GAME THREAD DODGERS/CUBS

Hopefully I can fall asleep soon. So much easier to sleep during the game.

Just want to say we suck and I hope everyone except Turner, Kershaw, Jansen, Seager, Joc, Grandal (I suppose) and Urias is off the roster next year.

 

Big deal. Look at his swing and his numbers since the second half of 2014

 

So you agree? Or not..

 

Put it this way, it was about the only thing Smoltz took a break from sucking Baez off to comment about.

 

Cubbies still havent really hit LHP yet and here comes LAD's best.
Which reminds me that Dayton needs to get Blanton's spot in the pen asap.

 

Ive been Catcher my entire life.. base runners steal off of pitchers PERIOD...

baseball is a game of cat and mouse.. you just can't simply give up on one part of the game..

Pitchers need to keep runners honest. No Exception..

Look Lester has clearly gotten away with managers being timid as FUCK..

He is legit in his own right but the fact that he has a weakness in not throwing over to ANY base with runners on is ludicrous.. he needs to be exposed...

No way around it man.. he needs to get stole son!

 

Didn't look too bad against Chapman...

 

Look....I don't care anymore about this game. All I what right now is to break every Cubs fans' hearts into a million little pieces in Game 6 and 7 with our number 1 and 2 pitchers ready to go and rested.

I want a full Bartman-esque meltdown by the Cubbies.

 

Tonight was the first time this postseason where I've felt down on the team but even then it still hasn't reached that devastation level. Instead of sitting here blaming the FO, Roberts, or whoever I think we need to realize that we're playing against a damn good team over here. Just have to accept that the boys got outplayed the last two games. Have to tip the cap to the other team; but like how every one of you knows, we're getting real tired of having to do that. I don't blame them too much for not hitting Lester, but waiting until the 5th to magically scratch a couple runs together off of Lackey in game 4 is what really did us in.

Now just gotta take it one game at a time with a similar situation that we know all too well. Down 2 games with Kersh on the hill. Get the dude some runs and let him do his thing.

 

This is the very definition of an evenly matched contest. They win Game 1 against Maeda. We win Games 2 and 3 with Kershaw and Hill. Did not expect a win with a rookie Urias in Game 4 and was definitely not sure about Maeda again in Game 5.

So we are, in alot of ways, where we wanted to be in Games 6 and 7. We can beat their #2 in Hendricks.....amd we've beaten Arrieta, their #3. So our #1 vs their #2. Our #2 vs their #3.

It's not over. I still believe until there is nothing else to believe.

 

Your post reminded me I really need to re-watch Deadwood soon. Haven't done it since the show ended. It's due.

 

@ktsharp 9h9 hours ago
Dodgers down 3-2 ... Last NL team to overcome 3-2 deficit by winning final 2 games on road: Marlins in 2003 NLCS vs Cubs.

 

Damn...I think talking about next year and who we need to win, arguing about Braun yes or Braun no is a capsule reflection of the LAD...who next are we going to get to rescue us and get us finally to the WS? And here we are, not even eliminated as of yet. It's a done deal? Wow.
I'm not saying don't talk about it if that is what you want to talk about, but it just seems so pathetic we once again, especially at this point in time, are back at it. Again. Already.
I guess you always have to try and make winners out of perrenial losers like us, at least on a message board. We are duty bound, I think.
Some are satisfied with a competitive team, that gets into the post season each year, into the "crapshoot".
World Series champs? Eh..if it happens...cool. If not...cool, too.
The $ roll in, either way.

 

Amazing, isn't it ? We didn't need anyone like him, it turns out ( we have our own versions). We needed a Lester. That's what we really could have used, imo.
Or certainly Andrew Miller.

 

I think Toles deserves a shot as the lead off hitter on a daily basis....

 

His teammates don't even like him.

 

slight edit

 

Of course you do. All stupid dancing around does is distract the hitter.