Michael Brown
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Congrats to the Metropolitans. Now they sit back and wait, and cryogenically freeze Daniel Murphy until just before first pitch next week. Looks like it's shaping up to be a great series either way
Take the sticker off homieWOOOOOOOOT!
Got me my WS cap today. Stupid flat brims.
From your lips to God's ears. One of the dumbest fads of recent memory.WOOOOOOOOT!
Got me my WS cap today. Stupid flat brims.
I bought the one with the sticker stitched on, permanently.Take the sticker off homieWOOOOOOOOT!
Got me my WS cap today. Stupid flat brims.
Its getting broken in, but has a ways to go. Has that too new, too stiff seven-head. For everyday wear going with my ol' broken in standby that helped get us here... purchased tix for a game at the Temple auction (such a Long Island Jew thing, I know) and it came with Hats and Shirts along with the package. My tried and true old Met hat was really hurting a bit, so broke it in during this great season.From your lips to God's ears. One of the dumbest fads of recent memory.WOOOOOOOOT!
Got me my WS cap today. Stupid flat brims.
WHAAAAA???My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
Seeing lowest ticket prices at around $1,500 ?!Anyone gonna try to get a ticket to a game?
My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
I read that was the average. Regardless gonna cost ya. Wish I could go!Seeing lowest ticket prices at around $1,500 ?!Anyone gonna try to get a ticket to a game?
My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
Wow. I, too, was skeptical. But it holds up. There's a few franchise relocations more difficult to trace than others (like the Orioles as the artists formerly known as the St. Louis Browns) but this is the first time both trails will end after 1903.oso diablo said:heard this tidbit on local radio this morning...
first ever WS that doesn't include at least one franchise that was in MLB in 1903 (year of the first WS)
i found that hard to believe, but couldn't think of an example contradicting it
I was seeing 800 for SRO=Smackdown= said:Seeing lowest ticket prices at around $1,500 ?!comfortably numb said:Anyone gonna try to get a ticket to a game?
My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
Yea...would probably go over just as good as getting a vacuum cleaner for valentine's dayKoya said:WHAAAAA???comfortably numb said:My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
If you need to 'make it seem' like something she wants for her birthday, you will end up neither comfortable nor numb, my friend.
Numbnuts maybe, so good luck with that
Recency bias yadda yadda yadda, but this has been the best playoffs I've seen in some time.Congrats to the Metropolitans. Now they sit back and wait, and cryogenically freeze Daniel Murphy until just before first pitch next week. Looks like it's shaping up to be a great series either way
I hope you're right, but the royals are a really well-rounded baseball team. There's nothing they don't do well. Best 1-9 lineup in the majors, probably the best bullpen, and possibly the best defense. That said, we have the clear advantage in starting pitching and I like our odds at home where there's no dh meaning the royals lose their best power hitter.Mets are the better team but the Royals seem to know how to win. I have no clue who will win
well that's the difference bad rotation vs best rotation in baseballI hope you're right, but the royals are a really well-rounded baseball team. There's nothing they don't do well. Best 1-9 lineup in the majors, probably the best bullpen, and possibly the best defense. That said, we have the clear advantage in starting pitching and I like our odds at home where there's no dh meaning the royals lose their best power hitter.Mets are the better team but the Royals seem to know how to win. I have no clue who will win
While the Mets have the deeper rotation, this for example is something that will be interesting to watch:Jeff Passan @JeffPassan 2h2 hours agowell that's the difference bad rotation vs best rotation in baseballI hope you're right, but the royals are a really well-rounded baseball team. There's nothing they don't do well. Best 1-9 lineup in the majors, probably the best bullpen, and possibly the best defense.That said, we have the clear advantage in starting pitching and I like our odds at home where there's no dh meaning the royals lose their best power hitter.Mets are the better team but the Royals seem to know how to win. I have no clue who will win
Very worthy point. That said, the Mets rotation, literally all four of them, are not just really hard throwers. In fact, they often lean on their off speed and at all times change it up a good deal. While MLB has more hard throwers than ever, many / most of them are more fastball reliant.Agree 100%. Cubs were a team that strikes out alot. It shouldn't have came as a surprise that the mets dominated them. It will be a different story this series
Probably a good strategy if you can accept the chance that they might sell out and you'll just be watching the game from a nearby bar. If you're OK with that (and missing some of the first inning), it's probably a good way to go.Secondary market in KC is cheaper than it was for last year's Series. Especially for Game 1.
Doubt I'll go to a game this year. A couple friends are kicking around the idea of going down to The K early, tailgate in the parking lot with other Royals fans, and wait and see if the StubHub market craters as first pitch approaches. Supposedly if you're willing to miss the top half of the first you can get a really good deal, but I never tried this strategy or researched it.
This isn't the same Volquez who played for pitching guru Bud Black.Good Posting Judge said:Volquez starting G1 btw. We live in an amazing world.
Total Yost move. Volquez started Game 1 of the ALCS, got a powerup from the crowd and had more velocity and movement than we'd seen in any start all season. So, obviously if you start Volquez in another home Game 1 he will throw late-breaking smoke for six innings.Rotation will be Volquez-Cueto-Ventura-Young. Not sure which Wild Card has me more jazzed: Volquez in Game 1 or Ventura in Game 7."Good said:Volquez starting G1 btw. We live in an amazing world.
Yep. And here's the funny thing: there are no bars near Kauffman. None. The Truman Sports Complex hosts Kauffman, Arrowhead, gigantic parking lots serving both stadiums, the Chiefs practice facility... and that's it. It's actually a tailgating scene like a college football Gameday. So the backup plan involves bringing a big TV, generator, Apple TV hookup, AirDrop, and streaming the game on a big-### TV we prop up in the back of a pickup truck."Good said:Probably a good strategy if you can accept the chance that they might sell out and you'll just be watching the game from a nearby bar. If you're OK with that (and missing some of the first inning), it's probably a good way to go.Secondary market in KC is cheaper than it was for last year's Series. Especially for Game 1.
Doubt I'll go to a game this year. A couple friends are kicking around the idea of going down to The K early, tailgate in the parking lot with other Royals fans, and wait and see if the StubHub market craters as first pitch approaches. Supposedly if you're willing to miss the top half of the first you can get a really good deal, but I never tried this strategy or researched it.
I guess a lot really depends on how skillful the scalpers are.
I guess there's really no sense in questioning Volquez over Cueto, because we don't really know what's going on with the latter.Total Yost move. Volquez started Game 1 of the ALCS, got a powerup from the crowd and had more velocity and movement than we'd seen in any start all season. So, obviously if you start Volquez in another home Game 1 he will throw late-breaking smoke for six innings.Rotation will be Volquez-Cueto-Ventura-Young. Not sure which Wild Card has me more jazzed: Volquez in Game 1 or Ventura in Game 7."Good said:Volquez starting G1 btw. We live in an amazing world.
So he was brought in to make sure they...won the division?That's part of the fun of watching the Royals. The sheer unpredictability.
When Cueto hit his slump in September, they found a mechanical flaw and addressed it. But his windup is so jacked up it's hard to tell if the fix has stuck. And he makes it worse when he deliberately messes with his windup to throw off hitters' timing.
Even if Cueto gives up 18 runs in the Series I'll think the trade was worth doing, but that's largely based on my back-of-envelope calculation putting Brandon Finnegan's Cy Young Award winning probability at 0.07%.
If prices come down a little, I might go Friday. $1k-$1200 is really my ceiling per ticket and I'm not paying that to sit in the upper deck in right field.If you want to sit behind the dugout, it's cheaper to fly to KC for the game than watching it here.Anyone gonna try to get a ticket to a game?
My wife's birthday is Friday....trying to come up with a way to get her and I tickets and somehow make it seem like it's something she would want.
So far, not too bad. Woke up to a drizzle, enough to notice it's raining but not enough to need an umbrella.Area around ballpark has decent chance of rain all day, but it doesn't look like a big storm is coming.How much rain we talkin?
Cueto was certainly brought in to get the team back to the Series. He helped them avoid the Wild Card round and secure home field. As bad as his struggles were, it was still an upgrade from Guthrie, Vargas, Duffy, or any of the other replacement-level guys at the back of the rotation. They're back in the Series. That doesn't happen without Cueto. IMO, they don't add Zobrist without acquiring Cueto first, and Zobrist has been an unqualified success at multiple positions defensively and hit the ball great.So he was brought in to make sure they...won the division?That's part of the fun of watching the Royals. The sheer unpredictability.
When Cueto hit his slump in September, they found a mechanical flaw and addressed it. But his windup is so jacked up it's hard to tell if the fix has stuck. And he makes it worse when he deliberately messes with his windup to throw off hitters' timing.
Even if Cueto gives up 18 runs in the Series I'll think the trade was worth doing, but that's largely based on my back-of-envelope calculation putting Brandon Finnegan's Cy Young Award winning probability at 0.07%.
Finnegan's got nasty stuff, but the odds are stacked against sub-6' pitchers sustaining long-term success as starters. I think he'll be great, but ultimately coming out of the pen. Still, the Royals will eventually feel the effects of trading away arms like his and Manaea's, but unless Glass shoots the lock off his wallet (which is not-insignificantly smaller after Wal-Mart's tumble) this off-season, it probably isn't going to matter much in the near future.
Also, I realize Volquez is throwing harder (so are a lot of pitchers this postseason, as Sarris pointed out), but he still stinks.