| 9:00 |
: Let’s see, am I on time?
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| 9:00 |
: Nailed it!
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| 9:01 |
: Hey everybody and welcome to baseball chat
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| 9:01 |
Congrats on being on time Jeff! |
| 9:01 |
: This is a big day for me
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| 9:02 |
if you were the dodgers who would u pitch for games 4/5/6/7 |
| 11:58 |
: It is time for the magic* to start.
* Dan Szymborski Evil Enterprises insists that no magic is used in the making of this chat. |
| 11:59 |
: And heeeeere come the pretzels!
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| 11:59 |
: (There’s a lag between when I make first comment and it shows live readers)
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| 11:59 |
Assuming the Dodgers stand pat (I’m sure they won’t), what’s their 2014 win projection? |
| 11:59 |
: 87? Pretty speculative at this point! I haven’t run 2014 projections even.
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| 12:00 |
Now that Evil Enterprises is up and running, will the Dan Szymborski Torture Basement be available in stores? |
| 11:33 |
: Plenty to look back at from last night, plus looking forward to a couple of Game 5s over the next two nights. And, for the other 24 fanbases, we can talk off-season stuff. The queue is now open.
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| 12:06 |
: We’re on Jeff time today.
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| 12:06 |
: Sorry about that. Had to finish up the post on A.J. Burnett before starting.
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| 12:07 |
Do the Rockies sign a big 1B/OF bat this offseason? |
| 12:07 |
: They already said Cuddyer is moving to first. My guess is they’ll make a trade rather than a FA sign. I could see them wildly overpaying for Cespedes.
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| 12:07 |
Kevin Towers says the Dbacks will look for a power bat in a corner position. Who makes sense? Nelson Cruz? Trumbo? Any other FA? |
| 9:01 |
: Wow, a live chat! Can’t remember the last time I did one of these!
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| 9:01 |
: In today’s live chat, we’ll just re-live yesterday’s five-hour Red Sox/Rays marathon. We begin in the top of the first…
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| 9:02 |
You’re late, Mr. Spicoli, stop wasting MY time! |
| 9:02 |
: One a god damned minute!
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| 9:03 |
: Typos!
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| 9:03 |
to whom do i register my disappointment in the lack of articles about pitcher pace in yesterday’s sox/rays game? |
| 4:59 |
: Hello friends, and welcome to a live blog for a game that probably will not be as much fun as yesterday’s game.
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| 4:59 |
: Joining me, in theory, will be David Temple. That will be swell!
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| 5:00 |
: And there he is!
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| 5:00 |
: Oh, hello.
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| 5:00 |
: For those who will be reading the transcript later, know that it cuts off before the end, and that’s a Cover It Live RSS issue, and there’s nothing we can do about it. So the transcript will be incomplete, missing the most dramatic moments. Too badsies 🙁
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| 5:01 |
: I will be back in just a few minutes. David will be back RIGHT NOW
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| 11:46 |
: One Wild Card game down, one to go. We’ll talk playoffs, off-season, or Bud Selig succession plans. The queue is now open.
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| 11:59 |
: Going to start about five minutes late.
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| 12:11 |
: Sorry, guess it was more like 10 minutes. We’ll make it up on the back end.
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| 12:12 |
% of chance that tonight’s Wild Card game is equally as entertaining as last nights? |
| 12:12 |
: The game itself wasn’t particularly great. That crowd really made it awesome.
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| 12:12 |
: So, not very high.
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| 7:59 |
: It’s playoff time in PIttsburgh. The last time anyone said that… okay, you’ve probably had enough of those today.
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| 7:59 |
: But welcome back to the postseason, Pirates fans.
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| 7:59 |
: This should be fun.
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| 8:02 |
: Whoops, name added now.
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| 8:02 |
good on you Pittsburgh! |
| 8:02 |
I’ve thrown up twice already. These next three hours are going to be hell. |
| 9:01 |
: Hey guys, and welcome to this chat.
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| 9:01 |
: In this chat, I will attempt to express more opinions than usual!
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| 9:01 |
: Come get some!
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| 9:02 |
: First opinion: these pancakes are delicious.
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| 9:02 |
1 minute off? That’s pretty impressive. |
| 9:03 |
: And only because I couldn’t open my kitchen window for a moment.
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| 11:45 |
: I’ll be here at the top of the hour!
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| 12:00 |
I’ll top your hour! |
| 12:00 |
: hmm feisty
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| 12:00 |
: Lyrics of the day dedicated to division leaders
We’re not happy til we’re running away |
| 12:00 |
Best Brown Ale you’ve had recently? |
| 12:00 |
: Can’t remember anything but Moose Drool and Turbodog. I’ll keep thinking.
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| 12:03 |
Verlander is officially a no. 2, right? 200+ innings is a big sample. |
| 12:03 |
: No, it’s not.
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| 12:04 |
Anecdotally, it seems like we’ve seen an uptick in fantastic seasons by RPs (Kimbrel, Jansen, Holland, Uehara, etc.). Do you think it has anything to do with the concurrence of two factors 1) these are high-K specialists and 2) hitters are more tolerant of Ks? Basically, the highest-K pitchers separate themselves from the rest of the pack when hitters are striking out more often overall. This could be ridiculous. I just thought of it 10 seconds before I typed it. |
| 12:04 |
: I think we’ve seen a huge uptick in velocity in MLB, and now we have a whole bunch of guys who can throw 100.
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| 12:04 |
What will Choo and Pence get in FA? |
| 12:04 |
: I’ll guess 5/75 for Choo, 6/90 for Pence.
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