| 1:14 |
: dedicated to days with no baseball:
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| 12:01 |
: Hello, friend!
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| 12:01 |
: YOLO
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| 12:02 |
: Any predictions for tonight’s game?
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| 12:02 |
: Scherzer is nails, LA cobbles together six or seven good innings between Hill and Urias to stay with them in a low scoring game, and the game is decided in the seventh.
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| 12:02 |
: Fairly specific…
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| 12:01 |
: Well, it’s a Wednesday without baseball, so we’ll forgo the usual Happy Wednesday greeting.
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| 12:02 |
: Chicago, Toronto, and Cleveland are in the LCS, and we get an elimination game between LA/WAS tomorrow. This has been a fun postseason so far.
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| 12:02 |
: Let’s chat about it.
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| 12:02 |
: Was last night the strangest bullpen management we’ve seen since the time La Russa was surprised by which reliever came out during a world series game?
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| 12:03 |
: Setting aside Bochy’s lack of faith in Will Smith — which I wrote about last night — the rest of it was pretty normal. If you think Smith is just a LOOGY, and not even as good as Lopez in that role, then everything else kind of fits. But the weird part is not recognizing that Smith is good.
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| 12:03 |
: Looks like Javy Baez is the front runner in annual “Damn, I didn’t know this guy was this good” contest thanks to national postseason exposure. No way this guy gets regular AB next season, right?
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| 9:01 |
: I love the annual! Is there an official release date yet?
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| 9:02 |
: Hi everybody!
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| 9:02 |
: The Annual is slated for release at some point in mid-November.
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| 9:03 |
: Gregory Polanco or Trevor Story in dynasty?
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| 9:03 |
: Polanco, though it’s close.
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| 9:03 |
: Is Gary Sanchez a top 3 catcher in next years fantasy drafts?
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| 12:02 |
: yo!
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| 12:02 |
: ran a little late writing and therefore a little late getting this up, so I’ll let the queue fill up for another 5 minutes or so and we’ll get underway
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| 12:04 |
: in the meantime, revisit Tame Impala’s Currents with me
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| 12:09 |
: ok, let’s chat!
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| 12:10 |
: Hello, friend!
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| 12:10 |
: hi, Bork!
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| 11:59 |
: We have started the chat. That goldbricker layabout Cistulli didn’t start up the chat until a few minutes ago, so a smaller queue than usual at the start.
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| 11:59 |
: Most likely scenario: Sale & Quintana are traded, only Sale is traded, only Quintana is traded or neither is traded?
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| 12:00 |
: Most likely scenario is that the White Sox claim to be interested, but when they’re not offered entire farm systems, they lose the motivation and continue the yearly quest to 83 wins.
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| 12:00 |
: I’ve always pronounced your name “Shimborskee”. Is there a better pronunciation?
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| 12:01 |
: Fairly accurate in Polish (but the first syllable a little more horrific, it sounds like shim if someone awkwardly tried to throw an f and a j in there for some reason).
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| 12:01 |
: I’ve always said zim-BORE-skee. As did my dad. Mom and my sister always say sim-BORE-skee.
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| 9:07 |
: Hello friends
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| 9:07 |
: Welcome to Friday baseball chat, in advance of about 13 hours of competitive meaningful baseball
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| 9:07 |
: Hello, friend!
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| 9:07 |
: Hello friend
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| 9:07 |
: HI JEFF
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| 9:07 |
: HI FRIEND
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| 1:40 |
: not beautiful like Thor vs Bum, but this has it’s own kind of beauty
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| 12:01 |
: Hello, friend!
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| 12:01 |
: Hello!
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| 12:01 |
: Which wild card game was more exciting for you?
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| 12:02 |
: The ending of the first was amazing, because he had the crowd behind him. That always makes things nice. But if amazing pitching is exciting, and I think it is, the second was v exciting.
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| 12:02 |
: Just a plug for everyone to please buy my new “I’m with Bork” t shirts, and coming this winter I’m writing a book with all of my greatest hits from saying “hello, friend!” in chats!
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| 7:59 |
: Welcome to the NL Wild Card live blog. August Fagerstrom and I will be hanging out with you tonight.
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| 7:59 |
: Let’s do a poll!
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| 8:00 |
: On the question of who you’re rooting for, there’s no wrong answer, unless you picked the Giants.
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| 8:01 |
: Because we’ve all seen enough San Francisco championships lately.
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| 8:02 |
: Do the Giants really draw a bunch of walks? This doesn’t feel like a high walk team.
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| 8:03 |
: Huh, 4th in MLB in BB%. Who knew?
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| 11:56 |
: So, today’s chat will start a little bit late; still only have one car in Oregon at the moment and wife and kid need a ride.
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| 11:56 |
: We will aim to start around 12:15.
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| 12:15 |
: Alright, Dave’s Uber Service has been completed. Let’s do this thing.
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| 12:15 |
: Should Buck Showalter be fired for not using Britton last night?
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| 12:17 |
: No. In-game decisions are probably a minority of the ways that managers can impact a team, and by most accounts, Showalter is excellent at the other stuff. No one is perfect.
That said, if I’m Dan Duquette, I’m sitting down with Showalter and walking through the thought process of this decision, and trying to help him see why he should do it differently next time. If, after some reasonable conversations, he maintains he wouldn’t do anything differently, then I might make a change. |
| 12:17 |
: You don’t want to overrate in-game strategy as a part of the job, but intellectual curiosity has to be part of the process, and if Showalter refuses to believe that his decision was a mistake, then he might not be the right guy going forward.
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| 5:02 |
: Hello friends |
| 5:02 |
: Hello, friends! |
| 5:02 |
: Hello friend |
| 5:02 |
: Welcome to October 4 American League Wild Card One-Game Playoff Live Blog |
| 5:03 |
: I will be joined at some point by both Eric and Carson! And all of you and your blessed hearts |
