re: MLB LCS thread LAD (0) v. MIL (4) Sweep & Tampa Bay (1) at Cleveland (2) Game 4 POSTPONED

ozzie smith, vince coleman, who else was a burner on that team?


Almost everybody was a burner on that team

Apologies for the long post here.

I was 6 years old in 1982. My dad took my brother and I to every postseason game in Milwaukee in 1982. It was a 3 hour drive. Go to those games, drive back home was 3 hours, he’d drag our asses out of bed a couple of hours later so we could milk cows before we went to school.

I’m still salty about 1982. I refuse to drink any Busch product because 6 year old me still wants to piss on Darrell Porter’s grave. At my wedding I had them remove any/all Busch products from the reception hall because of how irritated I was and still am.

Outside of my own immediate family the voice I heard growing up the most was Bob Uecker. So many years of really bad baseball but it didn’t matter. You got to listen to Ueck. So many of us heard Bob Uecker talk to us more than anyone else.

My dad passed away last May. He talked fondly about the 1950’s Milwaukee Braves teams and as a result I always had the Braves as my NL team when the crew was in the AL. I still can’t despise them because above everything else I might’ve hated the Cardinals more than Osama Bin Laden all because of 1982.

Uecker leaves us and it was emotionally hard listening to Brewers games. My dad left us and the Crew provided some enjoyment. When Jack Jack caught that final out I sobbed more than I did at my dad’s funeral a few months ago.

To the Dodgers, Yankees, Cardinals, or Red Sox it’s just another fall classic, To those of us who don’t get to experience this every handful of years it hits on a pre motional level, I’ve seen two Packer Super Bowls. The first was incredible but the NFL is just different. A Super Bowl can happen anywhere. A World Series cannot be taken for granted outside of a few places.

Wisconsin is known for its drinking habits. We already had a penchant for drinking that baffles the rest of the country, it’s a bit beyond that tonight. Four more wins to go. Get those four wins and this state will be drunk even by Wisconsin standards.

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Willie McGee and Lonnie Smith.

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yes! willie magee came to my memory this morning. forgot about lonnie even though he played for my braves in 91.

Rain delay for sure in Ckeveland. Just how long is anyones guess. Chilly and raining but they think they will get it in.

Cash has Simpson batting third and junior batting clean up

Odd spot for Simpson

Junior looked like someone in the midst of a 20 game hitless streak the way he was forcing things at the plate last game. He hasn’t hit any bombs in the postseason yet, but he hasn’t been playing poorly. It was weird

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Maybe hes playing a hunch but i doubt it given its Tampa who plays it hard by the numbers and matchups.

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I think Simpson has batted everywhere in the lineup except 2, 3 and 4

I’m not sure the last time junior was in a spot other than 3, and he started every game this year

How curious

PPD!! What a kick in the ballsack. The teams will now play a potential 4 straight games if necessary.

I know most including myself want Indians vs Brewers, but then it gets troublesome

Brewers are the better team and their dedicated diehards deserve a championship, but the Indians faithful have waited even longer IIRC

And they had that heartbreaker 10 years ago too. I’m conflicted