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I’m just glad I survived another season of being the official thread starter. Thank you all for your continued support in this emotional time.   In more ways than one with tonight’s result:

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1 hour ago, GottaB said:

You’ll never convince me that games at 1:32, 3:08, 4:32 and 7:38 will get more eyes than two games at 5:30 and 2 games at 8:00.

It’s playoffs. We need prime time.

This.

time to bully the mlb in to this like going back on the all star game jerseys.

i’m sure there is some dumb shit written in to the TV contracts. The espn deal is through 2028, but espn has an opt out after next year.

 

if the nfl is comfortable enough putting two games on MNF at the same time, MLB can do the same thing with the WC/LDS rounds. 

 

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Would be nice to include the number of players in parentheses in each category.

i’m drawing a blank, what does “NOFA” mean?

 

really interesting how much the NL teams have relied on trades and free agency…

and how much Luhnow’s legacy still lives on in Houston and Baltimore, and to a lesser extent Milwaukee 

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If the Yankees hold serve, the only playoffs games we’ll have at home on the weekend (Fri-Sun)* would be games 4 and 5 of the LCS. Game 4 (Friday, Oct 18) would likely be primetime at least as that’ll be getaway day for the NLCS.

Game 5 of the ALCS (assuming we don’t sweep the Yankees) is on Oct 19 and is the only game that day (meaning it’ll be in primetime). So root for an afternoon Texas/UGA kickoff.

 

* - assumes at least 1 of the LCS’ goes 6 or 7 games. If both finish in 4 or 5, we’d host games 3-5 of the World Series Fri-Sun Oct 25-27. Otherwise, World Series games in Houston would be Mon-Wed Oct 28-30.

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6 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

i’m drawing a blank, what does “NOFA” mean?

That's NDFA.  Non-drafted free agent.  So a draft-eligible player signed after they go undrafted.

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So, time for my annual playoff rant (though I mean it less this year than most years b/c the Astros team hasn't played as well this year as it has in years past).

I love baseball b/c it's like the sound track of the year for me. There is a game every single day (more or less) for 6 months. You can always count on it. It's always there for you. It's not appointment viewing, but you know it's always an option. I'm not pissed off if I miss a game, the way I am with a college football Saturday if I miss, because those are so rate. The ubiquity is it's specialness, not the rarity. It's comforting.

Because of that, baseball is a war of attrition.  You just don't see a ton of flukes in the game. You assemble your squad, hope you stay more or less healthy, know you won't be perfect or even good every day, but you know that with 162 (or 161 for us this year) opportunities, for the most part, water will find it's level.  Are there bad breaks that happen in any particular game?  Sure.  That swing the outcome?  You bet.  But with 162 that more or less levels out, and we know who the best team is.

But, after a marathon of 162 games where team strength is tested, organizational acumen is tested, willpower, the ability to get up day after day and put one foot in front of the other and trudge about at a difficult job all comes into play, the calendar turns to October and it's a different sport.  Instead of a marathon we are in a sprint. Instead of one bad game eliciting a shoulder shrug it all matters. More than everything else that's come before it.  And in the sport that is the fairest (major American division) in grinding out an aggregate winner over the course of 6 months it becomes the least fair sport in determining any particular one game winner.  Most good football teams will beat bad football teams, over and over and over. You can pretty much tell which NBA teams are going to the playoffs after about 15 games (look at the schedules and be amazed at how little they change from Christmas time to the end of the year), and it's almost always the case that the better team wins a best 4 out of 7.  But baseball? you can have historically terrible teams like the Tigers win series against the Yankees or Astros and nobody bats an eye or notices.  Why?  Because that's just baseball. 

So, here we sit on the precipice of another run and your local 9 is facing a team that they are just flat better than.  But, they have the best pitcher in the game (maybe 2nd best after the LSU kid in Pittsburg whose name I won't spell right) and any one day the starting pitcher exerts more control than any other position in any other sport (even QB in football) on the mound today. Ours?  He's merely going to finish like 3rd or 5th in the CY Young.  Our biggest of big bats, the guy who can single handedly swing entire playoff series by throwing a team on his back is hurt- and questionable to play in this series.  Tomorrow and Thursday we have the pitching advantage, but bad days are always possible and some brilliance from Skubal today and one bad day for the Astros can end this whole run after 2 or 3 games.  It's basically at the point in time where anything is possible and randomness starts to overwhelm the system.

This Astros squad though- we are going on a decade now of not being done in by randomness.  I think it's still the case that in every Astros playoff year since 2015 we've either lost to the WS Champs or been the world series champs (KC, HOU, BOS, WAS, ATL, HOU, TX)  yes- there's nothing in there about 2020 b/c that wasn't a real thing and the fact that it's the only year the Dodgers ever won it is glorious and sort of proves that.  7 ALCS in a row. Randomness never gets us (at least early- fuck we were so much better than WAS in 2019) and we just keep grinding away playoff W's year after year after year.  Some day, the script will have to change. We will come up short and those that haven't followed the game for a long time will be stunned to see the Astros not get it done. Those of us who follow the game our whole lives will know, that's just baseball. Unfortunately, and what's cruel about playoff baseball is instead of saying- oh well- lets get them tomorrow, there is no more tomorrow for 6 months. The longest and most cruel 6 months of the year.  The half a year that sucks b/c there isn't a baseball game on every night.

Now- when you win playoff baseball games? Pure nirvana.  But, it's such a mess and jangle of nerves I almost can't take it. 

Excuse me while I go throw up the meager breakfast I was able to choke down.  Playoff baseball is here and I will be a neurotic mess for somewhere between 2 and 33 days. 

Good luck out there.  

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Wilder only agreed to play the part of Willy Wonka on the condition they let him fake having a limp in the opening scene on the idea you wouldn’t know for the rest of the movie if he was lying or not /csb

 

Which also exactly sums up our medical staff/front office when it comes to injuries.

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5 hours ago, Scraps said:

Yes i will wear a jersey. Fuck you bitches who worry about what another man wears.


Let's Fucking Go!!!!

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I always laugh my fucking ass off at those people who bitch online.

I will wear my 1980 Mitchell & Ness Earl Campbell jersey until the day I fucking die.

# of times someone has come up and said shit to me about it: 0

# of times people have come up to me and talked about how they miss the Oilers & loved Earl: don't know lost count

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31 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

 

Hayward for Meyers, and Singleton for Caratini? 

Against a RHP yeah- I imagine that will be the subs. Unless the Astros are up 2 or 3 in which case Meyers stays in for defense.  

I think I'd have played Dubon at 1B, Chase in LF and had Caratini as my bullet off the bench since he's better as a LHB than a RHB and I still have some residual faith in Chas being able to hit LHP- but that's not a complaint about this lineup for me it's a slight preference that's really more a hunch than anything. 

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Hayward for Meyers, and Singleton for Caratini? 

If you mean for today, no way.  Singleton and Heyward are awful against lefties.  But against a righty I think you’ll see Heyward for Dubon and Singleton for Caratini.  If McCormick were fully healthy I’d rather he be in LF than Dubon but otherwise I like this lineup.

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7 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Exactly my initial reaction

so infuriating 

Why?  For a good chunk of the year, our best lineup was not available.  Our struggles with injuries illustrates the need to manage in rest for players and keep the powder dry.  If you take away the first month of the season, this team is easily in the running for the 1 or 2 seed.  They won the division after a terrible start while still managing player rest.  I admit that I was concerned because there wasn't much room for error after the bad start, but I'll be damned if they didn't pull it off again.  

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9 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Looking at the stats of Detroits starting lineup tonight, I’m baffled they made the playoffs. They only have 2 players with a BA over .250 and 2 players with more than 10 HRs. Astros are starting 8 players with a BA over .250 and 7 players with over 10 HRs. Mismatch on paper

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Games vs Chicago helped but yeah the Mariners really did have to work hard to have a +29 run diff on the Tigers and miss the playoffs this year.

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27 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Looking at the stats of Detroits starting lineup tonight, I’m baffled they made the playoffs. They only have 2 players with a BA over .250 and 2 players with more than 10 HRs. Astros are starting 8 players with a BA over .250 and 7 players with over 10 HRs. Mismatch on paper

 

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