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Posted: **Mon May 31, 2021 1:37 am**

2 out 3 games rained out. Works out for the Mets as they need to get players back. Kind of insane the season so far. Tons of injuries and cancelled games.

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2021 2:20 am**

Padres finally dropped a game to the Astros, now it's on to the Cubs while the Giants get fat off of Angel pitching

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2021 11:25 pm**

Loving this theme of beating LA teams

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Posted: **Mon May 31, 2021 11:41 pm**

The Angels are always at your service for a win.

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2021 11:42 pm**

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 2:20 am Padres finally dropped a game to the Astros, now it's on to the Cubs while the Giants get fat off of Angel pitching

Cubs never let Tatis get going I see.

Posted: **Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:26 am**

Pillar already back and gets a hit in his first at bat. What a beast. deGrom 2 hits 8ks era drops to 0.71. Crazy....

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:25 am**

What happened to Giants pitching geezus

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:34 am**

Bummer! Tatis is out and the Padres are in a skid. At least the Angels' bats finally came alive to keep the Padres a half game out of first.

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:39 am**

naednek wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 11:25 pm Loving this theme of beating LA teams

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Well that didn't last long

Oh well, onto the cubs

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:49 am**

The top three NL West teams all lost yesterday which is why I was so hoping the Dodgers could pull it out but they went down as well.

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:02 pm**

I was pulling hard for the Dodgers too to give the Cubs a little distance from the Cards. Cubs are white hot right now, but they seem to be a different team on the road and I'm concerned about the upcoming 7 games at SF and SD.

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:09 pm**

I've tried all season to not complain about the manager but holy hell he was an idiot last night. Diaz blows his first save of the season but they go back ahead in the top of the 10th. He has a bullpen full of fresh arms including Seth Lugo. What does he do? He puts in May who was horrible the night before and he had thrown 26 pitches. It did not end well and the announcers were totally confused in why he did that.

Sigh we would be up 4.5 games on the Braves.

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:01 pm**

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:02 pm I was pulling hard for the Dodgers too to give the Cubs a little distance from the Cards. Cubs are white hot right now, but they seem to be a different team on the road and I'm concerned about the upcoming 7 games at SF and SD.

Dodgers have your back today. Scored 11 runs in the first inning!

Posted: **Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:05 pm**

4 game series against the Padres. I'll be happy if they split the series. With the rest of the NL East underperforming they just need to stay around .500 while they wait for the rest of the team to come back.

Bought me some tickets for Fathers Day to see the Somerset Patriots against the Flying Squirrels. First time going since they moved to be a AA team. It was a whopping 13.50 per ticket.

The concession prices are sky high, but whatever it's still a great deal compared to ML level. Fun fact my best friends cousin owned and then sold a recruiting company many years back and made millions. He's part own of the Flying Squirrels as he's from Virginia. Dudes in his late 40's and pretty much is retired just doing fun shit. Wish I had that kind of ambition.

Posted: **Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:50 pm**

Octavious wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:05 pm 4 game series against the Padres. I'll be happy if they split the series. With the rest of the NL East underperforming they just need to stay around .500 while they wait for the rest of the team to come back.

Bought me some tickets for Fathers Day to see the Somerset Patriots against the Flying Squirrels. First time going since they moved to be a AA team. It was a whopping 13.50 per ticket. The concession prices are sky high, but whatever it's still a great deal compared to ML level. Fun fact my best friends cousin owned and then sold a recruiting company many years back and made millions. He's part own of the Flying Squirrels as he's from Virginia. Dudes in his late 40's and pretty much is retired just doing fun shit. Wish I had that kind of ambition.

OMG - I'm going to see a Flying Squirrels game in Connecticut later this month. My son's baseball team was crowdfunded and so they put the name of the team up to public suggestion and a vote, and the winning team name was the Flying Squirrels. After that happened the coach learned that the Flying Squirrels were also a minor league team, and so we wound up making plans to go with the team to see the Norfolk Flying Squirrels play.

Posted: **Thu Jun 03, 2021 2:55 pm**

Octavious wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:05 pm 4 game series against the Padres. I'll be happy if they split the series. With the rest of the NL East underperforming they just need to stay around .500 while they wait for the rest of the team to come back.

Bought me some tickets for Fathers Day to see the Somerset Patriots against the Flying Squirrels. First time going since they moved to be a AA team. It was a whopping 13.50 per ticket. The concession prices are sky high, but whatever it's still a great deal compared to ML level. Fun fact my best friends cousin owned and then sold a recruiting company many years back and made millions. He's part own of the Flying Squirrels as he's from Virginia. Dudes in his late 40's and pretty much is retired just doing fun shit. Wish I had that kind of ambition.

I and naednek will be super happy if they beat the crap out of the Padres, just sayin'

Posted: **Thu Jun 03, 2021 5:00 pm**

I think Tatis will be out the entire series so that should help.

Posted: **Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:37 pm**

Gosh darn it Tatis is playing. Boo lol

And got a hr that bounced out of the fielders glove. Dohhhhhh

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:21 am**

I obviously didn't watch the end as it's in SD but they almost came back in the 9th. Oh well. Will be super happy if they split the series. Tatis is a monster.

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:42 am**

Octavious wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:21 am I obviously didn't watch the end as it's in SD but they almost came back in the 9th. Oh well. Will be super happy if they split the series. Tatis is a monster.

I do wonder when the pitchers will figure out how to pitch to him. The big hitters all seem to have their weakness when they come into the league.

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:09 pm**

It's year 3. If they were going to figure out a big weakness they would have already. He's just on another level like Trout.

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:53 pm**

Octavious wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:21 am I obviously didn't watch the end as it's in SD but they almost came back in the 9th. Oh well. Will be super happy if they split the series. Tatis is a monster.

I just watched the highlights. That Tatis home run was actually IN the glove before going over. And I love how Darvish helped his cause with the lumber.

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:59 pm**

Ya the fence knocked it out of his glove. The Mets very well could have won the game if he could have held onto it. Oh well. They had their chances. The had the bases loaded with 1 out and Pete hit into a double play. And in the 9th they had 2 on with 1 out and hit into another DP. I knew it would be a rough series, but I think we have deGrom pitching tonight.

*Edit* Oh god no we have Lucchesi pitching. We're screwed.

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 4:00 pm**

Octavious wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:09 pm It's year 3. If they were going to figure out a big weakness they would have already. He's just on another level like Trout.

Too bad he's in the NL West.....

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:23 pm**

I guess this is ok since he didn't use a video camera?

Posted: **Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:01 pm**

They won't do anything about it until next season sadly, but ya it's out of control now. They realized nobody was going to do anything about it so they are all doing it. Doesn't explain how deGrom is throwing 102 though.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 1:22 am**

I thought someone said the Cubs were good

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:23 am**

deGrom another shutout. He's been great for years, but this year is on a level that is hard to believe. 0.62 ERA. WTF

Lindor has an 8 or 9 game hitting streak now and looks very comfortable. I'm sure he's looking forward to getting home and not getting booed.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 7:30 pm**

Split the series which is huge. Now off to play Baltimore.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:10 pm**

Lorini wrote:I thought someone said the Cubs were good

Nope. Just the Giants are better.

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Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:16 pm**

Lorini wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 1:22 am I thought someone said the Cubs were good

You do realize ILB usually drinks lots of Kool-Aid before posting here, right?

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:48 pm**

Jeez. That wasn't even close.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:26 pm**

Umps have been REALLY bad about calling strikes off the plate this year. Worst I've seen that I can remember. Considering how bad the hitting is this kind of crap isn't helping. It seems like every at bat that Lindor has it starts with a strike off the plate. But OMG that wasn't even close.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:59 pm**

Cubs came through finally, yay!

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:00 am**

Octavious wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:26 pm Umps have been REALLY bad about calling strikes off the plate this year. Worst I've seen that I can remember. Considering how bad the hitting is this kind of crap isn't helping. It seems like every at bat that Lindor has it starts with a strike off the plate. But OMG that wasn't even close.

It seems like they want MLB to go to robot umpires.

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:10 am**

If we can get robot Spider-Man, robot umpires can’t be that bad.

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:00 am**

Lorini wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:00 am
Octavious wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:26 pm Umps have been REALLY bad about calling strikes off the plate this year. Worst I've seen that I can remember. Considering how bad the hitting is this kind of crap isn't helping. It seems like every at bat that Lindor has it starts with a strike off the plate. But OMG that wasn't even close.
It seems like they want MLB to go to robot umpires.

Yeah obviously I'm happy with the outcome as a Red Sox fan but yeah...really not sure what the ump was thinking there. Was he not paying attention somehow?

I've been inclined to support robo-umpires for awhile now, assuming the technology works.

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:07 am**

Lorini wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 1:22 am I thought someone said the Cubs were good

Good enough to sweep the Dodgers.

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:16 am**

Is it bad that I get joy from watching the Yankees underperform?

They build their entire team around hitting a million home runs so this season is an extra special nightmare for their setup. The Mets are only fielding 3-4 starters a game and still chugging along. It's really bizarre, but the key thing is that their pitching and defense is good. I don't think a lot of Mets fans understand how incredibly bad their defense has been the last few years.

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:37 am**

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:07 am
Lorini wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 1:22 am I thought someone said the Cubs were good
Good enough to sweep the Dodgers.

That's all you got?!!

Wait til next time!!!!!

(Ah yes, the game where Roberts pulled Kershaw after 1 inning, the others were competitive. We have lost more one run games than any other team in MLB baseball).

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