Biggest fear this postseason

[maoling]

My biggest fear is I hope I didn't jinx them by betting $50 to win the ALCS, and another $50 on the WS. They were still +450 to win the WS at Angel of the Winds yesterday, and +200 on the pennant. I haven't followed them as much since my wife passed; too many decades of empty hope and watching them lose finally got to me.

But my first games in Seattle were watching the Pilots at Sicks' Stadium, and we were M's junkies at the Kingdome since Day One 1977. We used to grill brats on a Hibachi and get wasted in the warehouse free parking south of the Dome before we hoofed in. My buddies and I bought the cheapest seats and sat anywhere, because the place was half-a-tomb most nights.

If they finally win it after dreaming of it and waiting almost 50 years, there are no words. Onward.

[D-train]

this is what kills me about the balls and strikes issue, the Padres can go an entire game failing batter after batter to score a run but they can blame the umpire over what they believed was a blown call for ruining their season. Talk about a scape goat, don't put yourself in that position in the first place. It will change with the challenge system but I really don't care. Teams have always had the ability to control their destinies.


https://www.foxnews.com/sports/padres-p ... -loss-cubs

Yeah shitty calls suck especially when they go against you but the almost always even out. Obsessing about them is pointless imo. That being said the challenge system is a good happy medium and should have been implemented over a decade ago.

[Donn Beach]

this is what kills me about the balls and strikes issue, the Padres can go an entire game failing batter after batter to score a run but they can blame the umpire over what they believed was a blown call for ruining their season. Talk about a scape goat, don't put yourself in that position in the first place. It will change with the challenge system but I really don't care. Teams have always had the ability to control their destinies.


https://www.foxnews.com/sports/padres-p ... -loss-cubs

Yeah shitty calls suck especially when they go against you but the almost always even out. Obsessing about them is pointless imo. That being said the challenge system is a good happy medium and should have been implemented over a decade ago.

If i was a Padres fan i guess i wouldn't appreciate the drama of it. For me its like a Bogaerts swing and a miss. It was a dramatic moment. The challenge system is going to be fine but that stuff tends to take the drama out of it. Stop the game for a review

[57reasons]

Please tell me what your prior commitment is. I promise I won't laugh.

It's my wife's birthday and we'll be whale watching in the San Juans on a zodiac boat.

I'm not getting divorced for game 1 of a series.
...Game 5?

You are a good man brother. If you don't see a whale and we win in walk off fashion it will be sad but you will still be married. Win Win.

just like Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting - had to see about a girl.