Frayed Knot

Nice of the Rays to finally get on the board with two outs in the 9th. Prior to that, Milwaukee pitching had faced the minimum numbers of batters thru 8. So 24 PAs for the Rays thru 8; the Brewers sent half that many to the plate just in the 4th inning alone. including nine after two were already out. That's about as one-sided as one night can get.

Top 5th: LO-5; Single; FO-7; SB; BB; IF-Single (overturn of what would have been the end of a scoreless inning) -- pitching change -- 2 RBI Single (off SS glove); 2-RBI Single; 2-RBI Double; RBI Double -- pitching change -- RBI Single; 2-RBI Double; FO-7 Jake Bauer made the 1st & 3rd outs in the inning, both on FO to LF. I'm surprised the Brewers didn't release him between innings.

I've figured out the Brewers strategy: wait until you get two outs and then get eleven-teen hits in a row.

He's so fine (Turang, Turang, Turang)

So Freddy will be starting WS Game 3? ... Great!!! Right after he's the MVP of the ALCS? -- Wow, that's even bet ... Wait a minute ... did you say ALCS? Uh oh! Something didn't go right.

Back in the pre-WFAN 1980s the spot where WATPs* were most often discussed was the 'fans speak' (or whatever they called it) page of the Friday NY Post. And one thing that was rather consistent about it was that Met fans and Yanqui fans had very different ideas about trades. - YLDBs were forever proposing absurdly one-sided deals such as Mike Pagliarulo and shitty/injured pitcher for Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens -- Hey, a 3B & P for a 3B & P ... what's wrong with that?!? - NYM fans, otoh, invariably proposed getting rid of half the current team for whatever else was out there, iow, they were deeply immersed in the grass-is-greener syndrome. A mid-'80s proposal might start out with: 'How 'bout packaging Darling, Sid, Knight, Backman, Dykstra, and Santana for ... ' Whatever they had, they always wanted wholesale changes for what they were sure would be an overall improvement. And keep in mind this was their plans for dealing with a good team! * WATP = Wild-Ass Trade Proposals in case you've forgotten.

That I won even a piece of an award demands an immediate recount.

So far there have been two one-run games which could have gone either way on any one of a dozen or more plays within each game. Even the game ending plays in each were controversial: one, a game-ending call overturned (wrongly IMO) allowing the game to continue with tying and go-ahead runners on; the other a call which probably shouldn't have been made which ended a game with tying and go-ahead runners on. Crisply played? No, not always. But not boring, and I don't even know how to address 'obscure'.

This is the type of series when I find myself leaning towards whichever team is behind, either in games or within a game. Ultimately I'm going to side with Milwaukee at the end but it's not like I'm living and dying with each pitch. The only thing Tampa has traditionally had against it is occasionally bad uniforms plus a bad stadium (even before if half fell down). Hopefully the latter of those two gets corrected in the near future. The unis may take a bit more work.

No, looked like a bad call to me. But I'm still leery about video replay for swings. Unlike ABS there's not a clear Yes/No line to be drawn. Tamps simply forgot to score after the 1st inning.

Just settling in for an old fashioned pitcher's duel, eh? (4 - 2 TBR, end of 1)

Yes, definitely some issues, starting Friday night but even more so today. And very non-user-specific judging by the (lack of) traffic going on today.

Misiorowski and Rosnthal should go into a ventriloquist act. Ken would be just perfect sitting on Les Mis's knee.

Do the fireworks get shot off again or did the stadium use them all up the first time?

There's NO WAY this should be overturned!!!!! ... and yet it is. I want someone to argue to my face that that evidence was decisive.