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Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:40 am
Well Congrats Jeep. Your team hit the crap out of the ball against our best guys.
I knew we were in trouble when you started the game with a 1-5 bpsi and then put a 3 spot on the board, followed by Lester striking out the side.
Then the second started with three straight singles off of Hendricks' card including back-to-back 6-9 with a RHB it's a K with a LHB. When Goeddel, (followed by Detwiler) is in in the with no outs in the second, you KNOW you're going to lose. It got ugly fast. We left 10 on base, but when you give up 16 it doesn't matter much.
Comes down to this for us. Our three best pitchers stunk it up, Hendricks (13.50 ERA) Kimbrel (14.71), Blanton (9.52) were just awful. Your best guys have to be good. The two BS just killed us, and not just BS, but 4 run BS's. Jeep's offense, which was middle of the pack during the regular season posted a 7.47 ERA on us hitting .309 in the process. We were almost as good against him, (5.33 and .292) but the blown saves were the key, that and Hendricks pitching like a .50 bum.
Such is a short series in SOM. Well, baseball really.
Unfortunately our cold streak continues in the playoffs.
Once again having the best record means zip for us. We've had the best record in five of the last seven NLDs (and made the playoffs one other time) and only have one title to go with it. In fact, we've only gotten out of the first round twice including the title season with four failures. 
Gosh, actually looking back, we're one for our last 10 NLD appearances! 
And, when having the best record, we're 1-9. 
I guess this is how Silver felt, he made 20 playoffs and only won 3. Oh well, at least we will pick 10th in next year's NLD start up.
Speaking of the next NLD, here's the draft order (except for 11-12)
East
Stoney18 68
gbrookes 75
Spider 67 76
doug_tucker10 77
Central
dalekeener 79
nythawk129921 81
BigAlric 82
superflymacdaddyjuice 82
West
FALCON29 85
joethejet 93
Jeep, you have a good squad and you beat me pretty much without Herrmann and without Cargo for 3 games so that says something for your depth. We couldn't get to Lester really in either game and we were pretty good v LHP. That was pretty key as you pointed out.
Good luck to Semper and Jeep. May the best team win.
I knew we were in trouble when you started the game with a 1-5 bpsi and then put a 3 spot on the board, followed by Lester striking out the side.
Then the second started with three straight singles off of Hendricks' card including back-to-back 6-9 with a RHB it's a K with a LHB. When Goeddel, (followed by Detwiler) is in in the with no outs in the second, you KNOW you're going to lose. It got ugly fast. We left 10 on base, but when you give up 16 it doesn't matter much.
Comes down to this for us. Our three best pitchers stunk it up, Hendricks (13.50 ERA) Kimbrel (14.71), Blanton (9.52) were just awful. Your best guys have to be good. The two BS just killed us, and not just BS, but 4 run BS's. Jeep's offense, which was middle of the pack during the regular season posted a 7.47 ERA on us hitting .309 in the process. We were almost as good against him, (5.33 and .292) but the blown saves were the key, that and Hendricks pitching like a .50 bum.
Such is a short series in SOM. Well, baseball really.
Unfortunately our cold streak continues in the playoffs.
Once again having the best record means zip for us. We've had the best record in five of the last seven NLDs (and made the playoffs one other time) and only have one title to go with it. In fact, we've only gotten out of the first round twice including the title season with four failures. Gosh, actually looking back, we're one for our last 10 NLD appearances! And, when having the best record, we're 1-9. I guess this is how Silver felt, he made 20 playoffs and only won 3. Oh well, at least we will pick 10th in next year's NLD start up.Speaking of the next NLD, here's the draft order (except for 11-12)
East
Stoney18 68
gbrookes 75
Spider 67 76
doug_tucker10 77
Central
dalekeener 79
nythawk129921 81
BigAlric 82
superflymacdaddyjuice 82
West
FALCON29 85
joethejet 93
Jeep, you have a good squad and you beat me pretty much without Herrmann and without Cargo for 3 games so that says something for your depth. We couldn't get to Lester really in either game and we were pretty good v LHP. That was pretty key as you pointed out.
Good luck to Semper and Jeep. May the best team win.
Last edited by joethejet on Fri Dec 08, 2017 3:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
