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2021 MLB General Talk (Braves Win WS)


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#661 You Play to Win the Game

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Posted 20 October 2021 - 07:13 AM

How is Laz Diaz allowed anywhere near a playoff game? He's so awful. He's one who seems to feel emboldened every time he makes a bad call and gets booed. He's all like, I'll give you something to boo...

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Posted 20 October 2021 - 08:10 AM

Bosox got completely screwed by Laz Diaz tonight. Ya just hate to see it.


Only the best umps get playoff games, they said.
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Posted 20 October 2021 - 08:19 AM

I don't hate to see Boston get screwed.  For the record.  ;)



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Posted 20 October 2021 - 11:29 AM

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Not sure if you watched, but Altuve is so clutch. One of the great ones.

Have a lot of respect for that guy. HOFer. Just so good.

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Posted 20 October 2021 - 03:02 PM

How is Laz Diaz allowed anywhere near a playoff game? He's so awful. He's one who seems to feel emboldened every time he makes a bad call and gets booed. He's all like, I'll give you something to boo...

MLB is trying not to get sued again.


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Posted 20 October 2021 - 07:45 PM

Astros v. Braves would be nice.

 

If it was Sox v. Dodgers I'd probably tune in the minimal amount, like a close game in the late innings, and not at all if Boston is in a clinching game.


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Posted 20 October 2021 - 07:50 PM


Ugh, Boston smells blood, you can sense it. Just starting to get that feeling that they may end up winning this damn thing. That would seriously suck.

Feeling better now?
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Posted 20 October 2021 - 08:01 PM


Feeling better now?

Thanks for checking, yes. Very much so. Hope they close it out in G6.

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Posted 20 October 2021 - 10:57 PM

Braves bounce back in a big way. 1 win away from the Series.

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Posted 20 October 2021 - 10:59 PM

Rosario became the first player in LCS history to have multiple 4-hit games.

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Posted 21 October 2021 - 05:46 AM

Rosario became the first player in LCS history to have multiple 4-hit games.


Only other person to have two four hit games in a postseason is Robin Yount. Pretty good company.
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Posted 21 October 2021 - 05:56 AM

Red Sox lost two in Fenway, that makes me very happy.



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Posted 21 October 2021 - 07:55 PM

Braves leading the Dodgers 2-1 in the 2nd.  



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Posted 21 October 2021 - 08:42 PM

LAD up on the Braves 4-2 in the bottom of the 4th.  The Dodgers got to Braves ace Max Fried.


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Posted 21 October 2021 - 08:43 PM

And if the lead holds up the winning pitcher would be Evan Phillips.  Yes that Evan Phillips.


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Posted 22 October 2021 - 03:56 AM

And if the lead holds up the winning pitcher would be Evan Phillips.  Yes that Evan Phillips.

Can't make this stuff up.



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Posted 22 October 2021 - 06:50 AM

The Ringer: MLB Just Tried a Bunch of Experimental Rules in the Minors. How Well Did They Work?


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Posted 22 October 2021 - 06:51 AM

CBS Sports: Dodgers vs. Braves score: Dodgers rally with Chris Taylor's three-homer game to fend off elimination

https://www.cbssport...imination/live/



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Posted 22 October 2021 - 07:48 AM

Can't make this stuff up.

I did not even know he was with the Dodgers until he came in from the pen.  He did well.


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Posted 22 October 2021 - 07:59 AM

Really comprehensive review. 

 

I don't like the opening. I've seen a few gifs of similar "is the a strike?" And a ball that looks like a ball is called a strike. Those shown without the context that was given here about how the zone is constructed, and the ball looking like a ball, actually was a strike, because the robo zone extended off the plate, in that construction. Which they tried various different types of. Seems like the system needs tweaking as some obvious strikes went as balls. 

 

Moving the mound and banning the shift had almost zero effect. So hopefully those don't happen. They cited there wasn't an uptick in injuries with the mound movement, but maybe that is something that you can't measure in the short amount of time they pitched form there. BAPIP basically unchanged, shift or no shift. Billy Ripken pointed this out a number of years ago when the Rays were one of the first teams to do this often. Don't remember the exact numbers, but shifts in MLB went from like 3,000 in a season, to 30,000 in a season in just three years, and BABIP didn't move more than a couple points.  

 

All the changes MLB has made that are supposed to speed up play, hasn't. Games are the longest they have ever been. 15-second pitch clock in Low-A has sped up games significantly. (Nice to see Lenn Sakata's name in there, manager of the Giants A-ball affiliate). 2:30-2:45 was the norm, went months without getting to the three hour mark. Having the game played at a pace where you rarely take your eyes off because the next pitch is coming in twice as fast, that's how you get people to stay tuned in and draw a younger crowd. 

 

Hope they end up doing the 15-second clock at MLB as soon as next year. Despite some concerns, still looking for Robo ump to become a thing, but it seems to need at least another season of work. Doesn't sound like the roll out was remotely ready as they changed the strike zone a number of times during the season which only further muddles things. All in all, if a computer shows a strike on a ball that a batter wouldn't swing at, but is by definition, a strike, then thats a pitchers pitch. Good on them for hitting that spot. Good hitters will adjust, protect, foul that ball off and wait for a better one. It's a big difference if that pitch is a strike every time, rather than an ump calling that a strike once, and the very same pitch a ball the next time.


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