Andy

Jake has been pretty darn good since the first 3 batters, unfortunately they count

Bad timing, big time bats

Why are their pitchers blowing past their career highs looking as nasty as they have all season

Another [expletive] strike 1

If anyone reaches, definitely. Gotta get some runs

Another bad strike call, Arrieta hasn't gotten a single one of them yet

We just went 2-0 in Hendricks and Hammel starts. Just have to do it again

Not so much that I didn't think it was possible. I just really didn't think it would happen. Felt like our year. Still could be but this sucks

What a [expletive] stupid decision. And more lousy batted ball luck. I didn't even consider the possibility of losing this series, to be frank, and I'm starting to

I really thought Joe was above this kind of small sample size overreaction. That's a move I would expect from Collins or Matheny.

This is a bad idea.

We are going to have to hit the baseball eventually

Stop with the [expletive] "no Cubs pitcher has EVER won 3 games in a postseason" garbage, we've never played more than 2 series for God's sake

So that's gonna be how it is

Well, Jake godded us to this point, I guess I should be thankful

Good lord

Playing from behind all night again

Oh boy, more of their hits slipping perfectly past our fielders

Ugh, I know strikeouts are part of the deal but I want the hard contact that goes with it

Well that wasn't a strike at all

Sigh

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Yeah, I'm not really worried at all. Harvey was outstanding, Lester was merely good, and the distribution of BABIP luck (Mets got 2 runs due to bloop hits while we hit probably 5 or 6 lasers right at people) will not continue. Tip your cap and win Game 2.

MSU didn't even send anyone back to return the punt. All UM had to do was have their punter catch the snap and kick it in the air and they win. Hell even after the muff, if he just falls on it at the 40, MSU has 6 seconds to either convert a Hail Mary or gain 20 yards while getting out of bounds in 5 seconds to have a reasonable attempt at a FG into the wind. Their win probability was apparently 99.8%. Basically 2 rather improbable errors had to occur plus MSU had to set up blockers and return it for a TD. I just don't see any reason to do anything differently except for hindsight Hindsight obviously helps, but I've long felt that anything under 12 seconds, just have someone run around for a while and then throw downfield. I didn't know MSU didn't send anyone back, though. Even if you're selling out for a block, that's a mistake and Dantonio got away with it.

That UM ending was absolutely brutal. I thought ND had figured out all the horrible ways to lose games the last decade or so but they certainly haven't ever lost one like that. In the same spot again, I have to think any coach would just have the QB run around and then chuck the ball way downfield. At least force the other team to make a huge play. ND far from impressive tonight (Brian VanGorder should not be the ND DC anymore), but they managed to pull one out.