MLB Playoffs (2 Viewers)

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FOR LIFE!!!!!

also, **** the Astros
Oye, you know what's strange and a bit ironic about that 1983 Atlanta Braves team photo? That was one year removed from the famous, almost legendary 1982 Braves season where Atlanta won the NL West for the first time in 13 years, advanced to the NLCS where they held their own pretty well against a loaded, HOF-laden St. Louis Cardinals team that IMHO, always get overlooked for what they accomplished throughout the 80s. Won a WS in 1982, made 2 more WS appearances(1985 and 87) and lost both in close 7-game series.

Still, in 1983 IIRC, Braves lost the NL West division race to LA Dodgers by two games and it was really their last legitimate postseason run for the rest of 1980s until those great Bobby Cox Braves dynasty teams from 1991-2005.

What's strange through, is that despite all the success, accolades, HOF players, coaches, pitchers, managers, GMs Atlanta's had over the past 3 decades now, and most of the current Atlanta population wasn't born yet or too young to remember, the 1982 team still retains a large amount of curiosity, interest in it because unlike the highly talented, hugely successful teams that succeeded it, it seems like an pleasant outlier, a landmark, one-in-a-million run that seemed improbable.

Because unlike now, Atlanta in the early 80s wasnt the New York of the South yet. It's best sports teams were the Hawks and Falcons sometimes but they always choked enormously in critical moments terribly in postseason(1980 NFC Div. Round loss to Dallas at home, 1982 1st round playoff road loss to Vikings where Minnesota scored the go-ahead TD with less than 2:00 less in a game Falcons had dominated). Atlanta's population was more closer to what Nashville's is now, it was perceived as geographically isolated compared to Washington D.C., it didn't have the glitz, excitement or tropical paradise of a Miami. It was seen by outside observers as a city on the rise, a city of enormous potential but what it was capable of rising to and how realistic and how long would there window of potential last?
 
Braves in playoffs so far.

6-0.

58 innings pitched.
Have allowed runs in 4 of those innings...........and 54 shutout innings.

1. Won 1-0 (13 innings)
2. Won 5-0
3. Won 9-5
4. Won 2-0
5. Won 7-0
6. Won 5-1

The three starters are Fried (2nd year), Anderson (rookie), Wright (rookie).

It's truly fascinating.
 
Looked like the Braves dominating pitching was going to continue.....leading 7-0 headed to the 7th. Ian Anderson continuing his shutout streak.

But these Dodgers are too tough, you just knew they would break through at some point.

Braves hold on for an 8-7 win, the last out coming with the tying run 90 feet away.
 
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It's been over 20 years since the Braves appeared in a World Series, our world has radically changed and been fundamentally altered in so many significant ways, much of it not for the better.
 
BTW, I am hoping for the Astros to win the whole thing out of spite. Would do two things:

1. Somebody besides the Red Sox and their insufferable fans would have come back from an 0-3 deficit to win a series.

2. Almost all of the sanctimonious caterwauling about the Astros cheating in 2017 would be muffled. Baseball has been filled with getting an edge, more than any other major sport except maybe horse racing, since 1876, and all of a sudden everbody's all high and mighty. ***** please.
 
BTW, I am hoping for the Astros to win the whole thing out of spite. Would do two things:

1. Somebody besides the Red Sox and their insufferable fans would have come back from an 0-3 deficit to win a series.

2. Almost all of the sanctimonious caterwauling about the Astros cheating in 2017 would be muffled. Baseball has been filled with getting an edge, more than any other major sport except maybe horse racing, since 1876, and all of a sudden everbody's all high and mighty. ***** please.

Yeah, not that it absolves the Astros' shenanigans, but baseball teams and players have been doing not so kosher stuff for as long as the sport has been around. Pine tar on bats, scuffing baseballs, pitchers and catchers with crap on their gloves and caps, and a whole litany of other things. Sign stealing has been common practice for a long time. Hell, we stole signs when I played baseball in HS. Granted using technology is a bit different than stealing signs when you're a runner on base.

The Astros winning the WS after coming back from 0-3 would just be so 2020.
 
Looks like WS might be Ray's vs Braves. This is going to be equivalent of a ballroom dance where there are a bunch of dudes on the dance floor. The lady who appears after quite some time is rather homely and no one wishes to dance with her.
 
Looks like WS might be Ray's vs Braves. This is going to be equivalent of a ballroom dance where there are a bunch of dudes on the dance floor. The lady who appears after quite some time is rather homely and no one wishes to dance with her.

That's.....probably not actually a lady.
 
7-2 Astros B8, barring a meltdown by their bullpen we will have a game 7 tomorrow night. No one outside of this fan base saw it coming and I completely love it
 
Minter with 7 strikeouts in 3 IP. Damn.
 

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