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MLB 2018 Season |OT| Introducing Shohei OhtAAAni
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I'm sitting here at home laughing my ass off watching another mediocre performance by this team, there's gotta be something else I can spend my time on.
Who cares at this point? This team isn't advancing beyond the WC game.
I hope the media does its job for once and asks Boone in the post-game why the fuck he gave up on this game when it was only 5-1.
Not only did he cause us the W, but he ended up using Britton and Betances anyway. This might have been the worst managed game this entire year. Use Green and Holder to hold it at 5. Then inexplicably use Kahnle and Tarpley who promptly gave up 3 runs. Then realized he fucked up when the Yankees started to battle back and used Betances and Britton. Lose the game by 1 run.
Not only did he cause us the W, but he ended up using Britton and Betances anyway. This might have been the worst managed game this entire year. Use Green and Holder to hold it at 5. Then inexplicably use Kahnle and Tarpley who promptly gave up 3 runs. Then realized he fucked up when the Yankees started to battle back and used Betances and Britton. Lose the game by 1 run.
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The really inexplicable part is that the YES crew said that Dellin already looked like he was set to come in for the 8th even before the home runs started flying. So Boone was willing to use his high leverage bullpen arms early and late except for the 7th inning against the middle of the fucking order.
It's September and we need to win every game. You do not punt a game when down only 4 runs with 3 more innings to go. It's just mind-boggling.
Unless you have a total collapse and the Mariners stop collapsing you're going to make the wild card.
Home field is really important in this case. The Yankees offense is not good outside of the Stadium and the Coliseum + the Oakland bullpen in a 1 game playoff is a recipe for disaster.
I don't know what's possible to do about several players regressing/choking with the bases loaded (I dont know if its true or not but y'all post about it every time), but he could certainly use his bullpen more effectively. Kind of an anti-Kapler in not using his better guys enough
He was sold as some kind of puppet manager for the statisticians but I think instead we got some kind of joe torre saying machine. A joe torre teddy ruxspin if you will. The way he uses the bullpen is just bizarre.
I already have and always will acknowledge he's not the reason the team underperformed relative to expectations...but he's up there as one of the more frustrating.
I already have and always will acknowledge he's not the reason the team underperformed relative to expectations...but he's up there as one of the more frustrating.
the odds of this individual game are going to be very close to 50/50, regardless of where its played and what trivial stats that make you think otherwise
I love watching yankees fans flip out, but these games you guys are flipping out over mean very little. You could still very easily go on a playoff run and win the world series, and if you dont, it won't be because of these games.
they were insanely hot at the beginning of the season, and now its evening out. you're still going to win a ton of games. severino and judge are concerns, but this is mostly the same team as when they were tearing it up in the first half. the other flaws were ones that you could have seen coming even early in the year when they were conquering the world.
all it takes is one win in the wc playoff game and you won't be caring about these stupid September losses
They could also just lose the play-in game and feel bad for 5 months. Don't forget that possibility. Of the Yankees losing.
I'm an NL guy and my roommate is an AL guy.
We have an unspoken agreement not to discuss the merits of the designated hitter.
We have an unspoken agreement not to discuss the merits of the designated hitter.
I'm for it if it comes with realingment. Preferably around Time Zones.
League A: 14 eastern time zone teams. 2 divisions.
League B: 16 teams. One division of central time zone teams. One division of pacific and mountain time zone teams.
No Interleague.
No interleague is never happening. Ever. The only people who like that idea are people who don't attend games.
My roommate was against it until he realized his position meant he could literally never see the Red Sox live. But he never had actually lived in a major league city where it mattered that you could see big stars from the other league sometimes.
I don't like Interleague play because I prefer balanced schedules. Also Interleague play would defeat the entire purpose around realigning around Time Zones.
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I don't like interleague play because it feels like an antiqued gimmick.
I still think it should be done maybe every 5 years or so.
I still think it should be done maybe every 5 years or so.
I don't beleive someone can dislike interleague unless they literally don't care about small market teams.
Padres fans want to see Mookie Betts and Mike Trout sometimes. If you don't attend games and watch everything on MLB.tv with a proxy maybe you won't understand that.
East-West realignment is a non starter for the same reasons. There is already an east coast bias because their games finish way earlier. You're dooming the west league to obscurity.
Padres fans want to see Mookie Betts and Mike Trout sometimes. If you don't attend games and watch everything on MLB.tv with a proxy maybe you won't understand that.
East-West realignment is a non starter for the same reasons. There is already an east coast bias because their games finish way earlier. You're dooming the west league to obscurity.
I used to when the Astros were in the NL. Now watching pitchers flail horribly is awful.
Some realignment needs to happen. The Astros playing in the west is ridiculous. Games that start at 9cst isn't fair to the fans, when every other team except the rangers are west coast.
Also wtf is with the interleague play we've been having in September?
I see the A's schedule took a temporary break from powder puffs to real team for a series.
It's grimly ironic, but the thing that probably guarantees a full collapse doesn't happen is that the Red Sox have nothing to play for anymore and are starting to rest their guys. The Rays schedule from here on out is charmin soft.
True. the Yankees have not won anything yet but continue to play poorly, or at least not like a 90+ win team should. The cracks have only widened in the ship.
Are we still doing the oh noez about the Yankees being only the second best team in baseball?
Two weeks left. This is gonna be a long two-week period
Rockies and Braves, please sweep your next three games
Rockies and Braves, please sweep your next three games
record wise they have not been second best for about half the season.
Bad baseball >>> No baseball. Which is why I spent bonafide US American dollars for tickets to tonight's Giants-Padres game. Pretty stoked to go see Urias and Mejia and to check out the new bullpen guys that are doing well.
Are we still doing the oh noez about the Yankees being only the third best team in baseball?
MLB.com must have the standings wrong then. Weird.
Are we still doing the oh noez about the Yankees being only the third best team in baseball?
MLB.com must have the standings wrong then. Weird.
Yankee fans should set up a petition... since the team is so historically bad the fans should advocate that the team give up its 8.5 game lead in the wild card standings and just let Tampa into the playoffs in their stead. No sense in the Yankees even going to the WC game, only way to be fair.
I think the problem is a lot of Yankees fans are complacent with being a Wild Card team, when this team failed to meet all expectations.
calling them "a wild card team" downplays the success they've had this year. they're on pace for 99 wins (with a run differential that backs it up), which is almost always a division title. you should always be happy with 99 wins. thisshould go without saying. the red sox having a ridiculous season is beyond their control.
i understand yankees fans being upset about what is currently happening, but to act like the season hasn't been a success to date is baffling.
Well, that's the precedent that the Steinbrenners have set for decades. It's World Series championship or bust. So naturally fans are going to latch on to that. Also, most Yankees fans believe that this year's team on paper is better than last year's team, who was one game away from the WS.
Yankee record and standings on September 17:
2017 - 82 W - 67 L - .550 W-L %, - .611 pyth - 2nd place, 3 GB
2018 - 91 W - 58 L - .611 W-L % - .604 pyth - 2nd place, 11.5 GB
2017 - 82 W - 67 L - .550 W-L %, - .611 pyth - 2nd place, 3 GB
2018 - 91 W - 58 L - .611 W-L % - .604 pyth - 2nd place, 11.5 GB
they're not better "on paper". they're just better.
the point is that they're just as capable of going on a deep playoff runs now as they were last year.
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