National League Wild Card - What Would YOU Do?

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Aside from Stanton's homer, I thought the game was kind of boring until the bottom of the 8th. But after that? Wow. 3 lead changes in 2 innings.

I've got my PVR primed and at the ready.
 

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No outfield wall and horse-drawn carriages at the 1905 World Series at the Polo Grounds where the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics were playing.

Okay I admit it...I'm distracting from the pain of that loss.
Such a cool photo. Kind of reminds me where Leaside plays in the Toronto league at Bayview/Eglington. The most historic Toronto league team plays in the shittiest park. There’s only a home run fence for half of the outfield. And it’s a short porch that goes up a little hill and goes onto Eglington in left field. In right field there’s absolutely nothing lol

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Ben Johnson was asked what he thought of Garrit Cole and Giancarlo Stanton, "they are cheetahs".
I’ve spoken about this before here. That Cheetah energy drink was the absolute worst humiliating national pride, disaster of an ad campaign I have ever seen. I can’t believe Ben Johnson would ever do that.

Do you think Stanton is a cheater? He has spoken against the records held by Barry Bonds in the past because of his steroid use. Has anyone else ever noticed how Garrett Cole keeps rubbing his wrist and forearm of his left arm with his pitching hand when he pitches and rubs the baseball like pitchers usually do? And then he throws the most ridiculous hard knuckle curve with a 2 foot break drop….. I think Alek Manoah and Josh Donaldson both had it right about that guy.

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Aside from Stanton's homer, I thought the game was kind of boring until the bottom of the 8th.
That is baseball.

Sportsnet is showing NHL today not the World Series. Probably switched it to streaming. I am catching it on Fox
 

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Wait, this front office for the Jays did indeed dismantle the 2022 team. Why did we trade Hernandez instead of focusing on signing him to an extension? Oh yeah of course, his defense sucks. And who was it that abruptly disputed this trade the very next day after it happened? Oh yeah, that guy. I think his name is Felipe lol. I think he played the Mexican chef that worked for Mr. Angelino on Threes Company….

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Such a cool photo. Kind of reminds me where Leaside plays in the Toronto league at Bayview/Eglington. The most historic Toronto league team plays in the shittiest park. There’s only a home run fence for half of the outfield. And it’s a short porch that goes up a little hill and goes onto Eglington in left field. In right field there’s absolutely nothing lol

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For those who don't know, it is named Talbot Park. And, if you hit a home run over that left field fence......look out traffic on Eglinton Avenue..... heads up!!!!!
 

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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was born to a Japanese mother and an African American father. His mom cooks meals for super star Ohtani and pitcher Yamamoto from time to time. Cute
 
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For those who don't know, it is named Talbot Park. And, if you hit a home run over that left field fence......look out traffic on Eglinton Avenue..... heads up!!!!!
….once upon a time, I pitched there. I can’t believe the McDonald’s that was there for 1000s of years has now been transformed into a LRT subway station. Leaside Baseball has a very deep tradition in Toronto.

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I know everyone here is probably waiting for me to say this lol, but what a defensive play with Teoscar Hernandez throwing out Stanton at the plate. I mean Stanton is definitely not Ricky Henderson, but Hernandez had to make a perfect throw to make that play. He did and the throw was clocked over 93 miles an hour. I mean the radar guns are juiced, but still that’s an amazing throw. I want this thing over with and I want the Dodgers to win tonight and sweep the Yankees. I learned the most interesting stat yesterday. Aaron Judge is one of two players in major league history with at least 200 at bats in the postseason and a batting average under 200. I’ve been checking out some Yankee podcasts on YouTube. They want this man dead. They are calling him a worthless embarrassment. Chicken shit playoff performer! The comments on some of those YouTube videos of Yankees nation are ripping Aaron Judge to threads.

I’m looking forward to the off season. I want to see.Teo get the $100 million contract he deserves and I want to see what the hell the Blue Jays are going to do with Guerrero and signing additional power. I don’t know how I’m going to be motivated to even watch the Blue Jays knowing that they have the same idiots in the front office….. I really think Mark Shapiro bothers me more than Ross Atkins. With Mark Shapiro, I feel the Blue Jays are trapped with the king of shit talk mumbo-jumbo. He has been guiding this entire organization the wrong way, and will sit there and lie to your face about what’s happening, and talk nothing but shit along the way. And he is the head honcho. It really is terrifying. I feel like the only reason he’s not replacing Ross Atkins, is because he knows he himself is the one that’s really responsible for this mess. He probably calls many more shots than we even realize. That’s the word on the type of involvement he has but then he plays it off to the media like he’s not involved in baseball operations, which I think is untrue. I keep going back to what Jeff Blair said in 2015 when AA left office. “Mark Shapiro likes to put his fingers in every pie.”

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In tonight‘s game, let’s count how many times Cole rubs the back of his left wrist and then touches the baseball lol. Josh Donaldson and Alek Manoah were correct in saying that guy is such a cheater.

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