GAME THREAD ASTROS/DODGERS World Series

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  1. irish

    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    living legend
    remember when he changed it to a maharishi pic?
    what an assclown
    and @MZA's right... that tragedy guy was a tool as well
     
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    darth550 Baba Yaga

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    I think I was already perma banned by then, such a loss too! LOL
     
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    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    i still remember your avatar where you were sitting in a car smoking a cigar... and yet i can't recall what mine was :retard:
     
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    They did see it. Talked about how they worked on it and he was better now.
    But he forgot his programming or something and reverted to old ways.
    We need a new pitching coach. Honey should not go but move upstairs.
    One who will keep Kershaw from blowing his load early in the season and early in games either emotionally or in his play.
    Who will toughen up Darvish if we still have him, and focus his wild arsenal of pitches into something more focused he can concentrate on. As he has success he can add back parts of his arsenal if they show benefit.
    Who will encourage Alex Wood to build on his WS play and see that in himself as the true Alex Wood going forward. A tough steady pitcher who can go out and give you a solid 5 to 7 innings as a starter or in relief without losing courage.
    Let HIll be a lot more of the pitcher Rich Hill wants to be. Let him go more than 5 or 6 innings if he is pitching well. Dont demand perfection from the start before you yank him. And if he has perfection going let him go for it. Its not a personal accolade thing. Its a semi-permanent team morale boosting thing.

    That is the type of thing we need from a hitting coach.
    These need to be his pet projects.
     
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    BlueMouse 2020 World Champions

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    I would only re-sign Yu if he paid us.



    Actually, it would depend how much he paid us.
     
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    haha yes and no but kinda yes
    the PSD thing happened around the time of the only bad breakup ive had.
    at the time I dont think I ever talked about my personal life.
    I was strictly business.
    even when drinking heavily
    I think
    I dont remember much really after that
    I stopped drinking around that time
    then I started to listen to a lot less hard rock and quite a bit more Sublime...
    and of course the more obscure pink floyd
    so fucking typical right
    almost comically so on the nose
     
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    Hey I only groomed very well trodden grass.
     
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    :laff:

    That is the classic journey of a wigger who smoked way too much weed
     
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    if they saw it they should have yanked him before it was 5-0


    you can't teach pussies to be tough
    even if you teach them to fight they'll puss out the first time someone punches them in the mouth
    it's in their dna
    as for letting hill go more innings, that's 100% on roberts not honeycutt


    turner ward has done remarkable work with your boy puig and now you want him replaced???
     
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    Living Legend was exactly what his name implied... a legend.

    He was a Dodger fan too right? I can’t remember anymore, that was so long ago. Lol.
     
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    one of the times i got banned was because i called him an idiot
     
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    amazing our scouts wouldn't see what everyone else clearly did
     
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    Tommy summed it up. Without winning that last game, we ain’t done shit!
     
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    and even if they're incompetent and somehow they didn't see it
    wouldn't they at least suspect if since it was a serious issue before?

    and wtf with beltran telling the media darvish was tipping pitches?
    that's the kind of stuff you keep to yourself
    kinda cheapens their accomplishment
     
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    Unless they were stealing signs and wanted to distract.
     
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    MLB Analyst: Dave Roberts Had “A Very Bad Series”
    November 2, 2017 10:15 AM
    Filed Under: Clayton Kershaw, Dave Roberts, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, World Series, Yu Darvish
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    The Houston Astros won their first World Series in franchise history Wednesday, beating the Dodgers, 5-1, in Game 7 in Los Angeles. The Astros jumped on Yu Darvish early – just as they did in Game 3 – scoring five runs in the first two innings. The Astros arms took it from there, scattering six hits and allowing just one run.

    For this, the Astros – who beat both the Yankees and Dodgers in seven-game thrillers – deserve credit.

    “I just love all the young energy,” MLB Network Radio and MLB on TBS analyst Casey Stern said on CBS Sports Radio’s After Hours with Amy Lawrence. “It was a lot of fun and the cool part of this team is that we always have that question about chemistry and is it important. Clearly you have to have players that are good, but there’s absolutely no doubt that the chemistry this club has, the way they believe in each other, the tight-knit group, the energy that you could see through the TV when you’re watching on the field or at home, I think that was a big part of why they won. I think it’s a special group, and they’re not going anywhere for a while. They’re going to be around now.”





    The Dodgers, meanwhile, deserve some criticism – Dave Roberts, specifically. Was winning 104 games – the most since 1953, when the franchise played in Brooklyn – a success? Yes. Was advancing to the World Series – for the first time since 1988 – a success? Yes.

    But Roberts will likely be kicking himself for sticking with Darvish, who was chased in the second inning for the second time in this series.

    “Look, I think Dave is fantastic. I know him well, I love him, I covered him in ’04 when I was covering the Red Sox. He is a good person, and he will learn from this,” Stern said. “But he had a very bad series. I don’t think he necessarily got out-managed because I don’t think it was necessarily toe-to-toe in that way, but I think he had some bad moments. . . . I think pulling Rich Hill in Game 2 early put him in a bad spot. (Kenta) Maeda got tired, (Brandon) Morrow got tired, and they were kind of chasing themselves in that bullpen ever since then.”

    For the series, Darvish allowed eight runs on nine hits in 3 and 1/3 innings – good enough for a 21.60 ERA and a 3.30 WHIP.

    “The first game you could tell he didn’t have his stuff,” Stern said. “Sometimes with pitchers, they just don’t have it. He had no feel of the fast ball, he couldn’t spot any of the curveballs, his slider, and he just left him in there to give up runs. Tonight was the worst move of them all. I was literally losing my mind because I’m rooting for a good game and I’m screaming. You cannot sit there after Darvish looked bad in the first inning. If you’ve got Clayton Kershaw available – who should have started this game anyway when you saw how good he was – you got to put him in there. You got the best pitcher on the planet. You got Alex Wood behind him. You don’t sit there and watch Darvish. This is Game 7. This isn’t May 9.”

    After allowing two runs in the first inning, Darvish walked Brian McCann and gave up a double to Marwin Gonzalez to begin the second. At that point, Roberts, one would think, would go to his bullpen.

    Nope. He left Darvish in the game. Three batters later, it was 5-0, with George Springer going yard for the fifth time this series.

    “You allow yourself to get in a position where Darvish gives up a two-run home run,” Stern said. “That should have been a 2-0 game. That was on Dave Roberts, and I think it was the worst decision we probably saw honestly from a manager in the postseason. Everybody talks about Dusty (Baker) with (Stephen) Strasburg and Joe Maddon had a few blunders. When you get in a spot like this, (you have to have) urgency. You cannot get in a position where you’re watching Darvish give up five runs – and that was the difference in the game because guess what? The amount of runs allowed after Darvish left? Zero.
     
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    Obviously that was a slip up, the entire conversation was not about hitting coach not pitching coach.
    Some pussies are pussies because they have never been punched in the mouth.
    I have asked people straight up, has anyone ever punched you in the mouth?
    They say no.
    I say... that explains it.
    Getting punched in the mouth is very important when you are growing up.
    If you aren't lucky enough to get punched in the face a couple of times as a preteen or teenager then you missed out on valuable life lessons about yourself.
     
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    Yup, control.
    Yu is not in control.
    The batter is in control and takes command.
     
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    Darvish was deer in the headlights for his WS starts. Even if you are tipping your pitches, a true ace can power through your pitches.

    He had that “oh fuck” face going and Roberts should have pulled him at 2 runs. It’s freaking game 7 at home in the WS and you have a fresh Alex Wood, the rest of your starters and all your BP.

    But stranding all those RISP, that was similarly unforgivable. I mean the bases were loaded in the first inning and nothing.
     
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