World Series thread

[Brewluver]

4 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Well shoot.

Legendary performance from Yamamoto.

Between him and Ohtani

I'd have to say Japan beats Canada 4-3

(maybe the USA will be a part of it next year?)

[RobertCrawley]

2 minutes ago, jason21nl said:

I couldn’t give two bleeps about percentages at this moment.   I’m not giving up a free out 

So you said. But you double your percentages to score a run with a man on third with one out, as opposed to man on second with no outs. For what that's worth.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Bunting really needs to go the way of the punt from your opponent's 43 yard line. They would make sense if you got 5 outs. You just don't get enough opportunities to give one away in my opinion. In the world series with capable hitters at the plate no less. 

Think Barger was intentionally walked because of it. Set up the DP with Kirk running. Just saw that coming a mile away. 

[Fear The Chorizo]

Kudos to the Dodgers, for finding a way to win another World Series.  I hate them, but oh well.

 

Guessing they'll look at how close they came to losing this one and decide to spend some more money this offseason to shore up their roster.

 

I've never been more excited at the state of the entire Brewers organization (majors + minors )than I presently am...that being said, I'd be willing to miss multiple seasons of baseball for MLB to enact meaningful change to their economic structure so the Dodgers cant just be penciled into the NLDS every season just because their TV deal hands them $350+ million a season.

[adambr2]

9 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

The bunt is good play here.

The Blue Jays had 3 outs left in their entire season. And Schneider donated 1/3rd of them.

[yourout]

That one's going to hurt for a long time for the Blue Jays.

[bucks2281]

I hate the bunt but I hate pulling Bichette for IKF as a pinch runner even more.

 

The Blue Jays were the better team in this series and they blew it. 

[treego14]

1 minute ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

Guessing they'll look at how close they came to losing this one and decide to spend some more money this offseason to shore up their roster.

[RobertCrawley]

Just now, bucks2281 said:

I hate the bunt but I hate pulling Bichette for IKF as a pinch runner even more.

 

The Blue Jays were the better team in this series and they blew it. 

They had their chances.

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Bunting really needs to go the way of the punt from your opponent's 43 yard line. They would make sense if you got 5 outs. You just don't get enough opportunities to give one away in my opinion. In the world series with capable hitters at the plate no less. 

Think Barger was intentionally walked because of it. Set up the DP with Kirk running. Just saw that coming a mile away. 

Kirk being on deck was huge. It was like they were winningly walking right into a trap.

[Brewluver]

2 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

Kudos to the Dodgers, for finding a way to win another World Series.  I hate them, but oh well.

I hate them as well.

Kudos to you for giving them props, they earned it.

[AKCheesehead]

Should have beat them yesterday. This felt inevitable from the start. Everyone across mlb should just Sunday lineup vs dodgers,  take them down collectively, get them unaccustomed to facing an mlb team, then spring them upon them in the postseason. That’s my idea for how to stop them from winning every championship from now until forever anyways. Open to ideas. 

[RobertCrawley]

I guess there's some consolation that the team that beat us went on to win it all.

But there's more consolation that we went Greg and the cubs home dejected and defeated.

[treego14]

7 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

that being said, I'd be willing to miss multiple seasons of baseball for MLB to enact meaningful change to their economic structure so the Dodgers cant just be penciled into the NLDS every season just because their TV deal hands them $350+ million a season.

Ditto to the Max!

[adambr2]

8 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

So you said. But you double your percentages to score a run with a man on third with one out, as opposed to man on second with no outs. For what that's worth.

I don’t know what your source is on this, but there is absolutely no way that runner on 3rd/1 out has a more than double probability of scoring at least one run versus man on 2nd/0 outs. There’s no way that math is close.

[treego14]

5 minutes ago, Brewluver said:

they earned it.

Rob Manfred gave it to them!  They almost fumbled it away!

[HarveysWBs]

1 minute ago, treego14 said:

Ditto to the Max!

The game should be changed, but it is some serious monkey paw garbage that we may have to lose a whole season or more of the strongest position the franchise has been in, maybe ever, in order to get needed structural changes to the league.

[adambr2]

Just now, HarveysWBs said:

The game should be changed, but it is some serious monkey paw garbage that we may have to lose a whole season or more of the strongest position the franchise has been in, maybe ever, in order to get needed structural changes to the league.

Judging by our performance in the NLCS, we’re not as close as we thought we were and we need those structural changes first.

[Brewluver]

1 minute ago, RobertCrawley said:

But there's more consolation that we went Greg and the cubs home dejected and defeated.

You're a sad man.

If I ever meet you in the street, I will give you a warm hug.

There's always next year, and I can't wait til April.

I'm a fan of baseball, and it was a great year !!!

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, Brewluver said:

You're a sad man.

If I ever meet you in the street, I will give you a warm hug.

There's always next year, and I can't wait til April.

I'm a fan of baseball, and it was a great year !!!

It’s so obvious how much it just sticks in your craw every time someone brings up that your Cubs couldn’t get it done against the Brewers.

[HarveysWBs]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

Judging by our performance in the NLCS, we’re not as close as we thought we were and we need those structural changes first.

Not sure what to suggest, unless you think there’s a formula out there to identify “choke” vs. “clutch,” at which point I’m all ears. We have tried this thing with bats that go for power, and we’ve tried this thing with bats that (in theory) scratch and claw and try to get on base. I’ve seen some really great teams fail using either method. I’ve seen some clutch at bats get absolutely thrown away by bullpen or defensive meltdowns. I feel like the android at the end of Blade Runner at this point.

The constant? The Dodgers are always there, and they always go further, and now they have multiple titles. That’s the bigger story to me, and I don’t want to feel anymore like my team is just a fig leaf for a league that is patently, absurdly imbalanced.

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, HarveysWBs said:

Not sure what to suggest, unless you think there’s a formula out there to identify “choke” vs. “clutch,” at which point I’m all ears. We have tried this thing with bats that go for power, and we’ve tried this thing with bats that (in theory) scratch and claw and try to get on base. I’ve seen some really great teams fail using either method. I’ve seen some clutch at bats get absolutely thrown away by bullpen or defensive meltdowns. I feel like the android at the end of Blade Runner at this point.

The constant? The Dodgers are always there, and they always go further, and now they have multiple titles. That’s the bigger story to me, and I don’t want to feel anymore like my team is just a fig leaf for a league that is patently, absurdly imbalanced.

It’s not us so much. It’s more that the Dodgers are distancing themselves further and further from the NL field. They were never in any trouble in the NLCS. I don’t see us closing the gap without some structural changes. 

[RobertCrawley]

9 minutes ago, Brewluver said:

You're a sad man.

If I ever meet you in the street, I will give you a warm hug.

There's always next year, and I can't wait til April.

I'm a fan of baseball, and it was a great year !!!

I’m happy we crushed Greg and the cubs. Darned happy!

[bucks2281]

I agree that structural changes are needed. But when the dust settles, I think this will go down as one of the biggest World Series chokes in the modern era. Toronto outscored and outhit the Dodgers by a significant margin, and didn’t commit an error. Lots of devastating WS losses in recent memory (Cleveland 2016, Texas 2011, etc.), but this one takes the cake. 

[HarveysWBs]

10 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

It’s not us so much. It’s more that the Dodgers are distancing themselves further and further from the NL field. They were never in any trouble in the NLCS. I don’t see us closing the gap without some structural changes. 

I think that’s fair. It is easy for me to imagine a couple things changing our way in game one and game three, but trying to get two more wins even after coming up with a 2-2 record going into game five in that series is difficult to fathom.

Maybe you’re right, I don’t know. But it just seems like a shame that we’ve got a pipeline of talent set to keep flowing for years to come, with one of the league’s most exciting arms developing right before our eyes (a kid who also happens to have elbow ligaments that you have to think is a game of jack-in-the-box at this point) and now is when these league issues are about to come to a head. It is a frustrating thought.