Tiger337

Strangely, I feel no anxiety about the games at all. It's a great story regardless of the outcome. I get all the enjoyment and none of the anxiety.

If days of rest were not an issue, I would have pitched Skubal in game 1. The sooner they win this series, the more days rest he gets before his first start in the third round of the playoffs. Keep pitching him as early as possible in each series and you might end up with an extra start out of him by the end of the World Series.

Definitely true and I don't think the national media quite gets that. What else is new?

You are correct on every point. We like to assume that billionaires must be smart, but that is not always the case. I mean it's nice to think that, in our capitalist system, hard working, smart people are the ones that rise to the top, but it's not always the case. I too used to think he was just shallow and ignorant, but it's more than that.

He'll still get 2 starts if it goes 5 games. We didn't get an explanation because Hinch and Harris don't like to reveal what they are doing ahead of time. They believe it gives them a advantage if the other team is guessing. Of course, that means fans are left guessing too which can be annoying. In this case, it wasn't a surprise since Skubal has never pitched on three days rest.

I like mailing in my ballot because I hate pople.

Young players without a long track record are just as likely or more likely to fail as 30 year old free agents. The difference of course is the team doesn't get stuck with long contracts. It is really difficult to have long term success without eventually spending some money though. The key is to identify which players are likely to age well. I would think if you trust Harris & Co to know which young players will be successful, then you would trust them to know which players would age well. Maybe none of those guys are available now. I don't know.

Yes, you are right. I don't know why I thought it was short rest.

If you think nobody talking to you at the dinner table is a deterrent, you haven't met my family. 😃 Seriously though, I just don't see how shaming family and friends is ever a good strategy.

He can still pitch twice if the series goes five games. The question is do they have him pitch on short rest in game 1 or game 5? By having in pitch in game 2 on normal rest, they get the best version of Skubal in that game. Then if they win the series in 4 games, they don't need to use him on short rest. If it goes five, he'll still be available though.

I don't know. I see people shaming each other all the time on social media and it doesn't work. It just makes people more stubborn.

Shaming family and frinds? That sounds like a bad strategy to me. Also, trying to scare them with fake math. Bad strategy!

They could very well feel that way. There are many people that are just as scared of the left as you are of the right. And there are people who are scared of both sides For example, there a whole generation of youth who are terrified of climate change and they don't think either side is addressing it in a meaningful way.

But a vote for stein was not the same as a vote for Trump. If you say that, then you are either really bad at math or being purposely misleading which could be a form of gaslighting. Since Chas is pretty good at math, I am going to assume that he was being purposely misleading.

On the contrary, the more they win, the more bandwagon fans we will get coming to the site.

As a white middle class guy, I will most likely will be fine if he is President again. Other people won't be. I don't think it's the end of Democracy if wins, but the fact that he'd like it to be is one of many reasons why I could never support him in any way.

A Democrat or Independent staying home is bad, but it's still not a vote for Trump. Anyway, I don't the get the feeling that 1776 is a Democrat. He sounds more like an old school Republican who dislikes Trump. Expecting old school Republicans to win the election for Harris is unrealistic. We need to get the lazy/disinterested liberal youth to vote.

A write-in vote or a Republican staying home is objectively better than a vote for Trump.

You got the chaos.

I want them to win of course, but I am happy to finally see them on the post-season stage. They have already accomplished more than I expected this year and there should be many good years to come. I couldn't fully engage in the Houston games due to work, so I'm staying with this one.

And they'll need that today. Hinch and Harris got it right again. 😀

Of course, Maeda was already off the roster. There is not much difference between Mize and Montero. I imagine the change has something to do with matchups.

I thought Terrell was fine, not someone to build a staff around, but someone who could give them innings and win with the kind of team they had. The fact that they traded Howard Johnson for him was not good though. I do remember that the 80s teams always lacked one more starter. I remember dreaming up trades they could make for Floyd Bannister or someone like that.