MLB 2016

[ItsOKImAPilot]

Yeah, I'm afraid so. They look pretty indomitable. I am keeping my fingers crossed though.

And they're without their best player.

 

[Rook]

lol ded

Nihilist Arby’s ‏@nihilist_arbys Oct 26
The Cubs are like those erection pills in your wallet, in that no matter how well they perform tonight, she doesn’t love you anymore
Arbys

 

[ItsOKImAPilot]

Rooting for the Cubs but this first base ump sucks

 

[ItsOKImAPilot]

Jabba the Ump on first missing a lot of calls

 

[wm02]

Incredible catch by Hayward there

 

[ItsOKImAPilot]

I've never seen my fiancé so intense about a sport he knows little about. He really wants the Indians to win for whatever reason. British angst against the colonies?

 

[Connor]

Amazing.

 

[mezzrow]

The Cubs won, 3–2, avoiding extinction, and there will be more baseball. Thank you, everybody. Thanks for letting it happen, all you Cubs down there—Kris Bryant, David Ross, Jon Lester, Aroldis Chapman, etc. And back there—Ernie Banks, Hank Sauer, Charlie Grimm. And thanks to all you Indians present and past—Rajai Davis, Andrew Miller, CoCo Crisp, Sandy Alomar, Jr., Earl Averill, Nap Lajoie. The Cubs, trailing three games to one in this Series, were facing winter, but now will have a day off and a sixth game, and maybe even a glorious seventh. Baseball does this for us again and again, extending its pleasures fractionally before it glimmers and goes, but, let’s face it, this time a happy prolonging has less to do with baseball than ever before. This particular October handful has served to take our minds off a squalid and nearly endless and embarrassing election—three hours of floodlit opium or fentanyl that can almost erase all thoughts of Donald Trump’s angry slurs or Hillary Clinton’s long travails. If I could do it, I would make this World Series a best eight out of fifteen.

Read the whole thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sport...e-world-series-chicago-cubs-cleveland-indians

 

[barneygumble]

Come on Indians, the Browns are bad enough, and so were the Indians for years.

Give that City a bit of joy will you?

 

[mezzrow]

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Come on Indians, the Browns are bad enough, and so were the Indians for years.

Give that City a bit of joy will you?

LeBron got the monkey off their back in June. I think it'll be two in a row. Even as a Pittsburgher I'm pulling for Cleveland over the Cubs - may they enjoy another 100 years without a title.

The Curse of the Billy Goat lives on and is much stronger than the Cleveland curse.

 

[wm02]

How are the nerves? Here's hoping we see a game 7 (two of the more beautiful words in the English language). Tonight should be interesting with Arrieta and Tomlin on the bump.

 

[mezzrow]

How are the nerves? Here's hoping we see a game 7 (two of the more beautiful words in the English language). Tonight should be interesting with Arrieta and Tomlin on the bump.

Nerves are fine, getting here was the roughest part of the ride. It wasn't like they weren't going to make us wait, win or lose.

Game seven. Great words, indeed. Let's get there.

Eamus Catuli.

 

[wm02]

Nerves are fine, getting here was the roughest part of the ride. It wasn't like they weren't going to make us wait, win or lose.

Game seven. Great words, indeed. Let's get there.

Eamus Catuli.

Think Heyward starts? Seems like he's been heating up at the plate. Some good at-bats, solid contact

 

[mezzrow]

Think Heyward starts? Seems like he's been heating up at the plate. Some good at-bats, solid contact

I do. Having AL rules makes offense less important and defense more important. You could make the "can't hit" argument against Javy Baez in this series for that matter and the same plus defense argument applies. Finding Javy's out pitch has been as hard as me finding my mouth with a cookie.