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dbecks

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  1. I’ll admit it. I’m nervous as fuck. Let’s hope some of the people fortunate/wealthy enough to afford these tickets can make some noise, too. Go Sox.
  2. WTF?!? I did not see that one coming.
  3. Would be nice to try for a win than just settle for OT. Just saying. (Still pissy about the Houston game.)
  4. Even if we (somehow) win here. Still.
  5. I fucking hate this team. Even if we score here.
  6. AP needs to pee in a cup right now.
  7. Barely a 1-out-of-3 chance to win in Stillwater? Granted it’s never an easy task there, but this year’s OSU team pales in comparison to years’ past.
  8. The Machado-Red Sox narrative is sure to be an interesting one this series. I’m still highly skeptical of the “Mookie at 2B” speculations coming from the Boston media, if even only because of the chance of Mookie trying to turn a double play with Machado sliding into 2nd, Ty Cobb-style. One of the dirtiest players in the game. Fuck that guy.
  9. Two of the biggest payrolls - and most despised franchises - in baseball finally meet in a World Series. (Although they technically met in 1916, but I digress.) The Red Sox have to be the heavy favorites, but anything can happen. Sox in six.
  10. Man, I love Alex Cora. https://nesn.com/2018/10/why-alex-cora-believes-astros-cheating-allegations-helped-red-sox-in-alcs/ “I took it the other way around because they openly said that they were playing defense,” Cora said Friday on WEEI’s “Ordway, Merloni $ Fauria” program. “They said they were checking on us if we were stealing signs, or doing something wrong in the dugout. … I took it the other way around. I was like, ‘Paranoia is working for us.’ Like they are panicking. Throughout the series we did a lot of stuff as far as like dummy signs and all this stuff to keep the paranoia going. “That is part of the game — tipping, stealing signs, relaying pitches and paying attention to details. That is the way I took it. If they feel that way about us, we might as well push the envelope and keep doing a lot of things that are going to make them uncomfortable and you saw it. They kept changing signs and the tempo of the games was awful, but that worked into our advantage, I think.”
  11. Mookie at 2B? Alex Cora: “I don’t know man, he already played second during the regular season. There’s always a chance, I guess."
  12. Why is the Cowboys-Washington game on CBS tomorrow?
  13. That might be the broadcast start time. First pitch is scheduled for 7:09 central each night (save for Game 5 at 7:15).
  14. JDM definitely won't play first base. He'll play RF most likely, with Mookie sliding over to CF and Jackie Bradley Jr. - despite being the ALCS MVP - sitting on the bench versus lefties (if they face the Dodgers).
  15. I don’t envy Cora’s job in deciding who sits in the NL-hosted games of the World Series. Benny had one helluva ALCS, JBJ was the ALCS MVP, Mookie is soon to be the AL MVP, and JDM hit 43 fucking HRs over the course of the season. Assuming they’re facing the Dodgers and their lefty-heavy rotation, here are the 2018 stats vs LHP for JBJ and Benny: JBJ: .185/.260/.303 Benintendi: .247/.301/.393 Jackie is obviously the superior fielder and has the better postseason stats so far, but he’s likely going to be coming off the bench if they play at Dodger Stadium.
  16. I said "arguably"... not saying that I'd make the argument, per se. Besides, the Sox can hit lefties with the best of them. Bring on the Dodgers. (Or the Brewers, if they can somehow win two straight.)
  17. Objectively, I would hope it's the Brewers as well. Aside from Braun, they're a likable team and would be fun to see in the WS... but the Dodgers would be more satisfying to beat (and arguably would be the better matchup vs the Sox).
  18. Being a Sox fan living in Houston is kinda bittersweet this morning. But I’ll get over it. Part of me feels like this series was destined to go 7 (or at least back to Boston), but I’ll certainly take the extra rest over whichever NL team they face. Interesting facts: Red Sox pitchers to throw 6.0+ innings with 0 walks and 0 runs allowed in a postseason start: David Price – 2018 ALCS G5 at HOU John Lackey – 2013 ALCS G3 at DET Josh Beckett – 2007 ALDS G1 vs. LAA Price had more strikeouts (9) and allowed fewer hits (3) than the others on that list. Glad for him. Let’s see some more of that in the World Series.
  19. I’ll be more than happy to, although I’m hesitant to do so before the NLCS ends.
  20. Almost looks like the 2017 Kimbrel. I like it.
  21. I’d say the Eovaldi trade (for essentially nothing) worked out ok for the Sox.
  22. Keep in mind Alex Cora was ejected from Game 1 because the strike zone discrepancy was so bad. Calls go both ways. Yes, a majority have “probably” gone the way of the Red Sox, but the Astros as a team are screwing themselves more than the Joe West/MLB conspiracy is.
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