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AND WE'RE BACK

The Great Game has returned.

Sorry that that your team won't win the World Series unless your team is the GIANTS.

Even year etc.
 
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@Stephen90 @Randumo24 @Stax Classic @DesolationRow @The Son Shala @THANOS @BruiserKC @Catalanotto @ras8620



“Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” -Job 1:21

Just when it seemed like Cleveland would cap off its epic year in sports with a World Series championship, KARMA rears her ugly fucking head and the Tribe blow a 3-1 lead. I guess pride really does come before the fall. Given the recent success of our other sports teams, as well as HIS EXCELLENCY TERRY FRANCONA leading us to that 3-1 lead despite missing Cookie, Salazar (for the most part), and Brantley, I suppose us Cleveland fans got a little too cocky about our chances. “No big deal,” we pridefully shouted after losing game 5. “Bauer is a shitty starter and he cost us the game! But Tomlin will finish this at home in game 6!” And then we lost. “Tomlin was rattled & the defense blew it,” we declared after last night’s 9-3 defeat. “But the KLUBOT and MILLER TIME will extend the Curse of the Billy Goat tomorrow in game 7.” THAT WAS THE PRIDE, THEN CAME THE FALL!!!!!

And now it is definitive. No excuses can be made. This one’s not on Trevor Bauer or Joe Buck or media bias or Kyle Schwarber or the home plate umps. We played like TRASH tonight, plain and simple. THE CHICAGO CUBS WERE THE BETTER TEAM AND THEY DESERVED TO WIN. For the second night in a row, bad pitching & defensive blunders fucked us over. The KLUBOT and MILLER TIME both pitched poorly when we needed them most. Kluber didn’t even have a damn strikeout before he left in the 5th. And that 4th inning featured some more cringe-worthy Tribe outfielding. COCO threw that ball WAY too high on the Cubs’ sac fly play and that RBI double to center made Davis look like such a scrub.

Obviously, it wasn't all bad. That wild pitch by Lester in the 5th inning was SO MUCH FUN to watch!!! It was CLASSIC Indians postseason baseball right there. Somewhere, Kenny Lofton was watching and smiling at that play. Then Chapman came on for relief work. I was hoping we would eventually break through to him, especially after he threw so many pitches over the past few days. AND IT TURNED OUT I WAS RIGHT!!!! HOW ABOUT RAJAI DAVIS WITH THAT WORLD-ENDING, MOTHER-WHORING, GODDAMN, BONER-INDUCING 2-RUN HOMER IN THE 8TH THAT BREATHED LIFE INTO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS THAT EXIST IN THE UNIVERSE!???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT MADE ALL KINDS OF HAPPY THOUGHTS ENTER MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The fight this team showed down the stretch was incredible, especially considering the fact that we were down 5-1 at one point. Just when I started to count them out, they hung in there and made things interesting.

And then, after the sports gods sent a 17-minute rain delay (which seemed like a bad omen in retrospect), BRYAN SHAW DID HIS FUCKING THING……………….AND BY “THING,” I MEAN HE CHOKED AND BECAME THE NEW JOSE MESA!!!!!! As soon as he intentionally walked Rizzo, I was nervous. Then, when Zorbrist came up, I kept begging for a double play grounder that didn’t come. Instead, we saw an RBI base hit. Then another intentional walk to Russell. Then an RBI base hit for Montero. Shaw has been such a liability for us this year. Unfortunate that, despite how badly we played tonight, we came back and had a chance to win it all in true Jacobs Field fashion. But lo, the sports gods spoke and Cleveland blew YET ANOTHER World Series game 7 in extra innings. Heartbreaking.

And can I just say how disappointed I am in our fans? The amount of cheering I heard for the Cubs tonight was DEPLORABLE!!!!!! This is what happens when you scalp your fucking tickets to the highest bidder! (Not to mention the fact that Jacobs Field had one of the poorest attendance records in the MLB this season.) There better not be an empty fucking seat at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario next season. I need to see die-hard Cleveland fans filling EVERY FUCKING SEAT!!!! Can't afford another embarrassing showing like tonight.

Anyway, congratulations to @Karbraxal, @Cashmere, @richyque, @Tommy-V, @Sol Katti, and all the other people who were rooting for the Cubs to take it all. You guys finally get to party like it’s 1908! As someone who knows what it’s like to have a sports curse broken, I know how happy you guys must feel right now. (Well Cleveland didn’t have to wait 100+ years for a title, but it was a painful curse just the same.) Enjoy that long-awaited championship; you guys truly deserve it!



THANKS FOR AN AMAZING SEASON, CLEVELAND!!!!!!!! DESPITE THE DISAPPOINTING FINISH, YOU MADE YOUR FANS PROUD, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING HOW DEEP INTO THIS POSTSEASON YOU WENT!!!!!!! IT SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE COUNTED US OUT OF EVERY SERIES IN THIS OCTOBER/EARLY NOVEMBER RUN!!!!!!!!! BUT WE DEFIED THE ODDS, PROVED THE DOUBTERS WRONG, AND TOOK THE WORLD SERIES ALL THE WAY TO 7 GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT’S IMPRESSIVE AS HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNFORTUNATELY, WE NOW HOLD THE LONGEST WORLD SERIES TITLE DROUGHT IN THE MLB, SO WE’VE GOT SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS TO TAKE CARE OF NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT FOR NOW, GET YOURSELVES SOME MUCH-NEEDED REST AND BE IN GOODYEAR, ARIZONA BRIGHT & EARLY IN FEBRUARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A GREAT SEASON-LONG PARTY AT NAPOLI’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT TRULY WAS CLEVELAND AGAINST THE WORLD AND WE LEARNED HOW TO RALLY TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES…………




:mark: :mark: :mark: .....……AND I’LL SEE YOU NEXT SEASON, YOU MOTHERFUCKING CLEVELAND WINDIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mark: :mark: :mark:
 
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You deal with this better than me... 2003 kept flashing through my head in those last inning. You could see it in every Cubby fan though on TV. They had that "god damnit.. it's happening again" look before the magic finally broke the god damned curse. I don't know what I'm feeling right now.
 
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That statistic is hilarious, @Stax Classic. :lol I took note of that last season as well! :woo

Barry Bonds would probably appeal to the point that he was a lefty and :bum has the handedness advantage at AT&T Park for fly balls vs. home runs. :aryha

On a similar note, the GIANTS defeated the devilish, despicable, demented and dastardly Los Angeles Dodgers! :woo :woo :woo :posey2 :pence

JOHNNY "B. GOODE" CUETO with 7.1 innings, 2 hits (he had a perfecto going into the 5th), 1 run and 7 strikeouts, and 2 walks. :bow :bow :bow
@AryaDark and @Deadpool @Honchkrow I am sure are quite proud of Mr. CUETO! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin
@CamillePunk @scrilla @THE SHIV @TKOK and other GIANTS fans are, I am sure, pleased with Mr. Cueto's performance as well! :cheer :cheer :cheer

The Giants' bullpen has not been a source of strength in the early going of this season thus far and they seemed to do their best to take the last five outs assigned to them with the departure of Cueto after 7-1/3 innings, having inherited a 4-1 lead thanks to the offensive efforts of DENARD SPAN, JOE MVPANIK, BUSTER MVPOSEY :posey2, HUNTER MVPENCE :pence, BRANDON MVBELT, BRANDON MVCRAWFORD, JOHNNY MVCUETO (he got a great hit right up the middle! :mark: :mark: :mark:) and ANGEL MVPAGAN! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin

Ladies and gentlemen, this was the 99th career WIN for JOHNNY CUETO! And, ladies and gentlemen, this was the 99th career SAVE for Santiago MVCASILLA!

:woo :woo :woo 99 wins and 99 saves in one game! :woo :woo :woo

GIANTS
 
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@CamillePunk @MillionDollarProns @scrilla @THE SHIV @TKOK

What. A. First. Week.

GIANTS! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin

Thoughts on Opening Day itself? Best summarized by the erudite exactitude of CamillePunk: http://www.wrestlingforum.com/members/desolationrow-page3.html#vmessage340017

Thoughts on Game 2? Was awesome.

For the first time since 1884 (!!!) the GIANTS scored 12 runs or more in two of the first four games of the season... :sodone

That Home Opener against the Dodgers, trailing 4-0 through four innings... the GIANTS came roaring back. MVPANIK is some sort of second base deity, nothing less. I will not accept any alternative arguments. As I was noting to Camille in the chatbox moments ago, Panik has proven to be, upon being called up, some sort of amalgamation of Joe Morgan, Chase Utley and Robinson Cano (somewhat park-adjusted). Simply remarkable. Tiny sample size, which means it may as well be thrown out the proverbial window, but it's GIANTS vs. Dodgers so I don't care about fancy shmancy arguments such as those: MVPANIK owns J.P. Howell's SOUL. Owns his SOUL. It's perverse. And wonderful. Powell faced six batters in the GIANTS series and surrendered six hits. 'Twas wonderful.

GIANTS threatening to be no-hit Friday night but unsung heroes Trevor BROWN and Ehire ADRIANZA took care of that in a hurry! :mark: Brandon CRAWFORD with that opposite field blast to straightaway left field for the walk-off homer... :banderas

:bum and ADRIANZA hitting homers off of Kershaw. And that's all you need to know about that game. :side:

Sunday: Johnny "B. Goode" CUETO with a terrible first inning, a BABIP-fueled nightmare out of some sociopathic Dodger fan's wildest dreams, with the GIANTS trailing 5-0 almost instantly. GIANTS said, nah-nah! :mark: MVPOSEY :posey2 with a blast! BELT, who just received a six-year extension--for his belt? does Sandoval need another extension? ho ho ho--with a home run of his own! Did I mention that the GIANTS went back-to-back-to-back with home runs in the Opening Day game against the Brewers of @A-C-P and @Ratman? May not have mentioned that. :side: :woo :woo :woo

GIANTS :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin :posey2 :pence :bum
 
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Thank you for the kind thoughts and remarks, @The Absolute, @Notorious, @The Son Shala, @H and others. Most appreciated! Best of luck to your Windians going forward, The Absolute!
@AryaDark @scrilla @CamillePunk @Teh Kok @Pratchett

When Matt Moore, who pitched an exemplary gem. 1 ER, 2 R, 10 K, 2 H, 2 BB... Astonishing. The Cubs seemed to have almost no chance against him. By the 8th inning it seemed as though a statue of MVMOORE may be created.

As the bottom of the eighth concluded, all I could say was,

"Bochy should just bring Moore back out to finish this."

It was a questionable thought. A starting pitcher at almost 120 pitches, having thrown eight wonderful innings against a powerful offense, with that offense's 2-4 hitters returning to the plate in the top of the ninth.

Why did I have it? Because I have watched hundreds of hours of 2016 GIANTS baseball... and those hundreds of hours of GIANTS baseball informed me of something. And that something is

DON'T TRUST THE BULLPEN. WITH ANYTHING.

Granted, on one hand, the very previous game should have assuaged some fears. The bullpen had to pitch eight whole innings and only surrendered two runs. The bullpen was the actual star of that game!

Yet because of the wear and tear picked up from that experience, my instincts were telling me, "No. Take the stellar 'pen performance from Game 3 as the improbable gift that it was. Do not go back to that well tonight. Leave Moore in."

"Leave Moore in."

"Leave Moore in."

As Derek Law was giving up a fairly weakly-struck ground ball that just so happened to find a little hole, I could not help but say aloud, "Leave Moore in." As Bruce Bochy motioned for Javier Lopez (!!!???) to pitch against Anthony Rizzo, I said, "Leave Law in."

Why Lopez, who has liberally displayed conspicuous signs of not being terribly effective anymore, got the first crack out of the 'pen as the lefty of first resort over Will Smith still leaves me befuddled. Bochy loves his veterans. Always has, always will. Lopez walking Rizzo did not surprise me. Do not believe it surprised a single soul attending the game.

"Don't bring in Romo," I said.

Bochy brought in Romo.

"Don't bring Smith in right here, because Maddon will simply bring in Contreras to bat."

Bochy brought in Smith "right here."

What I'm saying is, I should be managing the San Francisco Giants.

No, I am not saying that. I am saying that on this night, in this circumstance, with these players available, against these other players, and with Jupiter on its present trajectory, circling the zodiac over its 12-year run, the Planet of Luck, or so those who write those asinine horoscopes would say it is, I was gifted with visions and voices.

Or perhaps baseball is all just a guessing game. Will the pitcher throw a fastball to start the at-bat? Which location? Two-seamer tailing away high, or four-seamer over the hands? Is a fastball truly coming with a 3-1 count? Are the pitcher's mechanics right? Is he in an unstoppable groove, so to speak, a state of mind and body that is so ethereal and exquisite and undefinable that we cannot categorize nor quantify it but for using the most basic statistics and through the old critical "eyeball test"?

Moore appeared to have been in such a "groove."

Bochy went to the leaky ship and the leaky ship was blown out of the water.

Bochy is still on that field, you know. Walking back and forth, from dugout to mound, and back again, signaling to the bullpen, over and over, seeking to take the ball away from a pitcher on the mound who is not there. And he will go on walking back and forth, from dugout to mound, for the rest of his days... In The Twilight Zone... Right, Mr. SHIV?



The bullpen was a gaping, nearly fatal wound of a problem all season long. By most statistical measurements, the worst bullpen in the history of the San Francisco Giants. This was an epical, historic collapse, but it was altogether fitting and not in the least bit surprising as a way by which the whole season concluded.

It was numbing. It seemed appropriate.

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped and summer was gone."

--A. Bartlett Giamatti

For three even years in a row, the GIANTS and their fans earned their way to dancing all the way through winter. I would accept thirty years of improbably devastating conclusions to a baseball season that says goodbye to summer as the price to be paid.

GIANTS
 
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@The Absolute: Congratulations to your Cleveland Indians' Game 2 win, making that ALCS 2-0! It will be much tougher in Toronto, where the Blue Jays' lineup will be particularly potent and fearsome--but it has to feel good to be 50% of the way to the World Series!

Meanwhile, though...

:mark: THAT MONTERO GRAND SLAM! :mark:

HEY MY FELLOW LIFELONG CUBS FANS @Sol Katti and @Kabraxal!!!!! WHOOHOO!!!!!!! :mark: :mark: :mark: THIS REMINDS ME OF THE PREVIOUS GOLDEN ERAS OF CUBS BASEBALL! THIS IS GONNA BE LIKE '07-08!!!! BY THAT I MEAN 1907 AND 1908, OF COURSE!!!!! :woo :woo :woo

:mark: CUBS! :mark: CUBS! :mark: CUBS! :mark:
 
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I hope it ends up the dream.... 2003 was it. Then that inning happened. But this year they have more angels to bend those posts for them so maybe that will break the curse. I want to buy tickets to the WS but... the Cubs have lost every game I've ever gone to (a lot by the way, not just one or two) and I think my great grandma would haunt my ass if I dared screw it up o.0

@DesolationRow

Thanks brother. Our pitching has been really strong thus far, but the offense has got to step up and score. We can't afford anymore close, low-scoring games, especially since we're about to play in front of the most hostile crowd in the league. The Jays offense could explode and they'll be right back in this.

In other news, you're really gonna ride this Cubs bandwagon, aren't you?

:maury
Let him ride... we Cubby faithful are not used to people jumping on. You are born on this wagon and you are NEVER getting off. I mean, 2003 the wagon was upended, burst into flame, and then we were raided by highwayman. We just built that rickety bitch right back up. Though that left back wheel's wobble really needs to be fixed. Someone should get on that.
 
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THE LEGEND OF RYAN MERRITT WAS WRITTEN TODAY WITH THE RED BLOOD OF THE BLUE JAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How fitting is it that our most complete performance of this entire series was the fucking clincher?!!! After last night’s game, I went to bed worried about how the kid would do today! How could I ever doubt the wisdom of HIS EXCELLENCY TERRY FRANCONA????!!!! He worked 5 and 1/3 scoreless innings (with help from the defense, of course) and never cracked under the pressure. BUT OKAY, JOEY BATS!!!!! I’M SURE HE WAS REALLY SHAKING IN HIS FUCKING BOOTS!!!!

AND THEN, after suffering another questionable outing from Shaw, IT WAS MILLER TIME!!!!! The guy gets a double play on the his very first pitch (against Donaldson, no less), then proceeds to work 2.2 scoreless innings and threw only 21 PITCHES!!!! He rightfully deserves to be the series MVP and is arguably the best player in this whole fucking postseason!

Offense also deserves some props for helping the defense out! (Namely SLAMTANA and COCO with those clutch solo shots!!) I wish they had shown this much fight last night. But to be fair, Sanchez was fully-rested & we hadn’t seen him in this series before. It wasn’t as many runs as I had hoped for, but they did just enough to give us a comfortable lead and seal the victory!

@THANOS @RKing85 @KO Bossy [MENTION=][/MENTION]

I’d like to tip my hat to all of the Blue Jays fans here. After our somewhat easy sweep of those Red Sox scrubs, it was great for us to be tested by playing a worth opponent. Like our regular season series, this one featured a lot of drama & most of these games came down to the wire. (Minus game 4, which was a fucking disaster for us.) I was honestly surprised by how much of a defensive fight this overall series was. Both of our offenses struggled (minus Donaldson, who’s an outstanding hitter) and both teams' pitchers put on some great performances. Despite the disappointing outcome, the Jays performed admirably and I look forward to seeing them in next year's postseason.



WELP, IT’S ON TO THE FALL CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!! LET’S WASH AWAY THE WRONGS & MISTAKES OF THE PAST!!!!!!!!! 1954!!!!!!! 1995!!!! 1997!!!!!! ALL AMAZING TEAMS, BUT THE CLOCK EVENTUALLY STRUCK MIDNIGHT FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL CINDERELLAS!!!!!!!!! LET 2016 BE THE YEAR THAT WE BREAK THIS DREADFUL BASEBALL CURSE AND BRING THE METROPOLIS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ITS SECOND MAJOR SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR!!!!!!

CLEVELAND AGAINST THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PARTY AT NAPOLI’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RALLY TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY SAY HE WHO GIFS LAST, GIFS BEST!!!!!!!!!!!! SO THIS ONE’S FOR YOU, @JM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


















:mark: :mark: :mark: NOW LET’S GO WIN OURSELVES A WORLD SERIES, YOU MOTHERFUCKING WINDIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mark: :mark: :mark:
 
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Congrats to all the Cubs fans here! 71 years is a long time in-between NL pennants and I'm sure you guys are on cloud 9 right now. One way or another, somebody's gonna break their curse! I'm still thinking about what @Chrome and @Kabraxal said after the Cavs won the NBA Title:

The fuckery if the Indians go on to win the World Series this year too.
No.... cleveland got theirs now let the Cubbies finally get theirs. Pleeeaaaassseee.
:lmao :lmao :lmao

Four months later, who would have thought that we'd be on the verge of seeing one of these two scenarios come to fruition?!! WHAT AN AMAZING YEAR IN SPORTS THIS HAS BEEN!!!! Anyway, we're definitely coming in as the underdogs, but we've been the fucking underdogs in every series since this postseason started. The Cubbies are an amazing team, but I like our chances. We managed to dispatch two of the AL's best teams (with great offenses) despite key injuries.

And with 6 days of rest, I'm certain our starters and bullpen will be ready to go (including Salazar, who will most likely be back in the rotation). This will be a tough series, but our pitching & defense have been carrying us thus far and I believe they'll see us through. I've got my WINDIANS winning the Championship in 6 games, but I wouldn't be disappointed if they lost. Cleveland already broke its sports curse this year and it'd be great to see the Cubs FINALLY get that coveted prize that has eluded them for 108 years.

NOW LET'S HAVE OURSELVES AN EPIC WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!! :mark: :mark:
 
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:cheer :cheer :cheer CUBS :cheer :cheer :cheer

FOR 71 YEARS I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT!!! THE NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT IS OURS, FELLOW CUBS FANS!!!!!!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!!!!!! WE SLEW THE EVIL, DESPICABLE, TYRANNICAL, LOATHSOME, TWISTED, FIENDISH, DISGUSTING, REPULSIVE, REPUGNANT, SINISTER, INIQUITOUS, DEMONIC, VILE, CREEPY, UNCLEAN, SADISTIC, MONSTROUS AND WICKED TEAM FROM LOS ANGELES KNOWN AS THE DODGERS AND WON THE NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT!!!!!!!!!!

:mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark: :mark:

TO BE CURSED FOR SO LONG AND YET PREVAIL... Well, it's like @The Absolute and @Kabraxal say, it's a sports world miracle! :drose

The most cursed team in baseball against the most cursed city in professional sports! :mark: :mark: :mark:

:woo :woo THE GREAT LAKES WORLD SERIES :woo :woo

:mark: CUBS :mark:

Also, :lmao at the Dodgers!!! Not since 1988 have they won either a National League Pennant or a World Series Championship!

:lmao :lmao :lmao 1988!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lmao :lmao :lmao

:side:

YOU MAY ASK HOW I AS A CUBS FAN CAN LAUGH AT THAT BUT SOMEHOW I CAN!!!!!!!!!

ALSO SINCE WE'RE ALL SET WITH WHOEVER IT IS AT THIRD BASE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, AND SINCE I BELIEVE HE'S POSSIBLY SPIRITUALLY REDEEMABLE THOUGH HE WEARS THE LAUNDRY OF THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS, I BELIEVE THAT FOR THE FUTURE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE, JUSTIN TURNER SHOULD SIGN A FIVE-YEAR DEAL WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S JUST BEST FOR BUSINESS.

GO CUGIANTS! :mark: :mark: :mark:
 
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More on Sanchez' start last night, from PITCHf/x:


source: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB...04_05_tormlb_tbamlb_1/&prevDate=45&league=mlb

7 of his whiffs came from the "4 seam". PitchFX does have different movement values and there was a two and a half inch difference in drop and 2 inch difference is horizontal movement. If he could use his 2 seam for GB and looking K's and his 4 seam for whiffs it could be like adding another pitch.

CH


CU


4SM


2SM
 
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@ABAS @Chrome @El Conquistador (Feel like I'm leaving at least one or two White Sox fans out.)

The White Sox are pacing MLB with their 16-6 start. The last time they began a season this well, with 16 wins out of 22 games, was 2005, the year they won the World Series.

@AryaDark @Arya Goddamn Stark @CamillePunk @scrilla @THE SHIV

Yesterday I took my mom to a GIANTS game and what a doozy it was! :mark: After defeating the Padres the night before behind the outstanding Complete Game Shutout of Johnny CUETO's, 1-0, the next day saw the Padres and GIANTS combine for 22 runs. :sodone 13-9 was the final! :mark:

MVSPAN. MVPANIK. MVDUFFY. MVBELT. MVPENCE. MVBLANCO (what a catch in the 8th inning--no way does MVPAGAN get that!). MVPAGAN. MVBROWN. MVSAMARDZIJA. MVCRAWFORD.

Such a wonderful day at the ballpark. GIANTS combined for what felt like half a dozen triples. It was a great day for hitting on the lines as the Padres exemplify the standard AT&T Park outfield defense of bunching the gaps, surrendering the lines. Think they possibly overdid it. So many line drives. Lots of fun!

My mom had a great time, and so did I.

GIANTS finally got a sweep! :mark:

GIANTS :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin
 
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2nd straight start from Stroman with a 10+ K/9. So glad to see him dropping that "pitch to contact" crap, and he's still maintaining that great GB/FB ratio. He had a 66% GB rate tonight for example with that 10+ K/9.

It's even better since he did it to @DesolationRow's nemesis, the Dodgers ;).

Jays have won 4 straight as well! :mark:

 
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@AryaDark @Deadpool Congratulations on LOS ROJOS ending THE STREAK! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin


:woo :woo :woo LET'S PLAY BALL... TORONTO BLUE JAYS :woo :woo :woo
@THANOS @JM @RKing85 @KO Bossy

:woo :woo :woo BLUE JAYS :woo :woo :woo

Meanwhile...
@Arya Goddamn Stark @CamillePunk @MillionDollarProns @scrilla @THE SHIV

:bum :mark: :pence :mark: MVBELT, who has become a molten machine of mashing baseballs and masterfully applying patience to each and every last at-bat! :mark: His "Brandon Brother," MVCRAWFORD, with the massive three-run home run to right field! :mark: MVDUFFY. MVPANIK. MVSPAN. MVBLANCO. MVGEARRIN. MVCASILLA. :posey2

GIANTS :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin

With the Blue Jays' assistance, and the GIANTS knocking off the Rockies tonight, the GIANTS have sole ownership of first place! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin
 
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@AryaDark @Arya Goddamn Stark @CamillePunk @Deadpool @Honchkrow @scrilla @THE SHIV

Approximately one hour ago: "It's going to take an act of God for the Giants to score a run tonight." --My dad.

JOHNNY MVCUETO was fantastic. 9.0 innings. 6 strikeouts. 0 walks. 0 runs. 0 earned runs. 114 pitches.

CUETO was electrifying! :mark: His changeup was devastating! :mark: His slider was crisp! :mark: His fastball was punishing! :mark:

Simply a phenomenal pitching performance. Cueto is superlative in every way! :mark:

Yet Cueto must now begin to think he's pitching for those Reds who would not supply run support on his behalf. Tonight the Giants simply refused to score for him. Against the tough breaking stuff of Drew Pomeranz the Giants flailed throughout most of the game, though Pomeranz did surrender a healthy share of base runners.

It all culminated in the 9th inning. CUETO had delivered one of the season's best turns through the rotation for the GIANTS. He stood in the dugout, a touch melancholic, as he believed he would not be awarded with a win for his Herculean effort. Brandon Belt had hit a little Texas leaguer into shallow center field to reach first base but the Giants were down to their last out. Hunter MVPENCE, who has been out of the lineup for several days and was out tonight, came up to hit in Cueto's spot in the lineup. He was down to his last strike in only a few seconds, however. He popped it up... Shallow right field... Cueto looked so sad... My dad expressed sincere, unaffected frustration... I was displeased for a second... And then, the wind seemed to bat the ball around in the air and Matt Kemp, who came in to catch the ball in shallow right, failed to catch it, then proceeded to kick the ball away.

And Brandon MVBELT ran all the way from first base to home in that weekend beer league style of base running he employs, with Roberto Kelly at third base practically shoving him toward home as he reached third base.

And MVPENCE did it! :mark:

My dad was right. It truly did take an act of God for the GIANTS to score a run tonight!

CUETO.

GIANTS :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin
 
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Rather than breaking the gang up, apparently the White Sox are looking to trade for James Shields from the San Diego Padres. @ABAS @Chrome @El Conquistador


@AryaDark @Arya Goddamn Stark @CamillePunk @Deadpool @Honchkrow @MillionDollarProns @scrilla @THE SHIV

TWENTY WINS IN MAY! :woo

JOHNNY "B. GOODE" CUETO! :woo 6.0 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 5 K, 2 BB... This is only the second time all season that he has not pitched at least seven innings! And considering we're talking about pitching at Coors Field, The Venue Pitchers Go To Die Horrifically Painful Deaths, six innings and 90+ pitches there is like nine innings and 140 pitches at sea level, like AT&T Park in San Francisco.

Cueto is dizzyingly entertaining to watch. The GIANTS have three of the top 25 starting pitchers based on WAR thus far and it's all because of the spectacular offseason they had in bringing in CUETO and JEFF SAMARDZIJA! :mark:

CUETO stared down Gerrardo Parra today, who was in some sort of bad mood and CUETO let him know that he would not brook any sort of untoward shenanigans.

The GIANTS tied a San Francisco GIANTS record--with eight doubles in a single game today! :mark: Such an offensive outburst, precisely what you want to see at Coors Field! :mark: MVSPAN homered! MVPOSEY! :posey2 MVPENCE! :pence MVBELT! MVCRAWFORD! MVTOMLINSON! MVBLANCO! MVDUFFY with no hits but an all right day defensively!

The bullpen was largely solid today as well, especially MVSTRICKLAND and MVKONTOS!

GIANTS :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2
 
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:woo :woo Fun GIANTS game to attend last night! :woo :woo :posey2 :pence :mark: :mark: :mark:
@AryaDark @Pratchett @CamillePunk @EL SHIV @scrilla @Teh Kok

If the GIANTS fail to make it into the postseason due to the villainous cheating of the St. Louis Cardinals (what a controversial finish! all REDS fans should be up-in-arms! :side:) at least I was able to see JOHNNY CUETO pitch a gem! :mark:

For only the second time since 1913, the GIANTS saw three starting pitchers strike out ten or more batters in three consecutive starts! :mark: :sodone :mark: :mark: :mark:

CUETO! :mark: GIANTS lineup! :mark:

GIANTS :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin
 
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Completely agreed, @BruiserKC! :posey2
@AryaDark @Pratchett @CamillePunk @EL SHIV @MillionDollarProns @scrilla

Attended another GIANTS game and check it out: ANGEL MVPAGAN almost stole the show with a belly-to-belly on a fan who ran out into left field! :mark: :mark: :mark:

:mark: :mark: :mark: http://vine.co/v/5r39O0Z0wtY :mark: :mark: :mark:

And the MVGIANTS destroyed the damned, devilish Dodgers! :mark: :mark: :mark: An unforgettable 6th inning! :mark: :mark: :mark:

On the night that Javier LOPEZ and Brandon CRAWFORD tied to both take home the 2016 GIANTS Willie Mac Award in honor of GIANTS Hall-of-Famer Willie "Stretch" MCCOVEY before the game, the GIANTS, behind a stout :bum effort, piled on the runs against those blue-bellied bastards! :mark: :mark: :mark: Those churlish knaves like Yasiel Puig and Rich Hill wilted before the GIANTS' firepower as practically every batter got in on the act in that 6th inning, including :bum with a hugely clutch two-RBI double and Brandon BELT with a night-capping 3-run dinger! :woo :woo :woo :woo :woo

GIANTS :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin :posey2 :pence :bum
 
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MrMr is of course right. Blue Jays/Rangers was the only possibility for the ALDS. The storyline is still simmering and can now pick back up in October! :mark:

Congratulations to all Blue Jays fans here! :dancingpenguin Hello @JM @THANOS @KO Bossy @RKing85 @Diamond Taurus

Agree with the sentiment behind @The Son Shala's statements, however. Oh, Buck Showalter... You chose... poorly.

Let's review the situation. It's the bottom of the 11th inning. The heart of the Blue Jays' order is coming up. You're playing on a launching pad situated in a lunar crater.

How about... Go with the pitcher with the lowest FB% in all of MLB over the past three seasons...? Zach Britton has been able to not only survive but thrive as a monstrous entity within the American League East and its treacherous ballparks because no one suppresses home runs like he does, no one has a 10.2% in all of baseball... but Mr. Britton. Next-best is Sam Dyson at 15.8% FB%. Think about that. Over a three-year sample size, Britton is the best anti-fly ball pitcher in the game and it's not even close.

Again, bottom of the 11th. One home run, the game is over, and Baltimore's season is over. A couple of hits could finish the O's off. The big guns of Toronto's batting order are up yet again. At this point, the odds of the game continuing for several more innings, to make it worth your while to preserve Britton, versus using him right then and there to keep your team alive for the next inning, are rapidly diminishing. Perhaps you can get at least two innings out of Britton. Maybe three. It's effectively game seven. You have already deployed six pitchers. Perhaps it's time to go to

Instead... Zach Britton finishes his 2016 giving up a total of 4 ERs, sitting in the visitors' bullpen for eleven whole innings, watching as Ubaldo Jiminez gives up three runs with a walk-off homer in, what was it, five pitches...?... to end his, and his team's season.

Did the "save" stat just lead to the demise of the Orioles' season? I don't want to believe that. And yet...

Just a mind-boggling decision by Showalter. It recalls Ned Yost going to Yordano Ventura in the middle of the 2014 AL wildcard game against the A's, which was dutifully punished with a vengeance by the A's and Brandon Moss. Except this is worse. This is far, far worse. It makes no sense at all.

Anyway, one team in black and orange recedes, but... Now... a team bedecked in Orange and Black rises.
@CamillePunk @the man, the Myth, the Shiv @scrilla @MillionDollarProns @the Kok @fitchu

It is, once again, that time of year, gentlemen. Not only that time of year... That time... That year... That time of an even year... Uh, yeah. It's October, the tenth month, of an even year. This is the Time of the GIANTS! :mark:

We few, we happy few... we gang of GIANTS...

And to advance! The fewer men, the greater share of HONOR! :mark:

LET'S BEAT THE FRENCH!!!

Er... I mean... As Camille invoked Walt Disney Studios, let's BEAT THE METS, BEAT THE METS, STEP RIGHT UP AND BEAT THE METS! :mark: :mark: :mark:

And this one's for SHIV:



In the name of Prince Potentate Posey, our GIANTS venture forth into uncharted lands, a new adventure before them! :posey2

With Prince Pence providing particularly pugnacious and pressingly punishing pain per Noah Syndergaard pitch! :pence

Behind brutalizing Bailiff Bumgarner, bucolic and beastly, brimming with braggadocio, bemused by boastful braggarts bequeathing good sense and benign warnings to others! :bum

LET'S GO GIANTS

LET'S GO GIANTS

LET'S GO GIANTS

:mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin :posey2 :pence :bum
 
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MrMr is of course right. Blue Jays/Rangers was the only possibility for the ALDS. The storyline is still simmering and can now pick back up in October! :mark:

Congratulations to all Blue Jays fans here! :dancingpenguin Hello @JM @THANOS @KO Bossy @RKing85 @Diamond Taurus

I'm no Jays fan, I just love a lot of guys on the team. I can't wait for the Rangers to take them out in 4 :trout

My preferred Champions List:

  1. Chicago-Texas (If facing off, Texas)
  2. Cleveland
  3. Toronto
  4. Not Washington
  5. Not Washington
 
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I don't think it can get the furnace going this year with how the sporting world has gone!

Leicester City, Cleveland Cavaliers, and now the Cubbies. What. A. Year.
 
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Finally, after two somewhat pedestrian blowouts, we get the World Series game we were all hoping to see.

One thing I have always noticed about Coco Crisp is that he is frequently the star that stirs the milkshake, as it were. Not suggesting that there is an actual quality of clutchness out there but if there is he would be in possession of it. :side: When he got that hit to drive in the one run of the game I was hardly surprised. Fantastic late pickup for the Indians.

Strike zone was terrible from what I saw.

That bottom of the ninth was magnificently tense. Knew from the split second Heyward hit that ball that it would spell trouble for Napoli over at first base and it most certainly did. Baez put up a terrific fight but went down swinging. Everything you want in a World Series game's finish.

Five shutouts in eleven postseason games. :sodone TRIBE! :woo :woo :woo


Also... @AryaDark @CamillePunk @Cashmere @Teh Kok @scrilla @Pratchett

At approximately 11:50am west coast time on the corner of California and Cherry in San Francisco, I spotted a man. A man wearing a chartreuse muscle shirt and jeans.

As I drove down Cherry toward California, it took me less than half of a second to recognize him. Sitting on a brick ledge overlooking a flower garden outside of a medical center/hospital.

Johnny Cueto.

There was nowhere to park. So I did what I would never do. I parked in the spot at the corner for the bus.

Hopped out of my vehicle, limping a little from spraining my left ankle about an hour and a half earlier or so in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class, and approached him.

Shook his hand and we discussed baseball for a few minutes! :woo Told him that I loved watching him pitch back when he was on the Reds and how overjoyed I was when he signed with the GIANTS. Wished him and the team the best of luck this next season.

Limped back to the car and a traffic cop, about 5'2", older black woman, was walking toward my car to place the parking citation on the windshield.

$288.

Worth every penny.
 
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