The MLB Thread

Remember that strategy for a one game playoff where you stack your lineup with batters and short relievers because you can reset for the LDS?  Oops…

NO MORE FREE BASEBALL!!!!  SUCK IT BILLY BEANE!!!!

stevewizzle wrote:

vansmack wrote:
MORE FREE BASEBALL!!!!

we don't know that yet.

Touche.

i can't believe it's perez who gets the game-winning hit

vansmack wrote:
Billy Butlers stupid "steal" injured Soto, allowing the Royals to run all over the A's, just like Ned Yost planned it.

Derek Norris was terrible.

stevewizzle wrote:
i can't believe it's perez who gets the game-winning hit

His previous at bats were just AWFUL.

well…

playoffs off to a great start…

(Yeah can't believe it was Perez either…he looked awful earlier)

well…I like Pedro!

You tell them like it is….in Spanish!

I knew I was going to wake up to this…..

stevewizzle wrote:
NO MORE FREE BASEBALL!!!!  SUCK IT BILLY BEANE!!!!

With the loss, the A's fall to 1?12 in series-clinching games during the Billy Beane era

Shemp wrote:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2216639-kansas-city-police-want-the-royals-to-win-so-people-dont-commit-crimes

I have family who moved to KC two years ago, and the crime in that city is staggering.

…

Looks like I went to sleep and missed all sorts of awesomeness. Oh well, that's on me. I do love to see Billy Beane get taken down a peg, for reasons I don't really understand.

Rowan Atkinson

Julian, wrote:

Shemp wrote:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2216639-kansas-city-police-want-the-royals-to-win-so-people-dont-commit-crimes

I have family who moved to KC two years ago, and the crime in that city is staggering.

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Looks like I went to sleep and missed all sorts of awesomeness. Oh well, that's on me. I do love to see Billy Beane get taken down a peg, for reasons I don't really understand.

James wrote:
Rowan Atkinson

Uhh, what about him?

EDIT: nvm i got it

Shemp wrote:

With the loss, the A's fall to 1?12 in series-clinching games during the Billy Beane era

That's a, uh, a fairly large sample size.  Wow.

hutch wrote:
well…I like Pedro!

I cant see him keeping that up - I'm sure the exec's had a talk with him after the broadcast - but man, I hope he does because that was awesome. 

Between his message to Ventura and his "what Ned Yost should have said" - it's honesty you just don't see and he was spot on.

vansmack wrote:
Adam Dunn not in the lineup for the A's!?

First playoff game in his 14 year career and he sits.

Adam Dunn Retired after last nights game, not getting an at bat in his only playoff appearance.  Brutal night for him.

Shemp wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
NO MORE FREE BASEBALL!!!!  SUCK IT BILLY BEANE!!!!

With the loss, the A's fall to 1?12 in series-clinching games during the Billy Beane era

i almost felt bad after posting that.  i've been actively rooting against oakland this year for really no specific reason besides the lovefest for billy beane that continues to pour out.  the reality is, what billy beane has done for baseball is a far greater accomplishment then anything else in the past decade or so.  now that they are out, my feelings are all too bi-polar.

He's won 74 games or more every year he's been in charge - only the Cardinals and Yankees have accomplished that during his tenure.  That's amazing if you consider the difference in resources.

Yet he's never built a team that could succeed in the playoffs, and this year he tried something completely new by trading one of his chips before the offseason and that failed miserably. 

I'm not sure what he does next - probably trades Donaldson and maybe Smardjzia and rebuilds something - I never know.  Or maybe he just steps down out of frustration.