Mlb 2019

[LemonMelon]

Thanks, everyone. I've never been as emotionally invested in a team before and they won it all! Feels incredible.

Soto getting a clutch insurance RBI off Osuna was like something out of a beautiful dream.

 

[bono_212]

Soooo....how's that stove heating up over there? Could one say it's....hot?

 

[lazarus]

Had to turn in before the game was over (I’m currently in Paris), but so relieved to wake up to this news.

Congrats, El Mel. I’m a Cubs and Dodgers fan but have been happy to support the Nats on this historical run. What a scrappy team.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Congrats to El Mel.

The city just canceled my permit to park a moving truck because of the parade.

I hate everything.

That is all.

 

[MrPryck2U]

Wow, congrats to LM! I never thought the Nats would be WS Champs, but good pitching is always the great equalizer in MLB.

I passed out by the 8th inning, so I missed the celebration.

I'm kind of shocked the Astros lost. This seemed to be their year.

 

[phanan]

There ya go, El Mel.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Well, this is over.

What the fuck.

 

[gump]

That was some postseason for the Nats. Congrats, LM. I was rooting hard for you guys (both because I like the Nats and I hate the Astros). Juan Soto is the best.

And it's pretty incredible to think that the Nats won the World Series with basically a 6-men pitching staff in the postseason.

That franchise kind of deserves it (and to be clear, most franchises - Yankees included - are pretty awful, but the Astros took it to a whole new level). It feels as though the Astros will be a notch weaker in the future, but they still have a lot of good young talent and some dark magic that makes 38-old pitchers add like 4 miles to their fastball, so who the hell knows.

Also, for all their smarts, how the hell do you keep a warm Gerrit Cole in the bullpen and lose a game 7 because of your less than ideal bullpen? I thought we had learned with the Zack Britton fiasco a few years ago?

Should be an interesting offseason.

 

[LemonMelon]

There's been a lot of speculation about bringing Cole in on short rest in a relief scenario, but even leaving Greinke in would have been smarter than what they did.

He had thrown about 80 pitches through 7.1 and surrendered 2 hits. We were complete shit offensively all night and he was one borderline call at the plate from striking out Soto. We put Scherzer through a tightrope of a start that was in several instances more intimidating than the scenario Greinke was in.

The Nats struggled all year to hit off speed consistently. Greinke had owned them through 11+ innings in the series. I was relieved to see Cole warming up in the 5th because anyone would have been better for us than Greinke, especially a high fastball specialist. In the end, they went with a guy who gave up a game-changing home run in game 6, and it didn't matter.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Game 7 of the World Series, not sure why you’re not using a starter on short rest instead.

 

[LemonMelon]

I think my favorite of our contributions to history is that we added to the list of teams that won the World Series after sweeping the championship series.

"Oh no! The Nats are in for world of hurt because they'll be well rested after annihilating the Cardinals without breaking a sweat!"

Fuck that shit. Even as embarrassingly pessimistic and negative as I can be, I knew that was loser talk. Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don't. The sports media even found a way to turn our utter domination of a division winner into an advantage for the Astros.

 

[gump]

Here’s Hinch’s quote, which I find unbelievably stupid for an organization that prides itself as “smart”:


“He was available, and I felt it was a game that he was going to come in had we tied it or taken the lead. He was going to close the game in the ninth after I brought [Roberto] Osuna in had we kept the lead.”

How is that different from Britton in that WC game?

You keep the best pitcher on the planet on the bench waiting for a lead (not to mention that he had a reliever - a good one but not the best pitcher on the planet - on the mound when the lead disappeared)?

 

[LuckyNumber7]

This washington team reminds me a lot of the 2003 Marlins. Not the makeup but the poor start to the season and the doubt all the way through the playoffs only to take down the big bad favorites.

 

[LemonMelon]

Everyone seemed to forget or ignore that by the end of the season we had been playing 107 win baseball for 4 months straight, had played a far more difficult schedule than the Astros in terms of .500+ opponents (96 vs. 63) and came out even in those games, even when our awful, injury-ridden start was factored in.

My #1 regret for this season is that, despite following over a hundred of the games on gamecast, streaming dozens on MLB TV and attending two in person, I still doubted them to the very end. Years of watching them fall apart in the NLDS and witnessing countless bullpen collapses successfully convinced me otherwise, but this really was one of those great teams with unstoppable momentum. They were going to run through everything in their path no matter who believed in them.

 

[MrPryck2U]

Well, at least your were consistent. You doubted them in Game 7. Savor this! It might not happen again for a LONG time.

 

[LemonMelon]

Oh, I will. Drank champagne all night yesterday and went into work on 4 hours sleep, I've already found a hookup for the morning's Washington Post and I'm gonna raid the MLB shop for everything it's got.

What I really want is one of those championship season highlight DVDs. Talk about a storybook year. But I'm not sure if they make those sets anymore.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

I have the hat and the championship dvd from the 2003 World Series.

I also remember going to my first baseball game ever that year. I was with my cousin and we were lost to the Mets and he said “man, the Marlins never win anything.” This was early in the season, but I continued to follow.

Anything and everything can be memorabilia. I got a practice ball from that game. I still have it!

 

[MrPryck2U]

Oh, I will. Drank champagne all night yesterday and went into work on 4 hours sleep, I've already found a hookup for the morning's Washington Post and I'm gonna raid the MLB shop for everything it's got.

What I really want is one of those championship season highlight DVDs. Talk about a storybook year. But I'm not sure if they make those sets anymore.

I'd have to think they still make those DVD's. Wonder what they're doing in Montreal.

 

[Hewson]

I think my favorite of our contributions to history is that we added to the list of teams that won the World Series after sweeping the championship series.

"Oh no! The Nats are in for world of hurt because they'll be well rested after annihilating the Cardinals without breaking a sweat!"

Fuck that shit. Even as embarrassingly pessimistic and negative as I can be, I knew that was loser talk. Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don't. The sports media even found a way to turn our utter domination of a division winner into an advantage for the Astros.

The notion of a baseball team having too much off time between series is laughable. Losing momentum doesn't happen in baseball ("Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher"-Earl Weaver). What does happen with extra days off is you line up your rotation exactly how you want it and your bullpen arms get some rest so they are fresh.
Wasn't a shock (to me at least) to see the Nats be the better team in games 1 and 2 after the layoff.

 

[MrPryck2U]

Wow. The Mets hired Carlos Beltran as their new manager. I like Carlos. I hope things work out well for him.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Hey, it's Kurt Suzuki and Lord von Dip Shit doing Titanic cosplay in a MAGA hat.

And a hearty fuck you to Ryan Zimmerman, too.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Wow. The Mets hired Carlos Beltran as their new manager. I like Carlos. I hope things work out well for him.

He had another offer but couldn't pull the trigger.

 

[gump]

Hey, it's Kurt Suzuki and Lord von Dip Shit doing Titanic cosplay in a MAGA hat.

And a hearty fuck you to Ryan Zimmerman, too.

Disgusting.

Also disgusting: extending Aroldis Chapman. Send him and German to the moon.

 

[bono_212]

Very disappointed in Zimmerman.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

More baseball players are pieces of shit than not. Garbage ass culture, not surprised.

 

[LemonMelon]

So we'll talk about Ryan Zimmerman and Kurt Suzuki making a mockery of their team but not the Astros making a mockery of the whole sport?



I only wish we'd beaten them worse. Fuck the Astros.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Yep

 

[Hewson]

Suspend Hinch 50 games
Suspend Cora and Beltran 30 games each.

Take multiple draft picks away from the organization and levy a huge fine.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

My take on the Astros is the same as my take on the Patriots and my take on the steroid era.

I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch over something that most everyone is doing in some form of another just because they're the ones that got caught.

 

[phanan]

Yep.