2010 MLB Playoffs

[J.R.]

I'm more annoyed that the Rangers might clinch their first trip to the World Series while I'm sitting at work. I think it's really dumb to have weekend afternoon LCS games. Day playoff games don't feel like playoff games. I think that's why I took Josh Beckett shutting us down in 2003 game 5 so well. It didn't feel like it was a game to get us into the World Series.

 

IMO, the afternoon starts lend a better "playoff feel" than the night starts, because of the shadows that are unmistakably October.

 

MLB isn't worried about ratings so much as they're worried about up-front payouts from the networks. If they cared, they wouldn't hide playoff games on cable outlets like ABC Family and TBS. They wouldn't pad postseason commercial breaks like lunatics. They wouldn't leave the bulk of baseball marketing up to the individual ballclubs.

[shnsajax]

Its fun reminding all the Rangers fans at work about the Cubs 3-1 lead in 2003.

[UMFan83]

Technically Mark DeRosa is on the Giants right? He's been out since like May which was like his 2nd month with the team. Has anyone seen him in the dugout during the playoffs or is he not with the team?

[chuckywang]

Technically Mark DeRosa is on the Giants right? He's been out since like May which was like his 2nd month with the team. Has anyone seen him in the dugout during the playoffs or is he not with the team?

 

I've seen him in the dugout.

[Outshined_One]

Um...why is Roy Oswalt in for the Phillies?

[Outshined_One]

Oswalt gets the loss.

 

Delicious.

[Sammy Sofa]

[expletive] awesome.

[OleMissCub]

outstanding

[UMFan83]

I have a feeling that one of these teams is gonna blow their 3-1 lead. Obviously it's easier to predict the Yankees because they are 1/3 of the way there but I'm not sure.

 

A Rangers/Giants World Series would be bizarre though. That was easily the least likely matchup when the playoffs started.

[Brian]

Yeah the Rangers team feels very Cubs '03.

 

Divison series: First postseason series victory in franchise history (if we count the Cubs World Series win, first in 95 years so pretty much first ever anyways)

 

LCS: Up 3-1, lose game 5. It's Ok we're going home now.... we got Cliff Lee.

[Ski]

A Rangers/Giants World Series would be bizarre though. That was easily the least likely matchup when the playoffs started.

I would love this just to hear FOX and MLB cry.

[snoodmonger]

Grim LeRogue

 

If you're not in the process of completing the paperwork to change your name to Grim LeRogue RIGHT NOW, you're a giant vagina.

[J.R.]

A Rangers/Giants World Series would be bizarre though. That was easily the least likely matchup when the playoffs started.

I would love this just to hear FOX and MLB cry.

 

Then you should have been pulling for Reds/Rays.

[SouthSideRyan]

I have a feeling that one of these teams is gonna blow their 3-1 lead. Obviously it's easier to predict the Yankees because they are 1/3 of the way there but I'm not sure.

 

A Rangers/Giants World Series would be bizarre though. That was easily the least likely matchup when the playoffs started.

 

Reds/Rangers

[jersey cubs fan]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_sheehan/10/21/alcs.giardi.decisions/index.html?eref=sihp

 

 

Watch any Yankee game, and you'll see a shot of manager Joe Girardi in the dugout, and not far from him will be a binder the size of David Robertson's postseason ERA. That binder contains staggering amounts of data on every player in that day's game. In an era obsessed with statistics, the more advanced the better, Girardi has been very open about his willingness to mine that data for information he can use to make decisions about who plays and when.

 

It's an open question, however, whether he's doing it correctly.

 

The writer cites Girardi leaning on Phil Hughes success in Arlington over the course of 15 innings, which took place in 2007 and 2009. He also notes that he let Berkman face a lefty (Oliver) because he was 4-6 off of him despite the last hit coming in 2003.

[SouthSideRyan]

Yep, every time you hear about some manager (besides Manny Acta) being obsessed with numbers it's dumbass [expletive] like that.

[jersey cubs fan]

He's not afraid to listen to his gut either.

[SouthSideRyan]

He knows about the aura and mystique and what it means to be a true Yankee

[jersey cubs fan]

Joe buck isincompetent. Guy was called safe at 3rd immediately and throw did not pull him off bag, he wasn't on bag. Moron

[OleMissCub]

WTF is this thing singing this song

[Magnetic Curses]

that, my boy, i believe is a bonafide san francisco drag queen.

[Mark Priors Calves]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_sheehan/10/21/alcs.giardi.decisions/index.html?eref=sihp

 

 

Watch any Yankee game, and you'll see a shot of manager Joe Girardi in the dugout, and not far from him will be a binder the size of David Robertson's postseason ERA. That binder contains staggering amounts of data on every player in that day's game. In an era obsessed with statistics, the more advanced the better, Girardi has been very open about his willingness to mine that data for information he can use to make decisions about who plays and when.

 

It's an open question, however, whether he's doing it correctly.

 

The writer cites Girardi leaning on Phil Hughes success in Arlington over the course of 15 innings, which took place in 2007 and 2009. He also notes that he let Berkman face a lefty (Oliver) because he was 4-6 off of him despite the last hit coming in 2003.

 

I can't wait for the day for a manager to have a laptop, ipad or something electronic in the dugout that has all stats and data for managers to use.

[OleMissCub]

that, my boy, i believe is a bonafide san francisco drag queen.

 

can she go to your gulag please?

[Wilson A2000]

Does Mitch Williams have terets?

[javy knows my name]

Does Mitch Williams have terets?

Oooh, close