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10/16: Open LCS Game Threads


Pedro Martinez

#45 / Pitcher / Philadelphia Phillies

5-11

195

R

R

Oct 25, 1971



Vicente Padilla

#44 / Pitcher / Los Angeles Dodgers

6-2

220

R

R

Sep 27, 1977



John Lackey

#41 / Pitcher / Los Angeles Angels

6-6

245

R

R

Oct 23, 1978



CC Sabathia

#52 / Pitcher / New York Yankees

6-7

290

L

L

Jul 21, 1980


Yay, things are to be happening!

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Woo baseball!
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Dodgers?
That's the team!
I don't like them but I also want as much baseball! as possible
Padilla is still trying to hypnotise me.
Padilla always looks

Like he took a swim in a deep fryer just before the game.

Keep the score at 0-0
A nil-nil tie is baseball nirvana
They don't last long in this modern game of based-ball
I still don't get it
Padilla always looks like he has the flu
I'm watching it

and yet I still refuse to believe somebody had choice and decided Vicente Padilla was in fact the second best starting pitcher on their pitching staff.

Its almost as if the lineup he shut down was overwhelmingly righthanded

and the one he is facing today is full of good lefthanded hitters

And yet here we are.
Padilla throws an eephus?
So far so good!
So are they still playing baseball?
Indeed they are!
Pitcher's duel!
BEAN HIM IN THE BALLSACK
Let's go buttslash?

what

Padilla attributes his success in the NL

to his Dodger’s teammates treating him like family.

Well okay then.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
Padilla = Amazing stuff?
He's always had good stuff
Explain

I could very well be missing something, but I don’t see any of his pitches aside from maybe his fastball (which fluctuates in success pretty violently in recent years) being above average and he gets hit at a slightly below average pace.

Stuff = ability to miss bats.

Getting hit = irrelevant mix of stuff, control, defense, park, etc

The Dodgers color guy

just said Raul Ibanez adds a lot both offensively and defensively.

Entertainment?
The Dodgers have a color guy?

Doesn’t Scully usually work alone? Does that change for the playoffs?

For radio only games

Vin does the first 3, Rick Monday and Charlie Steiner do the middle 3 and Vin finishes up.

They also apparently have a guy who does some radio

only when they travel east of Colorado. Probably to save the wear and tear on Vin Scully.

I like Charlie Steiner

I think he and Jon Miller should team up for a broadcast.

Steiner and Monday are probably one of the best B teams

as far as baseball broadcasting goes. They’re better than a lot of teams A teams.

He meant that

In the way that Raul’s defense is offensive.

5.06 ERA following innings in which the Phillies score

That maybe one of the most useless stats I’ve ever seen presented as something that’s a reputable representation of performance.

Batter has .333 average in 3 PA against pitcher
Goddammit Dodgers
I am very much enjoying watching Pedro pitch.
I had no idea game 2 was today.

Go Phillies!

That K is giffable.
Jesus Christ Raul.
6 SO 0BB 4H 1HR 1R 1ER

Padilla is making Torre look like a genius so far.

Muse!

Again!

Belliard has Metallica, right?
Think so, yeah

but it wasn’t as walk-up music, it was TBS coming back from a break.

Pedro is scary good today

But a totally different guy than he used to be, not nearly as much power.

Out of all the hall of fame pitchers we have seen the last 20 years, Pedro has always been my favorite to watch.
You make RJ and Felix cry.
RJ is awesome, but for some reason I have always enjoyed Pedro more.

And Felix isn’t a Hall of Famer yet. But watching him pitch is the closest thing to Pedro we’ve had.

Much like Chuck Norris

I’m pretty sure RJ doesn’t know how to cry.

I should watch some Grienke starts, it's too easy to put those kind of things off for later.
Well, this isn't what I expected to find, 4 innings later.
Wait what

“You have to give it to the home plate umpire who has done a great job today. He recognized that both these pitchers are on top of their games so he called strikes early and often and he went with the flow.”

What does this mean???
You can't call too many penalties, you have to let them play the game on the field
Vincente Padilla is the new Jeff Weaver.
So if the Dodgers win the WS, Bavasi will sign Padilla to a 4/40m$ contract during the offseason?
Jeff Weaver was signed to a one-yearl, $8m deal.
OH RIGHT, that guy. Now I remember. Yeah, Padilla will get some 1yr contract he could never live up to.
You're thinking of Carlos Silva, who, unless I'm very much mistaken, has never pitched in the postseason.
Thank God
If Carlos Silva pitched in the postseason, that would entail that either the Twins or the Mariners were in the postseason.
He has one start and 5.0 IP in the postseason.

6 runs, 10 hits, 1 K, 0 BB.

I'm having deja vu.
The Texas Rangers are sitting at home, shaking their heads in disbelief.
Ackley doubled
So did Raben
Good to know he's better now...
Que?

Juan Diaz doubled. Raben hasn’t played since he had knee surgery.

It's a dead(?) meme.

I wasn’t actually around when it started but oh well.

I was not aware of such a Raben meme >:(

Word is he’s doing all right though. As up September he was up and about again, jogging even, and should be about 100% by spring training.

Neftali Feliz as a reliever = Kuo
Kuo couldn't stay healthy as a starter

I don’t think Feliz has had that problem yet.

Oooh, pink AND plaid on Sager!
His fashion choices hurt my soul.
It's worse when you stop to think about how much he probably spends on clothes
Oh yeah

He has to make a conscious effort to call a tailor for that business…either that, or he shops at LeRoy’s….

Maybe he gets them for free, just for modeling them
Whatever it is, it's stunning.
I went in a store in the Beverly Center once

that had an ugly green suit coat that cost over $1000. I bet Sager gets his clothes from somewhere like that.

There is info out there

here and <a href=“http:// ”http://yoursfashionhub.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html" target="_blank">http://yoursfashionhub.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html" target="new">here

dammitdammitdammit

and here

Everyone in this subthread is crazy because Sager is the man
Oopsie

Little deflection there.

"27 outs. The Dodgers play 27 outs."

EVERYBODY PLAYS 27 OUTS YOU FOOL!

LOTS OF TEAMS QUIT AFTER LIKE 21

BUT NOT THOSE HARD NOSED, LUNCHPAIL DODGERS

Not all those teams that "give up" in one run games.

You know those teams: no clubhouse leaders, no veterans, no hustle and heart.

Can Ho says "GET THE FUCK OFF MY PLATE!"
Chan Ho Park and Vicente Padilla are pitching in the playoffs.
Baseball is awesome
Baseball makes amazing poetry at times.
Terrible bunt
Why the fuck was he bunting on a 3-1 count?
Torre is a poor manager
Oh my fucking god.
You fucking idiot.
Didn't Utley do that in yesterday's game too?
Yesterday's was way more hilarious.
The Phils have a problem turning 2

When they need it this post-season.

Defense wins championships
Jim Thome looks so done as a hitter
.367 wOBA!
I knew he was not terrible

He just doesn’t look great standing up there, probably just because of the foot injury.

He has to have the most frustrating job in baseball

its not surprising he looks bad with so few reps

He's like Kirk Gibson

He can’t run worth a shit but he can hit the ball a long way.

Like that

Very very long single, should have been at least two for a good runner.

Scoring that as an error?

I thought you couldn’t have an error on a DP since you can only assume 1 out.

Yeah, but the error was to allow the baserunner to advance home, so it counts.

If the fielder makes a bad throw and neither the hitter nor any runners advance another base, there is no error

Okay cool

Fellow baseball nerds like me thank you.

Let's get Mad at Madsen!
Listening to Vin Scully on the Dodgers network

Thanks to MLB Audio online. They keep running these hilarious “Don’t trash California” ads and I want to say, “Is it possible to trash it any more?”

California is neat
Neat yes but clean not so much

Not like OR or WA.

It could always get worse
True, true

Just yet another day to be thankful I live in the Pacific NW.

Squeeze squeeze squeeze
With Russell Martin at third?
Phils bullpen=FAIL!
Mountain Man Chan Ho Park amuses me.
I hardly believe that it's him.

It’s a pretty good look, all told.

With the beard he suddenly has taken on a resemblance to John Lone
I love that beard.
I hate weird playoff times that cause the shadows that screw batters.
Blame the Yankees

And if not them the Angels. My two least favorite AL teams.

I'm going to blame the sun just to be a dickhole
Technically, it is the cause of all evil in the world.
KEMP FAIL!

HA HA!

Mientkiewicz is on the Dodgers?
Of course not

Another TBS fail.

I said the same thing about Thome.
He was a deadline trade

In August after the Chi Sox took a nose dive.

Hmm, I somehow completely missed that.
I got confused too

Because I saw the Chi Sox beat the Yankees in Chicago in late July and he was still on the team.

He was during the regular season
Happ is going to destroy Ethier here.
This is tasty crow.
6 substitutions in this inning

Ridiculous

National league playoffs!
Here comes #7!
Ee-thee-ur. Long e's all around, hard R at the end. Is that correct?
Yes.
EXCITING!
Walking in a run should not happen in the playoffs.

Pitchers/teams should be better than that.

I love bases loaded walks.
Pitching change!
Now its Manny time

This is going to get really bad.

Time for another pitching change!

7th substitution of the inning!

The Phillies have 3 relievers left

Blanton, Bastardo and Lidge

Well that was quick
Phillies have top of the order, yes?
I want to see more of those baby pictures.
Oh well, Phils got a split

I’ll take it.

Now starts the series

That I wish both teams could lose.

It seems kind of wrong

that Chan Ho Park has the worst WPA for the Phillies today.

Russell Martin knows Sager is no Don Cherry.
ALMOST NAPS TIME
No don't fall asleep there's more baseball!
I'm thinking the Adam-12/Dragnet DH on Retro....
I don't follow.
Instead of napping.
Ah. Gotcha.
Malloy is having to do a lot of training of Reed, you know.
I can watch this game on a television! Finally!
I am now determined

To never own a Blackberry.

You don't need a blackberry when you have love
That's not what that commercial says.
Here we go

YANKEES SUCK!

They're actually one of the best teams in baseball, if not the best

Someone is feeding you false information

Fair enough

I WANT THE YANKEES TO SUCK! :-)

I want them to beat the shit out of the Angels
Can't go there

I hate both teams but I hate the Yankees more.

I don't understand why so many people here do
You ever been to New York?

I can’t stand that place.

I can barely stand it

and I live there.

It kind of depends on where you go though.

It's just too much. Too much traffic, too much crowding

Also, I got into an argument with a fireman over parking once while there. It’s very claustrophobic, and expensive and blah. Driving there alone was enough to make me hate it.

Here is my New York story:

My mother came to visit and I was seeing her off at Penn Station. It was going to be the last time I would see her in months and it was a kind of emotional moment.

While we were having this moment, in the middle of the station, in front of the gate, an old lady came up on her walker beside us and started chanting “excuse me, excuse me, excuse me”. I pointed this out and my mother, surprised, got out of the way and exclaimed “Oh, I’m sorry!”

The old lady snarled, “No, you aren’t, you bitch!”

For a long time, this typified my New York experience: mass crowding, people in senseless hurries, intolerable rudeness. But again, it all depends on where you are and who you’re with.

</ LLLJ >

Your a Timbers fan so that mean your talent evaluation is worth about as much as penis tips at a jewish doctor sale.
Doc Minus will back me up here.
LET'S GO YANKEES
THIS IS EXCITING IT'S THE FIRST TIME I'VE DISAGREED WITH YOU
What's with all the empty seats?

Aren’t these supposed to be the bestest baseball fans ever?

I bet playoff games cost like $2500 for the close seats
No, that's Cubs fans
Didn't Cubs fans cost there team a shot at a WS?
I thought WE were the best fans in baseball?!

The Safeco Field voice-over wouldn’t lie to me….would it?

WHY AM I WATCHING THIS
Come on fast game! I can only take so much of Joe Buck.
The thunder was right now que with the hit. Amazing
I'm going to celebrate every correct call made by the umpires.

YAAAAAYYY WAY TO CALL THAT FAIR ATTA WAY TO GO DERE

WAY TO NOT CALL A LEFTY STRIKE!

YOU ARE AWESOME AND I BET PUPPIES LOVE YOU

YES THAT OUTFIELDER DID MAKE A CATCH!
KEEP UP THE PERFECT WORK FELLAS!
To be honest, I think I bit off more than I could chew with the whole "every call" statement.
A smidge?
I underestimated how many calls there were going on,

how quickly I grow to dislike capital letters, and my general enthusiasm for sticking around to actually watch this game.

That's what I figured.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HEEEEE HEEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

BAHAHAHA

ANGELS IN THE INFIELD? Nope.

RBI single wtf?
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAA
:( :( :(

:(

I'm sorry we laughed.

Do you forgive us?

Weenie
I just gave you a hanging slider
Fuck that.

This isn’t fat camp. We’re not here to hug each other and cry tears of support.

Screw the Angels.

This is the correct response.
Lovin' the fuck-ups!
Cano looks like he's ready to rob someone
Can we refrain from racist stereotypes please?

This isn’t USSM.

Ha! Okay then. I've never seen anyone bundled up like that though.
We prefer to refer to them as

differently-heat modulated.

Sit down Bobby!
Johnny Damon looks like a puppet.

A very specific puppet

.

Good pull
I saw this movie last night so it was a no-brainer.

It’s uncanny!

He kind of reminds me of a young Jack Palance, I was trying to find a movie still from Arrowhead

He played an Apache, no joy.
jack palance Pictures, Images and Photos

I would post a side, by side, by side, picture. But I feel like a guy who has had one too many drinks.
How do you do that anyway? The only way I can do it takes too long.
MS paint.

Takes like ten minutes

Dang, I was hoping for a one-two and done process.
Hey Alex, go fly a kite. Go fly a kite, Alex. That's right you heard me
I enjoy this matchup because now all you fuckers get to experience the same pain I had to endure back in this years Super Bowl.
YEAH HOW BOUT I REC ALL THE POSTS THAT COMPLAIN HOW BOTH TEAMS WINNING WOULD BE CANCER

YEAH YOUR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS IS AMUSING

Who'd you root for?

I’m very curious.

I was ok with Stealers winning because the Cardinals are the NFL's version of the Angels.
The weather is miserable
Ok I'm watching this bitch now

LET’S DO THIS

NAP(S) TIME IS OVER! IT'S GAME TIME!
NO NAPS TIME TODAY, HE ISN'T CATCHING!
NAPS=NAPOLI
EITHER WAY IT'S OVER!
UNLESS HE PINCH HITS LATER!
Agreed. I will be watching this bitch until the power goes out at least.
I dont know who to root for!

The lesser of the evils seems to be the Angels.

The Angels have won a championship more recently
Which means that it would suck more for Yankees fans to go another year without getting into the World Series.

Also, there are more Yankees fans than Angels fans. So to maximize the suffering of fans you hate, the Angels should win.

The Angels are the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL
That doesn't make sense.
They both need to be lined up against the wall and shot execution style
Technically, execution style is when you are on your knees and shot in the head from behind.

I believe you’re referring to a firing squad.

Maybe he wants to kill the wall too?
Except they aren't good. So they haven't really generated hate like the Angels do
I've been on the Fuck Zona bandwagon for close to 5 years
I love it when NY loses at anything
Nobody likes a tease, Jack
Fuck you Jeff Mathis.

You are my Rob Johnson.

There is only one Rob Johnson
Rob Johnson is your Rob Johnson.

Admit your Mariner fandom, dammit.

I am currently wearing my Gutz shirt.
How can you like both teams?
Technically, it only means that I like Gutierrez.
I don't understand this
Gutz = Sexy
Agreed.
No homo.
There's nothing gay about finding another man attractive
Mike Napoli is a step above Johjima.

So at least there isn’t an argument about who should start even though he sucks.

The Minnesota announcers probably hate Johnny Damon for letting go of the bat with his left hand.
God I really hate the Angels.
"If you do walk Rodriguez, then you can entice the groundball."

Yeah, just choose for them to hit into a double play. Good pitchers can do that.

These guys are only slight better than the TBS goofs.
His foot might have been in there before the tag.

Suck it A-Rod.

Haven't seen one like that in a while.
.

Such a little hand for such a big guy
The 'roids add a couple pounds to his head.
The weight seems to have come out of his shoulders. Curious
Image if A-Rod got an career ending injury in that play and never played again.

He would go down as the single most hated Yankee of all time.

Another break. What a surprise
I guess its pretty close
At least it was a hard call
He probably couldn't see shit from his angle
Yay for bad umpiring.
Melky Cabrera running is adorable.
TORII HUNTER IS THE BEST DEFENSIVE CENTER FIELDER IN BASEBALL
YAY ERRORS!
Damn I missed it again.
Are you also rooting for embarasment to both teams?
Absolutely, with a 7 game series full of extras so that the NL team wins the WS.
Wow. We're practically brothers now.
Mariner Nation!
Jesus Christ Angels
What are you talking about? Both of these teams have bad defense!
Joe Girardi Knows How To Win Postseason Games tm
SCORE EXACTLY THREE RUNS RIGHT NOW YOU DIRTY ANGELS
NAPS!!!!!!!!!!!

HI, NAPS!

Sleepy now.
NO SLEEPING!
Sorry thought it's Nap time.
Hey! Over here, Naps! Hi!
No little hoody shroud thing for you, huh Mike?
Is he cute or something I'm unaware of?
Not particularly, and there's every indication he's a douchebag. However, I am enamored with him regardless.

It’s inexplicable, really

I wish he was on our team.
I can get behind anyone with such a nickname.
Score some runs Angels! Go Angels Go!
That kinda sounds dirty.
Go Seahawks!
Which ones are the Seahawks?
Sorry I thought we switched to football, FOX juked me.
The robot is the dead give away.
GO GET THE GIMP
So, I re-watched "The narrow margin" (aces) and fed the cat and made some chicken to take to my dad ....

apparently I missed porous defense?

Here's to the Angels Ichiroing Rivera!
RJ??

Just kidding. That was tough.

Cano can't grow a beard?
The Angels find new ways to disappoint!
Screw that, he came around
Phone call time.
This does not bode well for extras
Or a Yankee bullpen implosion.
These Never-Say-Die Angels tm
One of them had to
CC is more bored than I am it looks like.
I think a blunt may have been involved eek
GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING ANGELS
That's more like it.
Fucking emotion!
Just cursing the Angels in general
PLAY BETTER SHITBAGS
Did Rivera just grab his balls and smile?
Thinking of Russel?
Certified gamer, excellent
Who is this guy, he's killing me.
Is that a heated bullpen?
Go A-Rod! Go Carsten Charles!

This is awesome.

LETS GO ANGELS

 IT’S SINGLES TIME

I guarantee an Angels win
VLAD YOU DUMB MICKEY
He can't stop fucking swinging.
Vlad for DH in 2010
YOU MICKEY FICKEY I'M GONNA PUT GLUE IN YOUR SHOULDERS SO YOU CAN'T SWING
YOU PINAPPLE! YOU FUZZY COOTIE
He kinda moves like the glue is already there...
GET THREE RUNS HERE HOW HARD CAN IT BE
The Angels don't have Ichiro.
A BLOOP AND A BLAST LETS GO BOYS
WOO YANKEES

FUCK THE ANGELS

Remember that one time I said that Ronny Cedeno would hit a home run in Yankee stadium?
Dude I offered to pay you
No no no. I just want you to remember, and to aknowlege my psychic abilities.

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