MLB 2018.2: Postseason, Free Agency, and Awards

[Hammer]

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It's Boston in 5.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

It's Boston in 5.

6...they tied one.

[First Time, Long Time]

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And now attention turns to Harper.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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Seems like the Dodgers lost in fitting fashion. All 5 Red Sox runs came off the long-ball, all 3 pinch hitters LA employed struck out, and 5 of the final 6 Dodger batters struck out swinging (the 6th also struck out, but looked at a called third strike) looking like each wanted to hit a 7-run home run.

I came away from the playoffs thinking two things. One, the Red Sox are really, really good. And two, if I wasn't a Dodger fan I'd hate watching them. Aside from two players, the approach they take at the plate makes them look like a beer league slow-pitch softball team. It would probably have taken a miracle for anyone to have beaten the Red Sox this time around, but it would have been nice to see how a team that had a clue about fundamental hitting would have fared.

I wonder what will happen with Machado. I'm sure he was hoping to ride 15 games worth of big bat highlights to a huge payday but instead hit just .227 and struck out 18 times. That's probably only going to get him 5 years and $125 milllion, not the 10 year, $350 million payday someone surely would have come up with had he won a few games for LA.

[Rover]

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Another year, another title. Ho Hum. Such is the life of a Boston sports fan. Bottom line is, its the collective awesomeness of the local population that drives all of our sports teams, even the sh itty run Bruins, to championship level heights! That it came against the Dodgers is even better. A bunch of showboating posers who think the series is over when they hit a home run in the 6th inning of game 4. And Machado making the last out? Couldn't have scripted it better myself.

[Russell Jaslow]

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Kershaw is officially the Dave Winfield of pitchers...

[joecct]

Another year, another title. Ho Hum. Such is the life of a Boston sports fan. Bottom line is, its the collective awesomeness of the local population that drives all of our sports teams, even the sh itty run Bruins, to championship level heights! That it came against the Dodgers is even better. A bunch of showboating posers who think the series is over when they hit a home run in the 6th inning of game 4. And Machado making the last out? Couldn't have scripted it better myself.

Just burn the pink stuff.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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Kershaw is officially the Dave Winfield of pitchers...

Except Winfield's teams were 4-1 in series in his two seasons of playoff baseball and he has a title. The Dodgers are 7-8 in series that Kershaw has pitched in and his world series starts have been awful, with the team going 1-3 and his ERA is 6.35. It's why I cringe whenever I hear comparisons between Kershaw and Koufax. LA was 3-1 in the 4 World Series Koufax pitched in and he was great in 1963 and his performance in game 5 and (on 2 days rest) game 7 were legendary. Has Kershaw even made 2 decent consecutive starts in his postseason career?

[Rover]

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Except Winfield's teams were 4-1 in series in his two seasons of playoff baseball and he has a title. The Dodgers are 7-8 in series that Kershaw has pitched in and his world series starts have been awful, with the team going 1-3 and his ERA is 6.35. It's why I cringe whenever I hear comparisons between Kershaw and Koufax. LA was 3-1 in the 4 World Series Koufax pitched in and he was great in 1963 and his performance in game 5 and (on 2 days rest) game 7 were legendary. Has Kershaw even made 2 decent consecutive starts in his postseason career?

It seems to me that Kershaw's problems in the post season are either due to 1) he dominates bad teams during the regular season, or 2) he has the yips come playoff time. I'm guessing its the yips, and if so I have to wonder what the coaching staff is being paid for. Its no coincidence that David Price was a career loser in the playoffs for a decade, then all of a sudden under Alex Cora he's money in pressure situations. Cora keeps the clubhouse loose and doesn't let his team get too high or too low. The Dodgers are high fiving everything in sight and dancing down the basepaths for a home run in the middle of a game when the team is down by 10 runs. Small wonder they can't handle adversity very well.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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It seems to me that Kershaw's problems in the post season are either due to 1) he dominates bad teams during the regular season, or 2) he has the yips come playoff time. I'm guessing its the yips, and if so I have to wonder what the coaching staff is being paid for. Its no coincidence that David Price was a career loser in the playoffs for a decade, then all of a sudden under Alex Cora he's money in pressure situations. Cora keeps the clubhouse loose and doesn't let his team get too high or too low. The Dodgers are high fiving everything in sight and dancing down the basepaths for a home run in the middle of a game when the team is down by 10 runs. Small wonder they can't handle adversity very well.

They handled adversity well enough to overcome being 16-26. They handled adversity well enough to win a division despite being in 3rd place in September. They handled adversity well enough to win a game 7 on the road in Milwaukee. Someone needs to find me the Boston sports fan who isn't a dick so we have the exception to the rule that all Boston sports fans are dicks. I do appreciate your consistency though in being a dick in all forums and not just the political ones.

[Rover]

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They handled adversity well enough to overcome being 16-26. They handled adversity well enough to win a division despite being in 3rd place in September. They handled adversity well enough to win a game 7 on the road in Milwaukee. Someone needs to find me the Boston sports fan who isn't a dick so we have the exception to the rule that all Boston sports fans are dicks. I do appreciate your consistency though in being a dick in all forums and not just the political ones.

That's your problem chief. Sounds like you have championship envy. Root for better teams I guess. Dodgers sh it the bed two years in a row when it counts and their stars came up empty. Were it not for a throwing error they would have been swept. Were you watching the same games as the rest of us? Too much showboating and not enough hard work out of the LA squad.

[The Rube]

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They handled adversity well enough to overcome being 16-26. They handled adversity well enough to win a division despite being in 3rd place in September. They handled adversity well enough to win a game 7 on the road in Milwaukee. Someone needs to find me the Boston sports fan who isn't a dick so we have the exception to the rule that all Boston sports fans are dicks. I do appreciate your consistency though in being a dick in all forums and not just the political ones.

Paging Scarlet, paging Scarlet.

[state of hockey]

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Here's an idea as to why the Red Sox won:

They were better.

I know, crazy.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Here's an idea as to why the Red Sox won:

They were better.

I know, crazy.

No, that can't be it...

[dxmnkd316]

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Unpossible