It all comes down to this. Does it get any better than game 7 between two long-suffering, scrappy-ass teams? Totally neutral open thread for the baseball event!
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It all comes down to this. Does it get any better than game 7 between two long-suffering, scrappy-ass teams? Totally neutral open thread for the baseball event!
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raven
GO CUBBIES!!!
Cacti
Go Believeland!
Baud
So exciting.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Let’s go, Cubbies! ⚾️
Baud
I’m glad I don’t have a dog in this fight.
? Martin
Go Patriots!
divF
my plane is waiting in line to take off at O’Hare, so it looks like I’ll be in the air for most of this.
Or when the meteor hits.
Betty Cracker
Smoltzie is still a sexy beast!
WaterGirl
I read that first as two “crappy-ass teams” and thought, gee that doesn’t sound totally neutral to me – it’s bound to piss off at least half the people here!
Cacti
Aroldis Chapman guaranteed a win.
Hope he gives up a walk off homer.
different-church-lady
If it somehow goes to extra innings, they should just declare them co-champions.
R-Jud
I don’t understand who could possibly favor an outcome that would make Bill Murray sad. Go Cubs!
WaterGirl
@R-Jud: Or Bob Newhart!
different-church-lady
Well, that ended fast.
Adam L Silverman
Well that escalated quickly!
Betty Cracker
Yeah! That’s the way you start it!
raven
How you like that shit Mr Unhittable!
Bill E Pilgrim
How very….
jeff
wow!
Adam L Silverman
@Betty Cracker: The question you should ask is if he still has performance anxiety?
Cacti
Kluber looks like he’s got the nerves.
Villago Delenda Est
The meteor strikes in the bottom of the 9th.
It’s the end of the world as we know it…someone is going to end a very long drought tonight.
For the sake of the sanity of Bob Newhart and Bill Murray, if no one else…
raven
@Villago Delenda Est: And me. . .
Anonymous At Work
If the Indians win, it’ll be on a walk-off home run in extra innings.
If the Cubs win, they’ll need 1-2 scares.
I’ve been calling this for days.
Also, someone check on Obama, Clinton, and Nate Silver.
Mary G
OT: Anybody have trouble with Firefox? I can’t get the nav bar, side bar or box where it tells you what site you are on. It’s been fucked up since last night and I am gradually switching to Chrome, though I still want a bookmarks sidebar.
raven
Playing baseball in Chicago 1952.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Mary G: Try hitting F11?
Maybe Fn + F11 (function key and F11 key)
raven
1957 (LA)
Betty Cracker
@raven: Great photo! ⚾️
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Right wing trying to ruin the World Series, Luntz was debunked and quickly admitted it
chopper
still amazed by this. all those days as a kid spent at wrigley and i never figured the cubbies would even make it to the series.
Cacti
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
No matter the occasion, Frank Luntz is a terrible person.
chopper
@Villago Delenda Est:
if the cubbies pull it off i expect the gates of hell to open up and demons start pouring out. and most of the world will shrug and go “eh, still beats trump”
jharp
Very nervous long time Indians fan.
Lulymay
@Cacti:
I’m an aged Canadian female and have been an avid baseball fan since I was 9 years old. Had to come home at noon to listen to the games on the radio!
Became a rabid Yankee fan against 6 other members of my family (Dad was the only guy) and still am. Since my Yankees have been doing zilch, I still always root for the American team in the World Series. So….. get er done, Cleveland, cuz tonite’s the night (as Rod Stewart used to sing).
Bill E Pilgrim
@chopper: I figure we’re mid-Ghostbusters script already, at the part where the pasty, bloated, babyish, fire-breathing ghoul appears. Time to cross the streams.
raven
@Betty Cracker: 77!
Shalimar
I’m slightly favoring Cleveland, but only because I want both of them to end their long droughts and the Cubs look a lot stronger because of young talent and money over the next few years. Happy for whichever one wins tonight.
Cacti
Well, Kluber seems to have gotten over his case of the yips.
Adam L Silverman
@Lulymay: So you’ve just driven down to Central Florida for the winter then?
SiubhanDuinne
I’m surrounded by Cubs fans, which is good; but based on their conversations during commercial breaks, they’re all Trump supporters (or at least anti-Hillary), which is not good.
WaterGirl
@raven: Snappy dresser!!! I can’t quite make out what’s in your hand besides a baseball glove (I presume).
raven
SIT DOWN!
Cacti
@SiubhanDuinne:
Present company excluded, the Cubs have a pretty Republican fanbase. :-P
raven
@WaterGirl: Just a glove.
WaterGirl
@raven: It looks so big!
raven
raven
@WaterGirl: It was probably my old mans mitt.
different-church-lady
What the fuck is Facebook Live, and how will it soon be making my life more difficult?
FlipYrWhig
@Cacti: IIRC the race/class divide is why Obama decided to be a White Sox fan.
Cacti
@Lulymay:
So far, they look tight as a drum.
FlipYrWhig
@different-church-lady: Those commercials are torment. Idiots laughing about stupid shit! On the computer or phone! And you can watch! Who cares, go away.
ThresherK
@Lulymay: I’m a not-young Connecticut native, who latched onto the Montreal Expos before they got good. (Thanks to 1994, my hatred for Bud Selig burns with the heat of a thousand suns.)
I opted out of the border war in my state between Red Sox and Yankee fandom. How did you come to be a Yankees’ fan?
SiubhanDuinne
@Cacti:
I know. If I weren’t a Chicago Grrl, I’d despise them because of their owners.
But . . . CUBBIES!!*
Edit: Actually, that’s not true. Most team owners are RWNJs, and I really can’t imagine despising the Cubs. So scratch all that.
raven
@different-church-lady: People can stream live video to FB.
Cacti
I feel bad for the fans of historically unsuccessful franchises. Any time things go badly, it’s like a funeral.
At the Cleveland mlb forum, about half are already cursing the baseball gods and raising the white flag.
Ivan X
Ok, so I’ve seen two Trump ads, zero Hillary ads. Are they really writing off every baseball fan?
Also, I did see a Hillary ad last night, and it was just Trump being vulgar in front of a bunch of children watching TV. Where are the ads pointing out his lies, contradictions, and fraud?
I’m in NYC, so maybe I just haven’t seen them.
Mary G
I am getting ads every commercial break, NRA Hillary will kill us all, Trump.
OTOH, Coco Crisp is one of my favorite baseball names
different-church-lady
Memo to Kyle Schwarber: you are not Coco Crisp.
Cacti
@Ivan X:
Where are you watching?
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK:
I have always hated Bud Selig. And I also hate the stupid Brewers. For me, they always ranked last after even all the American League teams. I would root for the FTFY over Bud Selig’s fucking Brewers.
OTOH, 1994 was good to me as a Braves fan, and only as a Braves fan. Your Expos would almost certainly have taken the pennant that year, and wrecked the long 14-season championship run of Atlanta.
FlipYrWhig
@Cacti:
Just imagine if a political party behaved that way! That would be a pretty exhausting 40 years!
Baud
The plot thickens.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
They test these things to a fare-thee-well, they’re using what they think works
and [email protected]@>:
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m a White Sox fan, but I still want the Cubs to win. You can take the girl out of Chicago, but you can’t take Chicago out of the girl…
edit: italian beef for everyone if the Cubs win…
Taco trucksItalian Beef food trucks on every corner!raven
@WaterGirl: I’m messaging like mad with peeps in C-U!
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
QFT
WaterGirl
@raven: Nice!
Baud
Big error.
Cacti
So the winner will have to score more than 1.
Game on.
Not gonna lie, the greatest game 7 I ever saw was when Jack Morris threw a 10-inning complete game and the Twinkies beat the Braves 1-0 in 1991. That was a helluva a series.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Impressive beard!
raven
@Betty Cracker: Well before ZZ!
SiubhanDuinne
@Cacti:
It was an incredible series, even though my Braves ended up not winning. Hard-fought all the way, several indelible moments, and both teams won every one of their home games.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: And Marvin’s Freemen were a force!
Betty Cracker
@Ivan X: I’m in FL, and the Clinton-Trump ad ratio is about even here.
Origuy
@WaterGirl: With Giardiniera peppers?
raven
@Origuy: When I was a kid we’d get “gravy” sandwiches at Poodles on St Charles Rd where were broke.
different-church-lady
“The middle innings start now.”
Didn’t someone the other night ask why people hate Joe Buck?
Prescott Cactus
Tonight
And you know you’re never sure
But you’re sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade in your city by the lake
The place where you were born
Believe, believe in me, believe
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there’s not a chance tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight
Billy Corgan 1995
debbie
Almost 40 years later, I still remember Dave Parker’s one-bounce winners.
WaterGirl
@Origuy: Absolutely! And wet or dipped, depending on which place you get your Italian Beef.
Baud
@different-church-lady: But did he say it dramatically?
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: Peple with more conspiracy-minded minds than mine think that after Toronto in ’92 and ’93 that MLB would do anything to prevent Les Expos from winning in ’94.
All I know is that the team never got the chance to build the fan base one does after a successful run and/or Series win. Keeping the players they had in ’94 was not going to be, owing to the budget, but they always knew how to get a lot out of the farm system.
But I digress. This night is for the living. Go Extant Teams!
WaterGirl
If anyone wants a live blog of game 7, this is the best one I’ve found.
different-church-lady
@Baud: There was a dramatic pause after “innings…”
Tonight he should sound excited. But last night he was at peak volume with every late game single, and I’m like, “Dude, it’s a six run lead, a single up the middle isn’t all that right now.”
raven
@different-church-lady: Relax, there was nothing wrong with him saying that. He said really early that it was much less noisy tonight.
Baud
Big inning.
Old Dan and Little Anne
Keep it at 2, Kluber.
jk
Come on Cubs, knock Kluber out and bust this game open.
different-church-lady
@raven: I don’t really feel one way or the other about Joe Buck, but it did seem like a brilliantly inane utterance.
It does kinda bug me that the Fox contract for the WS extends past the heat death of the universe.
raven
@different-church-lady: He was making a reference to the pitching ramifications of the middle innings.
redshirt
Why does one need a cable TV subscription to stream Fox, which is a free, over the air channel?
raven
@redshirt: Because in places like where I Iive you can’t get it over the air.
different-church-lady
@raven: What, I need to admit I’m wrong about something now?
raven
@different-church-lady: Nah, just enjoy the game.
Prescott Cactus
@FlipYrWhig: Being a Community Organizer on the Southside probably helped.
SiubhanDuinne
Whew
divF
I’m on the plane from Chicago to Hartford, Conn. I am monitoring the game on line, and helping out the flight attendants by giving some very agitated baseball fans updates.
SiubhanDuinne
@jk:
Agreed. During the regular season I admire a nice close pitching battle, but in the Series I want laughers.*
*As long as it’s my team doing the laughing.
SiubhanDuinne
YESSSSSSS!!!
raven
Torpedos LOS!
Adam L Silverman
Well that’ll (sort of) make up for the earlier errors.
redshirt
@raven: I can stream the radio broadcast, so I’m happy!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: You should check out the live blog I linked to at #85. It’s the Tribune live blog, and somehow it feels very Chicago to me.
PaulWartenberg2016
I still think this is a sign from God, the Seventh Seal being broken.
different-church-lady
“Irregardless” — DRINK!
Baud
Cubs pulling away.
raven
Pushing every limit!
Elizabelle
Wow! Go Cubs.
R-Jud
Beeeeeeeyutiful base running there!
different-church-lady
Yay! Now Cubs fans get their turn to be the biggest assholes in fandom!
raven
@different-church-lady: See and I tried to be nice to you.
qwerty42
@Cacti: …Not gonna lie, the greatest game 7 I ever saw was when Jack Morris threw a 10-inning complete game and the Twinkies beat the Braves 1-0 in 1991. That was a helluva a series.
I will never have the excitement of the Braves 1991 run, the playoffs and the Series. It was incredible. We lost the Series, but it was the greatest year.
Jeffro
It’s not over yet…but go Cubs go!! Fro Jr is going to be so pumped when he hears the news in the a.m.
different-church-lady
@raven: Relish it! It won’t be true anyway.
redshirt
C’mon Tribe! I just want an exciting finish.
Adam L Silverman
Apparently Rizzo is not as nervous as he thinks he is.
Schlemazel
@different-church-lady:
I noticed in the first inning he was screaming as if the home run had ended things then & there. It got worse when the first two Cleveland batters went down. Then when the 3 batter gets a bloop single he was screaming as if it were a whole new game!!!! I thought, “dude, calm down, its the first inning”. Finally gave and just muted them, they are obnoxious.
BruceFromOhio
This is a re-run of last night. CHI has done to CLE what they did to LA – smokin’ hot bats.
@different-church-lady: Sorry, no one can ever top Yankees fans in that chase.
Schlemazel
@divF:
I don’t think I could do that. I would want to give them the exact wrong score so, by the end of the flight, they thought their team had won/lost and not find out until they got home. That way they could know the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
rikyrah
Go Cubs ???
steppy
So, might President Clinton get to greet her club at the White House? President Obama’s a White Sox guy, so he’d probably pass.
different-church-lady
@Schlemazel: I bet you loved that Jimmy Kimmel “Tell your kid you at all their Halloween candy” segment.
piratedan
@qwerty42: I thought the drama in the 2001 series was pretty high as well….
also the Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets putting the last time the Cubs won into historical perspective are pretty awesome
BruceFromOhio
@Schlemazel: Seriously? You wouldn’t make it to bag claim, much less the cab stand. And don’t even think of walking out to the parking deck.
Kristine
@Adam L Silverman: Nothing like a solid hit to kick out the jams.
WaterGirl
@steppy: No way would Obama pass on having the Cubs at the white house. He’s White Sox just like I am, but he’s from Chicago, so he’s for the Cubs right now.
Eric S.
@different-church-lady: I heard that too.
different-church-lady
Meanwhile Lester has pitched an entire simulated game in the bullpen…
JMG
Odds are one out of between four and five people watching the game tonight have already voted. Like 31-32 million have, me included.
BruceFromOhio
@rikyrah: Good morning, rikyrah!
Schlemazel
@qwerty42:
Something like 5 or 6 of the games were one run games decided in the last at-bat of the game. Kirby’s game 6 saving catch followed by his game winning home run. People can complain they were not the two best teams in baseball but that was the best series every played.
WaterGirl
@BruceFromOhio: hahahahaha
Schlemazel
@different-church-lady:
DIdn’t see it but it something I would have done if I thought of it & after the fact the kids would have found it pretty fun. Weird genes, weird senses of humor.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl: and there’s talk of Theo Epstein, who recently attended an HRC fund-raiser, having thought of public office.
Mary G
Now I saw a Hillary ad that just consisted of Donald’s greatest hits.
Schlemazel
@BruceFromOhio:
Ah, timing is everything. years of experience I can clear an airport before most people have their roller handles out.
WaterGirl
Why do you guys think they pulled Kyle Hendricks? Saving him for the end of the game if the other guys have scored? Saving his shoulder?
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Interesting!
Steeplejack (phone)
@WaterGirl:
Once he’s out of the game he can’t come back in.
Baud
Holy cow.
SiubhanDuinne
Fuck
hedgehog mobile
@Mary G: Good ad. We’re at our fave beer n pizza joint watching (Old Chicago.) Go Cubs!
redshirt
Lester gonna choke this?!
WaterGirl
rut roh.
WaterGirl
From the live blog: Good news for Lester, nobody is on base anymore.
Barbara
@Schlemazel: And multiple games went into extra innings. I was pregnant and could barely keep my eyes open all the way to the end.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mary G: Liz Mair (GOP operative) is still teasing two big anti-Trump bombs. One she says is coming, the other the Dems have given up on. So…. FWIW. how much can you trust a true believe of the other party?
Botsplainer
Pulling Hendricks was a big mistake.
Botsplainer
You go, Ross!
Schlemazel
@Barbara: \
had tickets & was nearly deaf from the ringing in my ears for a couple of days after 6 & 7.
raven
Well, that helps!
hedgehog mobile
Woot! Got a run back.
redshirt
@raven: Ross redeems himself of one run.
Lizzy L
I volunteered as a lector at 7:30 pm Mass tonight (it’s All Souls), so I gotta run. It’ll probably be over when I get back. Ah well. Go Cubs!!!
Botsplainer
I’m going to Bonaire Saturday, and much as I hate the flavor, I’m eating goat.
I’ll think about Corner Stone as I eat it…
Eric S.
@efgoldman:
This! I like Madden but at this point I’m going to suggest if the Cubs win today it is in spite of Madden’s efforts in the past 2 games.
raven
@redshirt: I don’t know what they are saying on the radio but the really bad one was a wild pitch.
WaterGirl
The old dog, David Ross, can still get Wrigleyville to their feet. Fans chanting “Grandpa!”
redshirt
@raven: Lester’s fault?
CaseyL
I don’t know if I’ll make it to the end of the game. Been having bad insomnia. Last night didn’t manage to fall asleep until 3:00 AM and was up at 6:30, so I’m running on fumes now.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: If you’re sleepy now, I say it’s your best to chance to get some sleep. Hard choice, though.
raven
@redshirt: Wild pitch, if it were Ross it would have been a passed ball.
redshirt
@CaseyL: C’mon, another hour. This is historic.
Botsplainer
Nice!!
redshirt
@raven: I know the scoring but the radio guys were focusing on Ross doing something weird.
Mary G
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Somebody somewhere said Thursday is the ideal day, so tomorrow?
Liz isn’t my idea of a great witness, Adam said it best the other night. She has no filter, at all.
raven
@redshirt: He almost got knocked out when the pitch drilled him in the mack. His bad throw to 1st is probably what they were talking about.
Jerzy Russian
three run lead is better than two. At this point, I won’t relax until the lead is 5+ runs. That way a single swing can’t tie it.
Hendricks should have stayed in, if for no other reason so he could qualify for a win.
Jilli Brown
@chopper: I’m with ya Our family vacations were spent traveling with the Cubs to ballparks all over in the 60s and 70s. This is like a dream come true. I wish my grandma was alive email to see in – at 93, she could rattle off cubs stats like nobody’s brother. Heck, she’s probably got a better seat than I do. Cmon cubs!
different-church-lady
@redshirt: pitch hit the dirt, came up and hit Ross in the mask. Ross toppled sideways for a moment either from the force of the impact on his head or because he lost his balance. He got up right away to chase the ball, which had gone all the way to the wall on the first base side. By the time he got to it one runner had crossed and his throw wasn’t sharp enough to allow Lester to get the tag on the second.
raven
@Jerzy Russian: Who cares about getting a win in game 7 of the World Series?
Death Panel Truck
I tried to mute the sound on my TV and listen to ESPN radio, but the TV broadcast lags behind by at least one pitch. Joe Buck annoys the shit out of me.
BruceFromOhio
@Schlemazel: Ah, yes, the apparating traveler. I’ve seen your lot at work; takes some skill, that.
Aleta
to go homerless
raven
How many challenges do they get?
BruceFromOhio
@raven: Each manager starts the game with one challenge. If he uses it and the call is overturned, he gets one more but can never have more than two. If he still has a challenge after the sixth, he must use it if he wants to challenge a call.
However, if a manager is out of challenges, he may ask the umpires to review a close play in the last three innings. Chances are, the umpire will grant the request. And, yes, the umpire can also decide to take another look after the sixth even if a manager who is out of challenges doesn’t ask.
Source.
redshirt
@BruceFromOhio: Different rules for the WS I thought. Each coach gets 2.
raven
@BruceFromOhio: thx
Jerzy Russian
@raven: Well, individual wins are nice, but team wins are of course better. Putting all that aside, I thought Hendricks could have gone one more batter. I am not watching (listening to the Chicago radio broadcast over a shitty internet connection), but it sounds like Hendricks got a bad call on a few pitches there.
raven
@Jerzy Russian: Yea, looked like he did. Can’t argue balls and strikes.
BruceFromOhio
@redshirt: You are correct.
During Postseason games, regular season tiebreaker games and the All-Star Game, managers will now have two challenges per game.
This was added in 2015. Source.
Jerzy Russian
@raven: This is the one time I regret not having a TV in the house. I bought the MLB package and watched the games on my laptop, but that subscription did not carry over to the postseason. I would be willing to pay a few more dollars for the postseason, but that does not seem to be possible, unless you have a cable *TV* provider. I have a cable *internet* provider, which apparently is not the same thing.
BruceFromOhio
Seventh inning streeeeeetch, and it’s root, root, root for the home team, though helluva lotta good that’s gonna do, the way this is going.
raven
@Jerzy Russian: That really sucks.
BruceFromOhio
@Death Panel Truck, @efgoldman: Mute except for controversy, jazz channel on Pandora makes a much better sound track. Or just silence.
Shana
“We’re contractually obligated to show Bill Murray” is pretty funny. Hubby and I were joking the other night that they must have a Murray-cam.
My late father would have been over the moon about this. As is it, I have a cousin who’s a huge fan. He and his wife have a Cubs-themed katubah (the certificate of marriage for jews). Their dog is named Cubbie.
?BillinGlendaleCA
The Cubs have a LA connection: Cubs Spring Training on Catalina Island.
Jerzy Russian
Lester needs a double play just about now.
Baud
Two innings to go.
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: This is my dad’s destroyer off the beach at Catalina.
Jerzy Russian
@Jerzy Russian: Well, I guess a ground out and a strikeout work just as well.
raven
@Jerzy Russian: The K was the way!
Mary G
@Death Panel Truck: @efgoldman: I hate Joe Buck, and last week came across this article in Esquire about Joe Buck knows everybody hates him and here is his explanation.
Spoiler: he thinks it’s because he is so neutral. No, Joe Buck, that is wrong. You have one speaking tone, a loud bray, and your content sucks too.
redshirt
@Jerzy Russian: Dumb rules. It’s like they don’t want you to watch their product.
Oldgold
Lester is a strange athlete. So limited. But, he can pitch!
BlueDWarrior
@redshirt: It’s all about protecting the cable tv cartels. They know that Sports is one of the few things that they can really still monopolize since most people want to watch it live.
And I definitely don’t like it, but until a few more years pass or a few more people retire/die, that’s the way it’s gonna be.
Jerzy Russian
@redshirt: Yes, either a huge oversight or more likely Fox Sports, TBS, et al. being dicks.
On a related topic, don’t even get me started about football. I would be willing to pay $10 per game to watch the Broncos play each week on my laptop. There does not seem to be a way to do that if all one has is internet.
BlueDWarrior
@Oldgold: I think in terms of picking up balls and whatnot, Lester fields his position quite well. His problem is that he has a clear psychological issue with throwing the ball from his pitcher’s position to first base.
The ‘yips’ is a hard thing to quantify but you can see it when it’s there.
raven
@Oldgold: “”The longest distance in any race is the six inches between your ears” , or sumpin like that.
Death Panel Truck
@Mary G: Joe Buck needs to watch game 7 of the 1975 World Series, and let Curt Gowdy take him to school. Now that man was the shit.
raven
@Death Panel Truck: God I hated him and Al DeRogatis.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So he’s Tim Russet, or any other Sunday morning narcissist, covering sports
redshirt
I wish the Red Sox could get pitchers like Jon Lester. :(
CaseyL
@redshirt: Hangin’ in there :) Still watching.
Oldgold
Jon Lester’s batting average in 2016 is .102. His career batting average is .064, with 10 hits in 157 at bats.
But, they pay him to pitch. And, he does that exceptionally well. Good outing tonight.
redshirt
@BlueDWarrior: Remember Chuck Knoblauch? He lost the ability as an infielder to throw to first base. Baffling.
redshirt
@CaseyL: I watched the Pats-Seahawks superbowl having stayed awake for over 40 hours at that point. It was great!
Oldgold
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He needs to write on a white board “9th Inning.” Then, he will be declared a baseball savant for the ages.
different-church-lady
@redshirt: And general managers like Theo Epstein. And managers like Terry Francona. And catchers like David Ross…
Death Panel Truck
@raven: This is why I liked him.
Baud
Holy cow!
different-church-lady
I give up.
hedgehog mobile
Argh!
Steeplejack (phone)
Oh, my.
CaseyL
Damn. That’s quite a comeback.
This thing goes into extra innings I am NOT staying up.
OldDave
Glad I’m a hockey fan….
Marc
Boom!
Death Panel Truck
Great. Thanks, Chapman.
Jerzy Russian
fuck a duck
JCJ
Oh shit!
Mary G
What a good game! I love it when they go down to the last out.
Waldo
First game I’ve watched all year. Picked a great one.
SiubhanDuinne
God dammit fuck Jesus shit
different-church-lady
So maybe having Chapman throw 327 pitches last night wasn’t the best idea?
chopper
@Death Panel Truck:
yeah, putting him in was clearly a good choice.
rikyrah
Sob ????
Elizabelle
Unbelievable. Don’t watch baseball team often, but what a game. Go Cubs, but WTG Cleveland.
Baud
@different-church-lady: He should use the other arm.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
IT’S A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME
WaterGirl
Fuck.
jk
Fuck You Joe Maddon You Goddamn Jackass for not knowing how to use your pitchers
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Ricky Vaughn is warming up in the bullpen
Jerzy Russian
get Chapman out of there, for fuck’s sake
redshirt
This is why baseball is best American sport.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): To distract from the shock of this turn of events, have you checked your email?
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
I blame Obama
Mary G
The billy goat is still mad.
redshirt
@different-church-lady: Sigh… what could have been.
Death Panel Truck
@efgoldman: Can’t argue with any of what you said.
Eric S.
@efgoldman:
This. But I repeat myself.
jk
@redshirt:
You’re absolutely right and Joe Maddon is a clueless prick.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
this ballgame is riggggged!
PsiFighter37
Insane. I literally turned on the TV just in time to see that homer.
Jerzy Russian
Grampa needs a hit right about now.
different-church-lady
And now it’s raining.
The Sharknado should arrive around the 15th innning…
Marc
….and rain….
Prescott Cactus
We’ll make things right, we’ll feel it all tonight
We’ll find a way to offer up the night tonight
The indescribable moments of your life tonight
The impossible is possible tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight
Billy Corgan 1995
Eric S.
Here comes the rain.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Who are the starting pitchers for game 8?
Adam L Silverman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFf0ysgNiM
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down
Clouds of mystery pourin’ — confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages — tryin’ to find the sun.
And I wonder — still I wonder — who’ll stop the rain.
Mary G
Now it’s raining. Drama!
Joe Buck, if you don’t stop with the stupid statistics some unpaid intern comes up with, I’m going to curse your hair plugs you are so obsessed with.
redshirt
@different-church-lady: Nah, the Sweet Meteor o’ Death is scheduled for the 11th.
CaseyL
What did that sportcaster just say? It sounded like he was trying to express how hard the post-season is on players, but it came out gibberish.
Steeplejack (phone)
@WaterGirl:
Will do!
redshirt
Looking at the radar, the rain should clear fairly quickly and then a gap of an hour or so before more rain.
raven
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: Heroin movie.
different-church-lady
@Mary G: “We have just witnessed the first 2-2 count from a left-handed pitcher with more than 17 innings in the post season during wet weather in a game 7 taking place in November when the moon is a waxing crescent…”
jk
@efgoldman:
That’s a very good comparison. I hope the Cubs can keep it together to win this damn thing in spite of Maddon trying to give it away.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
@raven: 70s Hippie version of The Big Sleep
raven
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: Nam vet hippies. GRU dudes.
hueyplong
Hayward will try to steal.
Baud
Oh wow, they called him out.
SFAW
Maybe it’s selective memory on my part, but I can’t remember a game where Chapman turned in a top-notch performance. Reminds me of what they used to say about Bledsoe on WEEI (local sports radio) back in the pre-Brady era: : “He’s big, he’s got a strong arm, he’s got a strong arm, and he’s big.”
But at least Chapman can throw it 100+ MPH.
BFD
Botsplainer
@Baud:
That was bullshit.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mary G:
Just thinking the same thing! “This is only the second time in the seventh game of a World Series that a left-handed infielder with a BMI over 36 has blah blah blah . . .”
Aleta
bad feeling
redshirt
Just one out.
Baud
I hope there’s no rain delay. Already too late for me.
Don’t know what I’ll do if there are extra innings.
Tom Q
Given the two teams involved, getting to Game 7 was a gift; putting it to the 9th tied (especially when it looked like an easy win) is baseball nirvana for those of us without a rooting interest. Indians & Cubs fans — of which I know both — are exempt from this feeling; I know they all have terminal agita.
I’m going to feel deeply sorry for whichever team doesn’t win.
Steeplejack (phone)
@raven:
Excellent, overlooked movie. Great cast.
different-church-lady
I still think one of these teams is gonna win this game.
?BillinGlendaleCA
This game is starting to remind me of this election, goes on forever and no clear outcome.
Tenar Darell
OMG What?! Someone tweeted this in 2014
Baud
Uh oh.
Steeplejack (phone)
@different-church-lady:
And it’s not like the game isn’t dramatic enough in its own right!
Mary G
Suicide squeeze fail.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Don’t ask for help
You’re all alone
Pressure!
You’ll have to answer
To your own
Pressure!
But here you are in the ninth
Two men out and three men on
Nowhere to look but inside
Where we all respond to
Pressure!
Pressure!
CaseyL
@Tenar Darell: This seems like a good time to mention Kinsella’s wonderful book about an apocalyptic, otherworldly baseball game, “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy.”
different-church-lady
Well, we’re certainly seeing some novel managing tonight…
raven
@Mary Gdoh!
Villago Delenda Est
They’re talking it down to the wire…or…dare I say it…extra innings!
Steeplejack (phone)
@different-church-lady:
Thank you, Joe Buck, for that incisive analysis.
Baud
Wow.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Houdini!
Gin & Tonic
@raven: You’re up late.
redshirt
To the bottom of the 9th!
Lizzy L
FFS.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Only for this on a weekday.
Baud
Chapman!
Mary G
@Tenar Darell: And the person says they tweeted that the day Maddon was hired by the Cubs. Spooky!
Now Joe Bush ** freudian slip by me ** is talking about Al Capone was nine in 1908.
Mary G
@Villago Delenda Est: Yes, where they run out of pitchers and the first baseman has to try to get the last couple of outs.
TaMara (HFG)
Everyone still breathing? What a game.
Baud
Chapman is spent.
different-church-lady
@Mary G: Doesn’t Bud Selig just declare the game a tie?
Waldo
Why is this guy still pitching?
redshirt
@Baud: His slider seems to work, his fastball does not.
redshirt
@different-church-lady: I got that reference!
different-church-lady
@Waldo: Nothing but rags and bones left in the Cub’s pen.
Aleta
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch:
Pressure drop
Oh pressure, oh yeah
Pressure’s gonna drop on you
Botsplainer
@Villago Delenda Est:
Bite your tongue. My eyes are already burning sand.
Botsplainer
@different-church-lady:
What is left? The ball boys and assistant groundskeepers?
hueyplong
Does the league that wins this game get to host the all star game next year?
Aleta
why not Wood?
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
I hope they can reattach Chapman’s arm after it falls off.
Aleta
OK
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG): I can barely watch at this point, and I’m not at all sure I am breathing.
Botsplainer
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck…..
Baud
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: How else would he be able to pitch the 10th?
Marc
Extra innings!
Villago Delenda Est
Earth Orbital Control has told the meteor to go into a holding pattern…extra innings!
hueyplong
Two more innings until the meteor.
I was worrying about Ohio’s EVs anyway.
Baud
I’ll give it one more inning and then I’m done.
different-church-lady
Am I a fuckin’ genius or what?
CaseyL
Holy wow.
Aleta
@Baud: Don’t you have a foundation to run?
Death Panel Truck
@Mary G:
Yeah, well, so was my grandmother. Who fucking cares?
redshirt
Extra innings!!!!
It’s like a story.
Villago Delenda Est
This will go on all night…Odin says no one can win this game…
Oh…wait…Thor has called a rain delay!
Jerzy Russian
They have got other pitchers other than Chapman. Montgomery, Wood, Grimm, etc. Hell, even John Lackey. The Cubs should score about a dozen runs in the top of the 10th, just to be safe.
Baud
Haha. Rain delay. Good luck to your teams!
Waldo
Rain delay? Im out.
Oldgold
What a dishonest ad.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: You’re sounding like the guy in the cab at the end of Airplane!.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Keyser Söze!!
Baud
@Oldgold: Yeah, that seemed almost like a parody.
CaseyL
Rain delay? Rain delay??
I can’t, I just can’t. I’ve GOT to get some sleep.
‘Night, all.
Doug R
Wtf extra innings and now the tarp?
hueyplong
Now I just feel sorry for CHI and CLE fans. They’ll be subjected to bone-grinding idiocy from Joe Buck and, if Fox is particularly sadistic, Pete Rose and A-Rod as well.
It’s just too much. A meteor would be merciful.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
@?BillinGlendaleCA: you know that was Howard Jarvis.
different-church-lady
GROUNDSKEEPER: “So… uh, hey, listen, it says here on my phone that if one of these two teams wins a World Series the Seventh Seal is broken and the apocalypse happens.”
CREW CHIEF: “TARP! NOW!”
OldDave
@Oldgold:
The Clinton Rags to Riches ad was national, was it? Yeah, it was a dishonest piece of work “worthy” of The Donald.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Indian rain dance — woooooooooocoooooooodanoe?!?
Tom Q
This is divine. A routine game would have been a colossal fizzle. A late rally/extra innings/now rain makes it one we’ll remember a long time.
redshirt
Radar shows just a small cell over Cleveland right now, with bigger rain to the west. Not sure why the tarp is on.
Botsplainer
@Oldgold:
It’s a combination of Trump and the FBI, with 30 years of propaganda from Christian conservatives.
Lies are how they all roll.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
@Tom Q: remember what?
Waldo
I’m confident the underdog will win, thrilling their long-suffering fans after decades of frustration.
Aleta
@efgoldman: You’re alert; admirable.
burnspbesq
Of course. Why not?
different-church-lady
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: I think Madden has Chapman starting for the Cubs.
hueyplong
Much as I hate Joe Buck, John Smoltz is my favorite color commentator, like, ever.
Peale
Lester was “great?” He started out by giving up two runs on a wild pitch?
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): Why can’t he come back in? Hasn’t Chapman been in two separate times tonight?
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Can’t wait for Ken Burns’ documentary on this game.
different-church-lady
@Waldo: Naw, I still don’t think the Nets have much of a chance this year.
WaterGirl
@redshirt: Because they are not in Cleveland?
Adam L Silverman
Just put up an extra innings/rain delay open thread. Have at it.
Death Panel Truck
@hueyplong: I can deal with Smoltz. Anybody is an improvement over Tim McCarver.
Waldo
CNN reporting that Comey called for rain delay.
Aleta
By all means, bring out the stats of pitchers in tears.
Slaughter
Tune in tomorrow, folks! Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: I’m a native Californian, of course I know that. That’s part of the joke.
ETA: My first vote was against Prop. 13.
Aleta
@efgoldman: wow. That really is something. Magic at Fenway Park.
Mary G
@hueyplong: Here they are. A-Rod isn’t that bad, but Rose should still be banned.
Jerzy Russian
@WaterGirl: Chapman has been pitching continuously since the 8th inning.
Steeplejack (phone)
Tomorrow would be the one day in my usually featureless calendar when I have to get up early to go to a dentist’s appointment.
Steeplejack (phone)
@WaterGirl:
Chapman pitched in consecutive Innings; that’s one appearance. There’s no “free substitution” (in and out) in baseball.
redshirt
@WaterGirl: Yes they are.
misterpuff
Pete Rose will doing a midnight show at the Holiday Inn Lounge.
different-church-lady
@Jerzy Russian:
Eric S.
Cubs pulled their DH. No more DH for them tonight. The pitcher’s spot now has to bat.
SiubhanDuinne
WHOOOOO
raven
YYYYYYYEESEESEESESESESESE
divF
@Eric S.: I don’t think so. They pinch-run for the DH; the pinch-runner is now the DH.
hueyplong
Cub hitters have decided that Maddon needs some margin for error. Smart guys.
redshirt
@raven: You gonna make it till the end?
WaterGirl
@redshirt: Wow, I had it in my head that they were in chicago.
raven
@redshirt: Oh yea, I have over 1000 sick hours and I never take em.
Marc
Staunched the bleeding
redshirt
@raven: Sweet. Looks like you’re going to bed happy.
raven
@redshirt: Couch, and it ain’t over and even if we win I won’t sleep.
redshirt
@WaterGirl: They used to go 2-2-1-1-1, but now they go 2-3-2.
redshirt
@raven: Nice couch?
raven
@redshirt: It’ll do, I crash on it quite a bit when I get up i the middle of the night.
raven
FAN!
WaterGirl
@redshirt: Thank you.
redshirt
A rookie!
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
I don’t want to take ALL the credit, but I did predict this outcome 2 years ago:
redshirt
@raven: You’re so close.
But I want more innings. Come on Tribe, tie it up!
divF
So if the Cubs pull this out, they will have cured their curse the same way Boston did, i.e. hiring Theo Epstein and giving him a big pile of money to work with.
SiubhanDuinne
oooooooooo
redshirt
Good gosh! This is tense.
Daulnay
OMFG what a game.
Aleta
yes
The Golux
It could be………..it might be……………………IT IS!!!!!!!!
Aleta
My shoulder wants icing.
raven
YYYYYYYYAAAAAAYYYYYYYAAAYYYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYY
raven
YYYYYYYYAAAAAAYYYYYYYAAAYYYA
redshirt
Congrats Cub fans! So awesome!