2020 ALCS: Good vs Evil

DeJesus Built My Hotrod

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Still think the Rays will win but their margin for error is down. Credit to the Stros who seem to be able to cheat death as well as life.
 

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Now it gets interesting. A battle of wills. Red Sox fans may scoff but the Yankees played pretty well in Games 4 and 5. And still lost. Not sure Astros can replicate the intensity Boston brought, or the pitching, but they are in Tampa’s heads now.

Sorry, VORP. You’re going to have to earn this one the hard way.
 

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I’ll still take Snell/Morton in g6/7 with Yarborough/Glasnow and the rest of the pen backing them up.
It’s not like the Astros have Verlander/Cole to go to.
 

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The goddamn Devil Rays can cram it. They better not choke this away like the real Chokers did in 2004. If they manage to do that, I will hate that pathetic franchise forever.
I wouldn't even care all that much if they had just lost one of the first games.
 

Ale Xander

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Now that it's 3-2, have to change view and root for Rays. Don't want the uniqueness from 2004 gone.

But man, I like the Astros (specifically CC and Altuve) and dislike the AL Eastness and lack of spending of the Rays and the crap ballpark and ST closeness.


All Astros fans I've met were really cool people.
 

Ale Xander

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The goddamn Devil Rays can cram it. They better not choke this away like the real Chokers did in 2004. If they manage to do that, I will hate that pathetic franchise forever.
I wouldn't even care all that much if they had just lost one of the first games.
You should hate them forever already. (more than Blue Jays and Orioles and A's and Cardinals and Cubs and Dodgers etc.)
 

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You should hate them forever already. (more than Blue Jays and Orioles and A's and Cardinals and Cubs and Dodgers etc.)
Oh I don't like the Devil Rays. I've posted many times about how I can't stand them. But if they blow this, the hatred would go up several levels. They become Public Enemy No. 1A, right after The Original Chokers.
 

Ale Xander

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Oh I don't like the Devil Rays. I've posted many times about how I can't stand them. But if they blow this, the hatred would go up several levels. They become Public Enemy No. 1A, right after The Original Chokers.
Already there for me, but since they went up 3-0, and it's now 3-2, I have to root for them to win one (and then get swept hopefully, no matter who they play)
 

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But man, I like the Astros (specifically CC and Altuve) and dislike the AL Eastness and lack of spending of the Rays and the crap ballpark and ST closeness.
I'm buying everything you're selling.

Even their uniforms are cheap; I've seen better beer league softball uniforms.

15 pounds of muscle doing push ups and eating chicken and rice.

Who's shitting who here.

I love Choi, I'd kill for him to be on the Red Sox, love that guy.

The rest of the team; hard pass.
 

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Oh I don't like the Devil Rays. I've posted many times about how I can't stand them. But if they blow this, the hatred would go up several levels. They become Public Enemy No. 1A, right after The Original Chokers.
Hated them ever since 2008, then they doubled down in 2011, pulling the last game of the season out of their ass and knocking the Red Sox out of the playoffs, leading to Tito getting fired.

Fire the team and that shithole of a stadium into the sun for all I care.

And if they pull this series out, I hope they get swept in the WS by a combined score of 412-0.
 

Ale Xander

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Hated them ever since 2008, then they doubled down in 2011, pulling the last game of the season out of their ass and knocking the Red Sox out of the playoffs, leading to Tito getting fired.

Fire the team and that shithole of a stadium into the sun for all I care.

And if they pull this series out, I hope they get swept in the WS by a combined score of 412-0.
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