[Official] ALCS Yankees vs. Astros

Careful, you’re seriously overvaluing legacy and you’ll awaken Nick and Major who will tell you those players don’t care, money is more important (it is) and those players don’t read your posts. (of course they don’t)

 

There’s a way to get both. Altuve/Bregman/Verlander are legacies who got paid.

The Astros never made an offer to Cole/Springer and made a courtesy-only offer to Correa.

both sides chose. Seems like the Astros chose wisely. No sense in complaining at this point… the young pitching has extended this window longer than the hitters could have.

 

Great win. Huge win to not give them any hope.
Some observations:
— Really good to see altuve joke after his double, he’s going to get going, and if he’s saving it for WS then that’s ok too.
— Mancini and Vasquez contributing was really nice. Hope they can keep it going
— the TBS announcers are dog***t. All they talk about is what the Yankees need to do to turn it around, trying every chance they can to jinx us with talks of homeruns judge has hit and Stanton has hit after pitches they didn’t like.. just non stop hoping the Yankees win.
— that was the worst ump job I’ve seen in the playoffs. For the most part it was both teams, but it was extra bad for Astros. Down the middle pitches called balls. Much tighter zone in the 8th and 9th for our pitchers.
— overall downplay of Astros being good and just how the Yankees are “unlucky”

 

The only thing I can see ****ing around with the Astros is Mother Nature. Sure enough I just looked up the forecast for Yankee Stadium tomorrow night and it’s 60% chance of rain from 6 pm through midnight. It would be just like the Yankees to force a potential double header on Monday.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapCli...-73.9272&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical

 

Ha! It’s like Beetlejuice with you two. (I’m messing around of course) I’m pretty sure there’s no “complaining” going on rather just posts pointing out the obvious of who left not exactly seeing the on field results these days. We’re just fans. We don’t need correcting on every thread. A little venting and haha going on but the truth is we’d all go where the most money is, no harm in that.

 

The Astros pitchers have given up 2 earned runs in 27 innings against the Yankees this post season.

The Astros have struck out 42 Yankees in 27 innings. Over half of the Yankees outs have been strikeouts.

 

If the Astros sweep tomorrow we should demand that New York give us our space shuttle back...bunch of losers...

 

Good observations, although the TBS crew thing is whatever for me. At least Pedro recognizes that the Astros are just the better team.

Mancini had some great at bats, and Altuve seems to be seeing the ball a little better as well, so that is encouraging. My only complaint, besides the horrible HPU, is putting Dubon in centerfield for "defense", as he is just absolutely awful, with horrible jumps and routes. That hit by Carpenter seemed like a catchable ball, and now you give one of their struggling hitters some confidence. Probably won't matter in this series, but you never know.

Great win by the Astros, and please show no mercy - beat these chumps in 4.

 

James click continues to dominate in the post season. Last year it was Graveman playing a critical role. This year we have Montero dealing, and now Vazquez and Mancini making key contributions in this Game 3 win. Unshakable faith in Chaz is paying off.

(I know, I know, “dominate” is a silly. And I was kidding about Chaz. I just think there is a silly amount of click bashing or at least disrespect when the man has done a good job. Perfect? No. Good, yes. Jeff Luhnow isn’t walking through that door. So much about the postseason is good fortune and performance in a tiny sample size. Friedman is a shitty GM by some peoples criteria around here..)

 

why can't they reschedule it to 2 pm or something. That would be terrible if that scenario played out

 

If we take the World Series, I seriously want next years slogan to be “We Want Houston”

 

Absolutely.

No correcting… but it is possible that the team made just as much a choice against signing those players as the players did. Especially with Springer/Cole. Correa would have taken the mega-contract here in a second… but it was never on the table.

 

This is just hardcore from a NY newspaper after the game.

"The people who are planning to attend Game 4 bought tickets for a baseball game, but they might end up getting a funeral instead"

 

Dubon can play just about every position. There's a lot of value in that for a "last man on the bench".

 

This.

At one point Javier threw a strike right down the middle, a little higher than middle middle. BALL.

He was bad, and inconsistent. It wasn't bad for both teams, just bad for us. Giving Yankees low ball strikes and corner pitches and squeezing our pitchers. The Bader at bat. Give me a ****ing break...

It was beautiful that we pitched a gem and it didn't even matter.

 

99.1m, but who’s counting?