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SWEET HOME CHICAGO

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THE YANKEES HAVE PULLED OFF THE UPSET OF ALL UPSETS!!!! NO ONE EXPECTED THEM TO WIN AND THEY DID IT!!!! STEPHEN A SMITH DECLARED VICTORY THIS MORNING AND THEY MADE IT HAPPEN!!! :woo :thelaw :woo @MrMister

Indians fought THE LAW and THE LAW won.

(yes everyone im aware Judge was really bad at the plate in this series)
 
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I hope the old nWo music from WCW plays when the Yankees put a Yankee jersey on Stanton, and Judge, Sanchez and Tanaka come out, Tanaka with a toothpick in his mouth.
 
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re: MLB: lmfao Boston teams always getting caught cheating

@AryaDark @CamillePunk @MillionDollarProns @Purpleyellowgreen @scrilla @FitChi @THE FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH

Every day I thought MrMr was just spreading the bad word about Sam Dyson to me just as a friend chatting about baseball, one of our favorite pastimes. Instead I am living in a Stephen King novel and MrMr WAS CYNICALLY PUTTING ME AND MY BASEBALL TEAM UNDER A HORRIBLE SPELL, SOMEHOW SENDING OUT BRAIN WAVES TO SAN FRANCISCO TO ENSURE THE GIANTS WOULD ACTUALLY TRADE FOR SAM DYSON!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:


Oh, wait. :curry2

GIANTS need to tank and this actually helps. /strokes chin... too bad I just finished shaving an hour ago while watching cars crawl on the Bay Bridge

Plus, not surprisingly, Dyson is only netting the Rangers either some cash or a player-to-be-named-later.

Nevertheless... This is kind of funny. :lol I mean... Maybe in some low-leverage settings at AT&T Park he might rediscover himself...? :lol

Yeah, probably not. But whatever! Let's tank like it's an odd year! :mark:







:lmao

Seriously, though, I mostly genuinely like this move. It's almost zero-risk for a team that is going nowhere this season anyway in the Giants. And there's the perhaps one-in-six Reversed Russian Roulette chance that Dyson finds that nasty stuff of his again in a new setting in the National League West. :mark:

GIANTS
 
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I'm pretty sure Lindor's grand slam was the facilitator.

There's a chance the outcome would have been different. One strike left, if gotten, bases wouldn't have been loaded, no grand slam, no extra innings.

It's cute that all the Indians fans want to stick their heads up each other's asses in agreement, but, regardless, he wasn't hit, and that is two games in a row that Cleveland got away with shit, although Girardi is a fool for not challenging.

Either way, already knew that the Yankees would not have much of a chance to advance to the next round, we had a great season, just waiting to see which team to root for who play the Indians. Hoping the fans don't get to see them win for another year.
I'm not even an Indians fan. But it's straight up foolish to sit there and blame one blown call on the outcome of the game. This isn't like 97 where the Marlins were able to knock out the Braves because the Umpires strike zone through out the whole series was completely fucked. You are sitting here complaining about one fucking call and are acting like it's the reason the Yankees lost. It's not. They lost because Cleveland was the better team that night. Get your head out of your ass and get over it.
 
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Whether we win this series or not, the Yankees made it further than anyone thought they would. We were 'suppose' to be swept by the Indians and that didn't happen. I love my team, but, I am not a blind, biased dildo like a lot of fans are, I am not going to yell out that they are going to easily beat a team that is stacked, but, alas, they proved me wrong, and these are the times I am happy to be wrong.

Astros are a great team and for us to hold them down to only a one run win is a bit of an accomplishment.

I hope the Yankees go all the way, but, if we get outed this series, I am still proud as hell of these boys, they had a great run.
 
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@ABAS I expect the Chicago White Sox to get good sooner than later. They've made some great moves that look like they are starting to pay off. I don't know if Chisox will here next year, but it's not far away.



This is just the beginning for this Yankees team. I expect to see them back here quite a bit in the years to come. Of course, I don't think Houston is going anywhere either. Astros are going to be good for quite a few years here too.


OK, Game 2 of the ALCS might have actually been better than Game 1 and that's saying a lot. Verlander is as Verlander as he's ever been Verlander. What a pitcher. It was definitely greedy to send Gardner to 3rd, but at the same time it took a perfect wtf relay to get him out there. NYY definitely underestimated that Stros ability to play fundamentally sound baseball. I don't think it was a bad call though. Garder still has some ok wheels, it just wasn't enough against Reddick and Correa.

And speaking of Correa...what a fucking clutch hit (so was Altuve's). I didn't think Altuve could get home after Judge made an impressive stop to keep the ball from the wall, but again, I think it was probably the right call to send him home just like I think it was right for Gardner to go for 3rd. If Sanchez handles that ball, Altuve looked out to me, but we'll never now. Altuve is a crafty player. He might have evaded any potential tag.

So yeah, amazing two games so far. Don't worry Yankees, you will get some Bronx magic.
 
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Incredible game today. Yanks down 4-0 practically the entire game. Feeling like one of those games where it just wasn't going to happen. They then take the lead in the bottom of the 8th scoring 6 unanswered runs. Judge blasts a shot, Sanchez with a big double, Frazier with a big hit. The stadium came unglued after taking the lead.

Sonny Gray also pitched a great game. He's been quite good since being traded for, but the Yankees just don't score runs for the poor guy. Too bad he couldn't get the win today, he certainly deserved it today.

Whatever happens from here on out in this series, this has been an incredible ride as a Yankees fan. None of us expected this type of a run from them in 2017. Maybe 2018, but most thought this team would/could have a run like this in 2019; certainly not 2017. I think that's part of the reason the fans at the Stadium have provided this team with such a lift in these homes games; none of us expected this. This is the first time since this new stadium has been built (2009) where fans and NY media are comparing it to the raucous crowd reactions in the old Yankee Stadium. Even in 2009 when the Yankees won it all in the first year in this new Stadium, the crowd was good, but nowhere near as good as they've been this postseason, and it certainly wasn't getting comparisons to crowd reactions from the old Stadium, even despite winning it all in 2009.

It's probably also because the strong majority of this team is homegrown. Brian Cashman has had an incredible last 2 years of completely rebuilding this team. He's basically rebuilt the entire farm AND big league squad in 2 years. It's incredible and he's getting alot of credit and respect for this run here in the NY/NJ metropolitan area, from both the fans and media. It's also been great for alot of us NY Giants and Yankees fans here in the metropolitan area who were expecting a big year from the Giants. The Yankees have completely picked us all up and have picked up the slack for us Giants/Yankees fans, and for the NY media themselves to have something relevant to talk about sports-wise here in NY/NJ.

No matter how this thing ends, it's been an incredibly fun ride. Yankees fans are incredibly pumped not only for the rest of this postseason, no matter how it plays out; but also the next decade+ with this young, incredibly talented nucleus we have going forward. This Yankee's farm system isn't done yet. Wait until Gleyber Torres gets called up next year. He's actually the crown-jewel of all of the young guys Cashman has rebuilt this team with, right up there with Judge and Sanchez. Watch out.
 
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OH MY FUCKING GODM I JUST WOKE UP. HOLY SHIIIIIIIIT
@SantaStopper @DecEmber Moon @Dr. Bexmas @DesolationRow

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

By Mike Axisa 38m ago • 2 min read

After rejecting trades to San Francisco and St. Louis, reigning NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton is reportedly heading to New York.
The Yankees and Marlins have reportedly agreed to a trade that will send Stanton to New York, according to Jon Heyman of Fanrag Sports. Full details of the trade are unknown, though the Marlins are expected to receive Starlin Castro and prospects. Neither club has confirmed the deal.

Stanton is three years into his massive 13-year, $325 million contract, which includes the full no-trade clause he used to block deals to the Giants and Cardinals. Both teams released statements Fridaysaying they had agreed to a trade with the Marlins, but were rejected by Stanton. The Dodgers were known to be Stanton's first choice, though the Yankees, Cubs, and Astroswere also on his approved list.
The Marlins have been looking to move Stanton, fresh off his 59 home run season, as a way to cut costs. The new ownership group fronted by Derek Jeter wants to get the team's debt under control and one of the easiest ways to do that is by trading the team's most expensive player. Once Stanton rejected the Giants and Cardinals, Miami lost leverage, and the Yankees pounced even though they already have a pretty great power-hitting right fielder in Aaron Judge.
For weeks the Yankee have made it clear they want to get under the $197 million luxury tax threshold in 2018, which would reset their tax rate -- they are currently taxed at the maximum 50 percent -- and save the club millions. That is still doable even while taking on Stanton's contract. The Yankees had about $32 million in payroll space available before the trade, plus the inclusion of Castro in the trade will offset some of Stanton's salary. It's possible the Marlins will eat some money as well.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...dly-have-agreed-to-a-giancarlo-stanton-trade/
 
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re: MLB: lmfao Boston teams always getting caught cheating

"if you think you know please go to the comments section and get into a huge fight"

:lmao


I also really like how he blew his own mind. He wasn't expecting that result at all.

TL;DR Bonds had an absurd .609 OBP in 2004. The simulator with him not having a bat put him at .608 (the pitchers are not aware of him not having a bat and it doesn't care if he never actually hits the ball pls use your imagination). The point here is that pitchers feared him like no other slugger in history. Rightfully so.

If you throw him a strike, he's going to fuck you. If you don't throw him a strike, he's still pretty likely you crush you. So don't even bother. Put the guy on base.
 
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re: MLB: lmfao Boston teams always getting caught cheating

@AryaDark @CamillePunk @MillionDollarProns @IDONTSHIV FOREVER @FitChi @Purpleyellowgreen @scrilla @Dub

The Giants won a baseball game tonight. They played the Los Angeles Dodgers down at Chavez Ravine and won the game. Some fellow by the name of Clayton Kershaw was pitching for this baseball team known as the Dodgers. The GIANTS had Johnny CUETO pitching.

One GIANTS television personality after another kept assuring fans that the dismalness of April would be replaced by the refreshing warmth of May, that the mere act of flipping a calendar over would result in an unstoppable amassing of victories. Only ex-baseball players could think this way because only baseball players think this way. It's embarrassingly superstitious and it makes no sense whatsoever in any way. What, the team was under some mystical fugue because "APRIL"?

It is absurd. It is ridiculous.

But what if it's true? What if baseball seasons are written like M. Night Shyamalan screenplays? What if there's more to all which makes the earth turn than meets the eye?

What if Clayton Kershaw was not his usual dominant self? What if, in the flurry of calendar-flipping, his calendar was mistakenly flipped to October? What if he thought he was pitching in the postseason again? (All right, all right, these jokes are rather petty. :side:)

In any event, Kershaw was more than adequately human by his standards, hanging a curveball that Hunter Pence crushed into the left field bleachers. :pence

He actually threw an terrific pitch, a cutter with devastating movement, against Buster Posey, but Posey tomahawked it out of the ballpark. Kershaw made a funny face. An extraordinarily funny face. The primal scream, that knowledge to which he clung that this ballgame was probably over because he threw precisely the pitch he wanted to throw and Posey still blasted it into the bleachers... One may sympathize. Kershaw usually performs like an automaton, a coldblooded, passionless, conscienceless assassin, surgically picking a terribly flawed lineup apart like so many science class-acquired frogs.

Not on this night, however.

Cueto was imperfect in his own right, quite so. Yet he performed under duress, like the hero of an action film whose wife and child are kidnapped by the wicked villain, sweating profusely, operating on the fly, making it up as he goes along. In spite of the toughness of the adventure, Cueto managed to pitch something of a fine game. He struck out 6 over 7 grueling innings, issuing one BB, and 6 hits, about half of which were BABIP nonsense. It was enough damage to account for the 3 runs the Dodgers had on the night, but with a game score of 58 he still had a better outcome than Kershaw (47) whose surrendered home runs to :pence and :posey2 and the RBI single he surrendered to Christian ARROYO, one of the two singles ARROYO extracted from the Giants' nemesis, sandwiching a nasty full count Kershaw slider-induced swinging strikeout, put the GIGANTES at 4 runs.

It was such an oddball night, Gorkys HERNANDEZ and Eduardo NUNEZ had hits, too! NUNEZ with a ground rule double! :mark:

Who was the unsung hero? None other than Steven MVOKERT, who was given the task of pitching through five batters from the beginning of the bottom of the 8th all the way to the penultimate threat, Cody Bellinger. Okert was magnificent, striking out one of the five batters, and keeping the Dodgers' lefties and switch-hitters in knots, starting with the phenomenal Corey Seager. Derek "I AM THE" LAW came in to retire Yasiel Puig, which he did, forcing the swinging strikeout, on which the GIANTS prevailed! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance :dance2 :dancingpenguin

GIANTS











LOL, Kershaw, the slump-buster:



MVPosey's first extra base hit since April 10, when he was concussed... :sodone













GIANTS
 
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re: MLB: lmfao Boston teams always getting caught cheating

Hello @JM.

Yes Hunter Strickland has a helmet force field around him.

Bryce Harper found out that the pitch thrown into him was... a TRAP!



GIANTS would have the #2 pick in the 2018 draft if the season ended right now!

TANK.
 
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