10/12 NLDS Game 5 Cubs (Hendricks) vs DB's Nats (Gio) 7 pm TBS

[NotSoSober]

I'm wathing MLB now and Heryold Reynols is calling the Beaz throuw out "routine"...Reynols is so horsefeathering stupid

[UMFan83]

So had a miss most of the postgame celebrations so I could get 3.5 hours of sleep before my flight this morning - did I miss anything good? Any good quotes or dances or have these things become too routine?

[jersey cubs fan]

So had a miss most of the postgame celebrations so I could get 3.5 hours of sleep before my flight this morning - did I miss anything good? Any good quotes or dances or have these things become too routine?

Jon Lester was nearly as drunk as me.

[UMFan83]

So had a miss most of the postgame celebrations so I could get 3.5 hours of sleep before my flight this morning - did I miss anything good? Any good quotes or dances or have these things become too routine?

Jon Lester was nearly as drunk as me.

 

Impossible

[David]

HI GUYS

[Tim]

That was fun. Let's do that clinch thing twice more this year.

[mul21]

[tweet]

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So awesome

 

That horsefeathers eating grin at very end. :lol:

[kente777]

Can’t have that talk. It’s a waste of time to look at lineup, pitching matchups, weather, bullpen decisions, etc.

 

This game is going to come down to which fans have more faith.

 

I'm assuming this is sarcasm.

 

Faith doesn't win baseball games. Talent and execution does.

 

Go Cubs!

 

 

Really? Faith won that game last night? LMAO

[David]

Faith absolutely won that game!

[jersey cubs fan]

[WrigleyField 22]

So had a miss most of the postgame celebrations so I could get 3.5 hours of sleep before my flight this morning - did I miss anything good? Any good quotes or dances or have these things become too routine?

Theo said he'll figure out game 1 starter on plane before the heavy drinking begins.

[cubsclapp]

Huh. No way is Davis getting seven outs.

 

Way.

[ScrubMD]

 

I'm assuming this is sarcasm.

 

Faith doesn't win baseball games. Talent and execution does.

 

Go Cubs!

 

 

Really? Faith won that game last night? LMAO

 

Lol some people can’t admit when they’re wrong no matter how much evidence is staring them in the face.

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, I didn't even fall asleep until about 3:30, so I am a walking corpse right now; thank god it's almost the weekend.

 

I didn't even watch most of the game; I was playing GTA online when it started, and by the time I flipped the game on the Cubs were up 1 so I figured I had to keep playing for good luck. I had Gameday on my computer in the other room, and I would flip over to the game every 5-10 minutes to see what was happening, but probably only watched about half an hour total, tops, and most of that was the Scherzer inning after he had gotten Bryant and Rizzo out. The rest was just too brutal and stressful; if I hadn't got this blood pressure under control a year ago I would have definitely head popped. Heck, after it was over, I did actually tear up; not even in a sad or overjoyed kinda way, but just as this weird emotional release of that stupid, stressful game and spending the last half an hour pacing back and forth between my computer and the living room and checking my phone when it would go off from a text because those were mostly only coming in when something good happened.

 

I'm glad I didn't go to that game.

 

[Banedon]

Lots of discussion about the passed ball/Baez bat hitting Weiters. The Nats and most baseball people think that this rule means that the ball should have been dead...

 

“If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard he carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s judgment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back of him on the backswing, it shall be called a strike only (not interference). The ball will be dead, however, and no runner shall advance on the play.”

 

But, that is clearly, to me, talking about a caught third strike. I don't think that rule is applicable to a passed ball/wild pitch situation. That was my thought reading the article this morning and then I saw Jerry Layne's comments which pretty much align with that...

 

“Backswing interference is a play where a guy is stealing or there’s a play being made a runner hindering the catch,” Layne said afterward. “It was a wild pitch and went past him. That is no longer in that particular description, in my judgment. In my judgment, the passed ball changed the whole rule around to where, in my judgment, it had nothing to do with everything. Therefore, it didn’t have any effect on it. In my judgment.”

 

“When the ball gets past him, all right, in my judgment he didn’t have any more opportunity after he had a chance to field the ball,” Layne said. “There was no further play that could have been made on it. The graze of the helmet didn’t have anything to do, in my judgment, with anything at all, with that particular play. I understand, it’s pretty much my judgment. I got together and found everybody was in agreement. That’s what we went with.”

 

“If you look at the replay, it’s clearly gone past him,” Layne added. “That’s where we were in our discussion and the judgment. Now, if it was right there in front of him, we’d have a different night.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/nationals-journal/wp/2017/10/12/nationals-hurt-by-crucial-missed-call-in-do-or-die-nlds-game-5/?utm_term=.f9db9a51f822

[Fro]

So had a miss most of the postgame celebrations so I could get 3.5 hours of sleep before my flight this morning - did I miss anything good? Any good quotes or dances or have these things become too routine?

Theo said he'll figure out game 1 starter on plane before the heavy drinking begins.

 

Game one starter will be Leonys Martin wearing the "Billy Cub" mascot head.

 

Edited October 13, 2017 by Fro

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[Liam Neeson]

Shame that this isn't Harper's FA year.....

 

[mul21]

That seems like a pretty reasonable and well thought out explanation and the fact that there's a reference to the umpire's judgement written in the rule (even though not directly applicable to this situation) seems like there's definitely room for interpretation there. I'd be pissed if I was on the other end, but I kind of feel like the baseball gods owed the Cubs that one after the postponement of game 4.

[Old Style]

Lots of discussion about the passed ball/Baez bat hitting Weiters. The Nats and most baseball people think that this rule means that the ball should have been dead...

 

“If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard he carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s judgment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back of him on the backswing, it shall be called a strike only (not interference). The ball will be dead, however, and no runner shall advance on the play.”

 

But, that is clearly, to me, talking about a caught third strike. I don't think that rule is applicable to a passed ball/wild pitch situation. That was my thought reading the article this morning and then I saw Jerry Layne's comments which pretty much align with that...

 

“Backswing interference is a play where a guy is stealing or there’s a play being made a runner hindering the catch,” Layne said afterward. “It was a wild pitch and went past him. That is no longer in that particular description, in my judgment. In my judgment, the passed ball changed the whole rule around to where, in my judgment, it had nothing to do with everything. Therefore, it didn’t have any effect on it. In my judgment.”

 

“When the ball gets past him, all right, in my judgment he didn’t have any more opportunity after he had a chance to field the ball,” Layne said. “There was no further play that could have been made on it. The graze of the helmet didn’t have anything to do, in my judgment, with anything at all, with that particular play. I understand, it’s pretty much my judgment. I got together and found everybody was in agreement. That’s what we went with.”

 

“If you look at the replay, it’s clearly gone past him,” Layne added. “That’s where we were in our discussion and the judgment. Now, if it was right there in front of him, we’d have a different night.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/nationals-journal/wp/2017/10/12/nationals-hurt-by-crucial-missed-call-in-do-or-die-nlds-game-5/?utm_term=.f9db9a51f822

That's a lotta judgment there, Layne.

[Sammys Boombox]

Teams eliminated in the postseason by the Cubs

1907 Tigers

1908 Tigers

2003 Braves

2015 Pirates

2015 Cardinals

2016 Giants

2016 Dodgers

2016 Indians

2017 Nationals

[Old Style]

I didn't even watch most of the game; I was playing GTA online when it started

[Sammy Sofa]

Middle of a $350k heist, dammit. What were the odds the assy Cubs' offense were actually gonna score that quickly?

[Sammy Sofa]

Also: it worked, so go live in a bog.

[Old Style]

Also: it worked, so go live in a bog.

I respected the hell out of you when I heard about your incredible weight loss. That just went out the window with one post, nerd.