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When we kept getting the worse time slot, I was wondering if it because they figured Cubs/Cards would draw well anyway, whereas the Mets/Dodgers in the middle of the day might not.

OK... get through this inning and I will jerk off IMB right in this thread

Well... we're waiting!

Love Castro's reaction.

i....don't think that's a good idea I think Soler is ideal for Lackey. Lackey doesn't have a mean breaking ball, he's all location. ....maybe. it's not terrible logic. SSS and all, but Soler is 4/8 against Lackey with 3 doubles. Coghlan is 8/17.

Bryant is in a tough spot there. If it falls in and he isn't half way to second, he is getting thrown out there. The way it was looking it seemed like it would drop.

Yeah, I bet if they get people on, there will be a high probability they will try to steal. Hopefully montero doesn't bounce his throws tonight. No need to put anyone on third from a bad throw so that they can then squeeze the runner home.

At least with alvarez, I think the idea is that left handed batters are actually terrible against Arrieta--I'm assuming because of the cutter. On the radio this morning, I think I heard he has the lowest batting average against vs left handed batters in the league. So they mentioned that Alvarez might not be in.

Sometimes I hate fantasy so much. I just lost my championship matchup in fantasy baseball to the guy who came in 6th place in our league 5-4. Each of the first two rounds of playoffs, I would have destroyed him, but his opponent had a terrible week. This week, it was my turn. My team of Bryce Harper, Mike Trout, Nelson Cruz, Kris Bryant, Joey Votto, Schwarber, Lindor (who replaced Tulowitzki in my lineup and was actually very good despite the lack of dongs) among others lost to a team that has like 2 offensive players I would even drop anyone on my team for. This is the first year I have been in this league (the others have been in it for years) and I destroyed their league records of HR's, walks, hits, RBI's and Runs. I looked back through all 24 weeks of the season and I have never had a week with less than 8 HR's--usually I have more than 10. Most weeks in the 12-15 range. One week 23! This week: 4 Home runs. Somehow, despite having more than 30 more hits and walks than he did this week, I tied in runs. I lost RBI's by 2. Despite that, I was in line to win this week. I was leading in walks, batting average (by over 100 points), hits, stolen bases, ERA, WHIP, Losses and Saves. All that had to happen was for Rosenthal not to give up 4 runs without recording a freaking out. That performance made me go from winning both WHIP and ERA somewhat comfortably to losing them both by hundredths of a point. It made me go from winning the Pitchers loss category (annoying that they even use losses as a category) to tying in it. If he would have finished the save, I would have won the saves category instead of tying... but I wouldn't have even needed that with WHIP and ERA in my favor. All year, I would have been happy with a Rosenthal blown save, even if it meant it hurt me in fantasy. But now that the cubs were out of the division race, I just needed one more day without an implosion.

He clearly interfered but he was mad about the pushoff about a second before.

This might not be my favorite moment, but it was a great moment. I had recorded the game while I was at work and avoided hearing about the score all day. I came home, turned on the game and opened up NSBB just to read other threads or maybe follow along with the game thread while not reading ahead. However, the top thread was something like "bullpen grievance thread" that had been bumped. I immediately knew the cubs would be leading and then blow the game. I still didn't check the score and continued to watch anyway, knowing they would inevitably lose in a horrible way. It felt like more than one win.

I have always been in favor of drafting hitters for my first 8 or 9 picks. Great hitters are more reliable and usually get you all of the hitting categories (I don't go out of my way to go for SB's unless the player is a great hitter besides the SB's). I feel like there are always pitchers that come out of no where to have good seasons and you can pick them up later. And like you are thinking, you could pick pitchers up to rack up counting stats like K's. Although the league may have a limit on how many transactions you can make in a given week. In the past, I played in a league where you got points for various things (4 points for a HR, 3 for a triple, etc) and it really helped to have great hitters. In the league I am in this year, you just face head to head categories and sometimes it is annoying because I will quadruple the guy I am facing in HR's, double or triple their walks and then they can beat me by like 1 pitching win and those count the same. Or what is really annoying is when I lose by 1 hit, but have like 23 more walks. But I do generally win 6 of the 7 offensive categories. This week, I won my playoff matchup by winning all 7 hitting categories and saves for pitchers. I lost the other 5 pitching categories. I tried to pick up players to rack up K's and wins but my opponent realized it and then did the same thing. His pitchers had much better games than usual but it didn't matter because of my offense.

I guess I would ask if you know your draft position yet. The only time I did a standard scoring/1 QB league I was drafting 9th I think. The first 8 picks were RB's and I didn't like the idea of getting the 9th best RB. So I drafted a QB and he was amazing for me that year. It also seems like RB's vary from year to year. Like if you look back to the rankings at the beginning of the year, many times they don't match all too well with what happened. I like knowing what I am getting with top picks. But if you are near the top, I could see going with a stud RB. The league with my best friends has always been a start 2QB league and passing TD's are worth 6. QB's are really important and are most of the top picks. So I may be biased in that regard, but I am big on winning positions. So I would rather have the best of something than settling for the 9th best of something.

I also like that the Dodgers have fallen back so that they and the Giants are so close for the division. They still play 7 games against each other. The worst outcome for us in those 7 games would probably be one team winning 4 (which still guarantees the other loses 4 out of 7). If one wins 5 or 6 of them, that even further buries the other in the wild card race.

Yeah I am not shocked that famous/rich people have fall guys. I guess it just seems a little wrong that this is the message from an NFL sanctioned event... and that they even said "we'll bail him out."

Interesting read on Chris Borland and his decision to retire. Lots of talk about head injuries (and also other injuries he and a teammate played with at Wisconsin), but this was also interesting: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13463272/how-former-san-francisco-49ers-chris-borland-retirement-change-nfl-forever Also, of course the top two comments refer to him as a [expletive].

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Hard hit comebacker that hit him in the ankle region. He hobbled around for a bit.

I guess that is the only possible way... but there have been a million times the cubs have had way more evidence not get overturned. Unless there is a better angle that the dodgers feed didn't have.

Dodgers got screwed on the 2nd out. Puig hit a grounder to third. Kang's throw takes the first basemen off of the bag, and the ump called puig safe. Pirates ask for review. The review clearly shows puig safe and somehow it got overturned.

Tom Lawless had a 0.120 slugging percentage and a -19 OPS+ for the cardinals in 1987. He had 1 home run in 4 years, but did this in the World Series.

Is that strange that he hasn't had to deal with the investigators yet? Also, it is interesting that the article implies there must be other employees besides Correa that also participated in the hacking.

I was too for a few minutes. I am thinking it is referring to the dad holding the baby who caught the foul ball discussion.

Shut up just shut up you just ruined baseball for me you ass I have been just ignoring the Cardinals existence this season. Well, except when we play them, which makes it so much worse. I am just begging the Nationals or Dodgers to catch them so we won't have to play the Cardinals in the Division Series. Playing the Cardinals in the postseason is like my worst nightmare. I wouldn't enjoy one second of it until the final out was made if we somehow managed to end up on the winning side. I would normally totally agree. I have thought how much I would hate playing the Cardinals in the playoffs many times. Maybe it is because any playoffs would feel good after the past few years, but this year I sort of think the opposite. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the cubs were having a year where they comfortably win more than 100 games, only to have to play a young 2nd wildcard cardinals team in the first round? That would be the true nightmare.