Lord O' Bones Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 This is maybe the best last night of a baseball regular season ever.Rays just tied it up. After the Cards win, the Sox are in stasis, and the Braves are in the bottom of the 11th to stay alive. I'm going to have to agree. ETA: As a fan of the STILL current World Champion Giants, and with no dog in this hunt,this is the most relaxing night of intense baseball I've experienced, possibly ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLU-RAY Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Kinda great, tbh. ETA: If you're the Yankees, do you try and draw out the extra innings until you know the outcome of Sox-O's so you can ensure a playoff game either way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord O' Bones Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Kinda great, tbh.Absolutely. And I'm going to bed. (I have a tv in there but not a computer.) See you baseball threaders in the post-season! ETA: Phillies lead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Go Philly. 2-out rally in the 13th!!! Nice. Double play to end the game. Go Cards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLU-RAY Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Pulled it off. Man, that's some stressful shit if you're a Braves fan. ETA: Holy shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Kilimaro Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 If they go with this second wildcard stuff we will probably never see another night of baseball quite like this again. It's amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Kilimaro Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 THE ORIOLES TIE IT BOTTOM 9 Down to their last strike Hoooooooooooooooooooooly shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Kilimaro Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 O R I O L E S! MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC EAT A DICK BOSTON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempra Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 O R I O L E S! MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC EAT A DICK BOSTONI concur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Now the Rays just have to do their part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Kilimaro Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 RAYS WALKOFF WOW! WHAT A NIGHT! Okay, that's enough caps from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempra Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Rays win. Bye Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLU-RAY Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 That was insane. Completely nucking futs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord O' Bones Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Wow. Just wow. Yes, I got back out of bed just to post that. But Jesus christ did the Orioles make it intense in the end. Then ESPN moved the coverage from some despondent Red Sox footage to an epic Tampa at bat. BOOM! And like that it was over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 What a night for Baseball! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 Well fuck me. The Redwyne fleet came for both of us in the end Trisk!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I had to go to bed early, and thus only made it as far as the Tampa Bay rally. Epic end to the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockroi Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 So, I am a lifelong Red Sox fan and I did not want to post much here because its just a lot to commit to. But after watchin the heartless Red Sox complete the most memorable collapse in baseball history I felt obliged to mention the following: Earlier this season, Derrick Jeter got his 3000 hit and I made the comment (probably not here) that I thought the media coverage was overblown - after all, I said, if Jeter played for Houston, nobody would care (btw- later Jim Thome hit his 600 HR... it was barely mentioned on ESPN). But them,watching perpetually shell-shocked Carl Crawford complete his... memorable ... 2011 season by booting a fly ball... I realized something: What happened to the Red Sox in 2011 would have never - EVER - happened to the Yankees with Derrick Jeter as Captain. EVER. Watching the rudderless, hapless, heartless Red Sox sputter like mad to their eventual demise was strangely justifiable and acceptable given the pathetic nature of their players. Francona will be gone (the team has to decide whether or not to pick up his 2-year option) but frankly it won't be enough. Its not so much what we need to get rid of or add; its a cultural imperative that needs to change. Jeter - and players like him -never allow their team to implode like THAT! They step up; they hold themselves and others accountable. Not so with the Red Sox 2011. Nobody- stepped up. These players were too fat (*cough*JoshBeckett*cough*) too happy, too rich and too utterly overwhelmed by the stage (Carl Crawford played all of 2011 with the same look in his eyes as that kid who got tasered when he ran across the field last season; try watching THAT for 162 games) to care about their heart. Say what you will about Bill Buckner or Bobby Doer or Tim "Slow Pitch" Wakefield or Dwight Evans or any in a long line of Red Sox "failures"; those guys- AT LEAST - had some heart. They cared. They wanted to do their best even in the face of overwhelming failure. Not 2011 Sox. Nope. They just wanted... to get paid. Tito is gone; Theo should be gone; please for the love of Christ somebody make Sweet Caroline go away. But one thing needs to go away FIRST: this idea that "as long as you put assess in the seats" you area successful franchise. Seriously: its all hollow when the stars you assembled choke... like THAT. And one last thing: Congratulations to a team with true heart, the Tampa Bay Rays who's "never say die" attitude was really inspiring. Just a great bunch of guys (with 1/4 the payroll as the Sox) who buckled up and said, "Lets go win 75% of our games NO MATTER WHAT happens!" They are as good and as praise-worthy as the Red Sox have been bad and shameful. Now, if you will excuse me I'm going to (BA BA BAHHHH) write a letter to the Red Sox begging them to expunge Sweet Caroline from all Red Sox games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywolf2375 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Tito is gone; Theo should be gone; please for the love of Christ somebody make Sweet Caroline go away. But one thing needs to go away FIRST: this idea that "as long as you put assess in the seats" you area successful franchise. Seriously: its all hollow when the stars you assembled choke... like THAT. If Tito is gone, that is a shame. Theo's talent evaluation team is where a lot of eyes need to go. Unfortunately, since the higher ups get to make the "can't be my fault, must be the manager" decisions, there is a strong chance Tito is gone. And even with the 7-20 hanging on his head, he will be picked up faster than the prom queen that just got dumped by her boyfriend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selmy Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 As a Red Sox fan, I'm happy they lost. Yeha, it's kind of hard to say, but they just really didn't deserve to be in the postseason. This season had been a complete clusterfuck from start to finish. All I'm really interested in right now if what's going to happen to Theo and Tito. With Chicago passing Ozzie off to the Marlins I wonder if that makes it even more attractive to Theo. They could bring him in and let him pick his own manager. Tito obviously will get a job somewhere. I just don't really know who to blame. It's easy to say that Theo is largely at fault. All the way back in February he outlined the weaknesses of he team (pitching) and yet nothing was really done to address these problems. He's brought in shitty expensive free agents (Crawford and Lackey) that almost certainly had a negative VORP. I think the problem is, and has been since Theo came in, we just really don't know how responsible he is for free agent signings. Historically his trades have actually been pretty good, I just really wonder how much say he has over big free agent signing. The Crawford signing in particular just strikes me as a move by ownership to show fans that they were still invested in the team after buying Liverpool. Tito is pretty damn hard. Probably the best manager Boston has ever had, he brought in two World Series, fans and players love him. Yet he presided over one of the worst collapses in MLB history. It's easy to say that certain things were out of his control, he doesn't sign the players and he can't exactly just tell Lackey to pitch better. But I just don't know how he survives a collapse of this magnitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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