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Post by PABraveFan on Sept 28, 2024 21:48:24 GMT -5
If we win on Sunday, or Arizona loses, we're in. The Padres will likely rest guys, especially pitchers for the playoffs, so we need to win.
If we do win we can have Sale for game 1 of the WC series and Fried for game 2. How freaking fortunate is that?
And if we do clinch tomorrow then nobody should set foot on the mound Monday except for Eli White and every bullpen pitcher who won't be on the playoff roster. Even if the Mutts score 80 runs against us. Arizona could cry all they want, they should have taken care of their own business when they could.
Hoping we pitch SBach tomorrow. If we get in Lopez can pitch game 3 of WC now, if necessary.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 28, 2024 21:48:52 GMT -5
If Braves win Sunday and Mets lose,,, then what? Gotta play unless Padres lose. Braves would be 2 games ahead but if the Mets won 2 on Monday they would tie the Braves and win the season series 7-6 and would get in. Snakes would still be alive if Mets lose out. If we win tomorrow we're in over Arizona, but if Arizona wins tomorrow or the Mutts lose then we'd still have to play Monday because Arizona and the Mutts would still be fighting for the last spot, right? I think the Mutts hold the tiebreaker over Arizona, but as of right now the D-Backs have one more win than the Mutts.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 28, 2024 21:49:46 GMT -5
If we win on Sunday, or Arizona loses, we're in. The Padres will likely rest guys, especially pitchers for the playoffs, so we need to win.
If we do win we can have Sale for game 1 of the WC series and Fried for game 2. How freaking fortunate is that?
And if we do clinch tomorrow then nobody should set foot on the mound Monday except for Eli White and every bullpen pitcher who won't be on the playoff roster. Even if the Mutts score 80 runs against us. Arizona could cry all they want, they should have taken care of their own business when they could.
Hoping we pitch SBach tomorrow. There's no other option! Even for Snit for brains!
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Post by PABraveFan on Sept 28, 2024 21:50:56 GMT -5
Hoping we pitch SBach tomorrow. There's no other option! Even for Snit for brains! Snit loves him some Morton though.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 28, 2024 22:02:52 GMT -5
There's no other option! Even for Snit for brains! Snit loves him some Morton though. Yes that's actually quite true and I have expected him to make Charlie the #3 playoff pitcher. And whoever pitches tomorrow would fall into the #3 slot.
So......
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 28, 2024 23:52:44 GMT -5
Charlie is pitching on Sunday.
Game 3 of the WC series would be on Thursday if needed, which means I suppose that the plan is to use Schwellenbach in that game 3 of the WC series if needed. Or Charlie on short rest. Or Lopez? I guess it depends on whether or not if we maybe need Schwellenbach to pitch game 1 on Monday against the Mutts.
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Post by PABraveFan on Sept 29, 2024 7:41:50 GMT -5
That would have been my original plan BUT now that we have a chance to clinch Sunday I think I would go with SBach. To me Sunday will be easier to win because KC will be using a bevy of pen guys, probably most of their lower end guys too so we really gave a chance to seal it now. On the other hand, Morton may just the right guy. He could give up 2 or 3 runs and maybe we can cover that with them sitting some position guys and throwing a bunch of pitchers out there. Tough call. Hopefully we clinch and can use Sale Tuesday and see where we are. If we win Tuesday we may be able to use SBach Wed and have Fried available for Thursday or 2nd round then Lopez too before Sale again, if we make it that far. It's setting up good but clinching today is the key. I just hope Charlie is on or AZ loses. I don't want Monday to matter, at least for us. If it doesn't matter for us we can play Kelensucks, Merrifield, White, Duvall etc. and call up someone like Elder etc. I certainly don't want injuries so I'd rather not play at all, if possible. So much speculating.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 29, 2024 10:46:22 GMT -5
That would have been my original plan BUT now that we have a chance to clinch Sunday I think I would go with SBach. To me Sunday will be easier to win because KC will be using a bevy of pen guys, probably most of their lower end guys too so we really gave a chance to seal it now. On the other hand, Morton may just the right guy. He could give up 2 or 3 runs and maybe we can cover that with them sitting some position guys and throwing a bunch of pitchers out there. Tough call. Hopefully we clinch and can use Sale Tuesday and see where we are. If we win Tuesday we may be able to use SBach Wed and have Fried available for Thursday or 2nd round then Lopez too before Sale again, if we make it that far. It's setting up good but clinching today is the key. I just hope Charlie is on or AZ loses. I don't want Monday to matter, at least for us. If it doesn't matter for us we can play Kelensucks, Merrifield, White, Duvall etc. and call up someone like Elder etc. I certainly don't want injuries so I'd rather not play at all, if possible. So much speculating. It ends up being a crapshoot no matter what direction you go, but I’d go Sale then Fried on the road against a good team to try to end it ASAP. If you do that and it goes three games Schwellenbach would be third…..if you advance then it’s either Morton or Lopez in game 1 of the divisional series. I’d much rather it be Lopez but we know Potatohead is going to lean on the veteran presents. And if we can clinch today I want to see Potatohead playing third base tomorrow and Kranitz catching. Ideally we’d want to play Milwaukee rather than San Diego, so we’d want the 6th spot. That could get tricky, we might have to clinch tonight then have the Mets win tonight and then we lose both to the Mutts tomorrow?
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Post by joeyg39 on Sept 29, 2024 11:17:06 GMT -5
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Post by PABraveFan on Sept 29, 2024 12:54:47 GMT -5
Not surprising. Everyone knows Snit is a genius.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 29, 2024 13:58:35 GMT -5
Not surprising. Everyone knows Snit is a genius. Best pitching in baseball + bad offense = middle of the pack mediocre team, which we were. I’d like to know what specifically did Potatohead do except screw with his handling of the bullpen? The lack of leadership was so bad the players had to have a closed door meeting. Pffffffttttt. Who couldn’t produce a mediocre team with the pitching we’ve had?
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