ALCS IST: Yanquis - Astros

[metirish]

Fuck this, not watching, hard to avoid them though

[HahnSolo]

Thinking Hinch has to shake up the lineup. Move Reddick down for one. Or bench him if you have any faith in Cameron Maybin. I'd go top heavy (such as it is with this team right now). Springer Altuve Correa Gurriel.

[Guest 41Forever]

Dammit. Just, dammit.

[Frayed Knot]

A summation of Houston's "Noffense" this series:

Game 1
- a one-out single in the 4th inning
- a two-out single later that same inning

Game 2
- a solo HR which eked over the fence by like 2 inches
- Altuve's mad dash home on a double where he should have been out by 15 feet

Game 3
- a garbage time bases-loaded walk w/two outs in the 9th inning while down by 8 runs

Game 4
- a bases-clearing double (3)
- a comical Starlin Castro 2-out error

Game 5:
- None


So they've scored 9 runs in 5 games and deserve maybe half of them.
Of their whopping 22 hits, 14 are singles, 1 a solo HR.
The Yanx have committed six errors and issued 14 walks and STILL they can't score.

[ashie62]

Altuve, Correa, Springer and zilch.

MFY's even look like the better team.

[Frayed Knot]

Altuve and Correa were their whole offense over the first two games but they've both disappeared since.
Springer has 1 hit for the whole series as does Martin Gonzalez and they both have one more than Reddick or than their combined 550 lbs of catchers McCann & Gattis. Bregman has 2
Yuli Gurriel has been their best hitter so far but that's a bit like being the tallest midget in the circus.

[Edgy MD]

How about a little life from the BEST POSTSEASON PLAYER EVER?

[Guest d'Kong76]

I don't think Reggie Jackson is where we wanna go here, Edge.

[Frayed Knot]

Speaking of Reggie, today (Wednesday) was the anniversary of his 3 HR WS game so I happened to see and hear the clips from that game.
Not sure who the p-b-p guy was because as soon as he got the first two words out of his mouth Cosell jumped in and completely took over by stomping all over the other dude's call and out-shouting him.
He then did the exact same thing on the other two ABs.

[HahnSolo]

I'd move Beltran up to the fifth spot in the lineup.

Why not? Nothing's working.

[Centerfield]

This crap I'm seeing about the Yankees likeable overachieving underdogs makes me hurl. How the fuck is the #2 payroll team in all of baseball an underdog? Fuckers.

[HahnSolo]

Centerfield wrote: This crap I'm seeing about the Yankees likeable overachieving underdogs makes me hurl. How the fuck is the #2 payroll team in all of baseball an underdog? Fuckers.

The "Baby Bombers" drives me nuts.
Sabathia, Robertson, Chapman, Tanaka, Gardner, Ellsbury, Headley, Holliday, Frazier, Gregorius, Castro. These guys aren't exactly wet behind the ears.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Being a Yankees fan means being able to say "likeable overachieving underdogs" out of one side of their mouth and "27 RINGS, BAYBEE!!!" out of the other.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanqui fans of the late '90s/early '00s thought of themselves as scrappy underdogs too, this is nothing new nor is it even the most annoying part.

The real annoying part is where anything that goes right for them is only due to their brilliance and anything that goes wrong is simply something out of their control. There was stuff during the telecast
yesterday (what, did they have some lackey call the booth in mid-game in order to feed this stuff to them?) and it's all over the papers today about how their superior scouting/preparation was
responsible for "solving" Keuchel.
Well shit, prior to yesterday he was 6-2 in 8 starts with a 1.09 ERA and in playoff matchups he had skunked you starting with the 2015 WC game and as recently as a day I like to refer to as LAST FRIDAY.
Somehow all this knowledge about how to hit him apparently didn't occur to you until the 9th of the last 9 games when the 4 runs/7 hits (5 singles) drubbing you put on him suddenly revealed that it
was your brilliance which was behind it all. Sounds more like either random variation or just the advantage of seeing someone twice in the same week to me.

There are, however, guys they seem to never be able to figure out but those are simply written off as "Yankee-killers", players whose success against the pinstripes is both unexplainable and uncorrectable
as if said player have made some kind of deal with the devil. IOW: if it works out to our advantage then it's credited to our brilliance. If it doesn't work out to our advantage then it can't be counted against us.
Brian Cashman explains trades and free agent signings this way too. Pedro Feliciano: Not our fault (Mets overused him); Jeff Weaver/Kevin Brown: Not our fault (How did I know they couldn't handle NYC?);
Cuban import doesn't work - We were shocked, SHOCKED, to find out he was older than he claimed.

[stevejrogers]

Centerfield wrote: This crap I'm seeing about the Yankees likeable overachieving underdogs makes me hurl. How the fuck is the #2 payroll team in all of baseball an underdog? Fuckers.

I’ve seen MFY fans claim that a lot of it is dead contracts (ARod).

But yeah, as Hahn said, there are plenty of veteran, and playoff tested, performers on the roster to counter balance the few that haven’t been here before.

[bmfc1]

Mets Willets Point wrote: Being a Yankees fan means being able to say "likeable overachieving underdogs" out of one side of their mouth and "27 RINGS, BAYBEE!!!" out of the other.

BoC to MWP.

[Guest d'Kong76]

The front page of my local cat-box liner is pretty Yankee'd up this morning. 'Fan Fever at a Pitch',
'5 Things to Make You Seem Like a True Fan', Bring on Game 6' stuff...

There's a picture of two youngins holding up a placard that says, 'HEROES GET REMEMBERED BUT
LEGENDS NEVER DIE!' -- whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. They're like 5 years old. Sad.

[MFS62]

d'Kong76 wrote: The front page of my local cat-box liner is pretty Yankee'd up this morning. 'Fan Fever at a Pitch', '5 Things to Make You Seem Like a True Fan', Bring on Game 6' stuff... There's a picture of two youngins holding up a placard that says, 'HEROES GET REMEMBERED BUT LEGENDS NEVER DIE!' -- whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. They're like 5 years old. Sad.

There was an opinion piece in one of the papers today about what the writer would do if we get an NY-LA World Series.
I'm still hoping against hope it won't happen, but if it happens I'll post it.
It was barfaricious.

Later

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

The Astros at home with Verlander on the mound which would give me hope, but it's 2017 so the Yankees will probably win 51-0 with the Astros striking out 27 times on 81 pitches.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Sniffle-sniffle through 5½, I wasn't going to go the distance on this on this
one but it's sucking me in. Let's 'stro some runs!!

[metirish]

Altuve gets hot after hits......shut them down Verlander

[MFS62]

3-0 Houston in the 5th.
Later

[Edgy MD]

Yanquis threatening in big in the top of the seventh.

Still later

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

And Verlander is close to loading the bases so the Yankees can get a fluke big hit.

[Edgy MD]

Come on, Hicks. Go down!

[Edgy MD]

YEAH! That's one.

Who's this Frazier guy?

[Edgy MD]

OK, two.

Headley. It's your turn.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

OMFG!

[Edgy MD]

YEAH!

[Frayed Knot]

Thank you cousin George!!