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Miz Kriss posted:https://twitter.com/miz_kriss/status/1712673491617546741?s=46&t=lRl8HNC2dXvuRHcXaz1cXw the rays were one win from you being able to use the fourth kid's face
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Miz Kriss posted:https://twitter.com/miz_kriss/status/1712673491617546741?s=46&t=lRl8HNC2dXvuRHcXaz1cXw
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Intruder posted:the rays were one win from you being able to use the fourth kid's face The Rays find more ways to be disappointing
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I am forced to conclude that the Minnesota Twins, as the least embarrassing exit of the round, are the 5th best team in baseball, and furthermore that the AL Central is better than the AL East.
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Oct 13, 2023 05:05
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I'm not finding any fault with this logic
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Redeye Flight posted:I am forced to conclude that the Minnesota Twins, as the least embarrassing exit of the round, are the 5th best team in baseball, and furthermore that the AL Central is better than the AL East. Big agree
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Miz Kriss posted:The Rays find more ways to be disappointing Lol
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Miz Kriss posted:https://twitter.com/miz_kriss/status/1712673491617546741?s=46&t=lRl8HNC2dXvuRHcXaz1cXw 
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hey now this happened to the braves last year too (if you mean the 100 wins thing, not the #1 seed thing)
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only the Bird is confused, the Barve has accepted his fate under the hood of shame I thought about putting the Atlanta hat on the background guy in the first image and a Rays hat on the hooded victim, but I'd already gone too far and well 
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ah I see Just saw the stat that the Braves had the lead for six total Phillies plate appearances. What a one sided series e: https://twitter.com/UnfortunateMLB/status/1712694791719289341 Intruder fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Oct 13, 2023 |
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I feel like a Twitter titled "Baseball Images that Precede Unfortunate Events" could just be a Bob Nightengale repost bot.
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the anti-Cassandra, everyone listens to him but he’s always wrong
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At least the Orioles made the playoffs this year. The last time they won 100 games in 1980 they missed postseason since the Yankees won 103.
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I still can't believe Pillar didn't score on that wild pitch
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yeah it rules so much
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Intruder posted:I still can't believe Pillar didn't score on that wild pitch I mean I get it on paper: you've got the bases loaded with two outs and the presumptive NL MVP up at the plate, why risk getting thrown out trying to score on a wild pitch, especially when even if you did score your team is still behind? In hindsight now it's funny that he held up but if he'd been tagged out there the whole narrative would be that Pillar lost them the game by taking the bat out of Acuna's hand in a huge moment.
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I'd agree with that if it were the 9th but it was the 7th, you can at least narrow the score and he would have easily scored. The 9th looks a lot different if it's a 1 run game when Atlanta gets runners on the corners with no outs (yes I know you can't presume everything else goes exactly the same)
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To play devil's advocate, the ball did take a very Phillies-friendly bounce, going almost straight back to Realmuto. That may've been why he pulled up.
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CapnAndy posted:To play devil's advocate, the ball did take a very Phillies-friendly bounce, going almost straight back to Realmuto. That may've been why he pulled up. I still think Realmuto had a play at first.
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more falafel please posted:I still think Realmuto had a play at first.
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The only thing I can think of was that he didn't want to start a rundown because then Pillar might sneak home. There was no way the runner was getting back to first safely barring a bad throw e: JT has the ball at this point  but he's also not looking at the other runners, he's looking at Kimbrel and Pillar so maybe by the time he reacted it was too late Intruder fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Oct 13, 2023 |
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Yes but that's also long past the point where Pillar made the decision not to run. If he had run at the first sign of Acuña waving him home, he'd be somewhere far closer to the plate in that frame.
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I understand that, I took a screenshot of where the trail runners where when JT got the ball. I couldn't take one of Pillar's position when he decided to turn around because mlb.tv kept freezing on me right around that spot
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Intruder posted:The only thing I can think of was that he didn't want to start a rundown because then Pillar might sneak home. There was no way the runner was getting back to first safely barring a bad throw My read on the whole play is that there are definitely universes where today we're talking about how Pillar or Realmuto won the game for their teams, but there are also ones where we're talking about how Pillar or Realmuto single-handedly blew it, and in an elimination playoff game, I don't blame either man for deciding on balance that the risk outweighed the reward.
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It ended up working out but man, they had a chance to take the bat out of Acuna's hands with the bases loaded and it almost turned into disaster that they didn't. But yes it worked out
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CapnAndy posted:He's definitely doing his job right by having his head fixed on the scoring threat and not caring about what the guy on first may or may not be doing. 100% agree
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100% agreed. Realmuto certainly COULD have got the runner. But in that fast and chaotic a play it’s also easily possible he could have throw it away, Harper could have booted it, they could have got in a rundown, or who knows what. So focusing on making sure the run doesn’t score makes sense to me as the smartest, or at least safest, play. Pillar probably should have scored too but again, it’s all so fast and who knows what kind of angle or view he had on it. You sure as hell don’t want to make the last out there.
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OTOH, I can't remember the last time I've seen a runner get tagged out at home following a wild pitch
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Realmuto is really loving good, I feel like we're in 'whatever he did, it's the right call' territory 99.9% of the time
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:OTOH, I can't remember the last time I've seen a runner get tagged out at home following a wild pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0EpWcI6JpE doing this exact thing except saying "a cub did this"
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Should any consideration be given to the fact that Bryce is still not, like, the greatest first baseman? That feels like it could play into the calculus of whether to make that throw. Simple catch most of the time, sure, but if it skips in or goes wide it's a harrowing thing
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Yeah and he had already had a play in that game where he took an awkward approach to a catch and ended up clipped by the runner. So it’s just a lot of moving parts and variables with the risk being blowing the game entirely.
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R.D. Mangles posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0EpWcI6JpE The hive mind remembers
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Redeye Flight posted:(Also you forgot to mention Michael A. Taylor, #3 in home runs on the Twins roster despite very much having been acquired for his (also incredible) glove. MAT played some extremely crucial outfield ball this year and I really, really want him to become a fixture for next year after this one.) This is fair. I didn't forget though, I just chose to leave him off since I was more looking towards next year, he's a free agent, and I think the Twins have viable replacements for him. He was important though I will give you that.
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The AstroDoom is now openMiz Kriss posted:
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I guess I can do this now without getting angry replies The Houston Astros What went wrong: Not too much, they reached game 7 of the ALCS despite quite a bit of underperformance and injury. If there's anything to really pick, it's that they became utterly incapable of winning at home for the last month of the season and the playoffs. As a result they're the second ever team to lose 4 home games in a playoff series, the first being... the 2019 Astros of course. Abreu started turning things around and looked like he won't be a total bust of a free agent contract. Bregman had a really down year. Tucker just completely broke once the playoffs started. There doesn't seem to be any realistic way they bring Brantley back next season so they'll need to look for a left fielder, I definitely don't want Yordan playing in the field every day. Get Dusty the hell out of here. Get Maldy the hell out of here. Pretty much have to hope that Framber and Javier can unfuck themselves in the offseason. Figure out what's going on. Maybe give Brent Strom a call and beg him to come back. Montero was just a bad decision by an owner who didn't think he needed a GM, send him out of town for literally anything you can get. France and Brown will need their innings managed better. Both of them were clearly out of gas toward the end of the season. Young pitchers being overworked on a team managed by Dusty Baker? Couldn't be. Hopes for next season: better health for Altuve and Yordan, Diaz is the every day catcher, Abreu finally getting healthy means he has a stronger season
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Shinjobi posted:Gonna go ahead and make some room for the Texas Rangers. I don't give a poo poo that this was posted September 6th and sorta justified at the time: if the Rangers somehow win the World Series, ban my stupid rear end for shameless doomposting. It's what I would deserve. 
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To be frank, even though losing the last two at home sucked I had no faith in the team even getting to this point with a couple weeks to go in the season while they were busy getting swept by the Royals and were the least likely to make the playoffs out of the Rangers, M's and Jays before the series against the M's so even being able to watch and cheer for my favorite team all the way to game 7 of the championship series (though I didn't get a chance to do much cheering in game 7 itself) was nice
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Intruder posted:To be frank, even though losing the last two at home sucked I had no faith in the team even getting to this point with a couple weeks to go in the season while they were busy getting swept by the Royals and were the least likely to make the playoffs out of the Rangers, M's and Jays before the series against the M's so even being able to watch and cheer for my favorite team all the way to game 7 of the championship series (though I didn't get a chance to do much cheering in game 7 itself) was nice They just seemed, I don't know what exactly, tired I guess. The team is missing something to give them that spark and I'm not sure where they'd best pick it up from. Back at the start of the playoffs I said if they win it'd be in the most bullshit way possible and the entire time they never really showed that they'd be able to perform in any other way except for that game 5 Altuve homer. And even then that was kind of bullshitty.
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