2009 MLB LCS: Day 1

by Slyde on Oct 15, 2009 6:05 PM EDT in Playoffs Comment 118 comments

Next Game

Philadelphia Phillies
@ Los Angeles Dodgers

Thursday, Oct 15, 2009, 8:07 PM EDT
Dodger Stadium

	W-L	ERA	WHIP	K	BB
2009 - Cole Hamels	10-11	4.32	1.29	168	43

	W-L	ERA	WHIP	K	BB
2009 - Clayton Kershaw	8-8	2.79	1.23	185	91

Excellent pitching matchup tonight, though you wouldn't know it by looking at their records. The game time forecast is for sunny and 75-degree weather, a stark contrast to the 48 and rainy we have in Cincinnati. Good thing we don't ever have to worry about baseball here this time of year.

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hey does anyone know where i can get one of those baloons ?

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2009 6:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2009 6:30 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

well done, rec'd

"What the hell are spanks????"

by jch24 on Oct 16, 2009 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I bet

they were trying to do what this guy did.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Grey, this is for you.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2009 6:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

justin'd

i want to pat you on the back and tell you “one day, you’ll figure it out” but we both know that wont happen.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2009 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

The good news

Bubba Crosby got his photo in Sports Illustrated!

The bad news: it’s in the MLB Postseason Bloopers feature.

At least Mr. Corcoran correctly puts the blame on Sheff, not Bubba.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 7:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i dont know

sounds like he blames yer boy: “but Gary Sheffield, tracing the ball while looking over his shoulder and away from Crosby, who didn’t appear to call for the ball, made a leaping attempt for the catch.”

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2009 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

nah

Look at the name over the photo. The person at fault is listed there on all the photos.

Bubba should have called the ball, but there was so much noise in that corner there’s no way Sheff could have heard him. They all had those thundersticks, and the noise was deafening.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whatever helps you sleep at night, sista

"What the hell are spanks????"

by jch24 on Oct 16, 2009 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That looks awful

it must have hurt. Did he have any postgame quotes on the topic?

by Red_Poodle on Oct 15, 2009 9:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He stayed in the game

and played very well. He was also the one who jumped up and threw the ball back in. Sheff didn’t bother to get up (though he stayed in the game, too).

Afterwards, they both said the usual things.

“[Kennedy] hit it well,” Crosby said, “but as soon as he hit it, I knew I had a decent chance at getting there. And I’m sure Sheff felt the same way, because he got there, too. We got there at the same time, and I don’t really know what happened after that. The ball came down at impact, we collided, and that was it.”

“That’s a tough play,” said shortstop Derek Jeter. “And it’s just one play.”

Asked if communication was a problem, Crosby waved the notion off.

“Whether or not either one of us called it doesn’t matter,” he said. “With the [crowd] noise out there, there’s no way we’d have heard each other anyway.”

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

THREADJACKING

Eff the playoffs, this thread be bout the Burrcats!

BURR!!!

He fixes the cable?

by Colin Auscapee on Oct 15, 2009 7:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

they dont look good, so far

"I have found me a home"

by obc2 on Oct 15, 2009 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And now they're winning, eh?

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

winning ugly!

"I have found me a home"

by obc2 on Oct 15, 2009 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cole Hamels

The tigrmetric pick!

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 8:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

wow

he looks like a Hollywood dreamboat playing a baseball player.

by Red_Poodle on Oct 15, 2009 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bubba, assumning the Yankees make it to the World Series

would you rather them face the Dodgers or the Phillies?

by Red_Poodle on Oct 15, 2009 9:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Go Angels

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

At this point

I’d be happy to see them get past the Halos. The Halos have been the Yanks’ nemesis the past few years.

The media will go crazy if it’s the Dodgers vs. the Yankees. Not only do they have an old rivalry, from their Brooklyn Trolley-Dodgers days, there’s the whole Torre thing. (A lot of fans still think the Yanks treated Torre very poorly.) And if the Dodgers win…oy.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That would be a media frenzy no doubt (if the Dodgers won)

The Angels are great, but I thijnk it would be a bit uninteresting if it were LA vs. LA. It would be interesting for the city, and that area, but Dodgers vs. Yankees would be more inetresting overall. I’m, rooting for the Phillies right now, partly because I want to believe a team that beat us so badly really is that good and, also, LA won the NBA finals, so they should be happy ;)

by Red_Poodle on Oct 15, 2009 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A Freeway Series

would be pretty boring for the rest of the country. As the Subway Series in 2000 was.

The Phillies and the Dodgers both have good teams; I don’t think either has a particular advantage vs. the Yanks.

But the story would be much more interesting if it was the Dodgers vs. the Yankees.

I’m kind of dreading the media frenzy, though.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wouldn't be against the freeway series

mostly because I dislike the Yankees and the Phillies something fierce. And also because I think it would be great fun if they billed the freeway series as “Hispanics vs. Whites” or something along those lines.

"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander

by Cy Schourek on Oct 15, 2009 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And come to think of it

Yankees-Phillies would be pretty boring to most of the country, too.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i think anyway it matches up

is going to be boring for the rest of us.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2009 11:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

I wish the Twins hadn’t been in such bad shape going into the DS, because I would have actually liked seeing them in it.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Clayton comes unwound

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 9:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

kinda surprised they're leaving him in

They’ve got a great pen.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

With which to make changes to the lineup card?

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

how the mighty have fallen

the NLCS is on TBS? what a joke!

"I have found me a home"

by obc2 on Oct 15, 2009 9:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Oddly enough

the NLCS and ALCS alternate between TBS and FOX for a few more years.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i realize most everyone, cept you, has cable/satellite

but the ALCS and NLCS should be on broadcast TV dammit.

"I have found me a home"

by obc2 on Oct 15, 2009 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed.

But I think the ratings just aren’t there.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that is sad

but i’m not watching the game so i guess i’m part of the problem.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2009 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

you should be

pursuing the CHI undergrad population on a THU night.

"I have found me a home"

by obc2 on Oct 15, 2009 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that dude's engaged!

quit corrupting him!

Made from 100% Recycled Awesome,

by 'tHan on Oct 15, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

shouldn't you be

scarfing down hamburgers somewhere?

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i did that earlier

they were yummy!

Made from 100% Recycled Awesome,

by 'tHan on Oct 15, 2009 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Truth.

‘tHan had as much at Gordo’s tonight as Slyde and I combined.

"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san

by BK on Oct 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

we almost lost one member of our undergrad population, he feel in the el tracks

and even if i weren’t engaged i find myself with much less free time, generally i post on here because i really should be studying or writing or researching, but this internet connection is too distracting.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wait til you get a desk job

by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

never going to happen

i’m going to teach at some level or another, whether it be high school, jr. college, or college.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And the rest of the world just keeps pulling farther ahead of us

by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

how's he feeling?

"I have found me a home"

by obc2 on Oct 15, 2009 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

actually he didn't even miss class

he was lucky and didn’t touch the electric rail, and a driver saw him on the tracks, stopped the train, and shut off power. He only had a few bumps and bruises.

It was his 21st birthday.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How drunk was he?

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

very i'm guessing

i only found it because it was in the school paper.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2009 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

or felling, either way

by Cy Schourek on Oct 15, 2009 10:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

no clensing of the gene pool

he is free to drunkenly reproduce with some idiotic sorority girl, and have a stupid drunken baby just like himself.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2009 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was listening to a discussion of football ratings in general brought about I think by the Monday night killer ratings, and the guy said that there was a college football game on against one of the Rockies games and drew better numbers.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sure more people are watching this

Than saw Johnathan Bornstein’s miraculous goal.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2009 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

left him in too long

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 9:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep.

I was surprised they didn’t pull him after the walk at the very latest.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2009 9:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Manny goes golfing

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 10:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

So, uh,

Anybody been having some peculiar dreams?

by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2009 10:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

nope

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

those eyebrows

It’s Joey Votto, in about 20 years!

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Unibrow plus that smile makes me glad he isn’t in any of my dreams.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know, he looks creepy as fuck

Like Johnny Bench’s weaselly cousin or something. But did you read the testimonials of the people who dreamed about him? It’s almost uniformly an incredibly happy or soothing dream. Any initial fear is completely erased.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn’t get that far. I’m too busy foraging like a wild animal. Can I blame my appetite on the cold weather? Seems like that guy should be able to tell me.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

Some think he’s the face of God. (No wonder I’m an atheist.)

One guy said he’s straight and has never had gay fantasies, but dreams about having sex with the guy, and he’s great.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

...Gay Jesus?

by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2009 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

didn't Anne Rice do that?

And there’s really an astonishing amount of Jesus/Judas slash out there.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 10:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t know about that but she is one kinky woman.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How many times does the phrase "You can put it in any hole you like" appear?

by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that picture is creepy!!

Votto in 20 years won’t be as creepy, but I will be disappointed if he’s not a) managing and b) sporting some ugly facial hair

by Red_Poodle on Oct 15, 2009 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I bet

if his hair’s receding like that, he’ll sprout some facial hair to compensate. Seems to be what men do. At least until they start going gray. Then they face the choice of Just For Men or shaving, and most shave.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2009 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs