[MLB] 2023 Major League Baseball Season (MLB Thread)

[blotsfan]

Just fucking kill me already...

Is this about your closer? If not...this should be about your closer.

 

[DarkAudit]

Yeah. It was about our closer.

 

[jwhouk]

I guess we should be lucky we only had our closer use an inappropriate word in a tweet years ago.

 

[DarkAudit]

I guess we should be lucky we only had our closer use an inappropriate word in a tweet years ago.

You got off lucky with Yelich's knee, too.

 

[DarkAudit]

Getting down to the wire...

 

[Celt Z]

Oh, and let's not forget the time that they had a Native American fan appreciation night and gave out blankets and dropped the price on beer.

That is.....wow. Just wow.

 

[Tress]

That is.....wow. Just wow.

It could have been worse...they could have given out free flu shots?

I dunno. That's bad.

 

[jwhouk]

It's the Curse of Marvin Milkes. He was the one who got rid of Piniella back in 1969.

 

[DarkAudit]

It's the Curse of Marvin Milkes. He was the one who got rid of Piniella back in 1969.

That should be on you guys, not Seattle. He hung around for an extra year after the move.

 

[jwhouk]

Well, we haven't won a World Series yet, have we?

 

[jwhouk]

Welp, only two games that mean anything today. We have to hope the Cubbies sweep, while we figure out what's wrong with our stupid bullpen beat the Rockies to force yet another game 163.

 

[jwhouk]

And of course we limp into the Wild Card game. Thanks, Cubs, for rolling over and playing dead today.

 

[jwhouk]

That has to be the WORST way to end a regular season. The only thing I could think of that would be worse would be to balk in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth with two outs.

Oh well, on to Washington where Max Scherzer will probably get 27 strikeouts.

 

[jwhouk]

...That was pretty much a summary of our entire season, all in one game.

 

[DarkAudit]

Fuck pitch to contact.

 

[jwhouk]

We go from potentially four clinch games on one day to potentially three game fives a day later.

Astros look beatable, and if they're putting it on Greinke to advance to face the Yankees... (shudder)

 

[DarkAudit]

(EDIT: Well, crap. /r/anime comment faces don't translate over. )

 

[jwhouk]

That first inning at SunTrust... the game was over before all the fans had even taken their seats.

Ten runs in the first inning - an NL playoff Major League Playoffs record.

 

[Tress]

Ahhahahaha fuck you, Dodgers!

 

[DarkAudit]

As a Mariners, and W(ashington)SU fan, I feel so, so, sorry for Braves fans. Did someone get hurt half-way through the series, or something?

As a Pirates fan who was there when Sid Slid, I have no sympathy at all.

 

[blotsfan]

Clayton Kershaw is cursed isn't he?

 

[jwhouk]

Must be.

The ghosts of 1981 are qualmed. Now let's see if the Cardinals can be vanquished by this plucky band of adventurers from the City That Lost Its Collective Mind.

(Cards in five.)

 

[jwhouk]

I don't know if the BBWAA has sent out its ballots yet, and, of course, post-season isn't supposed to count, but (expletive) if Gerrit Cole isn't cementing his bid for the Cy Young tonight.

I'm going to have to think Yanks-Stros goes seven, but Houston gets the boost with home field.

 

[DarkAudit]

I don't know if the BBWAA has sent out its ballots yet, and, of course, post-season isn't supposed to count, but (expletive) if Gerrit Cole isn't cementing his bid for the Cy Young tonight.

I'm going to have to think Yanks-Stros goes seven, but Houston gets the boost with home field.

*cries in yinzer*

 

[sixpackshaker]

go stros.

 

[jwhouk]

Anibal Sanchez comes four outs from no-hitting the Cards in game one of the NLCS.

EDIT: After doing some poking around, I'd have to say that was probably the best game he's put together in a Nats uniform. He's have five one-hitters, three which were broken up late. He had the no-hitter as a Marlin back in 2006. Strange enough, he also had tow two-hitters against the Nats, both when he was in Florida.

 

[jwhouk]

The Nationals are one win away from the World Series.

The franchise hasn't been in this position since October of 1981.

The city hasn't been in this position since September of 1933.

 

[jwhouk]

Astros vs. the Nats for the Commish's Trophy.

 

[sixpackshaker]

 

[Celt Z]

Ugh, so close!

 

[jwhouk]

The 2010's will be the first decade since the 1910's where the Yankees didn't win at least one AL Pennant.

Some would say this is a good thing.

 

[DarkAudit]

The 2010's will be the first decade since the 1910's where the Yankees didn't win at least one AL Pennant.

Some would say this is a good thing.

This is a good thing.

 

[jwhouk]

Now the question is if the Yankees are going to have that "bad century" like a certain other team from the north side of Chicago...

 

[redthirtyone]

 

[Celt Z]

Now the question is if the Yankees are going to have that "bad century" like a certain other team from the north side of Chicago...

I would say considering how close it came this year, probably not.