10/8: Open Playoffs Game Thread
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 8, 2010 3:05 PM PDT
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Matt Cain is in a foreign country, trying to find his way to the train station using directions from a non-English speaker
by pdb on Oct 8, 2010 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Apologies if this is a tired comparison
but holy crap is Matt Cain ever John C. Reilly!
He sort of has a Benjamin Button thing going on.
If I didn’t know who he was, I couldn’t tell if he was 12 or 40.
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 8, 2010 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't know exactly what it is, but I know Arroyo is saying "Oh no you di'n't!"
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 8, 2010 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I think all his hair is fairly long.
It’s not just a party in the back.
"Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?"
I was just curious to see the attendance numbers for the playoff teams.
Cincy: 2,060,055 (12th in the NL)
Philly: 3,777,322 (1st in the NL)
Atlanty: 2,510,119 (9th in the NL)
San Franny: 3,037,443 (5th in the NL)
NYY: 3,765,807 (1st)
Min: 3,223,640 (3rd)
Tex: 2,505,171 (5th)
TB: 1,864,999 (9th)
Seattle’s final tally: 2,085,630 (8th)
Just something I was curious to find out about.
What's weird to me about that...
is that the Reds have an affiliate, also in Ohio, that has sold out 704 consecutive games, or roughly ten home seasons and then some. So that franchise has been able to create an incredible ballpark experience (on the cheap too) for a team that on average finished third or fourth, while the big club wins their division and no one seems to care.
The Tampa thing is also kind of mind-blowing, but maybe people there are going to a lot of Florida State League games instead. I don’t know.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow - The Reds really snuck up on me this season.
I had no clue they were going to be this good.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
While looking into the Reds, I just noticed that Homer Bailey has a pretty solid pitchface.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 4:42 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
And most of them are like that too.
It’s like throwing a baseball either causes a) him to age rapidly and then snap back or b) his face to collapse in on itself in response to the force exerted by his arm.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
And this is the photo they have on his player profile on the Reds site.
I don’t even understand how this happens.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmmm.. that looks like Danny Herrera to me but I could be way off.
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 8, 2010 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
It really doesn't look like the other photos of Bailey.
But Herrera’s a southpaw, so it can’t be him.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy shit it's Blakey from On the Buses!
/Incredibly obscure reference.
by Eyeball Kid on Oct 8, 2010 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Two fielding errors to help load the bases?
That’s pretty awful.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Right in the ear hole.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Heisey looks like Bobby from King of the Hill.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
Chapman vs. Howard is not a matchup fans have been dying to see.
Pujols, sure. Howard? He’s over-matched.
That was sadness.
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." ~ Dinobot
MILLIONS OF ERRORS!
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Does anyone else hear an infernal, high-pitched whistling before every pitch?
It makes me want to sodomize every Phillies fan with a vuvuzela.
And blow?
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." ~ Dinobot
So...
Utley to first pretending to be hit by a pitch, Utley then called safe at second incorrectly, Bruce loses ball in the lights allowing Utley to score, Phillips then drops the relay throw allowing Werth to score. Hm.
I think the nick name, "Cuban Missile" is unfortunate and penetrates the hearts of compatriots everywhere
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." ~ Dinobot
I'm glad we traded him because I don't like him.
by Eyeball Kid on Oct 8, 2010 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
You should hear how he feels about babies and unicorns.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
Holy shit.
It’s like the fucking Keystone Kops out there.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
That is such a bizarre Scottish accent in the Sounders-Celtic FC friendly commercial.
He almost sounds like he’s trying to do a Cool Runnings accent.
No.
Heyward is a much better athlete and is 2 years younger. However, you don’t find too many catchers who hit like Posey, making him more valuable.
It might cause Selig to have a coronary, which might be cool.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
Wouldn't the properly spelled start to this chant be "YOUUUUU"
I’d just eff it up by blurting out the name of Yunel Escobar or somebody.
That was pretty close, but I don't think it was.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
From the angle the umpire was looking at, being 1-inch off the base would be difficult to see.
He wasn’t on the base, but I can’t argue with the call.
It looked to me that he held the bag until the ball was in the glove.
Then he was pulled off before Gonzalez crossed the bag so it looked to him like he was pulled off.
Has there ever been a post season wherein every team swept their DS?
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
Nope.
Last year there were three sweeps and a four-game series and that’s the closest it’s been.
by drblacknwhite on Oct 8, 2010 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh shit
That was actually a pretty awesome homerun
by FairWeatherFred on Oct 8, 2010 10:11 PM PDT reply actions
Ok, I drop the rellies off, and turn on the radio to finally get some baseball today
and Chris Berman (Chris Berman?!?!) tells me Billy Wagner got hurt (what happened?) and implies Bobby Cox and a bunch of others are gone as well?
what happened?
You have Jon Miller doing radio for the postseason
and you don;t assign him to the Giants game?
really?
Wagner appeared to hurt his oblique originally running after Renteria's bunt base hit to start the 10th.
It wasn’t until after he fielded the sacrifice by the next hitter that it really started to hurt, and he came out without protest.
Cox was tossed in the second inning on a close play at first.
by drblacknwhite on Oct 8, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
The glasses that The Professor wears in his gameday photo are amazing.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
FOCUSSSSSS
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Like I was saying....
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
It's like...
he should be wearing a nametag, and a brooch, and perhaps have a small beehive hairdo underneath his hat to complete the ensemble.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe one of these years....
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 8, 2010 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Bummer.
At least they won’t all be sweeps.
Holy shit, Roy Oswalt and Bronson Arroyo are the same age?
Seems like Oswalt has been around for a million years.
Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.
Arroyo has been around longer, actually, I'm pretty sure.
Just not relevant as long as Oswalt has been.
Arroyo played about 3 seasons of borderline crap in Pittsburgh before he went to the Red Sox and really started his career, if I remember correctly.
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