2017 Playoff Thread [World Series: HOU vs. LAD]

[PinaMadness]

This is one reason why I'm finding playoff baseball to be unwatchable lately, even with my secondary team Dodgers playing. All these stepping off, mound visits from the catcher, mound visits from the pitching coach, excessive pitching changes, the games take about a week and a half to complete, and most of these games have been low scoring. MLB really has to take a stand against this stuff, toughen up and shorten these games somehow. It's ridiculous.

[Bombers]

This is one reason why I'm finding playoff baseball to be unwatchable lately, even with my secondary team Dodgers playing. All these stepping off, mound visits from the catcher, mound visits from the pitching coach, excessive pitching changes, the games take about a week and a half to complete, and most of these games have been low scoring. MLB really has to take a stand against this stuff, toughen up and shorten these games somehow. It's ridiculous.

100 % agree. MLB the only sport that allows unlimited timeouts

[trwi7]

It's weird that I really never thought of Todd Frazier at all when he was a Red and White Sox but now he's turned into an insufferable d-bag with the Yankees.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

The pitch clock is supposedly on the way, which may help "pace of play" (certainly more than the no-pitch IBB). I think we just need to be realistic about expectations, given that postseason games are just going to be longer than regular ones. You've got longer commercial breaks and additional pressure and all that. It's just a matter of determining how much is too much. 10 percent longer seems about right, with average game times around 3 hours and 20 minutes. Keep it under that, and it's probably fine.

[jerichoholicninja]

From the MLB Rulebook section on umpires under "General Instructions for Umpires": Keep the game moving.

 

Specific rules about when timeouts can be taken would be great but quite frankly, the umpires should not be allowing players to visit the mound whenever they want to. And the umps are totally within their rights to refuse a mound visit if they chose.

[PinaMadness]

7-0 Dodgers in the third inning!!! Kiki Hernandez grand slam!!!! Kershaw on the mound plus one of the best bullpens in baseball, dare I say this series is over?

[Spidey]

Call me heartless, but I can't get enough of the shots of Cubs' fans faces in the crowd right now! Keep 'em coming!

[PinaMadness]

Call me heartless, but I can't get enough of the shots of Cubs' fans faces in the crowd right now! Keep 'em coming!

We need pictures posted here, and soon.

[PinaMadness]

Lackey is such a jagoff.

[PinaMadness]

9-0. Choke on that, Lackey.

[Est1970]

One of my favorite days of any baseball season...Cubs elimination day!!!!!!

[homer]

Suck it Cubs.

[Invader3K]

Dodgers were the better team, simply put.

 

The Cubs had their World Series Championship. They can go another 99 years without winning one, for all I care.

[PinaMadness]

It's nice to be on a Brewers board where you can openly root for a team playing the Cubs in the postseason and not be permanently banned. (cough, BC, cough)

[TURBO]

Nice to see that Quintana, the guy they gutted their farm to get, gets hung with the elimination loss too...

 

All is right in the world.

[KeithStone53151]

http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20171019/images-dodgers-win-the-nlcs-over-the-cubs

 

Scroll through here, there is some good stuff in there. Sad cubs and sad cubs fans.

[PinaMadness]

This might be the most boring playoff series I've seen in my life.

[brewmann04]

So glad the Cubs lost but love what verlander is doing

[Invader3K]

Awesome to see the Yankees shut out last night. Astros vs Dodgers should be a good World Series matchup.

[PinaMadness]

I know they can't do this, but I think the Astros should go with their throwback uniforms from the 80s to give this series a feel of the old NL West rivalry.

[jerichoholicninja]

It's nice that this series will be played in comfortable conditions instead of the 40 degrees and rain/show that it is some years. Baseball is just not meant for those types of conditions. Over 100 might be a little uncomfortable but I'll take that over the other end of the spectrum any day.

 

Also, those World Series patches on the uniforms are horrible.

[PinaMadness]

If this opening at bat is any indication, Rich Hill is in for a short night. He wasn't even close on most of those pitches.

 

And yes, those patches are horrible.

[jerichoholicninja]

John Smoltz on the Dodgers not allowing their starters to face a lineup a 3rd time this year because the numbers say you shouldn't:

 

"Well, I don't know how long you can do that."

 

A quick check of the stats shows their 3 pitchers who started the most games all had an ERA+ over 125 and the Dodgers had the best record in baseball this year. I think it's working fine.

 

I haven't listened to any of John Smoltz before this postseason but he seems pretty dismissive of any new idea from the past 20 years.

[PinaMadness]

DODGERS BABY!!!!!!

 

Any lead after six is pretty much a guaranteed victory for LA.

[trwi7]

DODGERS BABY!!!!!!

 

Any lead after six is pretty much a guaranteed victory for LA.

 

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