Around Baseball 2015

[CJ-Freeway]

I'm basically cheering for the Mets cause of DeGrom and Syndergaard (<3) but Daniel Murphy can go f*** himself.

 

Why the hate on Murph?

[Stangstag]

Well, that's now 3 out of 4 LDS series that have gone to a game 5. Pretty epic

[intentional wok]

Wild. Of all the teams to get ousted first, it's the Cardinals.

[Jonn]

Wild. Of all the teams to get ousted first, it's the Cardinals.

 

Its probably the only one people thought would go 5.

[BigCecil]

I wasn't at the game but every time I travel to TOR and go to a gm at the RC I look at that MNP sign and imagine what it must have been like to be there when Carter hit a ball over that LF wall in game 6 93.

 

That would have been incredible I wish I was old enough to remember it. Still hope for some magic this year though!

 

Its pretty cool how young some of you guys are, and just getting your first taste of Jays playoff baseball. I hope you are enjoying the nerve racking ride. I was at a party at my friends house in Whitehorse, Yukon when Carter hit hat HR. I jumped up on his coffee table with a massive shot of adrenaline and slammed my arms in that air....one fist when partially through his ceiling drywall. Nobody cared.That was an unbelievable moment. Can't imagine being at the RC for it.

[dineke]

Its pretty cool how young some of you guys are, and just getting your first taste of Jays playoff baseball. I hope you are enjoying the nerve racking ride. I was at a party at my friends house in Whitehorse, Yukon when Carter hit hat HR. I jumped up on his coffee table with a massive shot of adrenaline and slammed my arms in that air....one fist when partially through his ceiling drywall. Nobody cared.That was an unbelievable moment. Can't imagine being at the RC for it.

 

You know what they say about parties in Yukon...

[Olerud363]

Its pretty cool how young some of you guys are, and just getting your first taste of Jays playoff baseball. I hope you are enjoying the nerve racking ride. I was at a party at my friends house in Whitehorse, Yukon when Carter hit hat HR. I jumped up on his coffee table with a massive shot of adrenaline and slammed my arms in that air....one fist when partially through his ceiling drywall. Nobody cared.That was an unbelievable moment. Can't imagine being at the RC for it.

 

85 was insane, so was 87... the young guys should take a look at some of the game logs. 89 and 91 the Jays were never really in those series.

 

Game 4 - 92 was the one that changed it. It was kind of like the KC/Houston game yesterday. Except more insane. The comeback was against Eckersley though... a legend at the time.

 

I remember Alomar throwing a guy out at the plate in the bottom of the 9th. Crazy, what I didn't remember was that Mark Mcgwire bunted that inning.

 

http://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=779752

[EMK19]

85 was insane, so was 87... the young guys should take a look at some of the game logs. 89 and 91 the Jays were never really in those series.

 

Game 4 - 92 was the one that changed it. It was kind of like the KC/Houston game yesterday. Except more insane. The comeback was against Eckersley though... a legend at the time.

 

I remember Alomar throwing a guy out at the plate in the bottom of the 9th. Crazy, what I didn't remember was that Mark Mcgwire bunted that inning.

 

http://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=779752

 

In 89 we were indeed just completely overmatched, but I believe we would have won the 1991 series if we had won that game 3 that went into extra innings. That game had Joe Carter injuring his hamstring too after which he was never the same rest of the way. Blowing 5-2 lead in game 5 was brutal as well.

 

Alomar's HR was indeed big but I sometimes think that it is over glorified sometimes due to its symbolistic nature of finally getting over the Oakland hump. Even if we had lost that game the series would have been still tied 2-2 and we would have still had home advantage, so I feel that in a way Sprague's HR was bigger in actually turning a series around (since we would have been down 2-0 in the series if we lost that game 2 of WS), the Sprague HR doesn't seem get as much credit in comparison in the media...

[Olerud363]

In 89 we were indeed just completely overmatched, but I believe we would have won the 1991 series if we had won that game 3 that went into extra innings. That game had Joe Carter injuring his hamstring too after which he was never the same rest of the way. Blowing 5-2 lead in game 5 was brutal as well.

 

Alomar's HR was indeed big but I sometimes think that it is over glorified sometimes due to its symbolistic nature of finally getting over the Oakland hump. Even if we had lost that game the series would have been still tied 2-2 and we would have still had home advantage, so I feel that in a way Sprague's HR was bigger in actually turning a series around (since we would have been down 2-0 in the series if we lost that game 2 of WS), the Sprague HR doesn't seem get as much credit in comparison in the media...

 

I think it is because the big goal was to get to the world series. At the time the Jays had blown chance after to chance to get there, when they finally did winning it was like a second thought.

[BTS]

Kiley McDaniel hired by the Braves. I hate this.

[Swervin81]

Meanwhile, in Washington:

 

 

http://i.giphy.com/jQmVFypWInKCc.gif

 

http://i.giphy.com/O5NyCibf93upy.gif

[Grant77]

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php/150429-O-s-fans-rooting-AGAINST-the-Blue-Jays-roll-call

 

This gave me a thorough 20 minutes of pure enjoyment.

[thatoneguy]

f*** this idiot in particular.

 

http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/fss/70a9061a96fdffdc2e3c002dd4a79e46/Screen+Shot+2015-10-15+at+1.06.30+PM.png

[DonnysManbun]

Can you imagine what it'd be like to be an orioles fan right now?

 

The team that ko'd them last year is facing the team who took the crown in their division this year. For a chance to go to the world series.

 

I imagine as much as they dislike kc they would prefer them to beat us.

 

Their coach is a plug, a few of their key hitters are free agents. Their rotation is a mish mash of ifs and maybes.

 

Id pick them to finish 5th in our division next year.

[thatoneguy]

Oh and this...

 

http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/fss/cb80464a428e35b09f0e3274bfa4124c/Screen+Shot+2015-10-15+at+1.08.48+PM.png

 

Damn a hitter takes exception when pitchers are throwing at him, oh the humanity!

[43211234]

They have a thread on Orioles Hangout targeting Steve Tolleson lol

[Orgfiller]

Daniel Murphy is destroying the Dodgers.

[reedjohnsonfan]

DeGrom is going to be lights out. Game over.

[Atothe]

Greinke just straight up owned both Cespedes and Duda

[Spanky99]

Who's that old woman, she scares me?

[reedjohnsonfan]

Nibbling a bit too much early. Hopefully the Mets can win this!

[havok24]

DeGrom is going to be lights out. Game over.

 

It's the first inning lol.

[reedjohnsonfan]

It's the first inning lol.

 

I'm just a big DeGrom fan. Was hoping for a dominant performance.

[havok24]

Oh and this...

 

http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/fss/cb80464a428e35b09f0e3274bfa4124c/Screen+Shot+2015-10-15+at+1.08.48+PM.png

 

Damn a hitter takes exception when pitchers are throwing at him, oh the humanity!

 

Are these brain dead morons aware that Manny Machado plays for their team?

[Atothe]

this game is crazy already

[Rusty_Savage]

DeGrom is going to be lights out. Game over.

 

Say wha?

[Captain Adama]

Turner's a f***ing beast.

 

The pitch he hit was a good one too.

[Atothe]

Degrom is getting lit up

[Captain Adama]

BABIP'd

[Atothe]

BABIP'd

 

only Ethier's hit and he was due