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  1. intentional wok
    On the first point, nobody making the calls would know that going in. It's moot now but Price and Stroman are both well rested and not pitching. This is not giving your squad an optimal chance to win. On your second point - they treated it as meaningful for a personal milestone. Not for the standings. The best chance for a team win would have come from any other starter more than a fatigued vet on a single night's rest.
  2. intentional wok
    Hamels is pitching right now, so ace-burning wouldn't really factor in. Keuchel pitched yesterday A Game 163 with Holland still gives him at least three days rest too. Same with Kazmir.
  3. intentional wok
    The Jays are very unlikely to see the Angels at all at this point. A Rangers win means we wouldn't have to see Houston.
  4. intentional wok
    Why?
  5. intentional wok
    Ah, gotcha. I take the Lakeshore West so I guess I assumed everyone had the same convenience. My bad.
  6. intentional wok
    What do you mean? People still need to travel to and from work... It'll run on its normal schedule.
  7. intentional wok
    Rangers playing with no urgency whatsoever after a heartbreaking loss. What do they think this is, Game 7 of the 2011 World Series?
  8. intentional wok
    For anyone interested, all MLB.tv games are free right. If you're interested in any other of the games you can follow any or all of them. I'm watching the Rangers-Angels myself.
  9. intentional wok
    Counterpoint: The WC team and the West champ are interchangeable at this point. At first or second seed, the Jays still have a likelihood of seeing either the Astros or Rangers. It does eliminate the possibility of facing the struggling Yankees or light hitting Angels though. It also means a more well rested opponent too, if that one game really makes a difference in fatigue anyway (Astros won't be using Keuchel in the WC game either apparently, so the ace-in-game-3 thing is a non-factor).
  10. intentional wok
    Would have been embarrassing for Gibby to do that, IMO. Buehrle already knows this whole thing is for him. No need to draw more attention to it by bickering with the ump.
  11. intentional wok
    This game isn't meaningless, but the decision makers treated it like it was.
  12. intentional wok
    Contrarian ******* ump picks a near-meaningless sentimental game to buckle down on the rules.
  13. intentional wok
    Honestly. The two losses obviously ding the team's overall record, but Thursday was essentially an off-day following Wednesday's day game. Between 7PM Wednesday and 7PM Friday, the Buffalo Bisons dressed up in blue and played two regular season games against the Orioles. People really, really need to relax.
  14. intentional wok
    The Return-to-Montreal crowd baffles me. Do people think renewed talk of Montreal is anything other than misty-eyed nostalgia? Montreal pretty much let the Expos die off. Why would anyone expect the city to suddenly erupt in support? I mean, I want to see the Montreal Expos back. But I don't think Montreal really cares if the Montreal Expos come back.
  15. intentional wok
    How are the Jays limping into the playoffs? 8-4 starting from the huge series v. the Yankees, with two of the losses coming from Bisons lineups @ the Orioles.
  16. intentional wok
    I don't find the Rays boring, but I do find them un-entertaining. Awesome pitchers but a plinky offense. Part of it is also the basement apartment vibe I get from watching their home games and the sub-minor league attendance numbers. It's all so drab. Boring, for me, is a team with mostly mediocre pitching and a middling offense. So, the Twins (this year). The Red Sox, as much as I hate them, are not boring. They're a pretty exciting team who had some things go wrong for them this year. Red Sox tears are also like sweet wine to me, so watching them implode is almost more fun than my heart can handle. I really find the White Sox boring too, but they've got some good pitching pieces and watching a guy like Chris Sale carve up an opposing lineup is never not fun. Same goes for the Mariners and Felix, but I'd rather choke to death than watch their lineup (Cruz and sons).
  17. intentional wok
    I wouldn't have been opposed to this either. The second DH game unfortunately didn't really have a spot to do damage though. I didn't see a single pitch from the Thursday game so I can't really speak to that.
  18. intentional wok
    I'm probably one of this board's bigger Ranger fans, but even I think both Wild Card teams are a bit scarier than the Rangers.
  19. intentional wok
    I hate soccer so I'm not really sure what you're referring to...
  20. intentional wok
    I take back what I said in my previous post. Cecil is a machine.
  21. intentional wok
    Yeah. People are acting like 3 games = 3 days when in reality it was 3 games within 24 hours, the third of which being in extremely poor conditions. It sucks, but those were the circumstances they faced. The players aren't machines.
  22. intentional wok
    I don't see any of that money so I get to point out how crap it is alllllllll I want.
  23. intentional wok
    But why should an 85-win wild card team get the same opportunity? That's my problem. And "choking" is arguable, especially in a sport in which any season's top performer will lose roughly 65 games. The playoffs are really volatile - why should the clubs who won the 162-game marathon have to re-prove themselves in a do-or-die series against some arbitrary runner-up?
  24. intentional wok
    My answer to this is that no matter where you put the pegs on the border to the postseason you will have drama. Anything that a club fighting for the last playoff seed does will be dramatic. If there were a third Wild Card, the Indians' games would suddenly be super tense and meaningful instead of pointless. Plus, drama can kiss my ass. The best teams should go to The Show, period. Two leagues divided into two divisions. East and West face off, then the league champions face off. That should be it. I don't get this. The championship should only be open to the best teams. That's what a championship is. Some 89-win half-team shouldn't even sniff the big stage, let alone waltz in and steal a world championship. I know it's sweet to see the Giants with all those rings or the Royals sweeping the O's in the ALCS, but the Giants and the Royals didn't deserve to be there if they couldn't even surpass their main rivals in their respective five-team divisions.
  25. intentional wok
    If anyone had been injured at all in either of those games we'd be calling for Gibbons' head. After 155 games, do you really want your guys playing a straight up double header? The decision is totally defensible. And the next day's hurricane can't be laid on Gibbons by any means. No way you send your regulars out in that muck like that only 12 hours after a double header. The backups shouldn't have even been playing, frankly. That game was an injury that luckily didn't happen. Jays are 93-68 with second seed all locked up for the postseason. There's still a shot for for no. 1, but Gibbons decisions were perfectly defensible. It might cost a game 7 @ home in the ALCS and will mean facing a more rested team in the ALDS. It was a reasonable gamble to take.
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