2013 MLB postseason running thread

That is the Victorinoest way to ever Victorino a game.

 

Eighth Rays pitcher tonight. Hope y'all left a space for a deep box score.

 

A's will go with rookie Sonny Gray over Bartolo Colon in Game 5. Gray dueled Verlander to a 0-0 tie through eight innings Saturday in Game 2.

http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2013/10/09/sonny-gray-will-be-as-game-5-starter/

 

I really think that's a mistake on Melvin's part. Considering the Tigers had never seen him before and he's a rookie, I think it's far more likely Verlander repeats his Game 2 performance than Gray does. Colon finished in the top five in several major categories, and you're voluntarily only going to pitch him in one game?

*knocks on wood*

Though this brings up another point - if the travel schedule is going to remain Home-home-off-road-road-off-home, would it simply be more beneficial from now on to start your best pitcher in Game 2 of the Division Series?

 

Say goodnight, Pirates.

 

I guess sometimes cheaters do win.

 

If that was true, the Cubs wouldn't have lost for so long.

Oh wait. I forgot. According to you, every good player in the game, cheats, so that means a cheater always wins.

 

Says the whiny Cubs fanboy who can't handle watching the Cardinals win, so he comes here to troll.

 

Speaking of trolling, somebody posted recently that he wanted to see Oakland and Pittsburgh in the World Series so we could have a talk about the finances in baseball, as if one season of success for the Pirates somehow counters over 20 years of being a disgrace.

So, if the Pirates making the World Series would have somehow justified the way baseball stacks the deck against low-revenue franchises, that must mean that having them fall short is yet another demonstration of how flawed the system is. Thanks for bringing that up, whoever it was.

 

You're welcome.

The Cardinals were 11th in payroll. An insurmountable advantage, obviously.

But I'm sure the Pirates got a nice little revenue-sharing check. Do you need me to explain the revenue-sharing system to you again? Is this going to be the All-OOP-Psychosis portion of the thread? Or are we going to talk baseball?