ALCS Series Thread; Yankees @ Astros Game 1 Best of 7

[G-Snarls]

Loaisiga with a 100 mph sinker to Tucker. Just so nasty. The Nicaraguan is good. Astros thankfully are still going to win this series.

 

Took the lead off Holmes

[G-Snarls]

Donaldson 3 more strikeouts tonight

 

Yikes

[Stangstag]

Donaldson 3 more strikeouts tonight

 

Just wow

 

He’s a glove-first noodle bat at this point

[Solaxys]

What a game, 3 outs to go

[Solaxys]

And that's all she wrote.

[G-Snarls]

All comes down to Judge with 2 out in the 9th

[G-Snarls]

Series sweep

[Stangstag]

And just like that, Judge is no longer a Yankee

[Stangstag]

f*** now we have no baseball til Friday

[Pinkfloid]

Glad the Yanks got f***ed, but damn these CS series' were so boring for the most part.

[Spanky99]

Friday... GTFO... Bring it!!!

[BigCecil]

That was awesome. 62 in the regular season and shite in the playoffs. It can happen. Pay a 30 year old $300M + please...someone else. I can imagine Yanks faithful are seething at JD and others. That shovel to SS by Torres he botched on the DP attempt was crucial. Man that was good for my soul and I don't even like HOU much.

[Laika]

Sweet

 

Now we cheer for the Phillies

[Stangstag]

That was awesome. 62 in the regular season and shite in the playoffs. It can happen. Pay a 30 year old $300M + please...someone else. I can imagine Yanks faithful are seething at JD and others. That shovel to SS by Torres he botched on the DP attempt was crucial. Man that was good for my soul and I don't even like HOU much.

 

Feels like the Yanks HAVE TO sign one of the FA shortstops this year, the position has been unstable for them since Didi left. They’re probably better off letting Judge walk and signing Benintendi + Turner/Correa/Swanson

[John_Havok]

Houston sweeps tha Yankees and the first thing Costas talks about on the broadcast is trash can lids from 5 years ago.

 

What a joke.

 

How many players on this years roster are even held over from 5 years ago... like 4? its a completely different team, different manager, different front office, FFS let it go already.

[Brownie19]

Houston sweeps tha Yankees and the first thing Costas talks about on the broadcast is trash can lids from 5 years ago.

 

What a joke.

 

How many players on this years roster are even held over from 5 years ago... like 4? its a completely different team, different manager, different front office, FFS let it go already.

 

He did? (I don't listen to interviews)

 

What a ****!

[Laika]

Meh. You reap what you sow.

 

I hope people talk about the Astros being cheaters for decades.

[jaysblue]

Glad the Yanks got f***ed, but damn these CS series' were so boring for the most part.

 

Yeah the CS was awful. Some good and close games between the Padres and Phillies, but otherwise would have been nice to see some of these series go 6 or 7 games.

[Omar]

Donaldson looked so bad at the plate this series. Completely overmatched.

[Laika]

Donaldson looked so bad at the plate this series. Completely overmatched.

 

All season he looked like this against decent pitching. He's f***ing cooked offensively. Coooooooooooooooooooked.

 

A guess hitter with middling power and some holes in his swing.

[G-Snarls]

Glad the Yanks got f***ed, but damn these CS series' were so boring for the most part.

 

Only one series the whole post season went the distance. Evey other series has been a sweep or won in 1 game over the minimum.

[G-Snarls]

Sweet

 

Now we cheer for the Phillies

 

Hell yeah we do

[John_Havok]

Meh. You reap what you sow.

 

I hope people talk about the Astros being cheaters for decades.

 

People can talk about the 2017 astros for decades, it has no bearing on the 2022 astros

[Brownie19]

Meh. You reap what you sow.

 

I hope people talk about the Astros being cheaters for decades.

 

No way - f*** that. And I say that because 95% of the people who still talk about it believe Houston was the only team cheating. Perhaps they were the only ones banging trash cans, but they certainly weren't the only team cheating.

[Laika]

Sounds like you guys love cheaters. Duly noted.

[Brownie19]

Sounds like you guys love cheaters. Duly noted.

 

I just don't think it's fair to joke, laugh or rip the Astros without acknowledging that several teams have (are?) also cheating. As the youth would say, it makes you look like a simp.

[Grant77]

I just don't think it's fair to joke, laugh or rip the Astros without acknowledging that several teams have (are?) also cheating. As the youth would say, it makes you look like a simp.

 

While it's certainly a possibility, that's entirely speculation on your part. There is no hard evidence that other teams were or are cheating to the same extent.

[Brownie19]

While it's certainly a possibility, that's entirely speculation on your part. There is no hard evidence that other teams were or are cheating to the same extent.

 

I never said it was to the same extent. But obviously the Red Sox were also stealing signs and every team in the league was using sticky stuff to help their pitchers. Cheating is cheating - I'm not sure I have enough evidence to rank them or clearly decide that the Astros cheated more than everyone else by a significant amount.

 

Are you certain that banging trash cans was more effective than the sticky stuff? Do you know whether some teams developed 'better' sticky stuff than other teams? Were there teams using spider tack for a year or 2 before the rest of the league caught up (from using sunscreen and rosin)? How are you so certain teams weren't cheating to the same extent as the Astros? Maybe other teams just didn't get caught.

 

If someone wants to say "f*** those Astros, they cheated more than the other teams, who were also cheating, but not to the same extent" - then I'd probably be OK with that (although I think that's a grey area still)...but that's typically not what I've seen or heard. People act like the Astros were the only ones cheating, which is wrong and ignorant.

[Laika]

No way - f*** that. And I say that because 95% of the people who still talk about it believe Houston was the only team cheating. Perhaps they were the only ones banging trash cans, but they certainly weren't the only team cheating.

 

From what we do know, they were almost certainly one of the most egregious cheaters.

 

That should be enough to tarnish them for a while, fairly.

 

I don't know why you feel the need to whataboutism this. They were stealing signs and banging trash cans in the World Series???

 

For the record, the Red Sox are also bad.

And the Cardinals suck too (remember when they hacked the Astros database, lmao?).

And the Braves - international signing cheaters.

[Stangstag]

While it's certainly a possibility, that's entirely speculation on your part. There is no hard evidence that other teams were or are cheating to the same extent.

 

Well... The evidence would be that they didn't have their title stripped. If Astros were the only team cheating the other 29 owners would have turned against them real quick.