mtutiger

2 Innings, 14 pitches. Give him another lol

Dodgers would be wise to let Graterol go another inning... he's filthy tonight

Baseball is also a sport where the best teams generally only win 67% of the time or so... Just more room for variability compared to the NFL or NBA or even NHL.

To this end, being in the same division with the 107-win Giants takes a toll. But that's not really an excuse IMO. All the teams remaining have taken on water at times this season.

Do you think the sportswriters could at least wait until the Dodgers are actually eliminated before making excuses?

He also said that he would only become an I and would caucus with the Ds in this hypothetical.

And Arizona needs someone more liberal than Sinema. Manchin is at least willing to play ball in all of this... I still don't know entirely what her endgame is.

This newscycle comes up every so often. But at the end of the day, Joe Manchin voted for impeachment twice and has been incredibly defensive of Obamacare throughout the Trump years. He isn't gonna become a Republican... as much as more lefty folks complain about him, his ideology still aligns more with the Dems than the Rs. And he really hates McConnell.

For sure. And to be fair, Texas has an identity that is more unique and less connected to the vestiges of the Confederacy.

I found it amusing that there was a discussion during the Braves-Dodgers TBS broadcast about the diminished utility of the starting pitcher.... Like, the ALCS game that preceded that is a textbook example of how useful a good starting pitching performance still can be, particularly given how slammed the Astros pen was after those three games. And now you look at that series, setting aside the advantage the Astros have with the lead in the series, it's now the Red Sox who are in a hole because of how they have had to leverage their pitching. That was unthinkable when people were writing the Astros off after Game 3.

lol

The start by Framber today was massive... gave the bullpen a huge rest after getting taxed in Games 2-4.

After nine years of living in Texas (ie. an actual Confederate state), it never ceases to amaze me that I see less stars and bars here than I did back home

Amazing how different the Astros-Sox series looks 24 hours later...

Different controversy, but I've kinda felt that TBS has had a slight pro-Braves bent all postseason.... right down to putting Frenchy in the booth for both of their series. They've been a superior broadcast over FOX regardless, but just calling it like I see it.

My thing is that there was a ball off the plate four ball widths to Aledmys Diaz (one batter prior to Castro) that went the Red Sox way as well that was pretty critical in terms of how that AB played out as well. Had the the inning ended tied, would the Astros have had reason to be pissed at that too? That's my only point.... Diaz wasn't picking on the Red Sox or anything like that, he's just not good at his job. And the only reason we are talking about that particular call is because of what came after.

The crying by Red Sox fans just seems a bit over the top to me. They had ample opportunities to score more runs yesterday or prevent more runs from scoring once Jason Castro got that base hit and they didn't avail themselves of them. Just don't have a lot of sympathy.

This is definitely a concern... he needs more time to kinda prove it. Which he is not gonna get anytime soon. In the meantime, IDK if rolling into next season with Haase/Garneau and hoping Dingler moves fast next year is a great move if you desire to make improvements on next year (as the Tigers brass says they do). It's a lot to ask of Haase who easily could regress next season and whose defense is touch and go. They don't need best available, just serviceable. The asking price may be reasonable depending on who it is and what the circumstances are. Mentioned it a while ago, but someone like Pedro Severino from the Orioles might be a fit... with Adley Rutschman likely to be elevated to Baltimore, one imagines he's not going to get as much playing time next year. And I doubt the asking price would be high.

Of course, Diaz called one of those pitches that was four ball widths off the plate a strike to the previous batter. Laz Diaz sucks, but let's not pretend they didn't benefit as well at times.

Red Sox 9th Inning:

Alex Cora pulls a Dave Roberts lol

And this, folks, is why you hit Fangraphs first lol

Feels like a whole new series in LA! Baseball man

And like that, Dodgers lead... baseball

Reagan was philosophically different in ways as well. Not that I like the guy much, but I still marvel at how, when you go back and listen to Reagan speeches, how much more optimistic Reagan sounded compared to Trump... just completely different personalities.