hahahahahahahahahahaha omg espn are you SERIOUS?!"Justin Verlander wasn't at his best Tuesday night, but was good enough to put Detroit on the verge of an ALCS sweep of the Yankees."
yeah 3 hits in 8.1 innings what a fucking pushover
All right... You win... too tired to care really... Should have just pointed out the injuries as well..."Tigers having a worse record this year is the result of their unbelievably terribad record in one run games. Our "underachieving" had more to do with luck more than everything. Had we won half our one runs games, the division pennant wouldn't had been close at all." - J-man
The way this was phrased has nothing to do with that, this phrased it as if he were having a bad night, a shaky performance, so you are just being unfunny and lame. Even were none of that true, a better performance than tonight would involve better luck more likely than it would involve being better, and the difference is statistically absolutely irrelevant.his best is a no hitter so technically he wasn't at his best
Put words in my mouth why dontja. There were injuries that also cost the Tigers wins as well. Not having Doug Fister healthy for the whole season made life difficult. Contributors from last year regressed beyond what was expected of them to regress.
This. The Giants may have beaten us too, but they actually flat out outplayed us. The Cardinals on the other hand...as long as the Cardinals don't win.
yes because a 69-93 season is a much better outcome than winning the division, winning a series in the playoffs, then losing your captain to injuryFuck the Yankees.
The Red Sox season is now complete.
I just don't know how they are so lucky every year..This. The Giants may have beaten us too, but they actually flat out outplayed us. The Cardinals on the other hand...
Neither do I. It's infuriating, but if they somehow go back to back after not even being a top 5 team both years, that just blows my mind.I just don't know how they are so lucky every year..
I'm a Reds fan [/explanation]People seriously hate the Cardinals? Because they're "not a top 5 team"? Guess what? They are a top 4 team and they were a top 1 team last year. Statements like that really annoy me, and this is coming from someone who has to deal with NYGiants fans.
Edited for personal relevance.I'm a Rangers fan [/explanation]
Playoffs in baseball generally don't mean that they are top 1 - baseball is the sport in which the most random variance occurs and this is highlighted even more so in smaller sample sizes.People seriously hate the Cardinals? Because they're "not a top 5 team"? Guess what? They are a top 4 team and they were a top 1 team last year. Statements like that really annoy me, and this is coming from someone who has to deal with NYGiants fans.
Me.I'm a Cubs fan [/explanation]
That's total bullshit, ALL playoffs come down to who is the hotter team. You think the one game playoffs in football or march madness have less variance? You think that because they let the 8-seeds in in basketball and hockey, it somehow gives more credibility to whomever wins?The playoffs in baseball are literally the least accurate depictions of the three major sports of who the "best teams" really are. It literally comes down to who is "hotter" than everyone else. Robinson Cano is not a fucking sub .200 hitter, but the facts are that he hit a cold streak in the playoffs so he sucked dick and so did his team. The Cardinals won the World Series last year because they were on a ridiculous high after miraculously making the playoffs in the first place and they rode their excitement and hot bats to some extremely undeserved wins against superior teams (literally every team the Cards went through last season was superior).
Did you watch March Madness last year? Yep, the best team won. There are, of course, outliers, but usually the team best built for March Madness wins.That's total bullshit, ALL playoffs come down to who is the hotter team. You think the one game playoffs in football or march madness have less variance? You think that because they let the 8-seeds in in basketball and hockey, it somehow gives more credibility to whomever wins?