IST: NLCS 2021 — LAD vs ATL

[G-Fafif]

Those plucky Wild Card Dodgers travel to Atlanta to take on the four-time defending NL East champion Braves…will probably not be the primary NLCS storyline.

[Gwreck]

This is…not the matchup anyone needed or deserved.

[Fman99]

I'm rooting for a comet to hit the stadium during play.

[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah, this is not the matchup I was rooting for.

[MFS62]

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I'm rooting for a comet to hit the stadium during play.

[Willets Point]

As someone who typically pulls for the underdogs, I feel like I should be rooting for the 88-win team that has only one World Series championship in their current location and that was 26 years ago. And yet, I still feel animosity towards the Braves from 20+ years ago plus the arrogance of ditching a relatively new stadium in the city for an elite suburb. So I guess I'm also rooting for the comet.

[ashie62]

Beats Red Sox Astros.

[kcmets]

I'll watch very little of this, but I'll take the Dodgers in 6 for post-erity sake.

[bmfc1]

I'll go through the same exercise I did with the ALCS:

Reasons to support Atlanta: 1) NL East Rules!; 2) Freddie Freeman is a good guy (as noted every time he appears); 3) they are a good story overcoming the injury of Acuna and the incarceration of Ozuna.

Reasons to support Los Angeles: 1) they won over 100 games, that should mean something; 2) their manager is in the nightmares of MFY fans; 3) we've been rooting for the team that plays ATL all year so why stop now?; 4) they are Steve Cohen's model for the Mets so if they win again he recommits to doing the voodoo that they do so well.

Reasons not to support Atlanta: So many. So, so many. I'll start with the Chop and the fans that Chop

Reasons not to support Los Angeles: 1) they won last year so enough already; 2) Washington Baseball Team fans have adopted them for the playoffs because of Scherzer and T. Turner and I never want WBT fans to be happy; 3) their fans are front-runners and stupid.

[MFS62]

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I'll go through the same exercise I did with the ALCS:

Reasons to support Atlanta: 1) NL East Rules!; 2) Freddie Freeman is a good guy (as noted every time he appears); 3) they are a good story overcoming the injury of Acuna and the incarceration of Ozuna.

Reasons to support Los Angeles: 1) they won over 100 games, that should mean something; 2) their manager is in the nightmares of MFY fans; 3) we've been rooting for the team that plays ATL all year so why stop now?; 4) they are Steve Cohen's model for the Mets so if they win again he recommits to doing the voodoo that they do so well.

Reasons not to support Atlanta: So many. So, so many. I'll start with the Chop and the fans that Chop

Reasons not to support Los Angeles: 1) they won last year so enough already; 2) Washington Baseball Team fans have adopted them for the playoffs because of Scherzer and T. Turner and I never want WBT fans to be happy; 3) their fans are front-runners and stupid.

[bmfc1]

LAD in 5.

[stevejrogers]

Willets Point wrote: As someone who typically pulls for the underdogs, I feel like I should be rooting for the 88-win team that has only one World Series championship in their current location and that was 26 years ago. And yet, I still feel animosity towards the Braves from 20+ years ago plus the arrogance of ditching a relatively new stadium in the city for an elite suburb. So I guess I'm also rooting for the comet.

Being a division rival for nearly 30 years, never mind them being a constant presence in postseason play in the course of that span (18 appearances, 16 of them as Division champions) is reason enough not to ever root for them.



Dodgers on the other hand? Still not over 1988!

[G-Fafif]

This series doesn't seem worth wasting a comet on, though I will request one be held in reserve just in case the participants become too overbearing to take.

[Willets Point]

How about a swarm of midges? It's embarrassing and uncomfortable but not destructive like a comet.

[Frayed Knot]

I'll probably be pulling for 'Lanta

[kcmets]

Side note: if there's a comet involved in any remaining post-season games

I humbly request that it be at a game that Joe Buck is covering on FOX.

[Frayed Knot]

I hadn't realized until now that Pujols opted for a LAD uniform number matching his age, 55

[Frayed Knot]

Did these teams have to get special permission to complete 7 full innings in under three hours?

[bmfc1]

Side note: if there's a comet involved in any remaining post-season games I humbly request that it be at a game that Joe Buck is covering on FOX.

We're in the midst of peak Joe Buck season as FOX deems him to be too important to miss any game. As a result, he is calling: [list=]

Thursday Night Football

The ALCS and then the World Series

The NFL on Sunday if FOX has a doubleheader game going to most of the country (not today but next week).

I don't hate the guy, he's funny with Howard Stern and was great on Brockmire, but I resent him dropping in for MLB now and again instead of someone that has been calling games all season long, and then we'll hear him for four days in a row from 3 different cities. (Perhaps I resent it because his father was so damn overrated.) It's as if F*x Sports thinks "the public will be outraged if Joe Davis or Guys! calls a World Series game" when no one would care. And I'm pretty sure that more people would prefer hearing Gus Johnson on the NFL. This concludes the Rudy Martzke portion of this post.

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[kcmets]

I don't hate him either. Really, I don't hate anyone. *scratches balls and tries

to decide whether to say, "except Trump"* He's an attention seeking asshole

who announced he was retiring after the 2019 World Series causing a swell of

Joe Buck this and Joe Buck that.



He's like a fungus that won't go away and there's no cure on the horizon.

[Frayed Knot]

Three innings, over an hour to play despite just 2 runs (on one swing), with multiple mound visits already including the now obligatory conference to talk about a pinch-hitter

they should have already known all about.

aka: another game I won't see the end of

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

JOC STRAPS DODGERS

Pederson avenges Tinseltown trade with Max-distance tater

[Frayed Knot]

You never like to lose via a walk-off, but the Dodgers can at least write off last night's loss to needing a bullpen game vs Fried.

But tonight they had Scherzer vs an ineffective Anderson plus a 2-0 lead 5 pitches into the game. It'll be tough to see them recovering if they lose this one.

[G-Fafif]

Braves not that impressed by Dodgers. Certainly not intimidated.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Plus Braves are Fredless the whole series

[Fman99]

Haven't watched a bit of this. Fuck both teams and the broadcasters. Where is that comet I ordered? Service these days, sheesh.

[G-Fafif]

Good Game Two, actually.

[Fman99]

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Good Game Two, actually.

[G-Fafif]

Good Game Two, actually. A game between two teams I loathe, called by announcers I can't tolerate. Not really sure how that could be good. I'm pretty much checked out on the 2021 MLB season.

A good game, pending one's tolerance for its principals.



Can't tolerate Ron Darling? (This isn't the Joe Buck series.)



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[Fman99]

Oh, that's my bad. I guess I didn't even check in on this game to see who was calling it.



I can get behind postseason baseball, normally, but the pace of play this year, combined with the obnoxiousness of national broadcasts, and my hatred of these particular teams, all adds up.



My son and I are watching season 1 of the Sopranos. It's much more compelling than endless mound visits and games that don't resolve until 90 minutes after my bedtime.