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It's weird not to be happy at the Cardinals' ineptitude.

Human excrement Curt Schilling wants to return to baseball and would love to be the Mets pitching coach! https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/1182780618842746880https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/1182780618842746880

If you're going to be in the Flowood, Mississippi area at the end of the year, Jake Magnum is co-hosting a hitting clinic: https://twitter.com/jakemangum15/status/1182413394189705217/photo/1

Frayed Knot wrote: Has Seager made contact in this series? oe: 3 for 20 w/8 Ks From the "True Blue" blog: [bLOCKQUOTE]Cody Bellinger went 4-for-19 with a double and seven strikeouts. Corey Seager was 3-for-20 with a double and eight strikeouts. And it is hard to imagine anyone with a worst playoff series than A.J. Pollock, he was 0-for-13 with 11 strikeouts.[/bLOCKQUOTE] Credit, of course, goes to the WSH pitchers but these are 3 established players, including a superstar, and they stunk up the joint. Not as badly as Kershaw, Kelly and Dave Roberts but close.

While our eyes are bleeding, at least we'll hear Ronnie doing color for TBS.

Passan destroys Roberts: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27810837/dave-roberts-own-dodgers-disasterhttps://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27810837/dave-roberts-own-dodgers-disaster Even Tom Boswell was able to rise from his usual position, on his knees in front of GM Rizzo, to acknowledge Dave Roberts' mistakes contributing to his team's win: [bLOCKQUOTE]This is now the FIFTH Dodgers postseason that has ended with Kershaw's fingerprints on the weapon found next to the body. And his manager not only let it happen, he deliberately tempted fate by pointing out that staying with Kershaw “was not analytics” but going with “the man.” As soon as Roberts hooked Kershaw, and went back to analytics and his normal bullpen usage, the next five Nats struck out. It says here: No Kershaw, no Nats in NLCS. Thanks, big guy.[/bLOCKQUOTE] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/howie-kendrick-keeps-the-party-going-and-the-nats-are-dancing-into-the-nlcs/2019/10/10/a6d787ac-ea13-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/howie-kendrick-keeps-the-party-going-and-the-nats-are-dancing-into-the-nlcs/2019/10/10/a6d787ac-ea13-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html

Good thing that Roberts saved Kenley Jansen.

It's not "off the wall" when it gets stuck on the wall.

Frayed Knot wrote: Has Seager made contact in this series? He's awful.

Counter: Kershaw sucks and he isn't a reliever. Rendon and Soto clobber both lefties and righties so it was overthinking but hey, Kershaw won the Cy Young a few years ago.

But you knew it would happen. Kershaw isn't great anymore but Roberts used him like he was still the Cy Young Winner. Roberts is Mickey without a mustache.

You don't bring in Clayton Kershaw in relief. That's one way.

https://twitter.com/stlsportscntrl/status/1182095291572461568https://twitter.com/stlsportscntrl/status/1182095291572461568

=Gwreck post_id=24085 time=1570653916 user_id=56] Odds that the Atlanta fans do it anyway even if not prompted by the video board?

On one hand, the Braves respect the wishes and comments of the Cardinals' pitcher of Native American heritage so they won't do the Tomahawk Chop while he is in the game. OTOH, they don't respect it enough to refrain from doing it the rest of the time. https://twitter.com/markasaxon/status/1182021669709324290/photo/1https://twitter.com/markasaxon/status/1182021669709324290/photo/1

Gorgeous. The throw hits Adames a little high but it's high on the glove side which is where it's supposed to be and Adames already has started to turn toward home as he catches the ball. If I was still coaching, I'd show the little bastards that clip over and over again.

That was the same fat pitch that he hit off Diaz in "that" game.

Do you want Tampa to win today because they are the underdog, decisive games are fun, and Td'A or do you want Houston to win so they have an extra day off to face the MFYs?

The Dodgers look tight and Roberts is managing scared. For this Mets fan in DC, this could be a nightmare.

MFY fans will be patting themselves on the back (even more so than usual) after these comments in The Athletic, written by Marc Carig: [bLOCKQUOTE]Yet, privately, there was a feeling within the organization that the hostile environment in New York had indeed played a factor. The Twins had gotten punched in the mouth and they didn't know quite how to respond. This would be something to learn from moving forward. At least, that's the message that seemed to come from Tyler Duffey, the reliever who surrendered Didi Gregorius' grand slam in Game 2. “I'm trying to think of a nice way to say it,” Duffey said. “They hate you for no reason, which is what you want.” Indeed, the Twins' relievers got showered with beer and epithets and “a lot of expletives.” Mothers, daughters, wives, apparently they were all fair game for the hecklers who sought to rattle the visitors. “Someone told me they were going to do something to my wife while we were in New York,” Duffey said. “They take full advantage of whatever they paid for that ticket and they get their full money's worth.” ... “Boston's fun, they're baseball fans,” Duffey said. “Yankee fans, they just hate people.”[/bLOCKQUOTE] https://theathletic.com/1270365/2019/10/08/carig-for-twins-a-hope-that-lasting-lessons-come-from-failure/https://theathletic.com/1270365/2019/10/08/carig-for-twins-a-hope-that-lasting-lessons-come-from-failure/

"No way the Nats were coming back from a six-run deficit in the 9th." True, because Sewald and Diaz were not available.

The emu who is a detective.

Good segment! [YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1N3vOXPZIEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1N3vOXPZIE[/YOUTUBE]

That was good managing (I wonder if Mickey would have done that--we'll never know). Scherzer hasn't been as good as usual of late and he's facing soon-to-be Cy Young Award runner-up Ryu in Game 3 so last night was a must-win game. Kershaw came out flat and WSH took advantage which means at least 3 more days of my seeing the Walgreen's symbol at Giant (supermarket) and elsewhere.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Washington doesn't look like they can hang with these Dodgers Hanging's too good for 'em. I don't get the Mets fans who are rooting for WSH. Go Dodgers! Let Larry King and Mary Hart rejoice. WSH needs to go away fast.