2016 MLB Season Thread Baseball • Page 257

RIP even year bullshit. You'll be missed

 

Glad the Giants are gone

 

walked out of the jimmy eat world concert and it was 5-2 in the 8th. my heart absolutely sank. about halfway through the drive home, i asked my wife to tell me the final score. i about drove off the road. i'm so happy today.

 

Fox Will Return To Normal Wrigley Center-Field Camera For NLCS

thank god

 

what i would give to hear len and jim call last night's game.

 

Mune and friends. Partyin.

 

I forget what site had it (I think ESPN), but there was a montage of last night's highlights set to "Get Right." Made me so happy I almost passed out.

 

ahhh if you happen upon it again, shoot me the link! would love to see that!

 

Any chance Kershaw is available out of the bullpen tomorrow night? I love when starters flex out of the bullpen in elimination games.

 

@Zoshchenko @kpatrickwood @cubsml34 @Phillip

who you guys pulling for tomorrow night?

 

from what I've read it will most likely be Hill for a few innings, Urias for a few followed by Blanton/Jansen to close it out.

 

honestly, i'm pretty split. either one is fine, i guess. i think i'm learning a bit more towards wanting to face the Nats so we can get revenge against Murphy, plus we did better against them this year (5-2 record vs 4-3, so it's basically a push)

also i'm sick of these late late late late west coast games.

also i don't think we do too well against lefties and it seems like the dodgers have 500 left-handed pitchers

 

Nats, to get revenge on Dusty lol. And also for zoshchenko's reasons.

 

Why revenge?

 

Dusty murdered Kerry Wood, Mark Prior and mismanaged the 2003 NLCS. As for Daniel Murphy, he fucked everyone up last year. Hit bombs like every single game

 

If you want to look at some scary stuff, look at the game logs for Kerry Wood and Mark Prior and sort by pitches. Absolutely ridiculous

Kerry Wood 2003 Pitching Gamelogs | Baseball-Reference.com
Mark Prior 2003 Pitching Gamelogs | Baseball-Reference.com

 

No grudge haha

 

holy shit, i never knew that.

 

I cannot fathom a pitcher in 2016 throwing 141 pitches in 7 innings like Kerry Wood did in 2003.

 

I had to look at game logs for David Cone cause he talks on YES a lot about how many pitches he threw back in the day. His high for 1992 was 166. And through this point it looked like about 8 or so games above 140 at that point in his career.

David Cone 1992 Pitching Gamelogs | Baseball-Reference.com

 

Giant stunner: Inside the Cubs' clinching rally

So glad I found it. I watched... a lot of highlight videos last night.

And I wanna play LA. The West coast has been real good to us this year, and I'm still bitter from a few years back.

 

It's probably a good thing pitch counts aren't listed for most of Nolan Ryan's career, holy shit lol. In 1989 he had a streak of four starts where he threw 147, 146, 150 and 164. Interesting stuff. Imagine how many pitches he threw the year he had 332 innings? Damn.

Nolan Ryan 1989 Pitching Gamelogs | Baseball-Reference.com

 

@ChiliTacos I guess the Nats. I really don't like the Dodgers. I'm not as picky as I was when it was Mets or Giants, though. And pretty much what @Zoshchenko said, although I thought I read we did okay vs lefties, but I don't really know. I trust 'em.

 

Pretty excited to hear that Dillon Tate was throwing 94-97 in the first Arizona Fall League game since it seems his loss of velocity was a big reason the Yankees got him for Beltran.

 

After I said it, I went and looked at some numbers and was pleasantly surprised at how we did vs lefties. That's what I get for commenting without researching first haha

I mostly just don't want anymore west coast games games too laaaaaaaate