Mlb 2011!

prolix · 2011-10-07T11:15:14.000Z

sluggo:

it’s a little frustrating to watch the Yankees bats fall asleep in the playoffs again

Yankees outscored the Tigers 28-17. If you’re a Yankees fan (ugh), that’s what’s frustrating.

Mark_Asher · 2011-10-07T14:18:05.000Z

Direct TV subscription? $65.

Toshiba Plasma Screen TV? $1500.

A-Rod striking out with the bases loaded and then striking out to end the series? Priceless!

sluggo · 2011-10-07T14:44:47.000Z

prolix:

Yankees outscored the Tigers 28-17. If you’re a Yankees fan (ugh), that’s what’s frustrating.

That stat is misleading. The Yankees scored 19 runs in 2 games and averaged 3 runs/game in the other three. This has been a running problem for the Yankees for over a decade – they rely too much on the home run during the season and then get inconsistent hitting in the playoffs.

And despite all the Yankee haters, I’ll never apologize for being a fan – I’ve been a fan since the 70s and lived through the 80s, where they were often the Keystone Kops of baseball. I’ve paid my dues. :)

TranquilityBase · 2011-10-07T16:05:17.000Z

As a Royals fan watching this ARI-MIL series, I need the baseball gods to explain to me how a couple of 90+ win teams can get away with having Yuniesky Betancourt and Willie Bloomquist in the everyday starting lineups of a playoff series.

I wonder what I’ll see next year - Jason Kendall and Chris Getz hacking away in October?

sluggo · 2011-10-07T16:18:24.000Z

That catch was so good I actually yelled out loud at my TV.

Mark_Asher · 2011-10-07T16:32:00.000Z

sluggo:

That stat is misleading. The Yankees scored 19 runs in 2 games and averaged 3 runs/game in the other three. This has been a running problem for the Yankees for over a decade – they rely too much on the home run during the season and then get inconsistent hitting in the playoffs.

And despite all the Yankee haters, I’ll never apologize for being a fan – I’ve been a fan since the 70s and lived through the 80s, where they were often the Keystone Kops of baseball. I’ve paid my dues. :)

You realize, I hope, that other fans have paid much, much more in dues than Yankees fans have ever had to pay.

triggercut · 2011-10-07T16:33:36.000Z

Milwaukee’s bullpen is devastatingly good. This game may be over.

triggercut · 2011-10-07T16:49:50.000Z

Rodriguez is the weakest link in that bullpen. Glad Roenicke is still married to using him in the 8th.

triggercut · 2011-10-07T17:04:50.000Z

Failing to get a runner home from third with 1 out in the 8th inning, trailing by a run in a winner-take-all playoff game?

That’s gonna haunt the D-Backs all winter.

John Axford should mow them down in the 9th.

CheesyPoof · 2011-10-07T17:10:28.000Z

Mark Asher:

You realize, I hope, that other fans have paid much, much more in dues than Yankees fans have ever had to pay.

QFMFT.

triggercut · 2011-10-07T17:12:57.000Z

Wow…Parra tryin’ to make a liar of me!

Do you bunt here to get the runner to third with 1 out?

sluggo · 2011-10-07T17:14:45.000Z

Man, they’re not going to bunt him over? Seriously?

triggercut · 2011-10-07T17:14:53.000Z

Burroughs job here is to try to pull any pitch he sees–at minimum it advances the runner to third.

triggercut · 2011-10-07T17:15:33.000Z

sluggo:

Man, they’re not going to bunt him over? Seriously?

Lots of managers hate the bunt in this situation. Burroughs handles a bat decently. Guess they let him try to at least put a grounder to the right side.

sluggo · 2011-10-07T17:16:46.000Z

You’re going against a devastating reliever, you can’t risk not moving the runner ov…

…hey, there’s a hit! Great call by the DBacks!

triggercut · 2011-10-07T17:17:15.000Z

Now it gets really interesting.

Axford I don’t believe has blown a save since the first week or two of the season.

sluggo · 2011-10-07T17:17:46.000Z

So, do you squeeze at any point in this inning now?

Answer: Yes!!

triggercut · 2011-10-07T17:18:44.000Z

Milwaukee’s defense–suspect all season–bites 'em in the ass.

2-2!

triggercut · 2011-10-07T17:19:18.000Z

sluggo:

So, do you squeeze at any point in this inning now?

Answer: Yes!!

Love the aggressiveness from Gibson on that. Looked like a safety squeeze, but still…helluva bunt by Bloomquist.

sluggo · 2011-10-07T17:19:40.000Z

I might actually bunt again here to move the runners to 2nd and 3rd with 1 out.

Edit: So much for that.