2011 WS IST - Rangers & Cards

[Guest Kong76]

*Clyde* Gesticulatin' in the paint! */Clyde*

[metirish]

That's not Carpenter!

[seawolf17]

Remember Good Ollie? What a joy to watch. I wanted so badly for him to succeed.

[metirish]

Per FOX stat

last team to come back from a three run deficit in game seven?


yes, the 1986 Mets

[MFS62]

seawolf17 wrote: metirish wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: That was Endy-esque. no way, not even close was it really? Carpenter is a bit of a wanker I think, lots of gesticulating on the mound after an out. Dude's three innings from a WS ring. He can gesticulate all the hell he wants.

And he's not going those three innings himself.
Carpenter is a pussy.
You would have had to pull the ball out of Bob Gibson's cold dead fingers.

I think "the genius" is overmanaging again, just to show us how smart he is.

Later

[stevejrogers]

metirish wrote: Per FOX stat last team to come back from a three run deficit in game seven? yes, the 1986 Mets

Red Sox even had a 3 run lead in the 1975 Game 7 as well!

[Edgy MD]

metirish wrote: Per FOX stat last team to come back from a three run deficit in game seven? yes, the 1986 Mets

God, was it three runs? In my mind, we had 'em all the way.

[Edgy MD]

Lance F. Lynn. Are you kidding me?

Pound this chump.

[metirish]

If the Cardinals win this I wonder will they talk about going in to game seven on the back of game six like the '86 Mets players do,"no way were we going to lose game seven after that".

[Edgy MD]

The 1975 Red Sox would have said that also.

[Edgy MD]

And the Cards it is.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Wow. Didn't see this coming in August -- or even in the eighth or even 10th inning last night!

[MFS62]

Who says you need an extra hitter in the lineup to play good, exciting baseball?
Fuck the DH and everyone who likes it.

Well done, National League representative!
You made us proud.

Later

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The celebration caps look crappy, but the shirts are surprisingly tasteful for a change.

[Frayed Knot]

And we put the 2011 baseball season 'in the books'.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I like it when they do the trophy presentation on the field.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Bud needs a script to say that kind of stuff?

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, but Bud shouldn't speak in public.
He makes Ron Paul look charismatic.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Oh, Carpenter brings up 2006 and Yadier "Bleeping" Molina.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Congrats to the goddamn Cardinals

[Frayed Knot]

I look at the 2011 post-season tourney this way: Of all my 'rooting interests' (some minor, others less so) in the seven individual series, I think the team I was pulling for lost in every case except one ... but that one was the important one so it more than balances out.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Terrific regular season finale drama, two shocking upsets (StL over Philly, Detroit over MFY), one sizzling championship series (Detroit-Texas); one game that will never be forgotten (Game 6 WS). Not a bad final month.

[Met Hunter]

Do you wonder if Napoli was thinking, here comes my ring and MVP award as Feliz's pitch to Freese was on its way to Mike's glove?

[G-Fafif]

Disappointed for swell buncha fellas in Texas, but truly admire the run the Cards put together. As for Molina, as I watched that fucker celebrate his second World Series ring, I rationalized, "at least it's not Jeter."

Small favors, indeed.

[batmagadanleadoff]

There's no upsets in MLB's post-season as far as I'm concerned. What with all the luck that exists in every baseball game, having two good MLB teams play against each other in a short series proves not a thing and is no way to determine the better team. I'd bet the Wild Card every single year. And if I did, I'd be ahead because in the wild card era, the wild card has now won five out of 17 World Series.

[Edgy MD]

Are you in favor of scrapping league and division play and just crowning the guys with the best record after 162 games the champs?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: Are you in favor of scrapping league and division play and just crowning the guys with the best record after 162 games the champs?

To some degree. Not that what I'd like is ever gonna happen. I would've left it alone at two playoff teams per league. I'd love to see the pre-1969 no playoffs at all set-up. It's true that less teams would be in it in September but oh what sort of pennant races we would have. But I realize that this a pipe dream. All I said was that I don't consider the Cards triumph any sort of an upset. A seven game series is a highly effective method to determine the better of two good hockey or basketball teams. But baseball? That's a whole different animal.

[Ceetar]

How about two best of 15s, two teams from each league, with no days off? Make 'em use that fourth and perhaps fifth starter.

Removing the days off makes it more like the regular season. Not that that's happening, but if they want to add another wildcard team, they could probably do that sudden death style, and still have three rounds of best of 7s if they removed days off. Except with tV scheduling you'd never be able to push back the first rounds without butting up against the second round. Which is a shame, cause I'd love for the World Series to start as soon as both pennants are won. Having teams get almost a week off if they finish in 4 is weird.

[Edgy MD]

I'm certainly down with a playoff schedule with no days off.

But I'm feeling that baseball had it right in the 19th century, and to a greater extent UK football has it right today. The champ is the team with the greatest record at the end of a full season. And if elimination play excites the pants of of you, have simultaneous cup play throughout the year, but don't pretend that the cup play results undo the season performance.

[HahnSolo]

I'm late to the party but I thought the two most important PAs in this game belonged to Pujols.

In the first, with 2 out and nobody on, Harrison completely avoided pitching to him. 4 in a row out of the zone, and then he of course loses his control, walking Berkman and going 3 balls on Freese before serving up a meatball. I thought it would be big for Texas to get out of that inning with a 2-run lead. Go after the big guy with a 2-run lead and the bases empty. Jeez.

The other big moment I thought was his getting hit with an 0-2 pitch. He looked bad on the first two pitches. They get him out there, the 2-run rally probably doesnt happen.