MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

I'm wondering if the umpiring temperature right now is like the NHL linesman hesitating to hand out a power play during sudden-death OT. When it gets down to crunch time, he doesn't want to become the story.

 

Hijole

 

GOODNESS GRACIOUS. I don't think he missed getting any of that one.

Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron are sitting together somewhere, in awe of that home run.

 

Phillies defense creeping back to what it was.

 

Schwarber smashes a homer then boots two balls, giving up a run, and bunts on two strikes to end the 8th. Have a night.

 

Does anybody at Fox own a map? Flower Mound is a suburb of Dallas, not Houston. He's not pitching in his hometown stadium, you foofs.

 

That requires people at Fox to do research

 

Welcome to the hall of fame dusty

 

Bang a can, Astros are champs again

 

It’s getting Dusty in Houston.

 

Good pitching beat good hitting, Chapter Infinity of baseball's oldest story. No complaints from this Phillies fan. Been one hell of a month. Go back far enough in this thread, you'll find me expressing doubt they'd even make the playoffs and certainty they'd get smoked by the first team they played if they made it. A flawed team that wrung the most out of itself until the Astros pitching wrung them out for keeps.

 

Playing the role of Gary Bettman tonight is Rob Manfred.