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The best news of this game is Miller will be able to go again tomorrow with under 20 pitches. Still can't believe Shaw got through 1 2/3 without a run given up. Just gives you an idea of how goof the Indians are to do this without Brantley, Santana and Carrasco. That would be like the Sox without Eaton, Quintana and Rodon still going 9-2 against 3 of the top 5-6 teams in baseball.

All the pressure is squarely on the shoulders of Lackey now. Francona 10-1 now in the World Series. Indians' pitching just keeps getting it done. Miller has something like 26-27 k's in 15 postseason innings. Best reliever in the game right now with that slider.

Gutsy call by Francona to ph for Miller with Crisp. Indians had so many opportunities to blow this one open. Thought that Napoli play would doom them, but Baez diesn't match up well with Allen because the offspeed stuff keeps him off balance.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/playo...returns-wrigley

Talk about greed rum amok. SouthSide bars would be ashamed to post signs like that, especially after 2008. Just makes it easier to root against the Cubs. http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/us/ohare-air...dent/index.html Bad omen for the Cubs?

Might as well be DeAngelo Jimenez II. Once upon a time, there was a reasonable level of confidence that some of these under the radar moves would work out, especially on the pitching side. Now they're all pretty much universally mocked.

If Native Americans or Eskimos represented the same percentage of voters as African Americans, Hispanics or even Asian Americans, she would be firmly against it. This simply allows her to hide behind the greatest good for the greatest number centrist economic argument and ignore all the historical atrocities committed against Native Americans...because, economic development/jobs. She definitely will never be as "pro environment" as the typical Dem.

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/i...morated-artists

Well, that's a lot more defensible than the Nats and Strasburg at least. Probably puts Jeyward, as Maddon calls him, back into the line-up unless he's just there as pr and defensive replacement.

Unless they have a completely demoralizing Bartman Two ending, they won't be quiet at all this offseason. That's about the only hope left now. Collapse from up 3-1 or something shocking that has never happened yet in the history of the World Series.

When is the Schwarber statue going up? Along with one of the Bauer-jinxing drone that a Cubs fan somewhat creatively sent to him in CLE before the game... You had Schilling's bloody sock, and now an $11.99 Amazon drone. Probably the merchandiser will stick Cubs' stickers on it and triple the price to $35.99 or even more if they win the World Series.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pollster-frank-l...-200157345.html GOP pollster Frank Luntz diagnoses what Trump did so well, and where the went (very) wrong in his campaign, some useful insights although surely some will argue he has an axe to grind (of course, anyone not OVERTLY dumping praise on the The Donald gets put on Twitter blast).

Everyone said similar things about Huntsman in 2012 and Kasich in 2016. Kasich for the first 2/3rds of his political career would have been picked apart by the Democratic oppo research. He would have had to convince everyone he'd genuinely changed to a moderate/centrist (and that his religious views were no longer the defining ones they once were), rather than just posing as one for political positioning purposes in the primaries. Not to mention Kasich was never truly in the same spotlight as Rubio, who wilted under pressure. There's also a few legit reasons he never won anything, besides BARELY holding his own state against Trump. If the argument was about the economy and ObamaCare (Romney v. Clinton), that wouldn't give Romney much tailwind in this political climate. He's the very antithesis of most of those Trump supporters, who also don't feel 100% comfortable with his religious background/beliefs. One thing's for sure, Liz Warren would eviscerate him like she's doing with Wells Fargo and Mylan/epipen manufacturer.

Michael Moore did "Where To Invade Next" recently....I defy any conservative to identify at least half the ideas posed by that movie as anything but bipartisan and reasonable. His approach here is the same...finding common ground, things everyone can agree with, talking about how he never has voted for Bill or Hillary in primaries or general and all of the things he disagrees with her about. He solicited complaints and the usual ones were dealt with quite effectively. He even said three nice things about GW Bush. The D'Souza...anti-Obama and Clinton docs make no pretense of doing anything but painting both as anti Christs and demons walking earth, signs of the apocalypse, etc. To say the two are mirror images of each other is like saying Lou Dobbs has some fairly flexible views about border control and immigration reform.

I think it's fair to say for most younger fans, the early to mid 1980's, specifically 1984...with Harry Caray and WGN and Budweiser and Bleacher Babes showcased by Arne Harris, Ryne Sandberg on national tv most Saturdays, Andre Dawson in 1987, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, that time is essentially the crossing point for the two teams. Then Harrelson in as GM...LaRussa, Leyland and Dombrowski on the way out. That 1984-1989 run killed the Sox, except for the promise of those young players and the new stadium, which turned out to be a massive disappointment to many at the time. Thank god the Cubs didn't win it all in 1989 of it would have been worse, but the White Sox new stadium reversed things temporarily until the strike. Then you had the Maddux, Grace and Sosa years. Anyone born after 1970, those 45 and younger...Cubs' town, minus the Sox World Series in 2005.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 08:53 AM) The right baseball move was to hire him when he was available. I can't remember correctly, but the Sox did interview him before 2012 right? Nope...they would never pay that top tier managerial salary. Might have made a courtesy call since he managed Birmingham back in the day, but he was never really an option from all the public information available. And he sat out 2012 to do the whole broadcasting thing and take a break from the chicken and beers fiasco with Beckett/Lackey et al.

QUOTE (Footlongcomiskeydog @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 08:27 AM) I would argue that the Cubs are a totally different animal from Toronto and Boston. The Cubs looked dead in the water after Game 3 against LA and came roaring back. The Blue Jays has six players with 20+ homers. The Red Sox have Ortiz, Hanley Ramirez, Pedroia, Bogaerts, Betts and Bradley, Jr. The Cubs MIGHT equal those line-ups IF Schwarber, Baez, Contreras and Russell all simultaneously reach their potential. That rarely happens where you don't have regression, injuries, sophomore slumps. Zobrist is getting older (still productive for now though), Heyward sucks, Soler sucks, Fowler had a lousy second half, Ross and Montero are more folk heroes than credible threats....this is not the 1929-1931 Yankees some are making them out to be quite erroneously.

Francona now 9-0 managing in the World Series. Pretty crazy stat.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 08:06 AM) I really wish people would take a rationale look at what teams need to win in the playoffs, premium starting pitching. The Dodgers, Giants, Indians, Red Sox, Mets, and Rangers could not put out four quality arms for the playoffs. The Dodgers couldn't put out three. To think the Yankees would not consider Gary Sanchez for for Chris is ludicrous. To me Sale and Quintana are too valuable and will not get equal value back and the White Sox thus are forced to keep them Yes, but a year ago, Sanchez was coming with 3-4 additional prospects. No way they would trade Sanchez, Frazier and Torres now, as a package. Heck, Sanchez's asking price at the moment is more than almost anyone in the game because of his position and years of control. It would be like Sanchez AND the equivalent of Montas/Avi Garcia three years ago. That's too big of a risk for the White Sox.

Michael Moore's new documentary does a better job than her own campaign of making the case for Clinton. "Moore in Trumpland" is a very worthwhile documentary watch (it's really just him doing a one man performance in rural Ohio in a heavily white GOP rural district), and makes one feel a bit better about the future of the country for the first time in months. Quite clever.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/everyone-some...-194620285.html Nice to see Joe Crede 2005 on the front page of Yahoo News.

Merritt came out of nowhere to pitch like 4 1/3rd innings earlier...this Cleveland team is flying high, and they must have felt Miller getting out of the 7th and 8th was a sign. I think they had also two games in September where the bullpen pitched at least seven innings and they gutted out both of those. Then two homers from Perez of all people? If anything, sitting for so long, you'd have thought this was the game the Cubs jumped out early and took over the series. Instead, the Indians looked like the team who played through the weekend.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 10:21 PM) I don't think it will matter in the least. Wait till you see the money they get when they start their own Cubs-TV Network in 2019. Mark http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Cubs-...twork-Soon.html Assume that deal in the last paragraph expires in 2019? http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0124-story.html Good article looking at pros and cons of own network http://cubbiescrib.com/2016/01/25/chicago-...isk-and-reward/

Deadpool officially jinxed the Cubs when he said my prediction about the Cubs and Indians meeting in the World Series when the Cavaliers won the NBA championship was the worst post of the year...but actually, predicted that way back in June. It was just a gut "confluence of historical forces" feeling at the time. At any rate, let's see what J4L's new Murderer's Row can come up with in response tonight. Hopefully a $184 million player on the bench again...in the ugly first year of that contract.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 11:37 PM) Tonight was amazing. I couldn't believe those Indians pitchers. Cubs did get some men on base but man those guys throw hard. You guys were right about the Indians. They are a formidable foe. Should be an amazing series. If the Cubs win Game 2, that's all they need. Then go home and win 2 of three or all 3. You really would pick Lackey over Kluber that easily? CLE has a couple of huge advantages in this series. They have a lot more team speed, and the ability to manufacture runs (especially in the late innings) as well as any team in the AL that I've seen this year. Like Ozzie's Small Ball, except it's not just a myth papered over by home run reliance. Second, they have that bullpen, especially if you have Salazar down there and Miller isn't overexposed to high pitch counts (they have the added advantage of the long rest from the ALCS). Right now, I'd trust Allen/Miller much more than Chapman (two BS already in the post-season), Edwards Jr., Rondon, Strop, Montgomery, etc.)