2018. I don't care about the silly buzzer stuff but unless I'm misremembering it the report clearly said that they continued to cheat beyond what was identified. It just seems silly to suggest that they just stopped cheating after having great success and without being caught. Especially when I'm pretty sure the report says otherwise. They stopped banging on trash cans to signal the hitters. They didn't stop signaling the hitters.
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The report said they stopped decoding signs in 2018 because they thought it became ineffective (e.g., teams figured it out and coded their signs) Relevant language. However, the Astros’ replay review room staff continued, at least for part of the 2018 season, to decode signs using the live center field camera feed, and to transmit the signs to the dugout through in-person communication. At some point during the 2018 season, the Astros stopped using the replay review room to decode signs because the players no longer believed it was effective.
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Oct 16, 2020 23:36
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This is not the defense you may think it is.
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Well I'm avoiding this thread until the relitigation of whether or not the Astros cheated is over with
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Intruder posted:Well I'm avoiding this thread until the relitigation of whether or not the Astros cheated is over with smh at this inability to overcome adversity
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I'm torn somewhere very weird between feeling bad because I really like Intruder and the Astros fans here and feel bad I brought it back up, and feeling kind of silly that bawfuls is apparently right and we've all kind of bought into the narrative that its adversity to the Astros and not just holding them accountable for their actions. I should probably just tap out of baseball discussions for awhile. I'm not actually having any fun and that results in no fun posting. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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Squall posted:The Dodgers have won postseason games and even postseason series in the past 15 years. Yeah that's what the massive payroll does
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STAC Goat posted:I'm torn somewhere very weird between feeling bad because I really like Intruder and the Astros fans here and feel bad I brought it back up, and feeling kind of silly that bawfuls is apparently right and we've all kind of bought into the narrative that its adversity to the Astros and not just holding them accountable for their actions. It’s not you or bawfuls, it’s a select group of Astrosposters who refuse to accept the reality of what happened and have decided to become full heels and just continually argue in bad faith for some reason.
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Oct 17, 2020 00:06
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Massive payroll: enough to get you to Game 7 of the World Series but not enough to win it
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Intruder posted:Well I'm avoiding this thread until the relitigation of whether or not the Astros cheated is over with You could get a few people together to monitor the thread in real time, figure out what's going on, and have them signal you when it's safe to post.
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In non-Astros news: https://twitter.com/nathanfenno/status/1317140536726147072 
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Move over Yankees, you’re about to have company. poo poo sucks so bad, I would have rather the Rays been swept. If the Astros pull it off, I will be rooting for them to win it all.
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There’s something horribly funny about potentially having the only two championships in franchise history both marred by legitimate asterisks for completely different reasons. It’s some serious monkey’s paw poo poo.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:You could get a few people together to monitor the thread in real time, figure out what's going on, and have them signal you when it's safe to post. Lmbo
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Manfred really taught those Astros a lesson.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:You could get a few people together to monitor the thread in real time, figure out what's going on, and have them signal you when it's safe to post. Gosh if only This is the first time all season I'm seriously beginning to 'what if' JV's and Yordan's injuries e: not Osuna's though, gently caress that guy
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Popete posted:Manfred really taught those Astros a lesson. Its no big deal. Its just a piece of metal.
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Intruder posted:Gosh if only You don’t need to wonder what if. Astros are taking it all.
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seriously though did Kershaw really do that bad last night? Got into the 6th and left the game down 2 runs. He can't control the bullpen. Maybe my Angels fandom has lowered my expectations.
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bees x1000 posted:seriously though did Kershaw really do that bad last night? Got into the 6th and left the game down 2 runs. He can't control the bullpen. it doesn't matter, if he gives up any runs or anything it's time to own kershaw
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If I was Clayton Kershaw and I didn't want the bullpen to blow up my ERA because of inherited runners I would simply not permit runners on base
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There's probably some angle where if you're chasing Kershaw with runners on base you are like by definition hitting well but still
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Where can you look up inherited runner rate? I'm curious about something
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It’s on baseball ref
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