MLB Playoffs

As noticeable as it was -- I'd imagine so.

 

You should be responding to pern's post, not mine.

 

I just think you're better off with the guy who has 300-plus career saves than the middle reliever with a 4-plus career ERA who has never faced that kind of pressure before. I understand Heilman had been better, but if you're giving up on Wagner then, I think you're giving up on him for good.

And as far as letting Heilman handle the bottom of the order, again, I would think Wagner could pitch two innings if he had to. The bottom line is, your goal is to shut them down in the top and score in the bottom. Don't save your big guns for an inning that might not (and did not) happen.

 

Jesus Christ... fuck Sean Casey and Kenny Rogers .... what the fuck are the is Alphonso Marquez watching?

Didn't Kevin Kennedy in the pregame insinuate that Marquez might be generous to Rogers because he called the perfect game?

 

Marquez is one of many totally incompetent umps who they let work postseason games.

 

Nice defense Albert!

 

Marquez is easily one of the worst umps working.

Always angling for an argument, which he usually gets because he's complete fucking horseshit.

His bill-to-bill battle with Dennis Cook in 1999 was a classic.

 

Well, considering they let Kenny wash off whatever was on his hand instead of ejecting him, I'd say they certainly are being generous so far.

Oh, and I stand corrected ... Meyers did talk to the umps about Kenny. Glad they addressed it, though I would love to know why they allowed him to just wash it off instead of ejecting him.

I'm sure that after the game they'll come up with some excuse about how Kenny forgot to use the Charmin or something, but it seems clear that it was a foreign substance and he should have been bounced -- and this is coming from someone rooting for the Tigers.

 

I'm rooting for the Tigers, too.

Myers has no spine.

 

I hate the dugout interviews of managers.

"I am not willing to discuss that with you."

Nothing like major league awkwardness during a World Series broadcast! Then Buck with his, "Understandably, LaRussa wasn't willing to talk about the Rogers situation."

Just do away with the whole idiotic sideshow.

 

I am totally convinced that the artificial substances are inside Kenny Rogers, not on his hands.
He seems to have ingested some of the Roger Clemens pregame blend.

 

Agreed ... as has already been noted earlier in the playoffs (and maybe during the season, I don't know), he seems to have a few more mph on fastball than I ever remember him having.

That said, he should have been tossed.