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  • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

    Gardner battles for a 13 pitch at bat in the 9th with 2 outs, singles to right to plate 1, Indians bobble the ball on the throw in, another run scores.

    5-2 headed to last licks for the Indians.

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      Reverse sweep. Spread the news.

      Yanks and Astros ALCS begins Friday.

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      • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

        Stoopid Cleveland.
        the state of hockey is good

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          The Indians, the best defensive team this season, had 9 errors in a 5 game series. 7 errors in games 4-5.

          Chokeland.

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          • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

            There's a red moon rising, on the Cuyahoga River...
            Go Green! Go White! Go State!

            1966, 1986, 2007

            Go Tigers, Go Packers, Go Red Wings, Go Pistons

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            • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

              Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
              There's a red moon rising, on the Cuyahoga River...


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              • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                Cleveland has now lost 6 straight close out games.
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                • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                  As much as I am enjoying the Yankees moving on, the fact is that the Cleveland Indians are a choke franchise. Now with baseball's longest current championship drought. I found this interesting tidbit.

                  To elaborate, here is Cleveland in close-out games over the last 20 years since the World Series
                  1997 (0-1): lost Game 7 of the World Series after being up 2-0 in the 7th and 2-1 in the 9th
                  1998 (1-0): beat Boston in Game 4 of ALDS
                  1999 (0-3): lost 3 straight to Boston after being ahead 2-0 to lose the ALDS
                  2001 (0-2): lost 2 straight to Seattle after being ahead 2-1 to lose the ALDS
                  2007 (1-4): lost Game 3, won Game 4 to close out the Yankees in the ALDS; lost 3 straight to Boston after being ahead 3-1 to lose the ALCS
                  2013 (0-1): lost WC game to the Rays
                  2016 (2-4): swept Boston in ALDS; lost Game 4, won Game 5 to close out Toronto in the ALDS; lost 3 straight to Chicago after being ahead 3-1 to lose the World Series
                  2017 (0-3): lost 3 straight to the Yankees after being ahead 2-0 to lose the ALDS

                  That’s 4-16 overall.
                  That’s 0-7 in winner-take-all games.
                  That’s 4 times having lost 3 in a row to lose a playoff series after being 2 games ahead.

                  Choke franchise.
                  Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
                  —H. L. Mencken

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                    I don't think you can blame Cleveland. I think you have to blame Francona. He sold his soul to the devil to come back from the 0-3 deficit to the Yankees in 2004, breaking the curse of the Bambino. But the price is a lifetime of blowing big series leads in the post-season.
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                    • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                      Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
                      to come back from the 0-3 deficit to the Yankees in 2004, breaking the curse of the Bambino.
                      This was the final time I was able to bring myself root for a Boston franchise in any sporting event. Still my favorite non-Mets / non-Mariners baseball memory, though.
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                        I cringe at the thought of a possible LA/NY WS.
                        A bad cause requires many words.

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                        • Originally posted by SonofSouthie View Post
                          I cringe at the thought of a possible LA/NY WS.
                          LA/Hou is the best possible WS at this point. It avoids ChC, NYY, and Was.
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                          • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                            Originally posted by CommAvHusky View Post

                            Choke franchise.
                            that's what happens when you build a stadium right next to an ocean
                            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                            • Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
                              I don't think you can blame Cleveland. I think you have to blame Francona. He sold his soul to the devil to come back from the 0-3 deficit to the Yankees in 2004, breaking the curse of the Bambino. But the price is a lifetime of blowing big series leads in the post-season.
                              The Sox came back from 1-3 down (v Cleveland) in the 2007 ALCS.
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                              • Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                                The Sox came back from 1-3 down (v Cleveland) in the 2007 ALCS.
                                Yeah but the benefit purchased by Francona with his soul was non-transferable.
                                That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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