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Popete posted:Why didn'the just walk down the stairs instead of doing that weird snake slither down the handrail? Angel Hernandez is not very smart
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MrMojok posted:I know grifters gonna grift, but the one that keeps amazing me is Madison Cawthorne. I don't disagree but did he do something MLB-related?
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Oct 6, 2021 08:56
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:My rooting order would be: Man, how can you put the Brewers below the Astros? We were your division mates once too (and a more relevant one for almost their entire time in the NL Central) and actually have a ring already and cheated.
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Oct 6, 2021 15:36
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Do they not do the automatic runner on 2nd in extras in the playoffs? Nope (thank goodness)
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Oct 11, 2021 02:39
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https://twitter.com/UmpScorecards/status/1447570366377828356 just lol
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Oct 11, 2021 15:47
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MrMojok posted:Most of the people in this thread are pretty chill, Astros fans included, but I personally will never forget that Astros Nation on twitter/Facebook/etc were horrible people who used the Trumpian strategy of: to be fair I'm still pretty much this: quote:3) okay we did do it more than anyone else so ... basically all of #3 but without the smug dickishness (or at least I try to be without it)
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:As long as any player from the 2017 roster, none of who received any sort of punishment for what they did, remains on the team, Astros fans should expect nothing but loathing from any other baseball fan. No one is going to just forget about it because it was four years ago. Players who were actively involved in the scandal are still playing for the same team and the only downside for them has been they get booed more at away games. Yeah it's not only "some are still on the team" it's ..... most of the core guys. We even brought back Marwin 
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Intruder posted:Anyway, as far as the umpire grades go, do they dig into rating close calls at all? Cause those 90+% accuracy ratings seem a bit misleading since the majority of calls are pretty clear cut Sounds relatively reasonable, but like you said there are some super clear-cut calls in there so I checked all the called balls and anything that was in the dirt or well above or basically a brush-back or even Vlad Sr. couldn't hit it. There were about 30 of those. Same I checked the gimme strikes. I got 17 of those. So 47 of the 169 calls were one that anyone who understood baseball would get right. Thus, Hallion really missed 12-14 of 122 calls, for a percentage between: 88.5 and 90.1% Higher than I would have guessed, but a lot of what I did is still relatively generous to them, and missing 10% of the calls is still really bad.
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Oct 12, 2021 08:41
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rjmccall posted:On the flip side, how bad were his misses? Like, IIRC in the top of the 9th he called a high inside strike a ball, and then he did the reverse in the bottom of the 9th, but they were both incredibly close, maybe half an inch from going the other way. They’re not all Joe West calling strikes six inches outside. Yeah unfortunately all I really did was qualitative analysis, but there were several that were quite bad. And some also largely didn't matter from a leverage perspective either, like Hendriks' only called strike was terrible but kinda didn't matter.
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pigz posted:I've hated the astros since the killer Bs, Clemens, and them knocking the braves out in consecutive years in the nlds. Chris Burke's 18th inning walkoff home run against the Braves is my favorite in-person baseball memory. And hey he is/was a vile person as it turned out so maybe you're onto something. But the only killer B that was bad that I know of is Berkman and that's just because he turned out to be pretty chuddy. Not to mention McCann literally being on that 2017 team of course.
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kaworu posted:edit: Oh Berkman's chuddy? That sucks, guess I'll have to ding him some points for that. Oswalt always struck me as a barely-literate country bumpkin for the most part, but in a charming way. ohhhhhhhh yeah Now, as best I can tell he hasn't really been outspoken like that in the past few years so maybe he's made a turn but...... nah probably not
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oh my god this is from pages back but yes yes yesSilvergunSuperman posted:Get hosed you old bitch, why don't you drunk drive off a cliff Kevlar v2.0 posted:It hasn't, but they don't have a racist caricature as a logo and they live in a place with a lot more people who are willing to defend it. They don't have a racist caricature as a logo anymore
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Intruder posted:are we sure ben verlander isn't a bob pseudonym Ben how you gonna bet against your brother's teammates? Bros before hose.
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Intruder posted:Well Justin is apparently persona non grata among the Astros players so yes but then I can't make the pun about the Sox
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https://twitter.com/astros/status/1449039864914141186 yeah no LMJ confirmed 
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Craptacular! posted:Look, I’m not going to get behind the Dodgers getting World Series rings over any other team on any year, save for 2017 in hindsight. If I wasn't an Astros fan I would hate every team left, probably the Red Sox least of all but then I would still think Betts making GBS threads on the Red Sox in the WS would be fun. But Bauer getting a ring would be the absolute worst outcome, so even though as an Astros fan that hated the Braves for just demolishing the team's best years (at the time) by bouncing us from the playoffs in 3 years out of a 5 year span ... I would still root for them over LA. Plus the current Braves are pretty okay, so I guess go Braves but change your goddamn name already and Braves fans stop doing the chop you weirdos.
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I would have rather seen Sale in game 1 because we've historically crushed Sale in the postseason 
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Sydin posted:I mean it came out that basically everybody in the clubhouse loving hated Bauer even before the sexual assault poo poo dropped, and nobody in the org either on the roster or in management has so much as lifted a finger to defend him publicly, so I could absolutely see the Dodgers deciding to just dodge the PR scandel and quietly refuse to give Bauer a ring. He'd still get the little gold ring next to his 2021 stats on Bref though, and isn't that what really counts?
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Sydin posted:I mean the options are "give Bauer a ring and deal with the PR fallout of pissing a ton of fans off" and "don't give Bauer a ring and deal with the PR fallout of him and his stans crying about it." Neither option is good: the best option was to not sign Trevor Bauer, but imo option two minimizes the damage as best as possible. The best options is GO BARVES
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Kirios posted:Huh, I assumed it was Houston based upon recent success. How close are they? Finishing below .500 last year certainly didn't help. But even if we won the same number of games as LA that year we'd be two behind.
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Poque posted:Dusty Baker is my only pro to Houston winning what about uncle Mike
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howe_sam posted:The Arizona Fall League is also experimenting with an automatic strike zone and according to Keith Law in a piece he put up today at the Athletic it's also not going well. I might throw more walks too if I couldn't have my fielders positioned well behind me to make plays where the ball is going to be hit. gently caress banning the shift.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:I actually disagree with this. If they win this one it's going to redeem them and the media will fully buy into it. It's super annoying that they've played poor us victims we get booed everywhere, have had ZERO consequences, and could possibly win a legit title this year. It sucks actually. Nah it owns But also I disagree that subbing this year will "redeem" the Astros. To some, maybe, but I think we're just The Villains for a while until some better option arises.
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For actual baseball talk, I don't know who is going to start game 6. Luis Garcia would be the normal rotation but he left "injured" from Game 2 with "knee discomfort". The only other real option would be Odorizzi who proceeded to take his one inherited runner (from Luis) add two more and then allow Grand Slam #2 in the second inning of Game 2. But otherwise was kinda okay I guess? Hopefully Luis really was having a knee issue and has it sorted out because otherwise I guess the other option is Urquidy on short rest and then I guess Framber on short rest if we go to Game 7. I sure do miss LMJ
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At the time (and even in the GDT thread I posted) I thought Dusty and Garcia were very much exaggerating some routine discomfort to pull him when he just seemed to have no good stuff. I still think that's sorta the case, but I don't think they were trying to "get to Eovaldi" by cooling him off or anything when Odorizzi took forever warming up. I also don't think you should get 40 minutes to get the next pitcher in. If you have to use a guy for an inning and then go to a long reliever (aka, your next game starter), then that's what you have to do. I felt kinda bad for Odorizzi because he was just warming up the way he would if he were starting and having to sit and listen to murmurs of 42,000 people while doing so. And then he gave up a granny to boot. But yeah I hope Garcia has some sort of answer for whatever leg issue he was having because hoo boy having a first-half-of-the-season looking Luis Garcia for like 5 or 6 innings would be very sweet.
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Edward Mass posted:You didn't have a kid in 2005, so this means nothing. His swimmers are DHs, they weren't roster-able back in 2005. e: also as brought up in the GDT hey Dodgers thanks for Yordan Alvarez No Safe Word fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Oct 23, 2021 |
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Johnny Bravo posted:Well if Trump is rooting for the braves I'm gonna root for the astros. I sure hope Ted Cruz isn't a Houston fan or else I'll really be in a pickle https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1453586346602287106 Sab0921 posted:Ted Cruz is a pandering fan of whatever Texas team is playing. But also he's from Houston so of course. e: lmao I just saw the lets go brandon hashtag what a fuckbag e2: oh and the actual sign says it too, thankfully the thumbnail doesn't show that part
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The main travesty about Atlanta's stadium move is that now 755 Hank Aaron Way is not their stadium's address anymore and that is inexcusable.
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