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Now that was fun

I’ve been replaying it in my head all morning. All the variables. I have been a part of very few games (little league 40+yrs ago) and coached very little (assisted with daughter’s softball… that counts right?😂) but I also can’t remember watching a game that was that wild in the last 3 innings. I’m hoping it’s the little kids of magic that carries them there the next 3 games. I live in the NYC area… I desperately neeeeeeed Cleveland to beat the yanks. Oh, how I hate Yankees fans.

j/c

Oddly, wife and I went on a golf cart ride last night, around 7. (yeah, it's something we do quite often - country folk and all - get to see deer, rabbits, a coyote or 2, etc, and just talk)

Got back, I dropped her off at the house and I went to my office. Did a few things, then went up. She was watching the game. I had checked the score on line before I went up to the house. Walked in and asked her if it was still tied? She looked at me like I was crazy. Then said "I TOLD you I was recording it"

So, it was C, 3-1 at the time. We saw the Yanks tie it, then go ahead. But we kept watching. And HOLY MOSES! What a game!!!

Emmanuel Mesa

We cannot pitch Clase against the Yankees again. They just hit him, for some reason.

Placement.
Way too many of his pitches have been out over the plate and mid thigh height.
Not sure how it was during the season because I don't get to see many games.

I don't understand why we pitched to Stanton.
1st base was open, sets of the double play to walk him and takes the bat out of his hands

I don't know. I am not saying this is the case, but some players just don't function under the brightest of lights.

Guards need Bibee to step up today ... he pitched very minimally last outing, so that's to his favor

Yanks need their "role" guys to continue to get on base ... Torres, Volpe, Rizzo

This was a bad decision by Vogt not to put Stanton. There were two instances of this in the game where he should have put the batter on.

Looks like game 6 upcoming. Back to NY vs Cole

“Guardians” 😂. What a stupid name. Enjoy another offseason while the Yankees vie for their 28th.



“Guardians”. 😂 😂

I think that our bullpen just wore out in this series.

Wew definitely need to find another starting pitcher or 2 (and hopefully be able to re-sign Beiber) and maybe 1 more bat. (and re-sign Fry)

Time out. Did you seriously post this? SERIOUSLY?

C'mon man...

Brayan Rocchio pulled his best Tony Fernandez
Emmanuel Clase pulled his best Jose Mesa

But you aren't going to beat the Bankees when their top 3 hit 9 HR in 5 games. Not unless Albert Belle, Manny Ramirez and Jim Thome are walking onto the field - and maybe not even then. Their stars balled out. We got Jose, Josh "Beer League" Naylor and Lane Thomas.

The crap of it all is. The Yankees are a better team. An extra $200M gets you that most times. But in a short series, flukey things can happen and the best team doesn't always win. We had a shot and didn't capitalize.

Celebrate the fact that we over-achieved, that some non-super stars stepped up in critical spots (Fry, Big Christmas, Lane's grand salami, the bullpen and Bibee all year)....but we all know young teams get old quick. And past success doesn't guarantee future success. This group may never make another LCS.

Even as underdogs, we had our shot, and we peed down our leg. Just like we always do.

Bullpen success is notoriously fickle. Even more so following such a taxing season as this year. I wouldn't be shocked to see all of our "big 4" have really down and/or injured years next year.

Also, we're losing our cable TV revenue from the Bally deal now that MLB has taken over.

So any extra $ we made with hosting 5 playoff games is more than cancelled out by that lost revenue. Which means, don't expect a spending spree. In fact, any increase in payroll is unlikely.

I was saying this to my in-laws this weekend (they are big into baseball)...

To me, it looked like the Guardians and the Yankees are two teams playing almost two different games. You had the Guardians having to play perfect and pulling out all the stops just to hold with the Yankees, while all NY had to do was just wait until it's next multi-million dollar guy came up to the plate.

I saw on Twitter that Yankees 3 main guys (Judge, Soto, Stanton) make twice as much as the entire Guardians roster. That's stupid. Stupid rules make for a stupid game, IMO.

until it changes, we won't win anything unless we catch lightning in a bottle or some of those big spending teams have a huge amount of injuries. Baseball sucks in that regards, they def. need a cap or some type of profit sharing that evens the playing field. the current one doesn't do squat to even the field

j/c...

As an avid Yankee hater, what a beautiful sight....

Sorry to be a contrarian, but the Dodgers are basically the Yankees of the west coast. There's no "good guy" in this series.

I completely agree with that. But I have a little less hate for the Dodgers as my brother's family is in LA

Greg understood the art of pitching and was a master at his craft. Greg was the Ace of a staff that had three # 1 starters.

Sounds like Fry is out 6-8 months until he can return as a DH again, 12 until he can catch from hot elbow injury. It's a paywall article on Cleveland.com so I can't read it.

2025 new uniforms, I really like the all-whites

Writes/talks about the Cubs' minor league teams.....

That 1st highlight was impressive. He didn't even make good contact and the ball went to the fence. And he turned it into a standup triple. That tells me 2 things. 1, he is fast, 2, he took off running from the get go and didn't stand around to watch for a HR.

The 2nd HR was it scary hard

What's up with a hit by pitch being one of the highlights?

I was never impressed by Morgan. Think this could be a great trade in the long run

Lets not fix baseball, lets mess it up further

Such a dumb idea.