This Week In Baseball 9/24-10/1

[Richard 0]

Five runs so far this inning for the Giants. Someone stop the bleeding please.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Phillies winning big tonight. Mets get spanked at home, Padres losing, and Brewers won (Brew Crew have 3 with SD, helps for them to be in a race).

 

Now they gotta take care of a moderately hot Atlanta team.

[snuffbox 0]

Braydon Looper will throw a wild pitch tomorrow for a called strike. No less than three Brewers will be ejected for disagreeing.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

Including Robin Yount.

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

If you'd like to explain why the umps are out to get the Brewers, I'm all ears, or, alternatively, we can just act like put-upon victims, either/or. If anything, you'd think the complaints would be coming from everybody else, that "Bud's team" is the beneficiary of curious calls. Why would the umpires be trying to screw the Brewers over? You guys do sound like White Sox North now. DADGUM IT.

[snuffbox 0]

Nah, the Brewers bullpen have blown the chance to go to the plaoffs. But if you're going to say that the umpires have been making even remotely fair calls against Milwaukee the last couple days, you're either blind or retarded.

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

I'll say they've made wrong calls, and bad calls, but I have reservations about "fair calls."

[Richard 0]

 

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Six days left, tied for the wild card, while the Phils' biggest rival just lost 2/3rds of their starting outfield. For the first time, the Phillies are the (slight) favorites in this race. A 4-2 or better finish will give them their best record since 1993.

 

Ryan Howard is one strikeout away from the single season record. History comes tonight.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

I don't think it's some big MLB conspiracy to make sure the Cubs make the playoffs and not the Brewers...but it does seem like the umpires have a vendetta against Yost and his crew. Maybe because he's called them out on their bad calls a couple times recently.

[snuffbox 0]

That's closer to the truth than a MLB conspiracy, though its accuracy is unknown. The Brewers are probably the last team that MLB would have any conspiracy 'against'.

 

The fact remains that the officiating has been dismal at best the last few game. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if a wild pitch or hit batter is a called strike today.

[Slayer 0]

One of the most popular teams in MLB, or Not Really the Owner's Team

 

Interesting either way

[BX 0]

Nobody is talking about the Braves right now, but if they can manage to sweep the Phillies this week, and the Mets continue their losing ways, we could have a photo finish for the NL East.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Nobody is talking about the Braves right now, but if they can manage to sweep the Phillies this week, and the Mets continue their losing ways, we could have a photo finish for the NL East.

And if your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle. The Braves don't have a prayer in hell of winning the East.

[BX 0]

my Aunt is dead...

[Slayer 0]

If your dead aunt had balls she'd be your dead uncle

[snuffbox 0]

Poor BX.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

I'm sooooooo stealing that aunt balls joke thing.

[vivalaultra 0]

In news that nobody other than myself (on this forum) cares about, Jason Lane was traded to the Padres for cash. Huzzah! I fully support Ed Wade's first move as Houston GM.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

If your dead aunt had balls she'd be your dead uncle

My response would have been that the comparison with the Braves was even more apt, but that's too mean for a moderator.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Worth mentioning that she'd still make a better umpire than C.B. Bucknor.

[the pinjockey 0]

You get the feeling if this is going to be the strike zone, they need to get Moyer out immediately. Save him and let him make the start tomorrow with a new ump.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Hit one foul by a foot? No matter for Jimmy Rollins.

[the pinjockey 0]

At least Bucknor looks consistent. Of course that means this game is going to take 7 hours.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Washington put up a four spot on the Mets at least in the first inning.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I'll hold court in the TSM chatroom if anyone is interested.

[devo 0]

And Reyes leads off his team's first frame with a leadoff homer as well, haha.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

What's the TSM chatroom again?

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

What's the TSM chatroom again?

Link that says Chat in the gray bar up top.

[Steve J. Rogers 0]

And Reyes leads off his team's first frame with a leadoff homer as well, haha.

 

THAT had better be the catalyst for one hell of a final week and postseason!