John_Havok

Leafs and Oilers are now the betting favorites to face each other in the finals

It is indeed great news. I'm not a Flames fan myself but pretty much everyone in my circle of friends is so at least they'll be happy. Sutter's time is past, just like all those other old hard nosed yell at players and just bludgeon them with "do it my way or else" kind of coaches.

yeah stuff like this is really hard to truly quantify or find meaningful info. ONe thing I'd love to know is how much leeway the catchers have in calling a pitch that maybe doesnt fit with their cheat sheet. Like, in certain situations if they have a read on a hitter than he is sitting on a slider, but the cheat sheet says that the slider is what they would want to go to... can they change it up at will on their own? Plus with guys like Bassitt, he's calling his own game because it would take far too long for a catcher to cycle through all 17 of his pitches and locations in the pitch clock timer, so basically any of his starts this year wont be usefull data in catcher game calling. Relievers... most of them have two pitches, so calling pitch A vs B probably doesn't mean a whole lot if the pitcher doesnt execute. Plus... you'd need to separate the team with good hitters vs bad hitters and see if there's a difference with one cather vs the other vs similar strength lineups. Youd also have to consider platoon advantages, if one catcher seems to catch more PAs with that going his way... there's so much noise and nuance to this kind of thing, that it makes it exceptionally difficult to find meaningful numbers

Not surprising here, but all 3 impactful calls go against the Jays, and 2 of the 3 were Bassitt getting hosed in the 1st inning directly leading to 4 runs.

Is it just me or does it always look like he's running in a way that; slike squeezing his buttcheeks together to keep a s*** from falling out?

59 seconds left …up 3-2, let in the tying goal and then the winner in OT. After being up 3-1 in the series. So…much…choke.

Panthers win!

Bruins and Panthers going to OT in game 7 First round is always the best round

This is exactly what I was thinking. He whiffed through fastballs for 4ks yesterday and hit multiple slider HRs …. Why even call a slider from Pop? That’s just a bad idea

Imagine having to earn runs instead of having gifted to you by a blind ump

Lol, there it is…the exact location of the non call to Kelenic….strike against Bo

The first borderline call on the side that goes against the Jays…someone needs to just tossed

To be fair he was out of the inning like 15 pitches ago, except for the f***ing idiot behind the plate. Then he was out of the inning again, except for the f***ing idiot behind the plate

And of course that happens. Schneider or Walker should be getting thrown out of this game right about now

Pitch #5 to Kelenic should have needed the inning. Pitch #5 to Raleigh should have ended the inning again.

2 strikeouts taken away by the ump…inside corner is just not there against lefties

Vladdy - 1 Point - Jaysblue, LTBF Bichette - 1 Point Chapman - 1 Point - Omar Varsho - 2 Points - Dylan Springer - 2 Points- Grant, bones10 Kirk - 3 Points - Jonn, JohnHavok Jansen - 3 Points - Spanky Merrifield - 5 Points - Candy Maldonado, Gen.Disarray, mphenhef Espinal - 6 Points - JaysAllMighty Off the bench: 10 Points

Worst case scenario, so yeah that’s probably what the ownership there will make happen. If he had any sack at all he would trade him right after the all star game and not even wait to the deadline, even if creates a backlash. there simple aren’t enough words to describe the level of stupid it would be to lose arguably the best MLB talent the game has ever seen, for a comp pick.

I wonder how bad the Angels are going to f*** up the Ohtani situation. They can’t seriously think they have a shot at re-signing him, which means they have to trade him at the deadline, but trading him would be a PR nightmare just slightly less of a nightmare than not trading him and watching him leave and getting nothing but a comp pick.

Oilers move on.

Yamamotoooooooo! 3 minutes to go Gonna be a hell of a finish

Gonna be a barn burner. Of the 7 goals so far, maybe 2 of them aren’t full on screens, tips or lucky bounces.

So far so good for Edmonton. McDavid looking dangerous and Kostin sniped a beauty. 2-1 after 1