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Paul Sporer

6:05

Ugh

rusty

6:06

manfred screaming into the void at the length of the playoff games

Paul Sporer

6:07

Complaints about pace of play aren't exactly misguided. I won't really slam Manfred for that. I LOOOVE baseball but still find the pace of plenty of games to be absolutely painful. Pace is a bigger issue than time, but they're mistakenly used interchangeably

Ben Clemens

6:07

Oakland has been playing incredibly long games all playoffs

Yeah totally agree with Paul on this

Paul Sporer

6:07

Another run for HOU

Ben Clemens

6:07

I think the A's have pace of play issues, as did the White Sox

Astros I'm less sure

Paul Sporer

6:08

Tucker too lit

Anotha one!

Ben Clemens

6:08

The Astros should have been giving Tucker a ton of PT all year and just kept not

Or, in past years rather

Paul Sporer

6:08

Last year was most egregious

Jkim

6:08

Quick Q while we're on the subject of WAR - has fangraphs been using league avg data w/ 3 divisions basically being its own "league" for this season?

The Run Environment in the Centrals for example has been extra stingy this year

Ben Clemens

6:09

Here's what the man himself says:
dkappelman 3:08 PM
Yep
3:08

Paul Sporer

6:09

He's about to drop a hot 30 HR/20 SB season in '21

Ben Clemens

6:09

yikes

That's hard to read

Appelman says: yes

Paul Sporer

6:09

looool what the hell was that

Ben Clemens

6:09

tried to paste in Slack

Quarantino Martinez

6:09

I'm rooting against the Astros, but I will admit to liking Dusty.

Paul Sporer

6:09

Dig him, too

Ben Clemens

6:09

I like Dusty and Brantley and Greinke and Yordan and...

Paul Sporer

6:10

I like Tuck

Ben Clemens

6:10

Yeah him too

Pressly

Love Aledmys

6:11

Maybe I'm a sucker, I just have players I like on every team

Jimmy Wynn's Toy Cannon

6:12

I'm obviously biased, but with Osuna not in there, I think the Astros bullpen is scrappy and likable (with all the rookies)

Ben Clemens

6:13

I've enjoyed watching Castellanos pitch this year

Brandon

6:14

Manfred seemingly doesn't understand the difference between "pace" and "length." It's why he added that stupid extra-inning rule that we might be stuck with next year.

Ben Clemens

6:14

I actually liked the extra inning rule!

6:15

I'm glad it's going away, but I thought knowing it was here just for this year was fun

Chamaco

6:17

Never realized that they instituted a new rule this year where the divisional series matchups had to be between teams from the same division...in all seriousness, looking forward to games between teams we haven’t seen play each other yet.

Ben Clemens

6:17

Yeah what a bad beat?

Or maybe good beat I dunno

Not sure if it's good for TV

Paul Sporer

6:19

I didn't mind it

Some built in rivalry

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