2013 MLB Season Thread

[gunnar hendershow]

The thing with playoff baseball is that you could have the best pitchers on the planet, but if they have 1 of their 5-6 bad starts of the year during a playoff game it can undo everything despite how good the team is. The worst hitter on a team, hitting .200, could have that 1 in 5 at-bats that goes for a hit when the winning run is on 2nd. The best hitter on a team could have one of their 0-4 games with 4 strikeouts during a deciding Game 7.

You just can't predict what's going to happen. LA should win if paper wins championships, but again a bad start from Kershaw, a bad hitting night from Puig and Ramirez, or a fluke error on a routine grounder could be all it takes to take them from favorites to eliminated.

It sort of works out where over the nearly 20 years since expansion to 4 teams there hasn't been a seed more likely to make the World Series than any other. Just goes to show you how everyone has a shot in the playoffs.

[gunnar hendershow]

So Chase Utley finally responded to Mac.

http://the700level.com/top-posts/chase-utley-finally-responds-to-macs-love-letter-in-always-sunny/

[Lowerdeck]

John Lackey had a no-hitter going through six. I turn the game on, and of course Adam Jones hits a bomb to about the Mass Pike

[HC]

Michael Wacha's got a no hitter through 8 for the Cards!

[gunnar hendershow]

I swear if you just pulled a sahyder.

[HC]

And the Nats ruin the no hitter with a cheap ass hit on the last out. Fuck.

[Meacon Keaton]

Way to go, sahyder.

[HC]

In the words of Gene Snitsky,

It

Wasn't

My

Fault

[gunnar hendershow]

Oh man you guys Bud Selig plans to retire after the 2014 season.

[HC]

Oh man you guys Bud Selig plans to retire after the 2014 season.

I wish Goodell was retiring instead.

[Meacon Keaton]

Can we bring in a commissioner that doesn't have a stick up his puckered ass and put Pete in the Hall, already?

[The Buscher]

The Mets have apparently sold out tomorrow's game for Mike Piazza HOF induction day. That's cool and all, but they've already said they still aren't retiring his number 31. I don't get it. They haven't given that number out since he left, and it's obvious they're never going to give it to another player. So just retire it. He's the best hitter you've ever had, you dummies. It's bad enough they refuse to retire any numbers from the '86 Mets, the best team the Mets have ever assembled.

[gunnar hendershow]

Henderson Alvarez no-hit the Tigers today but the Marlins failed to score a run. That is until the bottom of the 9th when they won the game on a walk-off wild pitch.

Baseball you so cray.

[Lowerdeck]

Definitely did not see the Red Sox winning 97 games and the division this year.

It'd be interesting to see an Indians/Red Sox series in the ALDS. The Indians are playing well right now, but to see Francona return to Boston in the playoffs - that'll be a good series.

[Your Mom]

Heard we fired our manager. Not surprised

[HC]

Heard we fired our manager. Not surprised

Poor guy. There's no helping the Cubs.

[The Buscher]

Terry Collins gets a 2 year extension after 3 straight awful seasons.

I guess it's not his fault the team was bad, but I can't see him leading a team into October baseball. Sucks that we'll probably lose Wally Backman.

[thatshortguy]

Fittingly, Atlanta draws the Dodgers. Gonzalez and Co. will be on the golf course by this time next week.

[Your Mom]

Fittingly, Atlanta draws the Dodgers. Gonzalez and Co. will be on the golf course by this time next week.

Because they had an off day before the next round of the playoffs

[gunnar hendershow]

Not looking good for Cleveland.

Thanks for showing up in the playoffs, Ohio.