2015 ALDS Game One Live Blog

1:46	Eno Sarris: Will be here shortly!

1:46	Eno Sarris:

3:28	Comment From Sgt. Pepper I was 5 days old when the Jays were last in the playoffs. I don’t really remember it.

3:28	Eno Sarris: JOE CARTERRRRRR

3:28	Comment From Joe SCORE! Bonus Eno chat.

3:29	Eno Sarris: Well, “bonus,” I wasn’t around earlier today…

3:29	Comment From Eric Blue Jays Please

3:29	Comment From Kel Geaux Jays!

3:29	Comment From Chris So we had a going away party for someone at work and I might have absconded some of the champagne to drink at my desk while I listen to the game

3:29	Comment From Sgt. Pepper haha the video package they played in canada made fun of bitter expos fans who won’t get behind the jays

3:29	Comment From tough critic Affeldt’s a funny guy

3:30	Eno Sarris: I have enjoyed talking to him immensely. I did an interview with him on my last day about the things he did to get better over his career. Best part was that he took part of his nail off to stop getting blisters.

3:31	Comment From Neal MY ERECTION WILL STOP MOUNTAINS

3:31	Eno Sarris: …

3:31	Comment From Art Vandelay no you weren’t, and I was distraught

3:31	Eno Sarris: JOE MOTHERGBLWKEJRWLERKJ CARTER

3:31	Comment From Neal In a way I kind of miss Cito as coach. It was dinger time all the time (moreso then the Jays today somehow)

3:32	Comment From Neal My sick day excuse was baseball.

3:32	Comment From The Hamburglar If the Rangers and Royals win, screw the playoffs

3:32	Eno Sarris: I love JD and Beltre and don’t hate the Rangers but this is like at two- or three- man pitching staff going up against the Jays. And two of them are relievers…

3:33	Comment From Drew Any arm fatigue updates Eno? Gotta get our learn on

3:34	Eno Sarris: Spotted this one: Yovani Gallardo threw more sliders than any other pitch this year — first time he’s done that — and had a career-low swinging strike rate. Uh-oh.

3:34	Comment From tough critic how many millions of people are looking for FS1 using the “Guide” button right now?

3:34	Eno Sarris: What is FS1 baby. BABY! WHAT IS FS1 WHERE IS IT WHAT IS GOING ON

3:34	Comment From Joe Carlos Gomez looked hurt in last AB, but he made ALDS roster. I guess he is OK

3:35	Eno Sarris: Kinda feel like he’s looked hurt for a while, which is kinda sorta ironic given the Mets trade falling through.

3:35	Comment From Neal Tomorrow’s game is at 12:30 and I can’t get of work and streaming it on my work computer will probably get me fired. WHAT DO I DO?

3:35	Eno Sarris: Connect phone, stream on phone with sound off.

3:37	Comment From Neal Good idea, gonna try that. If not I’m in tomorrow’s chat raging.

3:37	Eno Sarris: will you make the chatter give you updates

3:37	Comment From Blue Cat yeah, gallardo did not throw more sliders than any other pitch, even if you split FT from FF

3:38	Eno Sarris: According to PFX he did. 1023 to 870 4s, 766 2s.

3:38	Comment From Neal I will make the chatter take constant screenshots so its like I’m really watching it.

3:38	Eno Sarris: Painful for the rest. So, uh, not too many people picking the Rangers.

3:38	Comment From Blue Cat pitchfx combines cutters with sliders. So.

3:39	Eno Sarris: Figured. Still, he’s old and doing his best to hang on by his fingernails is what I see there.

3:40	Eno Sarris: 888 sliders to 923 four-seams by Brooks, who breaks out cutters. Wow.

3:40	Comment From Blue Cat As a Ranger fan, I’m lighting some candles in the church for Gallardo. I guess I’m just nit picking, since I don’t disagree with the premise of your point.

3:40	Comment From Tom This seems like the most lop-sided series. But it doesn’t usually work out that way…. Rangers in 5

3:40	Comment From Tom since I live close to the border and we have a tim hortons am I legally obligated to cheerjays?

3:40	Eno Sarris: yes

3:41	Comment From Alex Pillar won’t win the GG. Kiermaier???

3:41	Eno Sarris: Yah, have an interview with KK about defense coming when he wins it.

3:41	Comment From schmesh listening on the radio. does Rogers Centre look more or less crazy than PNC was last night?

3:41	Eno Sarris: Roof changes noise.

3:42	Eno Sarris: I want at Choo again. He didn’t give me a good interview, didn’t even stand up to talk to me, but I see him talking shop with other hitters. I know dude thinks about this stuff.

3:43	Eno Sarris: “He actually plays better when he’s hurt” is such a load of oh wow. Did he watch the season? When Betlre was terrible for a while after he was hurt? Come on now.

3:44	Comment From Kevin Not much of a cold weather impact in the AL except maybe KC. Two southern teams and the Jays in the dome. Does this help or hinder any team or no impact?

3:45	Eno Sarris: Could Cubs, being young and having played in the cold early in the year, be more ready for it? Doubt it has much impact, though it can favor the pitchers. Batted balls hate cold weather.

3:45	Comment From The Hamburglar Who said that?

3:45	Eno Sarris: The Ducc

3:45	Comment From Joe Fielder is going to do something here.

3:45	Eno Sarris: Well, I mean he did do something.

3:46	Comment From Blue Cat when choosing Gallardo over Perez/Holland, can you think of a better reason than Gallardo’s 13 innings v Jays this year? Seems like a vlid sample to me.

3:46	Eno Sarris: I wouldn’t count it as a valid sample, if thats what your’e saying. I’m not sure Perez is better than Gallardo, and Holland… confounds me.

3:47	Comment From Joe When does the Cy Young voting get submitted? Wild Card games have any bearing?

3:47	Eno Sarris: Votes filed, supposed to be regular season award.

3:47	Comment From Neal Estrada is starting game 3 and Dickey 4.If the Dickey effect is real, wouldn’t it be better to have him game 3? Or even 2?

3:47	Eno Sarris: From what I’ve seen, the Dickey effect is in-game, I believe.

3:48	Eno Sarris: Remember when Fielder landed on home plate and all the Brewers exploded off of it in celebration and some people got mad, now we have kids doing it on commercials.

3:49	Comment From ShinyThing Do you ask hitters about their pre-swing movement, such as their load? It is fascinating how opinions will vary on this.

3:50

Eno Sarris: Brought it up with Beltre http://www.fangraphs.com/bl… and have talked to a few — Bryant said his load was like a rubber band, stretching back until his hips whip them through the zone — but my personal opinion is that most hitters get to the hitting position in different ways and that it’s a personal thing. Slower hands? cut your load. Twitchy? longer load.

3:51	Eno Sarris: Like when I asked Josh Donaldson about his hands, he said, I don’t even think about them.

3:51	Comment From Yankees CUT YOUR DAMN HAIR GALLARDO

3:51	Eno Sarris: I’ve been yelling at people telling me to cut my hair for years so I’ll respond for Gallardo: NO.

3:52	Comment From Joe U guys see when Holland had “Wild Thing” cut but no Ks. IRONY

3:52	Comment From Eric crowd trying to explode

3:52	Comment From Mark Eno, I am drinking and Avery 22nd Anniversary ale. GET IT!? METAPHOR!

3:53	Eno Sarris: Yes the shocking thing about Jose Bautista is his follower count, Harold.

3:53	Comment From Neal Jose is in mid-season beard form. Texas is done.

3:53	Eno Sarris: So perfectly groomed.

3:54	Comment From jtt I always imagined david Ortiz waking up at like 4am to make sure his facial hair was always perfect

3:54	Comment From zkello Why is the chat upside down now?

3:54	Eno Sarris: My chatters prefer it this way.

3:54	Comment From Designated Bitter If a home plate umpire theoretically had money on a game, how many runs would that be worth (before people noticed)?

3:55	Eno Sarris: So so so many. Well, I guess restraint matters some. Would he call down the middle balls? Cause then the pitcher couldn’t get out of the inning once he made one call like that.

3:55	Comment From Joe mlb.tv must lag TV broadcast slightly. Or Eno has a flux capacitor

3:55	Eno Sarris: It does. I do.

3:55	Comment From adam Hi Eno, random question here: what percent of MLB players do you believe chew tobacco? any players you’ve interviewed that you were surprised to learn chew?

3:56

Eno Sarris: I’ve talked to a few and I talked to a writer that did an informal polling after Tony Gwynn died and the number is probably around 1/3. Almost surprised it’s that low, given how much chaw and dip was around my baseball teams when I was younger. Guess people had coaches that lost parts of their jaw like I did.

3:56	Comment From Bork I tried chew once when I was 16 and passed out

3:58	Comment From Bork You can do more chat so my comment doesnt stay and remind me constantly thanks

3:58	Eno Sarris: You made me laugh twice!

3:58	Comment From Drew Pretty sure my fiancee found my Redman and threw it away

3:58	Comment From Art Vandelay My roommates in college used to chew while playing beer pong. I tried it one time (playing with a dip) then quit chewing altogether.

3:59	Comment From Neal Chew while beer pong seems like a really, really bad idea.

3:59	Eno Sarris: don’t swallow don’t swallow don’t swallow CHUG oh crap

4:00	Comment From tough critic why is hamilton in the starting lineup?

4:00	Eno Sarris: Yeah what the HECK is that choice about. He’s got no chance against Price. Do they not have another righty that could be useful here?

4:01	Eno Sarris: Mike Napoli. Guess the defense concerns?

4:01	Comment From Designated Bitter Didn’t they say Price has negative splits? I could be making that up

4:02	Eno Sarris: He does but that might be based on the cutter-less Price. Changeups have reverse splits, that much is true. But I’m not going to depend on Josh Hamilton, who is terrifyingly bad against lefties and also against good-command guys, to take advantage of that reverse split.

4:02	Comment From Nick “2nd consecutive strikeout” seems to imply I can’t remember 30 seconds into the past

4:03	Comment From Joe I was thinking same thing about Hamilton, but his splits lifetime not that bad (.270). But why do they show runs and SB on vL as R on fangraphs?

4:04	Eno Sarris: Huh, some recency bias from me. Hamilton wRC+ against lefties last three years going backwards: 88, 154, 62. 105 career. Huh.

4:04	Comment From Chris So I’m listening on the radio at work: Was that inning by Price as dominant as it sounds?

4:04	Eno Sarris: It was nasty.

4:04	Comment From Designated Bitter Using lifetime stats for Hamilton is dangerous. He’s been 4 different players over the span of his career

4:04	Eno Sarris: Truth. But 154 wRC+ against lefties in 2014 surprised me.

4:04	Comment From Joe I guess Stubbs might be a good sub for Hamilton.

4:04	Eno Sarris: There you go.

4:07	Eno Sarris: Is this going to be a low-scoring game???

4:07	Comment From TH had two tests today and havnt slept for 30 hours. whose ready for some baseball?? (I am, but only kinda)

4:07	Eno Sarris: Well this isn’t a one-off so phew. Put your feet up.

4:08	Comment From Kevin The playoffs always find ways to subvert your expectations.

4:08	Comment From jtt Fielder is the only player in this lineup who isn’t atrocious against lefties. even the right handers are just generally bad hitters no matter who they are facing

4:10	Eno Sarris: I’m not saying I agree, but once you park- and league-adjust this Rangers team, they were worse than average.

4:11	Eno Sarris: But they got healthy late in the year and had a good final month (109 wRC+) which coincided with Odor recovering his promise, Beltre being Beltre, a couple bats they picked up.

4:11	Comment From crazycorgi generally bad hitters—except the past two months they have crushed

4:11	Eno Sarris: Yeah and it might not just be BABIP or luck or sequencing either.

4:12	Comment From Kevin Which team should have been in by park/league stats? Angels? Indians?

4:13	Eno Sarris: Year-long best hitting teams not in playoffs: Giants (3rd), Rays (4th), Indians (7th), Mariners (8th). Year-long best pitching teams not in playoffs: Nationals (4th), Indians (7th), White Sox (9th), Rays (10th). So, yeah, Indians look pretty good by this.

4:13	Comment From DZ Gallardo’s pitches look pretty hittable. Second time through the order I bet the Jays break things open

4:14	Eno Sarris: Yeah I don’t know how he managed a 3.42 ERA this year honestly.

4:14	Comment From TH Eno can we play fifa sometime

4:14	Eno Sarris: Yes. I’ll bring the beer.

4:14	Comment From Joe You going to any playoff games Eno?

4:15	Eno Sarris: I’ll cover LA in LA if they make it to the World Series.

4:16	Comment From Nick Wow, I didn’t realize the Angels actually had a negative run differential

4:16	Eno Sarris: The classic didn’t pitch when they were hitting and didn’t hit when they were pitching move.

4:17	Comment From zkello Does anyone actually try to sacrifice hit on purpose?

4:18	Eno Sarris: Bunt for a hit? or Sacrifice fly? Yeah. Donaldson said he went oppo in the air a little more this year in order to move runners.

4:18	Eno Sarris: Odor got the elf ears.

4:19	Comment From Sal Eno, nice piece on Ventura. Do you think the new pitch mix/arm slot stick and how much does that raise your expectations for him moving forward?

4:19	Eno Sarris: I think it could really be It. He has the cheese, and the change looks Good Enough if the curve is The Shiz. Ug enough the Hunter S Thompson capitalization. We get it.

4:21	Comment From so ready which delino deshields is better

4:21	Comment From so ready how often are sons better than their fathers or vice versa

4:22	Eno Sarris: I’m guessing pops will be. They might be somewhat similar! Sr wasn’t a great defender, didn’t have much power.

4:22	Comment From Designated Bitter 100% of the time the son is better than the father or vice versa

4:24	Comment From Joe Beltre is about to fall over

4:24	Eno Sarris: Back woes I guess. Leaving game. People blaming it on turf but dunno.

4:25	Comment From Joe It looked lower half, not back.

4:25	Eno Sarris: I thought hammy, but twitter consensus is back fwiw.

4:26	Comment From Ricks How the heck is that turf related, it was right off the swing.

4:26	Comment From Neal neal consensus is he’s gotta poop fwiw

4:26	Comment From Section329 Beltre toughest player i know but even he has to be able to run.

4:28	Comment From Neal LOOK AT THAT REPLAY. CLEARLY HOLDING IT IN.

4:28	Eno Sarris: HE DOES NOT NEED TO POOP NEAL

4:28	Eno Sarris: (if it ends up being a hernia we should feel bad)

4:29	Comment From Mike Should the Rangers go all defensive substitutions right now? It would never happen because it’s not realistic, but wouldn’t that be the right move now that they’ve scored two runs?

4:29	Eno Sarris: 70% Rangers game right now. I don’t think its enough against this lineup with Gallardo on the hill though.

4:30	Comment From Comins and Goins Why do Bannister and Gibbons look like the undead on this telecast? Turf-related?

4:30	Eno Sarris: Blame everything on the turf.

4:30	Comment From crazycorgi one of the toughest players ever comes out in a huge situation and neal is being a jack***

4:31	Eno Sarris: hey man we have intense respect for Adrian Beltre here, or at least I do. we can also have a little fun.

4:31	Comment From Joe Always thought Gallardo a crapshoot. Maybe this is the good guy

4:31	Eno Sarris: Why we all talking about poop now.

4:31	Comment From jocephus damn turf

4:32	Comment From Designated Bitter Adrian Beltre was a NotGraphs regular

4:32	Eno Sarris: This was my favorite http://www.fangraphs.com/no…

4:33	Comment From Reed ESPN radio brings up Gallardo’s ERA in day games as 2.36… That’s been shown to not really be a thing right?

4:33	Eno Sarris: I mean I don’t even think I’d spend the time to disprove that one, honestly. You’d have to at least come up with a reason why.

4:35	Comment From jocephus

4:35	Comment From jocephus

4:35	Comment From Dave He could be a reverse vampire, maybe

4:35	Comment From Art Vandelay Didn’t Josh Hamilton blame day game issues on his blue eyes?

4:36	Eno Sarris: Checked that one, nope. http://www.hardballtimes.co…

4:37	Comment From jocephus on a baseball forum, someone said that beltre was in tears as he left? is this confirmed?

4:37	Eno Sarris: Heart-breaking

4:38	Comment From crazycorgi Beltre’s a tough SOB. If anyone is going to come back tomorrow, its him.

4:38	Comment From jocephus John Lott ?@LottOnBaseball 3m3 minutes ago Beltre left game with low-back stiffness.

4:39	Eno Sarris: Slide into second in first AB http://beta.sportsdaydfw.co…

4:40	Comment From Neal As someone who knows very little about the Rangers…how is their bullpen?

4:41	Eno Sarris: Actually pretty good, though Tolleson (the find) got overworked a bit and is only at 92 or so. Sam Dyson throws the Britton sinker from the right side, and Keone Kela is The Fire.

4:41	Comment From tough critic They still make Michelob? It’s like a budweiser with a polo shirt on.

4:41	Eno Sarris: Apparently it’s like the brand that has lost the most buyers among all brands.

4:42	Comment From Designated Bitter Ranger’s relievers were ranked 24th (out of 30) this year in MLB

4:43	Eno Sarris: Took em a while to get it together and WAR pretty bad on relievers IMO. 13th over last month, 7th over last month in K-BB%, second in fastball velocity.

4:43	Comment From Aram how true is the “he’s not a postseason pitcher” saying? Is this quantifiable? Really the only thing that sets apart regular season and post season is dates and louder crowds

4:43	Eno Sarris: Batters usually better because teams better.

4:43	Comment From Marshall Gomez not in Stros lineup

4:44	Eno Sarris: And if it was the hip then what

4:44	Comment From Joe Kela will be used sparingly though because of elbow issues

4:44	Eno Sarris: Too bad

4:45	Comment From Neal Question because I’m too lazy to google. Revere had 31 steals, how many were after he was traded?

4:45	Eno Sarris: 7 in 56 games compared to 24 in 96 before.

4:45	Comment From schmesh Dongaldson

4:45	Comment From Eric 2nd time thru

4:45	Comment From Marshall This lineup is stupid

4:45	Comment From Guest WHy is there playoff baseball during the workday? Do they even want people to wathc this

4:46	Comment From Comar8210 Eno, the people need all your attention this offseason on getting brown Rotographs Tshirts available for purchase. Thanks in advance.

4:46	Eno Sarris: Hmm, there is interest in this, yes?

4:46	Comment From Having to stay late at fing work because my coworkers fed up Having to stay late at f’ing work because my coworkers f’ed up!!

4:46	Eno Sarris: urge to kill rising

4:47	Comment From sargent house the urge to kill getting stronger

4:47	Comment From Brandon You would think that the benefit of being the only game on tv at 3pm would be cancelled out by the fact that EVERYONE IS AT WORK

4:47	Comment From boston brian eno, how long is the leash with gallardo here?

4:47	Eno Sarris: It’s gone. if it’s me.

4:48	Comment From Designated Bitter “Pitch to contact” seems like a hard way to make a living vs. the Blue Jays

4:48	Eno Sarris: man that was almost a badly timed chat post

4:49	Eno Sarris: “see the knee catch the base here, that’s where he gets hurt” replay shows donaldson getting knee to head

4:49	Comment From Neal Although his hair in slo-mo is glorious

4:49	Comment From Nick He came into 2nd like a WRECKINGGG BAALLLLL

4:49	Comment From Neal ZOOM IN ON THECUT

4:49	Eno Sarris: I want to be IN THE CUT

4:50	Eno Sarris: EDWING

4:51	Comment From Sgt. Pepper Beltre would have had that

4:52	Comment From Eric Both teams have scored runs!!!!

4:52	Comment From Neal “its only 2-0 but it feels like its bigger” or it feels like its 2-0

4:53	Eno Sarris: Uh my TV just cut out

4:53	Comment From Comins and Goins Mine too

4:53	Comment From Designated Bitter tulo sac fly to center, runner goes to third

4:54	Comment From Chef Jim Not a sac fly if nobody scores

4:54	Comment From Chef Jim even if somebody advances

4:54	Comment From James False PBP here would be pretty obnoxious

4:54	Comment From Art Vandelay and the office workers suddenly have the upper hand!

4:54	Eno Sarris: Well this is a weird feeling.

4:55	Eno Sarris: oh phew

4:56	Eno Sarris: smoooooooooak on the water FIRE IN THE SKY

4:56	Eno Sarris: (I’m just doing these in case he does something so I can claim I called it)

4:56	Comment From Justin Smoak you know how many times i had to hear that during middle school swim class

4:56	Comment From Joe The SMOAK monster

4:56	Comment From Section329 Smoak sucks

4:57	Eno Sarris: I’m not familiar with the reference on that last one

4:57	Comment From matt eno! between that and the edwing you had me terrified my feed is behind!

4:57	Eno Sarris: Totally called it on the infield hit though.

4:57	Comment From Justin Smoak probably shouldn’t have lit the roof of the pool room on fire so often

4:57	Comment From Marlboro man suck smokes

4:59	Comment From jimmo colabello really is their better 1b option. gibbons values smoaks defence too muc

4:59	Eno Sarris: He’s a tough one. Definitely changed his mechanics and could be better than projections have him. But that high ass BABIP.

5:00	Comment From Drew My boss has the game on in his office but won’t let me in because a few weeks ago I went in to watch Scherzer with him and he lost a no no 🙁

5:00	Eno Sarris: Tell him that’s not how it works.

5:00	Comment From Bryan Well Smoak can actually pick balls in the dirt. Collabello doesn’t

5:00	Comment From Chef Jim Adding Colabello makes the lineup even more RH. And the Jays don’t NEED more offense. I think Smoak is defensible.

5:01	Comment From Joe McTaggart (Astros beat writer) says Gomez is available and should start tomorrow. Just being careful with him.

5:01	Eno Sarris: Well this is surprising.

5:02	Comment From Nick I’ll be honest, Chirinos wasn’t who I expected to hit the first HR in this series

5:02	Comment From Brandon Quick tell me a cool fact about Chirinos

5:02	Eno Sarris: I always think of Cheerios when I hear his name.

5:03	Eno Sarris: Dude’s 31! I thought he wsa young.

5:03	Comment From ssf Rangers fans call him Honey Nut

5:04	Comment From The+Dude Cue the narrative “Price can’t pitch in the Post Season” in 3, 2, 1…

5:04	Eno Sarris: The narrative here in ze teevee is he had too much time off.

5:06	Comment From Chris Who is Hanser Alberto? I never heard anything about him this year

5:06	Eno Sarris: Just a contact and speed utility glove guy I think. Only 22 but has been around for five years in minors

5:06	Comment From Art Vandelay Are you here through Astros/Royals or are you tagging off?

5:07	Eno Sarris: Owen Watson taking over the ones and twos.

5:07	Comment From K-Man Hey Eno I’m watching in Germany, how ’bout a shoutout in German?

5:08	Eno Sarris: Wie gehts’? Hoffentlich hab ich ein kompletten Gespraech in Deutsch mit Kepler-Rossicki naechtes Jahr fuer dich.

5:08	Comment From Guest DAS SHOUTOUT

5:09	Comment From Bork How ’bout a shoutout in Jamaican?

5:09	Eno Sarris: Wa ya say rude bway? Na badda ramp with dem Sergios, him tass you pan ya rass.

5:10	Comment From Eric I just saw your hair for the first time :-O

5:10	Eno Sarris: It comes in many flavors.

5:10	Comment From BurleighGrimes Gallardo is all smoke and mirrors, it doesn’t seem like there’s any way the Blue Jays won’t solve him eventually.

5:10	Eno Sarris: Agree. He’d be out of the game for me already.

5:10	Comment From Phillies113 How about a shoutout in Serbian, then to Vietnamese, then to French, then back?

5:10	Comment From Tom Chobani Yogurto!

5:10	Eno Sarris: … and done.

5:10	Comment From A Scotsman Did someone say wee gates?

5:11	Comment From K-Man Danke Eno, mir gehts super! Ich freue mich über jedes frühe Playoff-Spiel, sonst muss ich nachts um 2 aufstehen. Über das Interview mit Max würde ich mich freuen!

5:11	Eno Sarris: (Muss ja ein bisschen mehr ueben)

5:11	Comment From Guest If you were to guess w/o looking, what are TOR’s game odds right now?

5:11	Eno Sarris: I have been looking, but I think ti’s probably 20%

5:12	Comment From Art Vandelay Did you actually do that Max Kepler interview?

5:12	Eno Sarris: Hoping to do it.

5:12	Comment From Guest 25%! Close.

5:12	Comment From The+Dude “Ontario legislature passes motion to wear Blue Jays jerseys in session” Real headline.

5:12	Comment From Designated Bitter “Canada still adorable” Probably real headline

5:12	Comment From Guest only pick one Gabe Kapler / Max Kepler

5:13	Eno Sarris: I know Gabe is hawt but I’m German.

5:13	Eno Sarris: Kevin Pillar mixing it up in the kitchen like Based God

5:14	Comment From Nick How is Gallardo still in this game?

5:14	Comment From Ricks Have these TV announcers been paid by the grass industry? Every third comment is about the turf.

5:15	Eno Sarris: p good comment

5:16	Comment From Guest would take pay from the grass industry if you know what i mean

5:16	Comment From Joe So many pitchers in post season have DFW connections: Gallardo (Fort Worth), Arrieta (TCU), Kershaw (Dallas HS). Dallas Keuchel – name 🙂

5:17	Comment From BurleighGrimes Holy shit Donaldson out of the game.

5:17	Eno Sarris: OH NO

5:17	Comment From Joe Two best 3B in league not playing.

5:18	Comment From Designated Bitter We are in the darkest timeline

5:20	Comment From The+Dude Ummm…..How about Machado? Pretty sure he’s better than Beltre.

5:20	Eno Sarris: We going to call him a shortstop for the purposes of this three seconds of the chat.

5:21	Comment From Brandon Arenado and Machado sit in the corner, silently glaring at Joe’s stupid opinion/face

5:21	Comment From Art Vandelay cough Kris Bryant cough

5:22	Comment From Designated Bitter Herein: ‘best’ is defined as ‘most fun at parties’

5:23	Eno Sarris: Sorry. technical difficulties.

5:23	Eno Sarris: But: looks like Donaldson out for ‘precautionary reasons.’

5:23	Comment From Juan Uribe There’s no way I’m not the most fun at parties.

5:23	Comment From jj YG pitching in a very non-fascist way today

5:24	Comment From System difficult technicalities

5:25	Comment From Guest mike napoli pizza

5:26	Comment From Art Vandelay precautionary reasons just means concussion protocol though, right?

5:26	Eno Sarris: I guess that means he must have failed something, but not enough of a fail to call it a full concussion? Protocol a series of check marks, really.

5:26	Comment From Designated Bitter Precautionary reasons means ‘blood is not actively spurting from his head’

5:26	Eno Sarris: They let Klay Thompson play.

5:26	Comment From Harold Speaking of pizza i’m in chicago anyone got any local “pizza” recommendations? I should try the best so I know what it is I’m teasing back in new york…

5:27	Eno Sarris: I thought Peace Pizza was good but I mostly had beer.

5:28	Comment From Rod Barajas Please tell me Gallardo isn’t still in the game.

5:28	Eno Sarris: Kela coming in. Kela had the best whiff rate on a curve ball in baseball this year.

5:28	Comment From Neal Lets go to a pizza place for beer?

5:28	Eno Sarris: (it’s really good beer)

5:28	Comment From Phillies113 Vin Scully underwent a medical procedure and will not be calling Dodgers postseason games. MAKE TODAY STOP

5:29	Comment From Guest What is that Gallardo hairstyle called

5:29	Eno Sarris: Mullethawk?

5:29	Comment From Designated Bitter DARKEST TIMELINE

5:29	Comment From Dick What’s with the lack of boner pill commercials today?

5:30	Eno Sarris: DFS PROMO “GETITUP”

5:30	Comment From James daytime

5:30	Comment From Designated Bitter People who watch TV in the afternoon are clinically proven to have working junk

5:30	Comment From Cory S. YG’s Hair – The Dothraki?

5:31	Eno Sarris: Bautista says “my what a wonderful homer I have hit”

5:31	Comment From Guest some say he’s still watching that HR ball

5:31	Comment From Neal JOSE DONGTISTA

5:31	Comment From Jason Good god that was smoked

5:31	Comment From Art Vandelay BATS FOR DAYS

5:31	Comment From Designated Bitter Nice curveball

5:32	Comment From Jason EE trying to bring out the parrot too

5:33	Comment From Designated Bitter I feel like if your foul ball goes 350 feet and misses the foul pole by 20, it really shouldn’t be counted as a strike

5:33	Comment From Drew Time to leave work?

5:33	Eno Sarris: GET TO A BAR YOUNG MAN

5:34	Comment From Drew World of Beer across the street? or Buffalo Wild Wings downstairs?

5:34	Eno Sarris: World of BEER, wait for Tulo AB to end

5:34	Comment From matt all curveballs from kela since that edwing foul

5:34	Eno Sarris: He once threw 10 straight to Brett Lawrie.

5:34	Comment From zkello Eno, what are you drinking?

5:34	Eno Sarris: Pelegrino. Headed to a beer event later.

5:35	Comment From The Hamburglar Whose hosting the KC/HOU chat then?

5:35	Eno Sarris: Watson

5:35	Comment From Designated Bitter “A beer event”. Celebrities: They’re just like us!

5:35	Eno Sarris: LOL. Friend debuting a new brown IPA, you could say I’m going to a bar.

5:35	Comment From Nick Anytime you drink beer it should be considered an event!

5:35	Comment From Art Vandelay Interesting factoid on the radio broadcast. Apparently MLB decides if the roof will be open or closed during the playoffs

5:35	Eno Sarris: Yes, apparently Rob Manfred has something to do with this.

5:36	Comment From Guest What’s the beer Eno make us all jealous

5:36	Eno Sarris: A brown IPA? Never had one before. Federation brewing in Oakland, going to Beer Revolution.

5:36	Comment From JOHN CENA JOHN CENA

5:36	Eno Sarris: MATT. DAMON.

5:36	Comment From zkello I’m having an “event” in my dorm room!

5:36	Comment From Jason I feel torn, I love playoff closed dome crowd noise, but I also love feeling open air when watching a game

5:36	Eno Sarris: It’s like 51 outside so close it.

5:36	Comment From Nick “I AM THE DECIDER” – Rob Manfred

5:37	Eno Sarris: It’s a good curveball right

5:38	Comment From Guest Am I alone thinking Jake Arrieta stealing second last night just bush league? Running up by 4 that late in the game cmon

5:39	Eno Sarris: Up by four in the playoffs is not running up the score. I could see a different opinion of his comments after the game, but doing it? No.

5:39	Comment From Designated Bitter If you bean me, I’m doing whatever I want on the bases

5:39	Eno Sarris: Watch me do the crab walk

5:39	Comment From Nick Its the playoffs, you can run up the score as much as you can/want

5:39	Comment From BurleighGrimes 4 runs is not that much! it’s a one game playoff!

5:39	Comment From Art Vandelay What was actually bush league was beaning him.

5:39	Comment From Neal CRAB PEOPLE

5:40	Comment From Pete Ventura in game 1 the right call?

5:40	Eno Sarris: Yes. He’s the ace right now.

5:41	Comment From Ampersand ENO help before you go! Local beer place got Evil Twin Cognac Jesus on special order today. Should I buy?

5:41	Eno Sarris: I paid a decent sum for Double Barrel Jesus and it’s almost not beer but it’s amazing.

5:42	Comment From jocephus odor homer

5:42	Eno Sarris: smell it

5:42	Comment From The Hamburglar Eno. Just moved to Charlotte, any beer recommendations? I miss my Cigar City Jai Alai I used to score in Orlando

5:43	Eno Sarris: from good friend @ohkiv NoDa. Olde Mecklenburg for Ger beers & the location, TripleC also good. Unknown

5:43	Comment From Harold Can anyone verify that chicago has a lot of spiders, my hotel is full of them

5:43	Comment From James Home Runs going to win this series, obviously

5:43	Comment From Roman At what sample size can we conclude a player is an underperformer in the playoffs and it’s not just a variance? If at all.

5:43	Eno Sarris: I’d want at least… what… 200 PA? Like a month-plus?

5:43	Comment From Guest Wicked Weed!

5:43	Eno Sarris: Yes if you can get them.

5:44	Comment From Art Vandelay My local beer store started getting both Alpine and Founders last week, but it’s all 30+ days old…

5:44	Eno Sarris: Get it fast. 30 okay for a lot of travel.

5:44	Comment From eric revere gigglin after missing that

5:44	Eno Sarris: he’s bad.

5:45	Comment From Guest Founders IPAs aren’t worth your time anw, focus on the other stuff

5:45	Eno Sarris: Founders showed up at my place too, bought some All Day and called it a day because I missed out on KBS. But Alpine is fire emoji.

5:45	Comment From jocephus how do you combat beer gut?

5:45	Eno Sarris: Try not to eat sweets, try to play basketball.

5:45	Eno Sarris: (I have a little beer gut)

5:45	Comment From Nick Their Breakfast Stout is my favorite of theirs

5:46	Eno Sarris: Yes that is good.

5:46	Comment From zkello Embrace the inevitable

5:46	Eno Sarris: Also good advice.

5:47	Comment From Roman Sure you’ve been asked this a bit, but what’s your go-to cheap beer?

5:47	Eno Sarris: Firestone Walker Easy Jack

5:47	Comment From Mike+B. I’ve developed a healthy Jamaican rum gut over the past couple years.

5:48	Comment From K-Man What is your favorite Czech beer?

5:48	Eno Sarris: Budvar? don’t even know any more

5:48	Comment From Nick @Mike B. your favorite Jamaican rum?

5:49	Comment From Mike+B. Mostly due to my excessive enjoyment of the Dark ‘n’ Stormy.

5:49	Comment From K-Man Wow, there are really great Czech beers: Svijanij, Kozel, Pilsener Urquell…

5:49	Eno Sarris: I like Urquell enough, haven’t had the others.

5:50	Comment From Brandon The score might be 5-3 but it feels like 2-0

5:50	Comment From Guest Feels more like 7-5 to me

5:50	Eno Sarris: I think there is a difference. There are different run environments for those three games.

5:51	Eno Sarris: Andrus with the glovely.

5:51	Comment From Mike+B. Because I mostly drink rum in mixed drinks, I opt for the cheaper (but still very decent) stuff, like Myers, and go for high-quality ginger beer.

5:51	Comment From K-Man And I have to ask: favorite German beers?

5:51	Eno Sarris: Koestritzer Schwarzbier.

5:51	Comment From Harold R The turf the turf the turf the turf

5:52	Comment From Guest beer snob hipsters are all about bavarian and bohemian beer

5:53	Eno Sarris: Eh I don’t drink German much any more.

5:53	Comment From jocephus is this how you drink czech beer?

5:54	Comment From Art Vandelay If it was real grass, Donaldson never would have slid into second, he would have been too busy rolling around in the luxurious outfield grass.

5:54	Comment From Brandon German beer law kind of made all the styles so similar, as long as I get something halfway decent I feel like i’ve had it before

5:54	Comment From Guest I mean to say, the hipsters of the beer snob community: “all you basic beer snobs and your hoppy/stouty/sour beers, if you were really refined you’d apprecite a clean lager”

5:55	Eno Sarris: Remember when Cecil was down to 89 for a few games. 94 on the first two.

5:55	Comment From jocephus I hope the Rangers call up his brother, Rougned Odor.

5:55	Eno Sarris: His uncle, Rougned Odor, is too old.

5:56	Comment From Art Vandelay I always thought it was crazy that the Reinheitsgebot is like a quarter-millennium older than the US.

5:57	Comment From Brandon “quarter millennium” Art really

5:58	Comment From Art Vandelay it makes it sound more impressive than 250 years

5:58	Comment From Guest Who was enforcing Reinheitsgebot? Germany as a nation-state was a pretty late development

5:58	Eno Sarris: Beer snobs.

5:58	Comment From K-Man I think he means quintuple half centuries

5:59	Comment From Mike+B. “It’s twice as old as the U.S. plus a tenth of a century.”

5:59	Comment From BurleighGrimes I feel like there are fewer trolls talking about how Price has struggled in the postseason than Kershaw. Is it just me?

6:00	Eno Sarris: I never know how to figure these things. They were just talking about how he’s pitched some big games for the Rays in the late season. But Kershaw, Price, both should get benefit of doubt.

6:00	Eno Sarris: Hamilton swing on that curve = why you don’t want him in against a lefty.

6:02	Eno Sarris: Rangers fans getting ready for a

6:02	Eno Sarris:

6:03	Comment From Guest CIALIS SIGHTING

6:03	Eno Sarris: I guess now the people with only semi-working junk have gotten to their televisions. I won’t joke too much. Some day my junk may only semi-work.

6:04	Comment From BurleighGrimes Is Diekman actually good? He was awful with the Phillies.

6:05	Eno Sarris: Stuff was always better than results.

6:06	Comment From Guest Yo all for sex positive stuff, but if you think about spending all that money/time/smarts on idk cancer or alzheimers or diabetes

6:06	Eno Sarris: I know people who have quit companies over this.

6:07	Comment From High but right college freshman Capitalism, man

6:07	Comment From The Hamburglar Blue Jays lineup looks really icky outside of the middle right now

6:07	Comment From Nick Sex will always be where the most money is

6:08	Comment From ssf Diekman is gross. Rangers should let Dyson pitch the 9th

6:09	Eno Sarris: Dyson is grosser. (And by gross I mean nasty.) (And by nasty I mean fierce.) (And by fierce I mean good.)

6:11	Eno Sarris: I sing Dalton Pompey in my head to the tune of “Dr. Bombay”

6:11	Eno Sarris:

6:11	Comment From Art Vandelay stay safe out there E5

6:12	Eno Sarris: Pray to Jobu for him

6:12	Comment From Adam It is the turf’s fault

6:13	Comment From Nick I’ve been telling them that turf in the dugout really isn’t necessary, but they just wont listen

6:14	Comment From eric This broadcast is insanely bad, and I dont care who knows it

6:14	Eno Sarris: Ducc is the best of the three.

6:15	Comment From zkello Yeah. I thought the AL wildcard game was one of the best postseason broadcasts in recent memory.

6:15	Comment From BurleighGrimes Wait a second what happened to Joey Bats? I went to make myself some coffee and now he’s hurt?!

6:16	Eno Sarris: Walked out, cramped?, went back into dugout.

6:16	Comment From Alex Will Aaron Sanchez start next year or is he a permanent reliever?

6:16	Eno Sarris: Done starting imo. It’s Osuna that has a starter’s arsenal and a chance.

6:17	Comment From zkello NO REALLY REYNOLDS? THIS IS A BIG INNING? I HAD NO IDEA.

6:17	Comment From ssf Wow, Dyson is actually up. I thought for sure Banister would go with Tolleson

6:17	Eno Sarris: It’s that Britton Sinker http://www.fangraphs.com/bl…

6:18	Comment From ShinyThing Harold’s commentary style: State the most obvious thing you can think of, insinuate that speed is the only thing that can win ballgames

6:18	Comment From mtsw The broadcast being bad would be less annoying if there weren’t for the fact both teams have perfectly fine broadcasters who worked for them the entire season. But I guess the thinking is that there are people tuning in to listen to Harold Reynolds who otherwise wouldn’t watch?

6:19	Eno Sarris: No. It’s like a political / corporate thing. Local guys employed by local broadcasts. They should be on. Sometimes they get on. Not today.

6:20	Comment From rustydude Yeah, I like Buck Martinez

6:20	Comment From zkello What would it take to get Vin Scully back in the booth for the World Series?

6:21	Eno Sarris: Dunno, he just had surgery and was ruled out for the postseason.

6:24	Comment From Art Vandelay Donaldson passed the concussion protocol

6:25	Comment From Sad Canadian

6:25	Comment From dprat Donde esta Tolleson?

6:25	Eno Sarris: Dyson better stuff, it was inevitable.

6:26	Comment From Guest time for him to smoak one

6:26	Comment From Guest Smoak a walking double play

6:27	Comment From Eric Smoaked!

6:27	Comment From Luke Would you really pinch run Encarnacion just to avoid a double play?

6:27	Eno Sarris: what if you only tie it up

6:28	Comment From Seth @ TechGraphs I had no idea Sam Dyson threw 98. Jeebus.

6:28	Eno Sarris: with. so. much. sink.

6:29	Comment From The Hamburglar I dont know a lot about Bannister, but using Dyson in the 9th instead of your closer..seems like a good managerial move

6:29	Eno Sarris: yeah, definitely the guy with better stuff.

6:30	Comment From Guest So much sink

6:30	Eno Sarris: Congrats Rangers! 23% of you were wrong. Go self-flagellate.

6:30	Comment From ShinyThing

6:31	Comment From Nick Thanks for chatting with us Eno! Enjoy your beer event

6:31	Eno Sarris: Owen Watson should be taking over shortly. Well, in an hour or so.

6:31	Comment From K-Man Gute Nacht Eno!

6:31	Eno Sarris: Tschuss!

6:31	Comment From Seth @ TechGraphs All you have to know about Bannister is he got this team to win the AL West and beat the Blue Jays in Game 1. Impressive. Most impressive.

6:31	Comment From Guest Hpoe Beltre makes it back

6:51	Comment From Art Vandelay You guys left the chat open? What is that queue going to look like by the time Owen gets here?

6:51	Owen Watson: Actually not too crazy!

6:52	Owen Watson: I just put a root beer in the freezer, so no one let me forget about it

6:53	Owen Watson: I’m here a little early, folks, so if you want to chat about the Jays/Rangers fallout or the so-called upcoming “battle of the brisket” game, I’m all ears

6:54	Comment From ManBearPuig Such a narrow window for that root beer to come out perfectly cold

6:54	Owen Watson: Definitely a 50/50 shot of finding it exploded

6:54	Comment From ManBearPuig Wrap a wet paper towel around it, it cools faster

6:55	Owen Watson: You are a gentleman and a scholar, good sir

6:56	Comment From ManBearPuig Beer tips = root beer tips

6:56	Owen Watson: I am also a fan of the bucket of ice water and salt method. Not sure I could pull that off while chatting, however

6:59	Comment From Phillies113 Here’s how to handle root beer: 1) Open the bottle 2) pour contents down the sink, because root beer is gross 3) grab literally anything else to drink

7:00	Owen Watson: This is heresy. Next you’re going to tell me that ginger beer is gross too!

7:01	Comment From Nick Virgil’s root beer is the nectar of the gods

7:02	Owen Watson: Big fan of Hank’s as well, or Henry Weinhard’s. Anyone making root beer with a derivative of the name of Henry I’m down with.

7:04	Comment From The+Dude Were you disappointed that you got the Royals/Astros game?

7:05	Owen Watson: I am a fan of Houston, so no! They were sort of my stand in this year, as the A’s were awful from the start

7:07	Comment From The+Dude An Astros/Cubs World Series would be cool. Battle of the Rebuilders!

7:09	Owen Watson: I would be very happy with this matchup!

7:10	Comment From ShinyThing Blue Jay's fans

7:11	Comment From john the Astros could be something special in the years to come with their middle infield combo. who has a better combo then them? anyone?

7:14	Owen Watson: Probably no one — but it depends on who might develops in the next few years. A lot of super young guys at SS right now who are already pretty good

7:14	Comment From ManBearPuig Travis-Tulo is pretty nifty

7:14	Owen Watson: This too!

7:14	Comment From The+Dude Steve Buscemi makes everything great!

7:14	Comment From ShinyThing Maybe for a couple years Xander and Pedroia. Although health and overhype could be a factor.

7:15	Owen Watson: That was my thought too, if Bogaerts finds his power stroke and Pedroia stays healthy.

7:15	Comment From The+Dude I don’t know, the Indians Lindor/Kipnis duo probably take the cake.

7:16	Owen Watson: Love these guys too. Lindor is so, so fun to watch.

7:16	Comment From Who_Is_Zorbist? So the Jays have to go 3-1 or their season’s over. Wow.

7:17	Owen Watson: Was it just me or did almost everyone get injured that game?

7:18	Comment From ShinyThing Literally everyone. They had to fill their lineup with actual Blue Jays by the end

7:19

Eno Sarris via Twitter :

Pete Rose taking like got a few too many knees to the head

7:20	Comment From The+Dude A few years from now, Bogaerts and Moncada could make a killer duo.

7:20	Owen Watson: Oh right, that guy.

7:20	Owen Watson: Root beer time — thanks for reminding me, NO ONE

7:21	Comment From Phillies113 WE ARE DOING YOU A FAVOR BY NOT REMINDING YOU TO DRINK ROOT BEER

7:22	Owen Watson: You are hereby banned from opining on the subject of root beer

7:24	Owen Watson: Ok people, let’s address the elephant in the room. Which is better: KC barbecue or Texas barbecue?

BAL	CHW	LAA
BOS	CLE	OAK
NYY	DET	SEA
TBR	KCR	TEX
TOR	MIN	HOU

ATL	CHC*	ARI
MIA	CIN	COL
WSN	MIL	LAD
NYM*	PIT	SDP*
PHI	STL	SFG