Wild Card IGT -- Brewers @ Nationals, 10/1/19

[Frayed Knot]

=Gwreck post_id=23489 time=1569985227 user_id=56]
Can't believe they didn't bring in Doolittle to close.

[LWFS]

Nationals advancing due to a bullpen collapse. Huh. What a world.

[Centerfield]

The racist pig will cost them their season.



Damn shame.

[bmfc1]

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[Centerfield]

The Milwaukee fans gave the racist, homophobic, pitcher a standing ovation when he returned. They didn't forgive him. They didn't begrudgingly take him back. They gave him a standing fucking ovation. I suspect that scene sticks in the minds of minorities more than the average white fan. Nice city. Also, https://www.wuwm.com/post/ranking-milwaukee-still-countrys-most-segregated-metro-area#stream/0most https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-milwaukee-most-segregated-polarized-place.htmlsegregated https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/special-reports/milwaukee-violence/2019/07/10/milwaukee-segregation-how-we-measure-and-define/1523075001/city in the https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/03/05/390723644/why-is-milwaukee-so-bad-for-black-peopledamn https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/milwaukee-shows-what-segregation-does-to-american-cities.htmlnation, thanks to perhaps the most pervasive metro-area https://www.wiscontext.org/how-redlining-continues-shape-racial-segregation-milwaukeeredlining. *NOTE: In case you don't care to click through to what are some fascinating, in-depth articles, it's worth noting that each of those is to a different one, dating to a different time in the last 10-15 years.

Fist bump.

[bmfc1]

Great job by Strasburg. I'll say it: great job by Rizzo getting Hudson. Unlike a certain GM, he tried to help his bullpen at the trade deadline.

But fuck Hader. Fuck Grisham (I don't feel bad for him for making a big mistake). Fuck the Brewers who were swinging for the fences all night.

Dammit, I have to root for the Dodgers now.

[ashie62]

Hader is tough to root for. Fun game won by the better team

[bmfc1]

Here's a tweet that a Mets fan wouldn't send under similar circumstances (and rightly so):

https://twitter.com/BrewerNation/status/1179232287730421761https://twitter.com/BrewerNation/status/1179232287730421761

[G-Fafif]

Here's a tweet that a Mets fan wouldn't send under similar circumstances (and rightly so): https://twitter.com/BrewerNation/status/1179232287730421761https://twitter.com/BrewerNation/status/1179232287730421761

I dig good sportsmanship cap-tipping, but too soon.

[G-Fafif]

Actually that is less cap-tipping than atta boy to their guys.



Also too soon after that conclusion.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

See what you Brewers fans did? You made the Nationals win! The key was rooting for them both to lose and then you couldn't go wrong.

[Frayed Knot]

Couple of post-mortems:



- It's the 'DUH!' statement of the year to suggest that Grisham needs to play that ball better in RF, but particularly so because the Brews were in a no-doubles set-up meaning he was far too deep to even think about throwing a pinch-runner out at the plate. The game was going to be tied anyway so his one job there was to dial back the aggressive charge and get the pill safely back to the infield.



- Soto getting throw out at 3rd went uncalled by both the national TV and radio feeds until finally mentioned pretty much as a meaningless trifle after the fact. But as we well know (and the Nats do too) closing out one run leads is hardly a given -- about 20% are blown across the board while two-run leads are about half that -- so you'd hate to blow a chance at adding to it. None of the replays showed Soto running but it seemed like he should have had plenty of time to make 3rd so I'm thinking maybe some in-play celebrating was going on. Turns out that it didn't come back to bite them but I was sort of hoping it would. Imagine what THAT would have done tacked onto the Nats' playoff history!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I've been to DC several times but always managed to miss Ben's Chili. Am I missing anything good? It's chili. It's good and greasy but not too greasy. You won't feel duped but neither will it change your life. It's just, like, the last black thing the gentrification of DC has left standing so its sentimental value is enormous. Ben Ali, I think, was from an Indian family, but he grew up in the Caribbean and went to Howard U., and his restaurant is the sole remnant of what DC formerly called "Black Broadway" down on U Street. Obviously, you'll get better fare at the U Street location, but the ballpark stuff isn't a great dropoff from there and it's reasonably priced with fast lines. Bring your cholesterol pills.

Thanks. I love chili when it's to my liking. By no means am I a chili expert or connoisseur or one of those chili heads that goes to the cookoffs and gets into the minutia of chili with these rigid rules that so many chili heads follow, like whether it's supposed to have beans or meat or not supposed to have beans or meat and how it's chili sacrilege to violate those to have or have not rules. That's not me. I just like it. And every time I went to DC, I made plans in my head to hit up Ben's Chili, but something always happened to derail those plans to go to Ben's. Anyways, NYC, for all it's big market stuff and all, is a terrible chili town. Dreadful.

[LWFS]

Frayed Knot wrote: Couple of post-mortems: - It's the 'DUH!' statement of the year to suggest that Grisham needs to play that ball better in RF, but particularly so because the Brews were in a no-doubles set-up meaning he was far too deep to even think about throwing a pinch-runner out at the plate. The game was going to be tied anyway so his one job there was to dial back the aggressive charge and get the pill safely back to the infield. - Soto getting throw out at 3rd went uncalled by both the national TV and radio feeds until finally mentioned pretty much as a meaningless trifle after the fact. But as we well know (and the Nats do too) closing out one run leads is hardly a given -- about 20% are blown across the board while two-run leads are about half that -- so you'd hate to blow a chance at adding to it. None of the replays showed Soto running but it seemed like he should have had plenty of time to make 3rd so I'm thinking maybe some in-play celebrating was going on. Turns out that it didn't come back to bite them but I was sort of hoping it would. Imagine what THAT would have done tacked onto the Nats' playoff history!

It's also possible that he-- perhaps somewhat misguidedly-- may have been trying to get into a rundown to guarantee the go-ahead run scored.

[Frayed Knot]

=LWFS post_id=23556 time=1570060789 user_id=84]
It's also possible that he-- perhaps somewhat misguidedly-- may have been trying to get into a rundown to guarantee the go-ahead run scored.

[Frayed Knot]

=LWFS post_id=23556 time=1570060789 user_id=84]
It's also possible that he-- perhaps somewhat misguidedly-- may have been trying to get into a rundown to guarantee the go-ahead run scored.