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  1. Mr. Brooks
    No, it's not the same. These are humans not robots. Starting a game in a hostile Yankee Stadium is not the same as starting a game in your home stadium. That moment was WAY too big for a kid that was driving an Uber last year.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Garver and the pitchers have been quoted after both games saying that this was their strategy but that the Yankees haven't cooperated. Cody Stashak: “These guys, they weren’t biting at anything. They weren’t chasing, they’re just sitting on strikes.” Mitch Garver: “We were trying to get his breaking ball to start [as] a strike, and early on they weren’t swinging too much,” said catcher Mitch Garver. “Credit to them for taking good at-bats.”
  3. Mr. Brooks
    It blows my mind that Garver and the pitchers seem surprised that the strategy of trying to get them to chase those isn't working. How are they this unprepared for their opponent? Laying off those pitches has been the Yankees MO for as long as Cashman has been in charge. It's why Yankees games take 4 hours, they don't swing at junk. How are they just now realizing that?
  4. Mr. Brooks
    The Twins are significantly better on the road than at home. They needed to split the first 2 to have any shot.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    “I don’t think of this game as any different than any game that we’ve played,” Baldelli said. “I don’t think, even in the five-game series, that there’s any added emphasis on today’s game. Every game is important. It doesn’t change the importance based on what happened in the previous game until you’re down to the last game and both teams know that they have to win that game, it’s not going to change the way that we’re really going to operate with our personnel.” Absolute nonsense, IMO.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Baldelli says Dobnak threw the ball pretty well. That's just insulting. I've been a fan of Baldelli all year, but I don't think he has any idea what he's doing in the postseason. He's lost me. I don't think I've ever done such an abrupt 180 about how I feel about a coach or manager as I have about Baldelli.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    It's a good thing we didn't use our best pitchers in the game that was actually close and winnable at one point.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    I expected the pitching to be an issue. I never expected the offense to b score a measly 5 runs in 18 innings in a band box. I don't care if it's different players. They know the history, and they once again are helpless at the sight of pinstripes. This lineup has had mostly putrid at bats through 2 games.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    What kind of plan were you expecting? You can't put lipstick on a pig. I'm happy for Dobnak, great story for him and his family, but depending on him in a must win game is a joke. There is no possible plan for a pitcher incapable of getting outs.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Isn't Odorizzi still on this team? Starting a guy who was driving an Uber last year, in a must win game in Yankee Stadium was preposterous. Once again, saving players for situations that may never arise. I don't get it. Odorizzi doesn't even get a start until the series is, for all intents and purposes, over.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    Maybe, but at some point you have to play to win a game or you aren't going to have a game 4 to save him for. I'm not a fan of saving someone for a situation that may never come. Win the game you have a chance to win, and cross hypothetical bridges when you get to them.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    And I'm saying that if it's just as important to them, they don't put Gibson into a still winnable game. He has nothing since he came back, nothing.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Why not Berrios in the 5th? He was only at 88 pitches and had just cruised through the 4th. I get he was a little sloppy through 3, but perhaps he had made adjustments in the 4th?
  14. Mr. Brooks
    I don't agree. Putting Gibson into a still winnable game was waiving the white flag.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    And that's borderline malpractice, IMO. In a best of 5 series, the game 1 winner wins the series 73% of the time. The game should have mattered just as much to the Twins.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    This team is far better on the road than at home, so I'm glad they got the 3rd seed.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Ah, my bad, misread it. I think I'd rather have Odor for 100 pitches once, than 35 twice.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Two trips through the order is 70+ pitches. Zero chance Berrios throws 70 pitches, then starts again on 2 days rest.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Odorizzi has never once started on short rest, in his entire career. I really doubt this staff will try it for the first time now. Could be available for a couple innings out of the bullpen though.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    I doubt we'll see this coaching staff start anyone on short rest.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    You can watch it. It's on MLB Network, which people can get for FREE with a trial of YouTube TV. Not only is the game available, it's free. Somehow that still isn't good enough though. I honestly don't understand what the problem is here. It seems like people are just looking for any reason to criticize.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Schoop was going to start against lefties anyways, even if Arraez didn't get hurt (IMO), so you're still replacing Arraez off the bench with Astudillo off the bench.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah that'd be awful if Lewis only gets 72 bWAR.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Sure, but it wasn't garbage time. It was a one score game with 4 minutes to play.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Fleck gained a lot of equity with me with their second half last year, so I'm still rowing the boat for now. But, I'm not encouraged by a 1 score win over an awful Purdue team.
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