ALCS: Yankees vs Astros (Non-Yankees Fan Version)

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The plan needs to be for Keichel and Verlander to pitch deep into games 5 and 6 and game 7 to be unnecessary. If it goes 7, you pitch McCullers on short rest for 4-5 innings and stack with Morton (or vice versa)

Either way, the offense needs to get going. They carried the team all year until now.
 

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Just came to see if someone made this point. McCullers was cruising, his pitch count was low, and the bullpen is shaky. Pulling McCullers after a single Johnson was criminal and started the shitshow.
It was the first pitch to Judge. I thought he would give him a few more batters. He really was cruising. Giradi's quick hook didn't exactly pay off either.
 

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I had the misfortune of listening to John Sterling in the car during this comeback. I nearly crashed twice from taking my hands off the steering wheel to flip the double bird at the radio.

"Feels just like game 7 in 2003!"

Fuck off, John.
 

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at this point I'm just sad. I'll be pretty ticked off if they even win the AL pennant and have that accomplishment to hang somewhere (I'd like to think the Dodgers would finally take care of them, who knows). in the end it's just sports.

but they've had tons of positive playoff experience for their core in 1 year and we have basically zero in 2 years. and they seem to have run into teams at the right time all year, and the opposite for us. frustrating as fuck MLB season.

I don't think their pitching is that much better than ours but I am really wondering if our organization as a whole is getting heavily outscouted at crunch time.
 

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at this point I'm just sad. I'll be pretty ticked off if they even win the AL pennant and have that accomplishment to hang somewhere (I'd like to think the Dodgers would finally take care of them, who knows). in the end it's just sports.

but they've had tons of positive playoff experience for their core in 1 year and we have basically zero in 2 years. and they seem to have run into teams at the right time all year, and the opposite for us. frustrating as fuck MLB season.

I don't think their pitching is that much better than ours but I am really wondering if our organization as a whole is getting heavily outscouted at crunch time.
Jump
 

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Of COURSE this is how it goes...

The Astros come out on top in the first two and Sox fans breathe easy and celebrate prematurely.

Then, when we least expect it, the Yankees come back and win the series (and then the World Series).

OF COURSE.
 

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I don't know dudes but that 8th inning rally was a ton of fun. I don't hate this Yankee core yet.

The Yankee kids in 6.
 

JimD

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Of COURSE this is how it goes...

The Astros come out on top in the first two and Sox fans breathe easy and celebrate prematurely.

Then, when we least expect it, the Yankees come back and win the series (and then the World Series).

OF COURSE.
Who was celebrating prematurely? Red Sox fans are the least rational people on the planet when it comes to the Yankees.

What the Sox did to Houston in game 3 of the DS was the equivalent of sticking your foot out and tripping someone walking by. The Yankees tripped them also and then full-on punched the Astros in the head when they stood back up. Hinch, Cora and the staff have their work cut out for them getting his team to respond today. If they can shake this off it will be a major step forward in their quest for a title.
 

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Of COURSE this is how it goes...

The Astros come out on top in the first two and Sox fans breathe easy and celebrate prematurely.

Then, when we least expect it, the Yankees come back and win the series (and then the World Series).

OF COURSE.
I keep going back to what DDB said; these are the fucking Astros.

The MFYs have 27 WS titles, Ruth, Gehrig, who's so iconic they named a fucking disease after him, the 1927 Yankees, the Mick, Maris, Whitey Ford, Yogi, slide Dimaggio, slide, bang the drum slowly, Yankee stadium and all the monuments, the pinstripes, the pathetic, bland, corporate road uniforms that haven't changed since the silent era, Sparky Lyle for Danny Cater, Reggie, Catfish, Chambliss, Nettles, Walt no neck Williams, the 1976 brawl that basically ended Lee's career, Munson, the 1978 comeback, Bucky Fucking Dent, captain intangibles and his backward flip that saved a series, Fruitbat and his cutter, A-Roid and his denials, Horseface and his horseface, Sherman Klump and his crooked hat, Gardner and his punchable face and now this new crop of baby bombers who are all set to terrorize the AL for the next five years.

What the fuck do the Astors have; Nolan Ryan, the eighth wonder of the world that was a shithole, those idiotic Hawaiian shirts, that midget Biggio, JR Richards, who didn't get a disease named after him, blowing the 1986 ALCS to the Mets so Bill Buckner could haunt my dreams for 18 years, Bagwell for Larry the burb king Anderson, a new fucking stadium with a hill and a flagpole in center field and getting swept by the Black Sox in 2005, a WS so forgettable I forgot they even got there.

OF COURSE is right.
 

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BTW, did anyone notice that the Hayward injury occurred at almost the exact same time as the mfy took the lead? They couldn't have been more than minutes apart. It's almost like some higher power decided that Boston fans (and, thus, true, justified mfy haters except for rembrat) can't have nice things.
 

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BTW, did anyone notice that the Hayward injury occurred at almost the exact same time as the mfy took the lead? They couldn't have been more than minutes apart. It's almost like some higher power decided that Boston fans (and, thus, true, justified mfy haters except for rembrat) can't have nice things.
Basically exactly at the same time as I switched channels once it was 2nd and 3rd with no outs and then "it" happened, something I wish I could but cannot unsee............
 

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Albuquerque is nowhere near La Jolla. Silly wabbit.
Probably he meant to follow the southern route, mostly along route 66 until he hit the coast somewhere between La Jolla and Santa Monica, at which point he'd turn right up to Pismo Beach.
 

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Kuechel has faced 214 Yankees without giving up an HR.

Hmm. Sounds like he could give up 3 tonight and still be pretty well above average, so there's that.

Something big needs to happen to turn this series around. If someone touches up Kuechel early I could see them just deteriorating.
 

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Kuechel has faced 214 Yankees without giving up an HR.

Hmm. Sounds like he could give up 3 tonight and still be pretty well above average, so there's that.

Something big needs to happen to turn this series around. If someone touches up Kuechel early I could see them just deteriorating.
An early torching would be the end.
 

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An early torching would be the end.
Yeah, they couldn't solve him in game 1. If Judge or Sanchez runs into one early I could see them just thinking, "well, we can't beat them with our best."

Or maybe the Yankees can just keep committing errors.
 

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like I said last night, Correa needs to do something in NY this series.

also Tanaka how about remembering this is technically a day game?
 

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I wonder if Smoltz will amend his contention that moving the runner over with an out should count the same as a hit.