MLB Playoffs

Yes.

 

Look at Rogers in the dugout. Bouncing around, yelling. He's got to be on some serious greenies.

 

I think when he came out of the dugout on that grounder, he yelled, "This is our country."

 

Well done.

 

Cardinals trying to make this interesting. It's their country, too, you know.

And LaRussa doesn't PH for Molina, who grounds out. Some things never change.

 

There are major flaws in Steven Goldman's argument (and by extension yours) there, Guy. Game 4 was AT Pro Player, making it a much different situation. At that point, you DO save your big gun because you after you get a lead, you still need to shut down the home team in the bottom of the inning.

Also, Rivera had pitched two innings the night before, meaning he wasn't available to pitch two innings in Game 4. They were going to get one inning out of him tops.

Apples and oranges.

When the Yanks did play Game 7 at home in the ALCS, what did Torre do? He brought in Rivera in the ninth. Then he kept sending him back out there until Aaron Boone ended the fucker.

So when someone says they can't imagine Joe doing that, they'd be correct.

 

There is a story coming out that Rogers told the homeplate ump that he was Muslim and wiped his ass with his hand after taking a pre game dump and forgot to wash.

 

That made me laugh extremely hard.

 

And despite the long, boring pre-game show, this game still managed to end at 11:20 EST. Yet another reason I'm glad the World Series is without the Mets and Yankees.

 

What do the Mets or Yankees have to do with the time of World Series games?

2005 game times: 3:13, 3:11, 5:41 (14 innings), 3:20 (a 1-0 game)
2004 game times: 4:00, 3:20, 2:58, 3:14

Games drag in the World Series regardless of who is playing. The plethora of commercials means you need a pitcher's duel to have a prayer of finishing under three hours. These last two sub-3:00 games are aberrations.

 

Second that.

 

A set-up man, by definition, pitches the 8th inning. Unless you consider the 8th to be one of the middle innings, I don't know how a set-up man would be a middle inning reliever.

But it's true, there's no right or wrong move here. All I know is that I was glad to see that Wagner wasn't coming out to pitch the 9th, and I'm pretty sure most Mets fans would agree. It's easy to second-guess now, but just because Wagner's the closer doesn't necessarily mean he was the best guy for that situation.