In World Series Thread - 2024

[Frayed Knot]

The Dodgers have to quit walking Gleyber Torres (3x in 2+ games so far).

Given his spot in the lineup, it's not the kind of thing you can get away with forever.

[Frayed Knot]

He might have slipped the hand underneath but I don't overturn this call.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Hey everyone I am at this game

[metirish]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Hey everyone I am at this game

Bs call at the plate

[Centerfield]

Why would you bunt there.

[Frayed Knot]

Hey Aaron, you gonna walk Betts here?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Stanton is so slow

[metirish]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Stanton is so slow

I actually thought he would have been thrown out lumbering into second base

[Frayed Knot]

He's slow, he got a bad jump, and he didn't cut 3rd base well.

[whippoorwill]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Stanton is so slow

That's what I kept yelling.

Btw if the Yankees win my husband wins $300

[Frayed Knot]

Lux almost looked hisself into being thrown out at the plate there.

He looked over his shoulder at least three times on his way home.

[metirish]

Haha

[Frayed Knot]

Really, Banda? You're gonna walk your first hitter on four pitches?!?!?



oe: and he gets lucky on a generous strike three call to end the 7th inning.

[Fman99]

Los Angeles one win away from an epic thumping.

[metirish]

My MFY loving friend at work is laying some blame on the umps 😆

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Anything coulda happened if Stanton was safe

[Centerfield]

One of the key differences in the Yankees and Mets is that the Yanks bullpen has done a good job of not letting the Dodgers pull away late. The first few innings of each game kinda remind me of our series, except we'd have Phil Maton come in and give up 4.



I think we caught them when Freeman wasn't healthy, and not the Yankees are getting the benefit of a hobbled Ohtani. Can you even imagine this team at full strength. Holy shit.

[Centerfield]

https://x.com/TalkinYanks/status/1851079889903841734 Haha

I used to think that Sterling was so eager to go into his signature calls that he saw what he wanted to see.



Nowadays I think he can't see at all and is just guessing.

[MFS62]

Speaking of Announcers, I keep thinking one of the guys (not sure who) sounds like Bob Uecker.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

=metirish post_id=177746 time=1730203294 user_id=72]
My MFY loving friend at work is laying some blame on the umps 😆

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

So I got in due to a work thing (and actually worked) but suite level highlights.



A Q&A with Reggie Jackson. The host notices during the event that Reggie's phone is buzzing -- Willie Randolph is calling. Reggie picks up the phone, puts it on speaker. Willie's asking where Reggie is, and Reggie talks him into the room where Wee Willie walks in to laughter and applause. Pretty sharp comedy chops for a 78-year-old.



Also saw Omar, Spike Lee and ... Nick Swisher. It was a big night.



4 train is brutal after the game. 20 minutes just to walk up the stairs

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: So I got in due to a work thing (and actually worked) but suite level highlights. A Q&A with Reggie Jackson. The host notices during the event that Reggie's phone is buzzing -- Willie Randolph is calling. Reggie picks up the phone, puts it on speaker. Willie's asking where Reggie is, and Reggie talks him into the room where Wee Willie walks in to laughter and applause. Pretty sharp comedy chops for a 78-year-old. Also saw Omar, Spike Lee and ... Nick Swisher. It was a big night. 4 train is brutal after the game. 20 minutes just to walk up the stairs

That sounds like an amazing experience - except for the train.

[metirish]

Very cool, I was wondering what you were doing there

[Frayed Knot]

So will tonight be the last baseball game for the next five months?



To avoid that the Yanx are pinning their hopes for survival on righty Luis Gil, the guy who had a great April & May but more ordinary since.

He's also only pitched once since the end of the season when he started Game 4 vs Cleveland allowing 2R/3H in 4 innings.



The Dodgers have yet to name a starter as this is one of their designated 'Bullpen games'.

Of course it is, in effect, a ballgame game for the Yanx too as it'll be quick hooks all around for both managers.

Hell, 15 hurlers were used last night despite just six total runs scored (four until 2 out/bottom 9).



I conked out around the 7th last night so missed the late mini-drama.

[Centerfield]

As FK mentioned, the difference between 1st half/second half Gil is pretty stark. Second half Gil had a 4.20 ERA. 1.419 WHIP.



4 IP, 2 ER in his one post-season start against Cleveland.

[Edgy MD]

Last night, the Yankees kind of looked like the Mets did against the Dodgers, falling behind early, but continually getting runners on through the middle innings and into the late ones, but despairing for the big hit.



The Mets wouldn't have sent Stanton, though.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

According to MLB Insider Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Yankees manager Aaron Boone "seems likely" to be getting a contract extension; Boone is currently managing in the last year of a three-year contract that he signed in 2021, although it contains a club option for 2025 that the Yankees can exercise.

This was posted before the series. Getting swept might change some minds. Wouldn't be the first time the MFYs fired a manager after losing a Series.

[Centerfield]

I have to wonder how Yankee fans are dealing with this.



*World Series appearance. Down 3-0. Unlike past ones, they don't know when they'll be back

*The Dodgers are better than them. They spend money. And for the first time ever, there's rumblings that the superstar will leave the Yankees and join the enemy.

*The Mets are good too, and are an even bigger threat to steal Soto than the Dodgers.

[Edgy MD]

The Dodgers are better at the Yankees own game.



They're not better because of a well-balanced roster and a well-executed performance. They're the best team in the league in exactly the same big, brutal, ugly way the Yankees have always tried to be the best team in the league — by assembling a block of three MVPs that they didn't develop but instead chose to overpay for in the second halves of their careers, still close enough to their primes that stacking them in a row is overwhelming.



Even if you just stock the rest of your roster with decent, modest contributors, there's a good chance that the opposition is focused enough on the monsters in the lineup, and worn down by them, that they won't be ready when one of your other guys breaks through.

[metirish]

NBC 4 NY segment now from MFY stadium said the game tonight is not a sellout