NLCS Game Thread- CHC VS NYM

[glasspusher]

hahahaha

 

[mauidano]

Sad Lester is sad.

Grateful for his contributions to the Sox.  After that, meh. No sympathy for him, he could have come back to the Sox.  We had some good times, it was fun.  
 
Now he's just "Someone I Used To Love".

 

[MakMan44]

The fuck happened there?

 

[rembrat]

Should have fucking pitched tonight then

At least ask for the damn ball.

 

[staz]

"During the annihilation of St. Louis by Boston in the 2004 MLB World Series, the Boston Red Sox not only had never trailed in the series, but also had held a lead at some point in each and every inning of that series -- an unprecedented accomplishment in the history of MLB best-of-7 playoff series."

 

[MakMan44]

Whoops

 

[mauidano]

 
 
Only in six instances has a team been able to come back from being down 0–3 to win a series:

• The Toronto Maple Leafs vs. the Detroit Red Wings in the 1942 Stanley Cup Finals
• The New York Islanders vs. the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1975 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals
• The Boston Red Sox vs. the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series
• The Philadelphia Flyers vs. the Boston Bruins in the 2010 Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Semifinals
• KalPa vs. Blues in the 2012 Liiga playoffs
• The Los Angeles Kings vs. the San Jose Sharks in the 2014 Stanley Cup Western Conference Quarterfinals
•  
• SKA St. Petersburg vs. CSKA Moscow in the 2015 Gagarin Cup Western Conference Finals

 

And what a series that was!

 

[E5 Yaz]

Oh cool, Maddon's innovative "pitcher batting eighth" strategy about to be employed

 

[Al Zarilla]

Should have fucking pitched tonight then

He could have lost 4 - 1 again.

 

[E5 Yaz]

And what a series that was!

 
You should update Wiki

 

[MakMan44]

He could have lost 4 - 1 again.

Season is pretty much over anyway

 

[Erik Hanson's Hook]

The crowd shots will be a fossil and his fossil wife dressed like the game is being played in Alaska, a wrecking ball or two with their hats on backwards, a younger guy with his glove in one hand and a pistol in the other, a middle aged dumpy housewife, a nerd with glasses and no Cubs gear on at all looking like he's at an insurance seminar and a young kid crying, showing us the curse of the billygoat spares no one in Cubstown.

 
WordUpThome?
 
Edit: TATERS FOR ALL 

 

[glasspusher]

I knew he couldn't get that ball Baez.

 

[glasspusher]

Srsly, I thought the Cubs hitters were going to give the NYM staff more trouble than LA did.

 

[MakMan44]

Sore left shoulder for Cespedes

 

[E5 Yaz]

Sore left shoulder for Cespedes

 
That could take months to heal

 

[54thMA]

No, you don't. They simply aren't invested to the degree Sox fans were pre-2004. They just don't care that much. They go Wrigley to get wasted in the bleachers not because they care about winning

 
Agreed.
 
Cubs fans aren't like Red Sox fans pre 2004; over the past 70 or so years, the Red Sox went to the World Series four times pre 2004 and all four went to 7 games, 1946 was Pesky holding the ball, 1967 was the impossible dream, 1975 was the greatest world series ever played and throw in the Fisk home run, not to mention the epic disaster of the 1986 world series,  plus the 1978 collapse and the 2003 ALCS game seven vs the Yankees on top of that.
 
The Cubs have been to  grand total of one World Series in the same time span; in 1969, they blew a huge division lead to the Mets, in 1984 they blew a 2-0 NLCS lead in part thanks to Durham's error and 2003 was the Bartman nonsense.
 
That's it; not even close.  For them, it's all about going to Wrigley, having fun and being a lovable loser, a  label they embrace and hold onto like grim death.
 

 

[glasspusher]

There goes the perfect game. Tell me why he didn't use some gas?

 

[Al Zarilla]

 
That could take months to heal

Maybe his wife just punched him, you know, with a skinny fist.

 

[Al Zarilla]

IBM commercials are terrible.

 

[topps148]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYMqUP-E0o0

 

[barbed wire Bob]

IBM commercials are terrible.

I thought the kid was cute though.

 

[glasspusher]

IBM commercials are terrible.

 
I mean, we're old enough to remember when they made PCs. This fact might surprise some of the younger folks here.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Okay, he did it again ... let the pitcher bat, then took him out of the game

 

[MakMan44]

Okay, he did it again ... let the pitcher bat, then took him out of the game

Yeah....what in the actual fuck?

 

[Al Zarilla]

Hmmm, cameras find some hot stuff in the stands like ABC did every chance they had while doing college football in the 80s.

 

[Al Zarilla]

 
I mean, we're old enough to remember when they made PCs. This fact might surprise some of the younger folks here.

And they still make mainframes.

 

[glasspusher]

Okay, he did it again ... let the pitcher bat, then took him out of the game

 
He's going to look like a genius, saving that PH for later.

 

[phrenile]

He's going to look like a genius, saving that PH for later.

That's the lesson Nip never learned.

 

[glasspusher]

So, hypothetically, what would a 1 2 3 inning look like for Cubs pitching?

 

[mauidano]

Some team is going to give Daniel Murphy a based on a "Pablo Sandoval Hot Post Season" contract this off season.

 

[54thMA]

 
He's going to look like a genius, saving that PH for later.

 
He really is a genius, especially considering how chock full of sluggers National League benches are.
 

 

[glasspusher]

Some team is going to give Daniel Murphy a based on a "Pablo Sandoval Hot Post Season" contract this off season.

 
Hopefully he can stay in New York.

 

[Al Zarilla]

So, hypothetically, what would a 1 2 3 inning look like for Cubs pitching?

It starts raining cats and dogs next inning?

 

[E5 Yaz]

 
I mean, we're old enough to remember when they made PCs. This fact might surprise some of the younger folks here.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwUtR-mZa0o
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Dqe4GQtjI

 

[glasspusher]

 
He really is a genius, especially considering how chock full of sluggers National League benches are.
 

 
He can't follow the Morse Code like Bochy did.

 

[soxhop411]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8

who remembers these?

 

[InsideTheParker]

Matz is probably flying open b/c tiring. Get him out!!

 

[staz]

SEE I TOLD YOU GUYS

 

[glasspusher]

Plastic Man is up in the Mets' bullpen

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

The Mets should have Syndergaard warming.

 

[E5 Yaz]

SEE I TOLD YOU GUYS

 
squander in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

 

[rembrat]

More dissapointment.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Curse of the Billygoat.

Remember how sick and f-Ing tired we used to get of curse talk?

 

[glasspusher]

Has any team had a perfect game pitched against them for 6 innings in the postseason and ended up scoring 8 runs?

 

[Deathofthebambino]

Has one team ever lost every regular season game to another team, and then won every post-season game against them in the same season? 

 

[paulb0t]

Cubs lasers aren't finding holes. Sheesh. 

 

[54thMA]

So glad they explained that helmet with the hands on it; I thought the guy was an escaped mental patient.

 

[BornToRun]

That was your chance, Chicago.

 

[CaptainLaddie]

What a bummah.