Phillies/Dodgers just opened o7.5 -115 (FD). -120 BOL
Glasnow won’t go long and it’s even more Dodgers bullpen.
Dodgers offense will come around.
I’ll gather supporting data later.
Yamamoto was a must win for Dodgers rotation. Shakes head
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Phillies/Dodgers just opened o7.5 -115 (FD). -120 BOL
Glasnow won’t go long and it’s even more Dodgers bullpen.
Dodgers offense will come around.
I’ll gather supporting data later.
Yamamoto was a must win for Dodgers rotation. Shakes head
Looks like that video was from the September 30 game against the Reds.
I know Sanlmar likes to picture that the imagery depicted is my experience at the stadium, but more the most part it's not.
I'm in the area with the whites, Asians, and middle-class Hispanics. No ghetto vibe at all. Closest I get to such a thing is walking to and from the parking lot, or sometimes in the hallways if I go far enough toward the outfield in search of a certain food outlet.
It's a different world in the bleachers and outfield seats.
I'm considering tomorrow's game.
When I used to play poker online all day, I would have friends sit with me sometimes and I'd tell them what my fish opponents were thinking. I'd say things like, "He's about to tilt", "He thinks I'm a gambler like him and wants to keep raising me", "He's afraid of me", "He's always going to call me down", "He's about to get up and leave because he's satisfied that he's won."
In fact, there was a running joke I did on the Interpoker network where I adapted the then-modern Bush terror threat level (green, yellow, orange, red). The "threat level" in this context was the threat of the one megafish leaving the game. I used to type it in chat, and all the regulars understood, but the fish didn't. People were amazed at how accurate I was. Nearly every time I said "RED", he left. Nearly every time I gave it "GREEN" or "YELLOW", he would stay until I'd upgrade the threat level. I was nothing special against other pros, but the tracking sites always showed me #1 in BB/100 against the fish. My greatest poker talent was being able to think exactly like them.
A much less lucrative version of this is the secondary baseball ticket market. At least with the Dodgers, it's second nature to me to have a feel for what the average ticket buyer/seller thinks, and how he's going to react. As the Dodgers were behind 8-1 but trying to mount a 9th inning comeback, I said out loud, "I'd rather they make a historic comeback here, but if that can't happen, I'd rather they just lose 8-1. I need a blowout loss for the proper demoralization to happen to where the secondary market tickets crash."
Indeed, they went down 8-2, and the ticket prices are falling.
I'm not gonna get my $109 like last game (I might not even get $218), but keep in mind that people were paying $500 tonight for the seats I occupied last week for $109. Now we are looking at the best deal being around $260. That's still a bit high for the NLDS, but I'm counting on more 8th inning hangovers to surface over the next 12 hours or so. If it falls to a level of my liking, I'll go, even though it's at that weird 3pm time. Weather is nice in LA (high 78) so that part will be fine.
We shall see.
Well, I'm going. I got really good seats so I paid $228 each after fees.
Even better seats than last week. Some guy panic sold. There's two seats next to us for sale which are massively overpriced, so I hope they stay that way.
Glasnow please be good for one game.
I bought the empty seats next to you and will gift them to Mexican gangbangers so you get the Dodgers experienceQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Have a good time! Playoff baseball is the best
I feel cheated out of a classic Sanlmar, one last postseason Kershaw post in this thread. Just doesn’t seem right to be deprived of that.
Time for you to admit I have always been right about playoff Kershaw?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Clayton was good this year in the regular season. He has never The Guy under the bright October playoff lights. He doesn’t thrive the way others do like your Kike, Bumgarner, Big Papi.
He came out and pitched nervous. He didn’t want to pitch in the zone and when he did he got tattoo’d. At this point there is prolly a ton of PTSD to go along with diminished skill. The opponents are better. It’s only fair to say that. But he was never the playoff answer and he wasn’t the the answer last night. I have no idea what the front office and Roberts were thinking.
You see Kershaw the way new parents see their baby. “Isn’t he beautiful?” I see a small ugly Winston Churchill. I’ll tell the parents the kid is cute but I won’t lie to you about Clayton.
You will never see Kershaw pitch again.
What an ugly ending. I almost didn’t want to speak ill of the dead but Sheesfaced goaded me into it.
Ohtani has been more a curiousity than the GOAT so far. He’s pressing. He admitted before his first outing pitching that he was anxious.
Normally Shohei has huge confidence and is icy calm. It was ALWAYS absolutely fascinating to watch his facial expressions and such this year. Until now.
Hmmm
You made me actually laugh Sheesfaced. Thanks!
Prize FA signing Tanner Scott basically told by the Dodgers, "go ahead and get that mole removed now, don't worry, we don't need ya"
Quote:
Originally Posted by SanlmarTime for you to admit I have always been right about playoff Kershaw?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Clayton was good this year in the regular season. He has never The Guy under the bright October playoff lights. He doesn’t thrive the way others do like your Kike, Bumgarner, Big Papi.
He came out and pitched nervous. He didn’t want to pitch in the zone and when he did he got tattoo’d. At this point there is prolly a ton of PTSD to go along with diminished skill. The opponents are better. It’s only fair to say that. But he was never the playoff answer and he wasn’t the the answer last night. I have no idea what the front office and Roberts were thinking.
You see Kershaw the way new parents see their baby. “Isn’t he beautiful?” I see a small ugly Winston Churchill. I’ll tell the parents the kid is cute but I won’t lie to you about Clayton.
You will never see Kershaw pitch again.
What an ugly ending. I almost didn’t want to speak ill of the dead but Sheesfaced goaded me into it.
All sports and all playoffs are about imposing your will on your opponent. I always want borderline criminals when the lights get bright. At minimum a little edge.
Think 80s Canes type. I recall seeing Josh Beckett getting arrested for beating up a country singer a few years ago. That’s the guy I want with the ball in big spot.
For the Jays ~275 usd gets you in the door to GA seats (aka you don't even have a seat)
100 levels are $500-1000 USD per ticket.
I tried to get in the queue today didn't even come close to catching a sniff of face value prices.
Hoping one day San can add Vladdy to the clutch playoff performers list...or Clement...or Varsho .....or Yesavage
Right now (well, 90 min ago)
How much for a field view room at the Marriott?Quote:
Originally Posted by simpdog
There are funny stories about couples putting on a better performance than the Jays back in the day
Kike is Mr October. What an at bat in the 7th
See what Ohtani does with 2 on
todge needs to fight a mexican in the concourse for vibes
What a way to lose…oof
survive and advance baby
Never in doubt.
After the bobble even if the throw to home plate is on target seems it would have been too late. Seems once the bobble happens the Phillies pitcher has to go to first.
Not a great night for Philadelphia sports I will say.
The play was at first but Kerkering was too panicked after missing his first swipe at picking up the pitch.
Dodgers got super lucky. They seemed to be perpetually 0-2 or 1-2 in the count.
Pages has become an automatic out. He's pressing far more than Shohei, who is also pressing. I knew he was going to choke in that spot in the 11th. The final play was scored a fielders choice, but oddly no error. Anyway, I actually called into Dodger Talk for the first time in over a decade, just to state that Pages is in his own head and shouldn't be playing. The obnoxious host tried to argue with me that "he hit 25 (actually 27) HR in the regular season", as if that matters here. The only good point he raised was that the Dodgers might have had nobody to play OF if they pinch hit for Pages. I suggested Rojas, but he said Rojas can't play OF. Had I been thinking on my feet, I could have said that Mookie could've gone to OF and Rojas could've gone to SS. That was the correct answer. I was driving at the same time so I couldn't fully dedicate myself to the call.
But we went back to arguing about Pages, and he said, "Look, Pages won the game for us, can't you just enjoy that?" I responded, "Actually the Phillies won the game for us."
Sasaki was awesome. What a fortunate bit of timing for the Dodgers. Not only is Sasaki feeling physically better and now confident, but the league has barely seen him, and thus isn't used to his nonstandard windup.