Running 2017 MLB postseason thread

That is great. Garvey is like an SNL parody of himself.

 

You know what? Liz Habib was not bad at all live, from Houston. Did a pretty good job on the postgame.

Local stations HAVE to do a better job getting people for the local pre and post games. The default is "ex athlete from that team" and the results are almost always terrible. Garvey is TERRIBLE (he later talked about how its the wife's job to make sure everything is running smoothly at home, and how if she does that well, and the husband has a long and successful career, she's got it made). Jose Mota has a long history of being a mushmouth. Steve Sax is doing early morning radio on the Dodgers flagship and is actually insightful. His default is not 'things were better back in my day'.

I've seen Jackie Slater, Jim Everett and Vince Ferragamo since the Rams have been back. Nothing special there. Eric Dickerson was found everywhere you turned in 2016 and he was terrible.

There's got to be a better talent recruiter at these stations.

 

Huh? They were in Houston.

 

Yeah, I get that. But your original point was basically that the Dodgers should have had the last at-bat even though they were the road team.

 

It's like in NFL overtime, when the return team takes the opening kickoff all the way back, right? You can say the kicking team didn't get a chance to score, but, they didn't make a stop on the return ... amirite?

 

It isn't anything like that at all.

 

Then what is the argument?

 

One of the best world series games of all time; one of the best world series of all time; and this thread is going to go of the rails because of a tennis analogy?

 

LOL. No kidding.

To get back to the point of baseball ... hearing blowback from the purists today. I wonder if anyone was complaining, "Too much offense!" when the Pirates beat the Yankees 10-9 in 1960.

 

Oh, I'm sure. Go back and read some of the comments from guys like Ty Cobb when Babe Ruth started hitting all those homers in the early 1920s.

 

On social media, I see Dodger fans used to shutdown innings from Kershaw and Jansen claiming the ball is juiced and blaming the Crawford Boxes. Cripes, it's pratically November, the pitchers can only be stretched so far. And this is the first series in a while for both.

 

It's hardly Dodgers fans alone saying the ball is juiced. Keuchel said it flat-out, and Verlander wondered about the different feel.