MLB 2018 Season

[wadesworld]

Is Chicos invited to the Ausmus presser?  Obviously Cubs fan warriorsdad isn't.

[buckchuckler]

Dave Roberts has been stoic no matter what's going on in the game except with Grandal's latest fielding misadventure yesterday.  I wonder how long into the offseason he lasts with the Dodgers?

He is a free agent, so like 2 days past the WS.

[buckchuckler]

Great season by the Brewers.  I will always be appreciative of the way they caught and knocked off the Cubs. 

<Hat Tip>

If some of their guys that look like they could be dominant starting pitchers, turn out to be even good starting pitchers, well look out. 

[WI inferiority Complexes]

I was hoping Milwaukee would pull it off, and I don't think I talked to one Cubs fan who was rooting against the Brewers, (once the Cubs were eliminated).  They were a fun team to watch, and a great story.

[🏀]

I was hoping Milwaukee would pull it off, and I don't think I talked to one Cubs fan who was rooting against the Brewers, (once the Cubs were eliminated).  They were a fun team to watch, and a great story.

Dave Roberts is my favorite manager in the game after Francona. I found myself more pulling for wanting to see the bullpenning strategy to blow up than rooting against the Brewers.

[WI inferiority Complexes]

With two gigantic markets and a Game 1 match-up of Kershaw and Sale, I thought last night would've drawn higher ratings.

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/10/world-series-ratings-game-one-overnights/

[#UnleashSean]

With two gigantic markets and a Game 1 match-up of Kershaw and Sale, I thought last night would've drawn higher ratings.

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/10/world-series-ratings-game-one-overnights/

Ehh its pretty standard around there. The Cub's one is huge because well, it was the Cubs.

[CTWarrior]

With two gigantic markets and a Game 1 match-up of Kershaw and Sale, I thought last night would've drawn higher ratings.

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/10/world-series-ratings-game-one-overnights/

I don't know if this downward trend will ever change for baseball, but they have to do something about the timing and more importantly the length of these games.  If you live in the Eastern Time Zone you know you are going to have to go to midnight to see the finish of the game.  I am as big a baseball fan as there is, and I didn't watch a lot of the games not involving my favorite team because I made the calculation that sleep was more important.  I watch the World Series regardless of the participants, but if it's 5-0 in the 6th, there's a good chance I won't watch until the end.

[GGGG]

Baseball has to decide if it is going to stay with tradition and sacrifice the TV audience, or if its going to make substantial rule changes to quicken the pace of the game.  (And not simply fringe rules to quicken the pace of play.)  If it were four hours for a one-game championship, I'm all in.  Four hours a game for a possible seven games for two teams that I am neutral about?  It just doesn't hold my interest.

Tonight I'm watching the Bucks.

[MU82]

I had rooting interest in the Brewers but I have little interest in this WS. I have watched a total of about 20 minutes of these first 2 games.

And I think I'm a fairly typical pro sports fan without rooting interest in either of the teams. The games are too long, the action is too little, and this felt like a Red Sox sweep even before Game 1.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I had rooting interest in the Brewers but I have little interest in this WS. I have watched a total of about 20 minutes of these first 2 games.

And I think I'm a fairly typical pro sports fan without rooting interest in either of the teams. The games are too long, the action is too little, and this felt like a Red Sox sweep even before Game 1.

Haven't watched a second of the WS and probably won't.  Maybe sour grapes from the Brewers not making it, but Red Sox/Dodgers....meh.

[withoutbias]

crew wouldve been the tougher series for the sox.  cant throw a pitcher twice through this sox lineup.  the lineup is so stacked and so good at making adjustments.  dodgers rely on their starters to go deep into games.  dont have the bullets out of the pen.

dont think anyone was beating the sox, but i think the crew couldve at least not complained about it being cold outside.

[WI inferiority Complexes]

The Red Sox are fucking stacked.  The Series doesn't look like it's coming back to Boston.

[GGGG]

I think the Sox would have handled the Brewers pretty easily too. 

[4everwarriors]

Game, set, match, aina?

[WarriorDad]

The Red Sox are unnatural carnal knowledgeing stacked.  The Series doesn't look like it's coming back to Boston.

I think it does go back to Boston.  Their bullpen will let them down in Los Angeles.

[CTWarrior]

I think it does go back to Boston.  Their bullpen will let them down in Los Angeles.

I do, too.  Tonight is the key.  LA has the pitching matchup advantage and get their lefty power bats in against Porcello, who is homer prone.  Dodger Stadium a much better HR park then Fenway, which is an advantage to the Dodgers, who are better HR hitters than the Sox.  Sox defense takes a hit with Martinez in right.  So I figure Dodgers win tonight, split the other two and the series goes back to Boston.

[MUBBau]

Red Sox will sweep

[Lennys Tap]

I think the Sox would have handled the Brewers pretty easily too.

Anything can happen in a short series but I agree. Boston and Houston are the two best teams in baseball by a pretty wide margin. Brewers, Yankees, Dodgers, Indians, Cubs and A's pretty much equal in group two.

[buckchuckler]

Anything can happen in a short series but I agree. Boston and Houston are the two best teams in baseball by a pretty wide margin. Brewers, Yankees, Dodgers, Indians, Cubs and A's pretty much equal in group two.

I was surprised at the ease with which Boston dispatched the Astros. 

[WarriorDad]

I was surprised at the ease with which Boston dispatched the Astros.

That HR call by umpire was a killer for them.  That game goes Astros way and who knows the outcome.

[MU82]

That HR call by umpire was a killer for them.  That game goes Astros way and who knows the outcome.

mmm-hmm

[tower912]

An interesting stat this morning.    Last night's game lasted longer than the combined posted game times of the entire 1939 World Series.     

[Mr. Nielsen]

I went to bed at 1am after the Dodgers tied it. Unbelievable, 18 innings. Game ended at 2:30am. I just watched the homerun on the Fox Sports App.

[buckchuckler]

I went to bed at 1am after the Dodgers tied it. Unbelievable, 18 innings. Game ended at 2:30am. I just watched the homerun on the Fox Sports App.

Eovaldi was a stud.  He did an amazing job yesterday.  Muncy was the only guy that had a good look at him, at which I was amazed because his ABs in the extra inmimg Brewer game were terrible.