ALCS

Post by **brian** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:39 am

Cowboy Joe West is named crew chief for the ALCS and the one thing Red Sox and Tigers fans will agree on this week -- ugh.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:44 am

The Tigers are playing? I thought you said on Facebook the other day that you were forced to root for either the Sox or A's?

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:51 am

Can't we get this guy?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-l ... --mlb.html

Post by **brian** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:53 am

Jerloma wrote:The Tigers are playing? I thought you said on Facebook the other day that you were forced to root for either the Sox or A's?

What I said was that I would be forced to root for the NL team since there's no way I could root for either the A's or Red Sox.

That French Guy · Post by **That French Guy** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:57 pm

I'm 0-4 rooting for teams in the division series. You've been warned Tigers and Dodgers fans...

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 1:11 pm

I'm headed to Game 1 tonight. Not a fan of either team, but I'll be rooting for the Tigers. I know Anibal Sanchez has had a great year, but I'd be surprised if he is able to contain Boston's lineup tonight.

cerrano · Post by **cerrano** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 7:23 pm

a saturday night in october at fenway? just as an experience, i would take that right now.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 9:56 pm

Joe K wrote:I'm headed to Game 1 tonight. Not a fan of either team, but I'll be rooting for the Tigers. I know Anibal Sanchez has had a great year, but I'd be surprised if he is able to contain Boston's lineup tonight.

Bump.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:07 pm

Just got in from the curling club to see Sanchez lifted in the 7th while pitching a no-hitter. What the hell? Did he hurt himself? Did he walk a dozen guys? Did he murder someone?

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:18 pm

Half a dozen.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:31 pm

Thanks. First thing I heard was Tim McCarver babbling on about Sanchez being the "kind of pitcher he is, he's not the type that is likely to pitch a no-hitter anyway". Uh, yeah, sure. Buck didn't correct him.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:31 am

For some reason my ScoreCenter App told me that the game was happening at 2am on the 14th.

Kinda shitty news to wake up to.

Post by **brian** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:36 am

Johnnie wrote:For some reason my ScoreCenter App told me that the game was happening at 2am on the 14th.

Kinda shitty news to wake up to.

Hey but on the bright side the Red Sox didn't get no-hit.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 11:39 am

Fun game last night. Even though Sanchez didn't give up any hits, it felt like he was walking a tightrope the whole game with all the walks he allowed. That said, he made some of the Red Sox hitters look pretty bad last night--Ortiz in particular.

Post by **brian** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:02 pm

That was the most tense I've ever been during a baseball game.

howard · Post by **howard** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 2:59 pm

brian wrote:That was the most tense I've ever been during a baseball game.

And your team tossed a one-hitter, 8.1 innings of no hits.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 3:59 pm

But not a no walker. Those of us not from Boston get a tad concerned with a one-run lead when there are baserunners everywhere, a good hitter at the plate, and the Green Monster looming just behind the shortstop. A broken-bat double to win the game for the Red Sox was a real possibility.

Post by **brian** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:03 pm

Two Red Sox fans at the bar today were insisting that Joe West "hates" the Red Sox. Is that a thing or are they just crazy?

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:55 pm

brian wrote:Two Red Sox fans at the bar today were insisting that Joe West "hates" the Red Sox. Is that a thing or are they just crazy?

The Sox fans were upset about a bunch of calls at the game last night. Particularly some of the Ks called against them on check swings. But all of those calls looked right to me. I thought the umpires called a good game, overall.

Post by **brian** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:02 pm

Joe K wrote:
brian wrote:Two Red Sox fans at the bar today were insisting that Joe West "hates" the Red Sox. Is that a thing or are they just crazy?
The Sox fans were upset about a bunch of calls at the game last night. Particularly some of the Ks called against them on check swings. But all of those calls looked right to me. I thought the umpires called a good game, overall.

Yeah I'm not a Joe West fan but it's mostly because he seems to be all about Joe West. I've never heard about him having a beef against the Sox that sounded like crazy talk.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:43 pm

Funny part about the home plate umpiring last night:

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Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:02 pm

Y'know, we should all take a moment to say a big THANK YOU to FOX Sports for identifying that every single person in the world watching the FOX Sports baseball telecasts is so staggeringly fucking stupid that we clearly need the FOX Sports shiny neon comet trail to show us the path of a thrown ball in super fucking slow motion. Is there a Nobel Prize for televising baseball? FOX Sports should win for the combination of their shiny neon comet trail to show us the path of a thrown ball in super fucking slow motion because we're too unspeakably stupid to grasp how a thrown ball moves and the paintball splats on their imposed tic-tac-toe grid that tells us where the fucking pitch must have finished that you can't see for yourself because there is a Valentines Day Massacre of huge cartoonish red splotches covering it. That's some avant fucking garde shit, right there.

howard · Post by **howard** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:31 pm

I hope the Tigers score in the middle innings. As a physician, my expert medical opinion is that Brian's heart can't take another 1-0 game.

(Personally, I'm watching zombies. But this Walking Dead premier sucks, 30min in.)

ETA: It got good. Real fucking good.

Post by **brian** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:37 pm

howard wrote:I hope the Tigers score in the middle innings. As a physician, my expert medical opinion is that Brian's heart can't take another 1-0 game.

(Personally, I'm watching zombies. But this Walking Dead premier sucks, 30min in.)

Sounds about right to me.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:54 pm

Make it three consecutive postseason games where one team's starting pitcher has gone five (or more) hitless innings.

Post by **brian** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:57 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote:Make it three consecutive postseason games where one team's starting pitcher has gone five (or more) hitless innings.

Previous record was 1. This one will never be broken.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:27 pm

howard wrote:I hope the Tigers score in the middle innings. As a physician, my expert medical opinion is that Brian's heart can't take another 1-0 game.

(Personally, I'm watching zombies. But this Walking Dead premier sucks, 30min in.)

ETA: It got good. Real fucking good.

According to your expertise, how is Brian's heart now?

howard · Post by **howard** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:38 pm

Heart should be fine. Stroke, however, is a genuine risk. Oh, and gut, which has been punched.

howard · Post by **howard** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:45 pm

Wow. Amazing game. We got a series.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:45 pm

Eighth and ninth have been everything bad about the Tigers all season long - shaky bullpen and bad infield defense, especially at the corners (Cabrera couldn't even move for that grounder).

ETA: At least I didn't have to stay up really late to watch the misery of how it ended.

And Scherzer's pitch count was 107 when lifted after 7. Fucking paint-by-numbers bullpen management.

howard · Post by **howard** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:49 pm

Oh, they just wanted to see Erin's blouse get wet.

(They didn't count on a sweater.)

ETA:

Brian 13m

Leyland is not going to be happy until he ruins everything I love. He is the devil.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 3:45 am

Now that's what I want to see happen when I wake up in the morning.

But hey...on the bright side. Ya know. Things. Stuff. Ammiright?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:37 am

Apparently this is real:

I made that joke like 9 years ago. Should have made the shirt too.

SportsDoc · Post by **SportsDoc** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:39 am

Well, the Tigers' Bullpen got exposed for the weakness it is, didn't they. Verlander better go 9 tomorrow.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:52 am

I was surprised they pulled scherzer but that's been Leyland's MO lately.

Of course, I went to bed on it, too and regret that.

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:03 am

Old Hoss Radbourn ‏@OldHossRadbourn 9h

When I played in Boston if a black man jumped over a wall the local constables would have not reacted in quite so jubilant a manner.

Post by **brian** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:34 am

howard wrote:Old Hoss Radbourn ‏@OldHossRadbourn 9h

When I played in Boston if a black man jumped over a wall the local constables would have not reacted in quite so jubilant a manner.

Speaking of which...

Posted without comment. There are assholes everywhere and anywhere. It was obvious the guy was an asshole merely for stealing a ball from a woman's hands to begin with.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:20 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:I was surprised they pulled scherzer but that's been Leyland's MO lately.

Of course, I went to bed on it, too and regret that.

The local media reports today said that Scherzer told Leyland he was done after the 7th (and Leyland was planning on lifting him at that point, anyway).

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 2:41 pm

Scottie wrote:Thanks. First thing I heard was Tim McCarver babbling on about Sanchez being the "kind of pitcher he is, he's not the type that is likely to pitch a no-hitter anyway". Uh, yeah, sure. Buck didn't correct him.

What did he mean by that? If he has high pitch counts, that could actually make some sense.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:53 am

4pm start today with slim chance of rain in the forecast at first pitch becoming much more likely around 7-8pm.