Official MLB playoffs thread: 23 hour game exhausts all ball supplies (1 Viewer)

[NotSmart]

### ####ed animals even broke the WS trophy.

dilly dilly

That's a quality made trophy right there.

 

[Eephus]

Licensed Sales have been horrific...much worse than any in recent memory and the ‘13 Sox.

Multiple titles certainly an influence...boring win too though, as similar Pats and Bama Champs have been strong after dramatic wins. Also, retail landscape is different...no TSA, no Bobs...but other retailer or online sales just aren’t picking up the difference in this case.

There are probably a lot of Milwaukeeans who would go to Africa and barter for "Brewers 2018 World Series" gear

 

[Rodrigo Duterte]

### ####ed animals

  

 

[rockaction]

just further evidence that red sox fans are the worst. 

That's fashionable. You can wear it with pink, mauve, or anything, really. Just, the important point is to be fashionable.  

 

[Bossman]

An interesting look at what went into one of the five votes for MVP, and how things could have turned out differently.

Link

Could argue for either one to be MVP. My opinion ... 

Price did what lots of guys have done in the WS ... compounded by the fact that not many guys have the opportunity to start 2 WS games ... and yet many players still do what he did (I assume). 2 players per game (one SP for each team) would have this opportunity .

Not so many have done what Pearce did in a WS ... and 16 players per game have this opportunity (8 players per team, excluding the #9 batter for the pitcher hitting).

I think lots of people were leaning toward Price because his expectations were so EXTREMELY low due to his god awful playoff history.

 

[strykerpks]

There are probably a lot of Milwaukeeans who would go to Africa and barter for "Brewers 2018 World Series" gear

Too soon, man. Too soon

 

[wikkidpissah]

I was entirely unworried about the Dodgers - not as unworried as about the the Cards in '04 or the Rockies in '08, but close. The teams we had already dispatched might have even swept them. I knew Rich Hill would smoke us (still mad @ Dombrowski for not coughing up $6mil to resign him after his coming back from years of adversity w the sickest curve i've ever seen the previous Sept) but, except for "Richard" Machado (next to '04, Sale bringing him to his knees with the final pitch will be my favorite season-ender), the LA blue had no reachdown guys.

I wont consider the '18 Red Sox along with the greatest of all time, but they were among the best. Not the most talented Sox team (Lynn, Rice, Yaz, Spaceman 70s guys waaay more) not even the guttiest (the '13 winners were overmatched throughout, except for Papi) but the ones who put talent & purpose together the best. I will long remember Alex Cora as one of the alltime formidable managers as a result.