Evan Longoria Is Friggin' Insane, or Rays Beat Yanks 8-7 And Advanced To Playoffs
by Steve Slowinski on Sep 29, 2011 6:01 AM EDT
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We just witnessed history, folks. This is one of those nights that you remember forever, and that you end up telling your kids about one day. This is baseball at its finest, the grace note on a season that very few of us thought would end in the playoffs. It was one of the best days of baseball I've ever witnessed, and it was easily one of the most epic moments in franchise history. There's Game 7 of the 2008 ALCS....and then there's this. Simply, simply amazing.
The night didn't start off so well for the Rays, though, as David Price started the game off by handing the Yankees a 1-0 lead in the first. This run should have never scored; Ben Zobrist missed a routine groundball that would have been the third out of the inning, but instead, a run came around to score on the play. Price threw 30 pitches overall in the first, and you could tell that he didn't have his best stuff.
After the Rays stranded two runners in the bottom of the first -- this would be an ongoing saga throughout the game -- Price got right back to work letting up runs and letting the Yanks roll over him. He allowed a double, single and a walk, loading the bases with only one out. And then Mark Teixeira took care of business, sitting on Price's fastball (which was about all he threw on the evening) and knocking it to Kingdom Come. 5-0, Yanks...but the game wouldn't end that way. Not even close.
The Yankees tacked on two more runs in the fourth and fifth off two more home runs (Teixeira again, and then Andruw Jones), while the Rays offense was stymied and only managed two hits through the first seven innings of the game. It's not as if the Yanks were necessarily trying hard; they were rotating through a new pitcher every inning (or close to it), and they brought in many of their less-than-ideal bullpen arms. But still, the Rays' LOLfense couldn't seem to buy a hit, and the Rays entered the eighth inning down by seven runs and -- as Boston was beating Baltimore 3-2 at the time -- facing the distinct possibility of ending their season.
And then....It Happened. The Rays strung together an improbable rally in the bottom of the eighth, scoring six runs thanks to some poor pitching and timely hitting. Seam Fuld and Sean Rodriguez got RBIs for walking and being hit by a pitch, B.J. Upton hit a sacrifice fly, and Evan Longoria sealed the deal with a 3-run home run to bring the Rays within one run.
But when the bottom of the ninth inning opened, things didn't seem quite so optimistic. The Sox were still ahead of the Orioles by one run -- the game was stuck in a rain delay -- and the Rays had their first two hitters go down in order. So with two outs, Joe Maddon decides to pinch hit for Sam Fuld with Dan Johnson.
...Let that sink in for a bit first. The Rays were down to possibly they final out of the season, and Maddon was entrusting it to a batter that hit .108 in his 90 PA stint with the Rays earlier in the season. He'd lost the starting first base job to Casey Kotchman, and put up mediocre numbers in Triple-A this season. Sure, he had gotten big hits for the Rays in the past -- two of them, in fact -- but this seemed to be asking a lot of Johnson.
Man, I love being proved wrong. Johnson took Cory "Sleeper Cell" Wade deep in what was probably the most dramatic home run in Rays' franchise history, tying the game up and forcing extra innings.And from there, the rest was academic. It took some time for the Rays to finally put the Yankees away, but they did thanks to another home run from Evan Longoria in the 12th inning. Up in Baltimore, the Orioles handed the Red Sox their first loss of the season after entering the ninth inning with a lead. With the Rays' win and Boston's loss, that means the 2011 Rays are your AL Wild Card champs.
What a roller coaster ride. What an experience. I can't wait for playoff baseball, but I also don't think anything can come quite as close to perfection as this game. The Rays were nine games out in the beginning of September, but they played .630 ball down the stretch against primarily really good teams: seven against the Yankees, seven against the Red Sox, and four against the Rangers.
The Rays now face many different questions, like who they start in Game One of the ALDS. They don't have much time to reach a decision, as the first game against the Texas Rangers is scheduled for Friday.
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thank fucking god!
Amazon rays avenue is rooting for you!!!! Fuck the Yanks, sawx, bravos, cards, Phils, and fuck those rangers. I’ve rooted hard for you guys in 08 and 10 but this year its mother fucking happening.
by MetsKnicksRutgers on Sep 29, 2011 6:16 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
damnit
Amazin rays avenue
by MetsKnicksRutgers on Sep 29, 2011 6:17 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Cant believe i didnt stay up for this :(
Game started at 12.10am local time for me and i have a big day today at work and had to be up at 5am!
Last night i woke up at about 2am and saw the score was 6-0 abd boston were up 3-2…I went back to sleep.
this morning, in bed i went through the rays box inning by inning…i couldnt believe it when i got to the 8th, then 9th, then 12th!!! Great at least we have a 1 game decider…then i checked the boston result and jumped up! Girlfriend was a bit suprised and angry at me for waking her on her day off!
wish i would have watching it now :(
It's now 6:05 a.m. local time for me.
And I have slept not a moment. Still too amped.
A DRaysBay and FanGraphs writer from Cubs Stats and Twitter @BradleyWoodrum
Was thinking that reading the comments
I am amped just watching highlights and reading twitter! It was so much fun going back over my twitter feed this morning with hindsight!
by OneTonneBaby on Sep 29, 2011 7:31 AM EDT up reply actions
it was an epic thread.
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
I had to drink half a bottle of nyquil and a big shot of bourbon just to calm down...
…enough to sleep.
Formerly known as Randall W. Spetman.
by CornNole on Sep 29, 2011 11:14 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Can i just say props to the bullepen as well!
Think they went 6.1 scoreless minus Cruz. Team effort!
Brandon Gomes and Jake McGee were legit tonight.
McGee hit some trouble but — quite literally — powered through it.
A DRaysBay and FanGraphs writer from Cubs Stats and Twitter @BradleyWoodrum
I'm waiting on my man crush love affair with Gomes to bite me in the ass
but for now I’m gonna keep praising him, this kid for some reason is a late inning clutch machine.
his september numbers are very sexy
he alone is way more than I could have expected in return for Bartlett.
Heres to hopinh my £2 bet for a brewers - rays WS holds up!
Got about 125/1 at the start of the year, if i did it sep 1st i reckon i could have got 500/1!!!
Also, my girlfriend has booked to go to some camping place from 22nd oct onwards….just sayin..
Today's a day of celebration and congratulation
No stats, no platoon splits, no charts, no graphs
Today is what makes all the ups and downs of a 7 month grind all worth it
Congrats to the Rays, their FO, coaches, players fans and this site for keeping us the readers always up to the minute with everything Rays
Let’s relax and enjoy the day, and worry about TEX tomorrow
Go Rays
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by sternfan1 on Sep 29, 2011 7:01 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
Okay sterny I know you don't like numbers as much as most of us
But here are some charts I think you can enjoy
and best of all
by benderbrodriguez on Sep 29, 2011 8:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Those aren't charts. That is art.
@RealNolenBailey
by Hatfield on Sep 29, 2011 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That last chart is just...
…the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
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by CornNole on Sep 29, 2011 11:17 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
but we didnt finish fourth!?!?
Do you realize Betty White is a milf for me? Ouch
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by sternfan1 on Sep 3, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
by wtbudlight on Sep 29, 2011 9:37 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
did my comment get hidden?!?
Do you realize Betty White is a milf for me? Ouch
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by sternfan1 on Sep 3, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
by wtbudlight on Sep 29, 2011 9:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Rolled for the first time last night when I saw both walk offs happen. It was pretty intense
Dipper '11
Go college!
(You’re going to wash out if you keep doing shit like that.)
Stick to the green, man.
I'll make out with a guy if he knocks it in
by Jason Collette on Jun 11, 2011 9:00 PM CDT
(Kotchman knocked it in)
it's ok, he can live off momma's allowance
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Shut up diaper.
i support casual racism
by Boddington on Sep 19, 2011 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I literally wish I had killed myself on the train station after I got laid off
by Sean O on Sep 28, 2011 7:49 PM PDT
I want a goddamned criminal investigation.
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USG
by Ben Buchanan on Sep 28, 2011 7:48 PM PDT
by internet commenter on Sep 29, 2011 7:42 AM EDT up reply actions
I have no idea how that can be topped.
Dan effing Johnson? Are you kidding me? One swing away from end of season and he dings the foul pole.
Crawford, who complained and moaned and wanted to keep us out of the playoffs flubs the last catch and cant even make a throw home. Couldnt have happened to a better guy
And Longo.
Maybe the best hour or so of sports ever. Meltdown followed by redemption.
As you can always expect come from behind victory is when you least expect it.
Was thinking that literally THE ONLY way it could have been better
Is if Boston were at Fenway.
by OneTonneBaby on Sep 29, 2011 7:34 AM EDT up reply actions
I dunno. I watched the 9th inning of the Orioles game
and they were dancing in the stands when they heard the Rays won it. It was pretty awesome.
A DRaysBay and FanGraphs writer from Cubs Stats and Twitter @BradleyWoodrum
yeah it did but not by much
i think the game at camden finished and then longoria swung and missed, took and ball, fouled one off and then lined one over the wall…
by OneTonneBaby on Sep 29, 2011 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Longoria was on deck when it happened
He claims he was in the batters box, but I don’t think that is right
My memory's a bit sketchy from last night but he did make note of him seeing what was going on from the on-deck circle during the post-game interview.
he actually corrected Todd Kalas who placed him in the batter’s box with the question.
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
The roar of the crowd happened right as Beej took his first swing and miss. Looked like it messed with his swing.
Then the scoreboard updated right as Longo was about to step in.
The crowd roared before they updated the scoreboard.
I felt like I was in that cell phone commercial as the last guy to get the download.
I don't think it dinged the pole.
Looked like it hit a fan in the groin. There are close-ups and slo-mo replays in another thread.
Not really a groin shot.
i support casual racism
by Boddington on Sep 19, 2011 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I literally wish I had killed myself on the train station after I got laid off
by Sean O on Sep 28, 2011 7:49 PM PDT
I want a goddamned criminal investigation.
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USG
by Ben Buchanan on Sep 28, 2011 7:48 PM PDT
by internet commenter on Sep 29, 2011 7:51 AM EDT up reply actions
This would be an excellent day for my kids to ask for something unreasonable and/or confess to some crime
Daddy is very happy and very tired. I’ll go along with just about anything right now.
Go Rays!
No kidding!
If you want to keep guns out of the hands of thugs, just attach job applications to them
sure, get on it dipper
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
A non-celebratory question:
Was the site under attack last night or something? Or was it my computer and/or Verizon just jerking me over? I couldn’t get logged in. And then when I finally did, I couldn’t post anything.
Network wide
But it seemed rekated to Chrome. Once I popped over to Firefox, it worked fine
I'm not a fanboy, I'm a _______
by Jason Collette on Sep 29, 2011 8:37 AM EDT up reply actions
I think this forum could really, really benefit from some comment paging capability.
Several hundred comments on one page just isn’t efficient or manageable.
+1
Vroom vroom party starter
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by Imperialism32 on Sep 29, 2011 9:08 AM EDT up reply actions
I have chrome
It was the problem, apparently.
by nomoredevil on Sep 29, 2011 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
yeah randomly my chrome just wont allow navigation of sbn sites
cant post comments, use z to go through the thread, or even use the top bar
Also, losing he bat we thought we needed (Manny) and
of course the huge payroll difference.
3 outta 4 years. Freaking unreal
As you can always expect come from behind victory is when you least expect it.
This for sure
If you want to keep guns out of the hands of thugs, just attach job applications to them
Anybody happen to catch that MIN/KC game last night?
by Passionate Apathy on Sep 29, 2011 8:11 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 3 recs
I couldn't stay up. 10th inning I went to bed and trusted to Fate
I thank you Fate. Also Longo.
Time to shamelessly plug my book and short story!
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"Prepare yourself, you know it's a must, you've gotta have a friend in Jesus." -Norm Greenbaum
How about BA calling Longo's HR
“These situations are what Evan Longoria is made for” Boom. 3 run HR.
As you can always expect come from behind victory is when you least expect it.
MLB.com headline: "Evan Help Us"
"Prepare yourself, you know it's a must, you've gotta have a friend in Jesus." -Norm Greenbaum
What a Night
How Carl Crawford doesn’t make that catch, the noodle arm throw to the plate, Reimold crossing the plate and the ump waving him safe, the beating that Andino took as Papelbon put his head down and walked off the field, the look of utter disbelief by the Sox as the O’s charged the field as if THEY had just clinched the pennant, the eruption of applause at the Trop when the Sox game was posted as Final, a brief moment of dead air after the applause settles only to erupt again in a frenzy when Longo hits the walk off.
Post Game Interview with Longo/Johnson/Damon, especially Damon, were absolutley fantastic.
Adrenalin rushing until past 1:30 in the morning.
Finally fall asleep, wake up, and immediately begin continuing with elation tweets.
I am going to crash so hard today.
My wife forwarded a blogger's comment to be pointing out that the wall in the LF corner, that Long's homer snake over
was lowered a couple of years ago to allow Carl Crawford to use his speed to make more catches.
Love love LOVE the Os celebrating like THEY just made the playoffs
Baseball … there’s just nothing else like it.
Nice,,
I'm not a fanboy, I'm a _______
by Jason Collette on Sep 29, 2011 8:36 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Wait, that's real!
At first I thought this was a gag, but I just confirmed it on Newseum.
I can’t believe the Herald did that!
"Prepare yourself, you know it's a must, you've gotta have a friend in Jesus." -Norm Greenbaum
BEST FRONT PAGE EVER!
"Prepare yourself, you know it's a must, you've gotta have a friend in Jesus." -Norm Greenbaum
It was good to hear Andrew Friedman speak after the game and even he had a little sf1 in him,
when he confessed at 7-0 he started paying closer attention to the Sox-O’s game
What a night
Go Rays
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by sternfan1 on Sep 29, 2011 8:38 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
You and Friedman had to be the only two paying attention to the Sox-O's game.
I didn’t even know they were playing last night.
As you can always expect come from behind victory is when you least expect it.
My comment was aimed at sterny who will ban for opposing him.
If you want to keep guns out of the hands of thugs, just attach job applications to them
Andrew, do you have any SF1 in you? No? Would you like some?
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by FreeZorilla on Sep 29, 2011 8:49 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Met fan here
I’d like to thank you guys for erasing the 2007 Mets from history. Now every time some hack at ESPN or FOX wants to do a story about September collapses, they’ll lead with the 2011 Red Sox and not the 2007 Mets.
Also, I find it endlessly hilarious that Carl Crawford was as bad as he was for Boston. Based on WAR, the Red Sox should have just paid Crawford to play for the Rays and signed Johnny Damon. They probably win the wild card that way. HA HA HA!
Good luck against the Rangers and if it comes to a Yankees-Rays ALCS, please destroy the Yankees.
Mark Cuban for owner! Save us from the Wilpons!
by Greenpoint Ian on Sep 29, 2011 9:11 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Wait, something happened in 2007 pertaining to the Mets?
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
Exactly ;)
"Prepare yourself, you know it's a must, you've gotta have a friend in Jesus." -Norm Greenbaum
Just found something i posted back in the middle of august...lol at no mention of the sox
Looking at this from a UK perspective Its kinda odd how, because baseball is a stat a numbers dominated, people kinda give up and assign percentages to playoff chances. Take the Premier League (soccer) for example…unless a team is mathamatically out of the title race no one murmours not making it.
I still think we have a chance and if the Rays get hot and the Yanks and Angels get cold then who knows. It should be fun.
No mention of the Sox because they were in first at the time and we had a much better shot at catching the Yanks at that time.
How quickly things change.
Mad isnt it
Just about sums up this run
by OneTonneBaby on Sep 29, 2011 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I wrote this team off way before everyone else
I’ve never been happier to be wrong
by benderbrodriguez on Sep 29, 2011 9:28 AM EDT reply actions
quite like the fact that if we crash and burn from here on out
No one will really mind that much. Sure we want to win it but this has really almsot been enough!
We are playing on house money
We may lose it all, but no matter what, the experience has been the thrill.
by raysfaninminnesota on Sep 29, 2011 9:41 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
For those that couldn't catch it live, Staats' call on the 3R HR was just incredible.
I think I watched it 8 times in a row last night, shit was amazing.
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." ~Frank Zappa
His calls on that/DanJo's homer/and Longo's game winner were awesome.
BA calling it for Longo and then BAM! and then Staats is screaming.
Im up in NY, and YES actually made really good calls on DanJos 9th and Evan's
still doesn’t excuse their buffoonery, but they seemed to love it.
He absolutely was.
You could hear his tenor change when he realized that we could be witnessing history here, and he was calling so excitedly whenever Rays did something he may as well have been in the booth with BA and Staats.
Second best night of my life.
Right with ALCS game 7. Glad I stayed the whole time!
#meatup
Do you realize Betty White is a milf for me? Ouch
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by sternfan1 on Sep 3, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
by wtbudlight on Sep 29, 2011 9:50 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
ESPN just can't help themselves
“The paid attendance of 29,518 headed for the exits, which is rare because the fans never come here, anyway.”
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7033863/rays-topple-red-sox-mere-minutes
Sounds salty to me.
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
forget about them. half their staff have arrest records and plus they don't copy edit anything. on ye rays article they said that johnson guy a "solo homeruns"
They are a joke.
by PreachITBrotha on Sep 29, 2011 10:15 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
fair, because we don't deserve it anyways
thats the thing.
no one can really say that Tampa earned this. They played ok down the stretch and did just enough to take advantage of our complete breakdown. They were benefited by their circumstance.
Want to see someone really get their brain twisted up? Try explaining the Monty Hall problem to them….
by BigBenSportsGuy on Sep 29, 2011 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions
verdict rendered.
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Just looked up what the hell the Monty Hall problem was
and after initially thinking it was BS the more I read it actually makes a lot of sense
I know what the Monte Hall problem is. He must think we're all 3rd graders.
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
Sorry guys, I messed up again, clearly misspelling 'black people.'
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
Riiight, cuz we didn't beat them 6 out of 7 times.
Bottom line, we battled and found a way to win. They battled and found a way to choke. Haters gonna hate, chokers gonna choke, and playas gonna play!
by raysfaninminnesota on Sep 29, 2011 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Rob Neyer Facts:
According to coolstandings.com, at that point — and remember, this is merely four weeks ago — the Rays had a 1.7-percent chance of reaching the playoffs, the Cardinals a 3.3-percent chance. At that point, the chance of the Rays and Cardinals reaching the playoffs was (roughly) 1 in 1,783.
Once every 1,783 times, a 1-in-1,783 shot will come through. And there are, if you go looking for them, a lot of 1-in-1,783 shots out there.
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
by kericr on Sep 29, 2011 10:20 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
benmaller Ben Maller
by gregauman
Yankees’ vs. Rays blew a lead of 7 or more runs in 8th inning or later for just 3rd time in 111-year franchise history. (1931,1953)
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
Cubs fan here
Have always considered the Rays my AL team though (being a Floridian), glad I stayed up and watched it all. Thanks for an unforgettable night of baseball.
enjoy
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DA7aKGPcIIDg&v=A7aKGPcIIDg&gl=US
by PreachITBrotha on Sep 29, 2011 10:53 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I don't know if anybody managed to catch this piece by Nate Silver a few days back.
There’s a fair amount of rehash about how bad Boston’s collapse was. There’s also this.
This is a graph where X is the winning percentage of a team up until it’s last 25 games and Y is the winning percentage of that same team’s last 25 games. The ‘worst case’ on this is if they had lost out from the 27th (the date of the article) AND played the tiebreaker game, and the best case is if they had won out and played the tiebreaker. The appropriate plot point for their actual record on this graph would be the same X with a Y of .280. Better than worst but worst than best, and still quite horrible.
Proof Matthan admitted he was wrong: http://www.draysbay.com/2011/3/18/2058018/ottotd-for-3-18-2011-thursday-night-t-v#61697767
that's fantastic.
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
How many years of data was this?
Another DRB guy on Twitter, @jeffjohn1979
The article doesn't say, but knowing how Nate Silver used to write baseball articles, probably all of them.
I don't always think of epic collapses, but when I do, I prefer the 2011 Red Sox and Braves. Stay salty my friends.
Just read the article
Since he has a team from 1899 on there, probably safe to say all. So the Red Sox had the lowest winning % in their last 25 games of any team in history that played .600+ ball up to that point.
Another DRB guy on Twitter, @jeffjohn1979
Rangers fan here
Congrats all over the place…most epic night of baseball EVER.
See you folks on Friday!
DFA Knox.
by DonDrapersOPS on Sep 29, 2011 11:05 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I was coming to post a similar sentiment.
I respect the shit out of this Rays team. TO THE PLAYOFFS!
"...out of the shadows of unprecedented success, the sun shines down upon this team waiting to thrill anew." - ghostofErikThompson
by jam0152 on Sep 29, 2011 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
The best part to me was Crawford not being able to get the throw home in the air from basically the shortstop position
@thekidpow
Calm, collected, German.
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Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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by jctGamer on Sep 29, 2011 11:36 AM EDT reply actions 10 recs
Seems recworthy.
I don't always think of epic collapses, but when I do, I prefer the 2011 Red Sox and Braves. Stay salty my friends.
#FFFP
now stands for Fuck-FULL front page
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
I can't even be mad that Hickey just said on the radio that Niems is starting Game 1.
@thekidpow
Calm, collected, German.
I don't mind it
All the pressure will be on the Rangers to win that game now.
If they lose we have our ace throwing game 2
Don't know if anyone snagged the St. Pete Times this morning (since you're all carpetbaggers):
“Team president Matt Silverman pulls out his smartphone and shows a text message Sternberg sent at 10:30 p.m., before the start of the ninth inning: ‘Will come down to my man Dan’ Sternberg was referring to Dan Johnson, who three years earlier hit the most famous home run in team history to tie a game in the ninth against the Red Sox and propel the Rays on to their first American League East division title. As if on cue, manager Joe Maddon sent Johnson to the plate to pinch-hit for Sam Fuld.”
@ptSuttery
by Suttree on Sep 29, 2011 11:41 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
obviously a new york banker conspiracy from the start
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
fyi
SunSportsRays SunSportsRays
Just found out we are re-airing celebration at 2:00 after re-broadcast at noon on SUN. Hit those DVR’s if you can get home during lunch. TK
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@thekidpow
Calm, collected, German.
I wonder if Joe will platoon Sam and Deezy in LF now that Fuld is healthy again
Jennings has looked very worn down at the plate lately.
Uh no
@thekidpow
Calm, collected, German.
by PlayOnWords on Sep 29, 2011 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions
The more these odds and other crazy #s come out, the more overwhelming this all is.
@thekidpow
Calm, collected, German.
This is the Donovan v Algeria goal x10
@thekidpow
Calm, collected, German.
by PlayOnWords on Sep 29, 2011 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions
GTFO. I literally jumped on a stranger's back when that happened.
@thekidpow
Calm, collected, German.
by PlayOnWords on Sep 29, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Few things; starting off with Longoria as MVP...
Not team MVP, league MVP. I was on the Shields bandwagon for team MVP just a few short weeks ago. Longo passed him, and passed everyone else. I don’t treat MVP as a one game thing, or a best season thing, or a best player on best team thing, or just a pure clutch thing. It is a mixture of all of that. Longoria hasn’t had the best season, but his season was pretty darn good. He led the league in RBIs after his injury for example. So that in itself should have kept him in the conversation. Obviously numerous players (Ellsbury to the slew of Yanks to Bautista) had better individual seasons. But what about value? Value at some point is about putting a team on your back and carrying it. Longoria did it over the past month, and it culminated with one of the best individual weeks of the year. He had power, on base, and tremendous defense. So he falls short in “best season” but gains enough in the “value” department to take it. Ellsbury is the total opposite, although even in the end he was playing well, how can a team that took the Ron Jeremy in the throat get the MVP? All of the Yankees are in a similar boat. Great seasons, but individually not as key as Longoria.
So at the end of the day I’d throw Longoria at the top, Granderson 2, Bautista 3, Verlander 4.
Also HAHAHAHAHAH to Jonah Keri and Bill Simmons. Go write a book about the Sox taking the Ron Jeremy.
I thank Draysbay for proving that Loose Change fanatics exist in mainstream America, and more importantly for Chik-fil-A spicy chicken recommendations. My life is forever changed
seriously, can we get some recognition from the slurping writers here about what a fucking benedict arnold piece of shit that canuck Jonah Keri is?
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
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I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Daiper was not there
If you want to keep guns out of the hands of thugs, just attach job applications to them
I never thought he was a Rays fan, but he built the impression that he was somewhat in their corner. Now obviously his allegiance is to his boss. Just seems extremely fake to me, spewing bs to whatever audience he has.
Now that sounds rather harsh, but the end point is that he is just a honk for a rival team. So naturally, screw him.
I thank Draysbay for proving that Loose Change fanatics exist in mainstream America, and more importantly for Chik-fil-A spicy chicken recommendations. My life is forever changed
He never claimed to be a Rays fan.
He was a writer who did a ton of research and wrote about the team.
If you want to keep guns out of the hands of thugs, just attach job applications to them
He was definitely pandering to the Rays fanbase, probably to sell more books (and I don't blame him for that)
I knew he wasn’t a true Rays fan, but the pandering to the fanbase made it seem like he was somewhat of a fan. He was kissing butts so to speak.
But either way that doesn’t matter. He is a media type that honks for a rival team. As such, screw him.
I thank Draysbay for proving that Loose Change fanatics exist in mainstream America, and more importantly for Chik-fil-A spicy chicken recommendations. My life is forever changed
Is he a Red Sox guy?
I guess I don’t that much attention, I knew wrote the book about us and posts here, but I never saw anything else about who he favors.
Guy was selling a book
He put on a ‘TB’ hat for a few months to get you to purchase.
by Dome Biscuit on Sep 29, 2011 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions
That's not accurate at all
He’s not a carpetbagger but you look at the odds 3 days ago, he’d come across as a homer if he was pushing the Rays as the favorite. He has to be fair and balanced.
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by Jason Collette on Sep 29, 2011 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions
if you're not trying to be ironic then you failed.
look at the odds 3 days ago? Look at how the sox have played THIS MONTH. it was a tossup in this series between how good the rays have played, how much the yanks would rest, how bad the sox were, and how much of a spoiler the o’s wanted to be. it wasn’t a foregone conclusion at all and any odds you were looking at accounted for NONE of those realities just listed.
the fair and balanced throwaway line is repulsive and i really hope you’re joking.
I could care less about your graduate degree-I was a full professor at Harvard at 34 and am a full professor at Columbia now in a theoretical field whose main tool is statistical mechanics. So can can come down from your high place.
by Buzzy on Sep 24, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
who knows
his book, in all honesty, sucks though
There are precedents for rewarding a Longoria-type year with the MVP
My first thoughts are Nellie Fox (no relation) in 1959 and Zoilo Versailles in 1965. Maybe the best precedent would be Kirk Gibson in 1988, but that would mean some World Series heroics as well, although Fox and Versailles were both on the losing end of the WS.
A random Fangraphs comment:
One of the guys calling the game on ESPN (I think it was Sutcliffe) said that he could see in Papelbon’s eyes that Papelbon was going to close out the game. One of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard uttered on television.
@ptSuttery
How many wins did the Rays have over the Red Sox in the end?
An extra 2%.
(rounded up)
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I couldn't come up with anything witty. Damn it.
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