Gameday Thread: World Series 2021 Astros/Braves

[HeavenlyHalos]

Still three innings left and a dumb fuck decision to pull your dominating starter. That seems like a kind of cursed-ahead possibility. 

[HanfordGuy]

 

[HanfordGuy]

 

[AngelsLakersFan]

5 minutes ago, HanfordGuy said:

Can we taco bout it?

I’ve just been informed that the taco was earned in game one.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Shocker, take him out and they immediately get a hit (yes, I still can't get past that)

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, HeavenlyHalos said:

Shocker, take him out and they immediately get a hit (yes, I still can't get past that)

O noes!!!!  A single when you're up 7-0 in the 7th!!!!

[fan_since79]

11 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

Still three innings left and a dumb fuck decision to pull your dominating starter. That seems like a kind of cursed-ahead possibility. 

That's a Maddon move.

[HeavenlyHalos]

1 minute ago, jsnpritchett said:

O noes!!!!  A single when you're up 7-0 in the 7th!!!!

Haha, just saying, seemed inevitable the first batter would get a hit

[DMVol]

1 minute ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

Shocker, take him out and they immediately get a hit (yes, I still can't get past that)

Why take him out after 75 pitches…..Managers overthink everything….

[HanfordGuy]

6 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I’ve just been informed that the taco was earned in game one.

But there could’ve been two. One taco is just a snack…but two…two tacos are a meal.

[Angel Oracle]

Fried and Matzek dealing 

Dusty lamenting yet another near miss 

[fan_since79]

Cheaters losing makes this season slightly more tolerable.

[Revad]

10 minutes ago, HanfordGuy said:

But there could’ve been two. One taco is just a snack…but two…two tacos are a meal.

Eating tacos is one of my favorite things, cause then I don’t feel so bad.

[HanfordGuy]

 

[cysomeawfulpitcher]

2 more outs!

[Revad]

Congrats to the Braves!

[HanfordGuy]

Braves win!!!

[jsnpritchett]

YES!!!  Great to see the Braves win again!  It's been a long time coming.  I was born a Braves fan, then added the Angels as my AL team in 1981.   My mom still lives in the house I grew up in, and on one wall in my old room, a signed pic of Dale Murphy hangs right between a signed pic of Reggie Jackson's 500th HR and a signed pic of Don Sutton's 300th win.  On another wall is a "Wallyworld" poster from 1986 (Joyner was born in Stone Mountain, GA, so he bridged the two worlds of Georgia and the Angels).

My first in-person major league game was this one from 1986:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL198607060.shtml

Bob Horner hit 4 HR (and Andres Galarraga got beaned in the head so hard that you could clearly hear the echo from our seats way up in the nosebleed section). 

And I remember skipping school with some high school friends in 1991 to go to a rally for the Braves when they got into the World Series for the first time since the move from Milwaukee.

Maybe one day before I die, the Angels will get back to a sustained level of success--but in the meantime, I'm a happy guy tonight.

[daygloman]

Well, that's about it.

Good for the Braves.

Astros..... Got shut out too! Mmmmm MMMMMMMM mmmmm!

Long time until March. 

I hope the Halos pick up pitching. 

Go Halos!

 

[fan_since79]

Bye Bye Cheaters!!

Yes!!!!

[cysomeawfulpitcher]

Love the tears of cheaters.

[AngelsFaninGA]

[Angel Oracle]

BYE CHEATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HanfordGuy]

[beatlesrule]

The Astros being shutout at home to lose the World Series is even better!