The Official 2017 MLB Playoffs Thread

[Puget Sound Angel]

Too many obnoxious Dodgers bandwagon fans even here in Seattle.

Go Astros.

[ukyah]

 

this thread is like inception. there are so many levels of trolling going on here. it reminds me of this old far side:

 

 

[eligrba4ever]

In my ideal world, the Dodgers and Astros will both lose the World Series.

In my real world, I have close relatives and former co-workers who are Dodgers fans. So, despite the Dogs' suckage, I want my friends and relatives to have a happy next week or so.

And I dislike these Astros as much as I disliked those Athletics'and Rangers  teams when they were good and in the way of the Angels.

[Troll Daddy]

[Slegnaac]

19 hours ago, Troll Daddy said:

Is Altuve the best all around player in baseball 

I appreciate the way he slides feet first.

[Troll Daddy]

This is what sheer joy looks like

 

[Troll Daddy]

[Lou]

On October 22, 2017 at 11:41 AM, JustATroutFan said:

Labeling someone a "choke artist" based on one bad postseason, I see. Sooooo smart! 

Not labeling someone a choke artist even though his entire body of work in that scenario completely sucked ass is, too. 

[JustATroutFan]

2 minutes ago, Lou said:

Not labeling someone a choke artist even though his entire body of work in that scenario completely sucked ass is, too. 

Okay, I won't label Harper as one just yet. I'll give him a slight pass since he did have a good postseason in 2014. Like I said, I don't label someone as a choker if he is a star and has even two bad postseason. So, two more postseasons, he did good for half of it. So, I guess it's even. But if Harper does bad in the postseason the next time he gets to play in one, I will place the label "choker" next to his name.

[Lou]

On October 20, 2017 at 5:32 PM, fan_since79 said:

Cheapest tickets for Game 1 of the Series are $950 on StubHub, and that's for upper deck. Field Box are as much as $12,000 a seat.

Dugout Club behind home plate at the Latrine are going for $21,500, includes all-you-can-eat buffet.

Insane.

Not too bad. Only 10% more than the regular season.

[Lou]

On October 20, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Blarg said:

All the faux animosity here is pretty ridiculous. Saying you'd rather the East Coast Yankees won instead of your own West coast representative just plays into the Yankees getting non stop hand jobs by the media. 

It's not faux by any stretch of the imagination. I fucking hate the dodgers every bit as much as I hate southern cal and female comedians.

[daygloman]

Just saw this...

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/astros-reddick-not-fond-of-dodgers-fans-offers-world-series-bulletin-board-material/?linkId=43842802

[m0nkey]

21 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

Okay, I won't label Harper as one just yet. I'll give him a slight pass since he did have a good postseason in 2014. Like I said, I don't label someone as a choker if he is a star and has even two bad postseason. So, two more postseasons, he did good for half of it. So, I guess it's even. But if Harper does bad in the postseason the next time he gets to play in one, I will place the label "choker" next to his name.

Bryce Harper was 19 years old in his first playoff series in which he went 3-23 with a .130/.130/.391/.522 line (you know, comparable to trout's stellar 2014 series).  

But in game 5 when his team needed him the most, he went 2-5 with a rbi triple and a solo home run.  Clutch!!

[JustATroutFan]

2 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Bryce Harper was 19 years old in his first playoff series in which he went 3-23 with a .130/.130/.391/.522 line (you know, comparable to trout's stellar 2014 series).  

But in game 5 when his team needed him the most, he went 2-5 with a rbi triple and a solo home run.  Clutch!!

If Harper has a bad postseason his next time out, he'll deserve the label of a "postseason choker". I'm not going to pick out games in which he does well, if any. Just going by overall slash line.

[Lou]

26 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

Okay, I won't label Harper as one just yet. I'll give him a slight pass since he did have a good postseason in 2014. Like I said, I don't label someone as a choker if he is a star and has even two bad postseason. So, two more postseasons, he did good for half of it. So, I guess it's even. But if Harper does bad in the postseason the next time he gets to play in one, I will place the label "choker" next to his name.

 

Five days ago I posted this: 

On October 18, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Lou said:

Harper has had a OPS of higher than .725 in three of his four postseasons. That may not seem too high,  but a player's OPS number tends to suffer in the postseason.

Trout had 15 PAs in his only playoff appearance. Care to guess how many players with more than 15 PAs this year have an OPS of higher than .725?

19.

That's a total of  19 players on 10 teams.

Trout's OPS was 600

 

Your response:

On October 18, 2017 at 9:09 AM, JustATroutFan said:

That is true because a hitter gets to face good pitchers in most of their plate appearances in the postseason. 

 

So you obviously realize that an OPS in the postseason in the .700s isn't terrible, and yet, you continue on your warpath to discredit every other player because Trout was beyond awful. 

For those out there who are wondering what a troll looks like . . . 

[JustATroutFan]

Just now, Lou said:

 

Five days ago I posted this: 

 

Your response:

 

So you obviously realize that an OPS in the postseason in the .700s isn't terrible, and yet, you continue on your warpath to discredit every other player because Trout was beyond awful. 

For those out there who are wondering what a troll looks like . . . 

It doesn't help that they get to face more good pitchers but a .700 OPS is still not good, even if it's better than a .600 OPS. I never said Trout wasn't horrible in his lone postseason, did I? Hell no!

[Lou]

Care to guess how many players in 2017 with as many as Harper's 25 ABs had a postseason ops higher than his? 

Edited October 23, 2017 by Lou

[JustATroutFan]

7 minutes ago, Lou said:

Care to guess how many players in 2017 with as many as Harper's 25 ABs had a postseason ops higher than his? 

Your point?

[m0nkey]

2 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

Your point?

Are they all chokers? Do they all not show up in the post season?

 

Or is offense at a premium in the playoffs

[JustATroutFan]

3 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Are they all chokers? Do they all not show up in the post season?

 

Or is offense at a premium in the playoffs

Would have to check on how they did in their other postseasons, not just this one, if they played in other postseasons before. One bad postseason or two doesn't make a player a "choker". No one is saying that pitching in the postseason is not better than pitching in the regular season. 

[Lou]

19 hours ago, Troll Daddy said:

This is what sheer joy looks like

 

 

Been there: 

 

Did this:

 

 

[m0nkey]

29 minutes ago, Lou said:

Care to guess how many players in 2017 with as many as Harper's 25 ABs had a postseason ops higher than his? 

Why do we engage in these conversations if we know how they turn out?

[Lou]

9 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Why do we engage in these conversations if we know how they turn out?

To make the dumb look dumber? 

and pure boredom. 

 

[Angel Oracle]

Must keep the Dogs WS title drought going!

[Puget Sound Angel]

7 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Must keep the Dogs WS title drought going!

Absolutely. It p!sses me off they even made it to the Series. Go Astros