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That reads like an article Cameron has been itching to post since July.

Tomorrow it'd be great if the offense just scored 6-9 runs and made the last 3 innings academic.

Landon Donovan apparently wants to make a serious run at USSF president.

U17's about to make the quarters of the World Cup, demolishing Paraguay 5-0 so far.

Two moves I approve of from Maddon so far, and one move I approve of from Roberts. Off to a good start.

Baker would have found another way to ruin him.

Starters going more than 2 innings is the new market inefficiency.

The problem with using Lackey in game 2 is it either forces you to skip a starter or not use a starter until a game 5 that may not happen, or use Lackey in two games.

Tonight begins the 2017 ALCS between the Indians Yankees and Astros, for the rights to lose to the far superior NL team in the World Series. Today's starters are Tanaka (13-12, 4.74 ERA) vs Keuchel (14-5, 2.92 ERA), a decidedly one-sided matchup after the Yankees used all their other pitchers to win Game 5. Both teams had exceptional offensive numbers during the season, but the Astros (especially in the first half) were otherworldly, posting a team offensive fWAR of 161.8, running a .282/.346/.478 line as a team, led by Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer, and Marwin Gonzalez. The Yankees offense is led by "young" stars Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, and Didi Gregorius. Judge did struggle in the ALDS, though, going 1 for 20 with 16 K's (incidentally, more than Tony Gwynn had in the entire 1995 season in 135 games...it's a different time...still funny). How will the Yankees make up the talent gap on offense and in the rotation? Well, they were better defensively (still below average, but not nightmare fuel like the Astros, 2nd worst in MLB by fWAR), and they have a bullpen of doom led by our old friend Aroldis Chapman, who exorcised his Indian demons in the ALDS and helped the Yankees move into the ALCS despite counting on a starting staff of Severino, what's left of CC Sabathia, and hoping the opposing offense takes 3 innings to get going to they can toss the game to the pen early.

The Nats never had a series lead.

Also, I'm prepared to see Wilson in save situations in games 1 and 2 should they arise.

I like Q game 1, Lester/Monty game 2, Lackey on the clubhouse polishing the jewelry.

Eh, it's probably the right move there, as Heyward has had success there, and what happened after was basicaaly none of Scherzers fault.

I expect the Cubs to go with Q Saturday with Lester Sunday on 3 days rest after what amounted to an extended bullpen session.

Why do so many people thunk the Cubs will starr Lackey? Quintana threw what amounted to a bullpen session, he'll be fine for Saturday.

Dusty often messes up pitcher management and strategy, but tonight that wasn't a problem unless you consider using Scherzer the wrong move. Batting Werth second and starting him every game while Kendrick rotted on the bench...well that is on Dusty.

I'm partial to Rizzo crushing the life out of Kershaw. That was the moment I absolutely knew we were going to the World Series. This game was horsefeathers up. Because we were down and I thought we were done. And then we were and I felt ok for about a second. Then the rest of the time I thought we were going to blow it. Probably the most nerve wracking game I’ve ever witnessed besides game 7 last year. What are you talking about? The Cubs dominated that game from the first pitch and never trailed.

Quintana then Lester, probably.

So the losing pitchers in the 4 DS elimination games were Sale, Greinke, Kluber, and Scherzer.

A day later, there will still be a World cup, just not with the USMNT. 23 nations have qualified so far, two for the first time. The draw happens next month, but we know the draw pots will all be seeded, and the rankings are set. So, the pots are as follows for the known qualifiers: Pot 1: Russia (host) Germany Brazil Portugal Argentina Belgium Poland France Pot 2: Spain England Colombia Mexico Uruguay Pot 2 or 3 pending remaining results: Iceland Costa Rica Pot 3: Egypt Iran Pot 3 or 4 pending remaining results: Serbia Nigeria Japan Pot 4: Panama Saudi Arabia South Korea

I have half a mind to just start the next game thread just for spite of superstition.

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I mean, everyone who decided they should play for a draw to start the match should be fired immediately.

Hated the lineup on Saturday but Pulisic, Wood and Altidore made up for the poor choices elsewhere. Today, Gonzalez was awful, the midfield was awful, Howard was bad, there was no connection from the back line to the forwards, the formation was off, and not having Pulisic in the middle hurt the team. Klinsmann was tactically bad in the Mexico-CR openers, Arena had awful personnel on the pitch to end it. Fab and Cameron are two of the best 5 players on the squad and they were nowhere to be seen.

The first goal was unlucky, and the second was a fantastic strike, but everyone is terrible so far, particularly Howard and the CBs.