Ugh. Yeah, precious little joy in Wrigleyville tonight. I guess it’s less stressful than keeping it close all the way to the ninth, though, right?
Feels like a Cards fan is scripting this series.
Nah. We’d write in much more hilarious ninth-inning heartbreak.
From an impartial standpoint, you have to be in love with the bats of Kyle Schwarber and Jorge Soler…but if they’re going to play corner OF spots for the Cubs next season, they’re either going to need to sign Kelly Leak to play center, or buy both guys Segways.
Yeah, it’s not good for the defense when you’ve got three guys (those two plus Rizzo) that seem built to play first base, and no DH spot. From a purely logical standpoint, it would make a lot of sense to move one of them and get some more pitching, cutting the outfield defensive liability in half. But it sure is nice having all those bats.
Mercy me, Daniel Murphy, have a series!
Think he’ll win MVP? ;-)
Right? I mean they have to have engraved his name on the thing already.
My goodness. Baseball.
Those bats are fantastic, absolutely. But yeah, if the Cubs think that Schwarber can’t play catcher (and I think that’s what they’re feeling) in the majors, he’s sure not going to displace Rizzo.
It’s certainly a nice problem to have if you’re Theo Epstein heading into the offseason.
Jesus Mets, you gotta do better than Tyler Clippard next season. In fact, your whole bullpen situation could use a rethink.
Whomever they meet in the Series may expose that weakness rather badly. Can you imagine what the Royals and their late inning offensive heroics might do to Clippard?
Why yes, I think I can. Or wait, that’s not imagination, just memory.
Here’s a cool factoid: with the Mets beating the Cubs for the NL pennant and the Blue Jays and Royals deciding the AL flag, it means that for the first time EVER in MLB history we’ll have a World Series without one of the original 16 teams. That’s mindblowing to me.
Oghier
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Three or four years from now, some team is really going to regret signing Daniel Murphy for a bazillion dollars.
Yeah, I love that baseball has been played since dinosaurs ruled the earth, but we still get occasional “this has never happened before” events.
“You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can”
That’s what it says
“But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan”
Steve Goodman, “A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request” (written 32 years ago)
Dodger fans won’t have Donny Baseball to kick around any more. Mattingly and Los Angeles have “mutually agreed” to part ways.
This is kinda funny.
So the Royals come back home needing to win just one in two chances. It’ll be Price vs Yordano Ventura in game 6. I have this nagging feeling Price is gonna shake his postseason blues. He seems way overdue, was nearly unhittable his last time out until the 7th - when everything went to shit on the Jays, and the Royals offense can’t just keep pulling rabbits out of their hat. Meanwhile, Ventura has been pretty shaky this postseason. He was really solid down the stretch, so maybe we’ll get lucky. If not, then it’s Cueto in game 7. He was great in the final ALDS game, but he just looked soooo lost his last time out…
This ain’t gonna do much for David Price’s reputation as a post-season choke artist. He’s well on his way tonight to breaking Randy Johnson’s record for such futility.
RickH
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My petty little sports grudge is satisfied. Go . . . AL I suppose?
