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Astros had a chance to blow this one open in the first and only got 2.

Why would you let your pitcher go on 11 days' rest? That's a long time between starts.

Price and Cole both pitched pretty poorly. Home team has not won yet.

Dyson and Diekman have some nasty stuff. Rangers acquired both this year near the deadline. It's no wonder they went on a hot streak afterwards.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 8, 2015 -> 04:07 PM) Was asked by my boss today why I couldn't cheer for the Cubs so that my Cub fan friends could be happy. He says "So you want them to be miserable the rest of their lives?" As if the Cubs determined their quality of life lol

Now Bautista is out.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Oct 8, 2015 -> 01:30 AM) No problemo, the team can easily field a title winning team with just Mexicans, Cubans, Venezuelans and Dominicans... Americans not needed, this ain't the NFL Key and Peele: "All baseball players are from the Dominican Republic".

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Oct 8, 2015 -> 12:57 PM) I really like the gameplay as well, but it takes like 2 minutes to load which is crazy to me. It boggles my mind how EA makes both FIFA and Madden, yet FIFA's menus are so much more polished and faster than Madden's.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 12:01 PM) Madden is good. Better than last year, but the menus are laggy as f***, especially Ultimate Team. The game has forced me to restart my Xbox at least 5 times.

lol Aramis Ramirez. Arrieta starting to look hittable, but Pirates probably won't have enough.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:12 PM) There are some honest to goodness Cubs fans who I feel deserve to see their team win. There are meatheads, but my grandmother lived 80 years and never saw her team win. There are a lot of those kinds of fans still alive. I know some knowledgeable fans who aren't dicks and it'd be nice to see them win it for them. But my god, the amount of bandwagon Cubs fans and their total douchebaggery outweighs my desire to see my Cubs friends happy.

Fowler's the reason they're up 4-0. Got on base, stole one, rattled Cole quite a bit.

This must really suck for the Pirates. 2 years in a row they get the first WC spot and 2 years in a row they run into an absolute machine starting the game. Last year it was Bumgarner. This year it's Arrieta.

Well at least Cutch and Harrison got decent contact off Arrieta. Too bad they were both right at Schwarber.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:09 PM) This being said, should I go with my Abreu jersey, Quintana shirsey, or a 2005 World Series shirt? Can't wear my Sale jersey, as I did so today. I'm thinking the 05 shirt. Don't wear anything Sox related. I'm not sure why you'd put a target on your back.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:09 PM) Pirate hitters have looked terrible. Alvarez would have been better just sitting with the bat on his shoulders. They take fastballs, miss hanging pitches, then swing at everything out of the zone. Our only hope for a Cubs loss is for the Cubs to have some disasterous and unexpected implosion. Not likely. They're not playing at home lol.

Thankfully for me, I don't deal with any annoying Cubs fans here IRL. The ones I do come across are fairly knowledgeable.

Pirates need to get something going if they want any shot of winning this game at all. Next inning might be their best shot with 2-3-4 coming up.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 07:59 PM) Look it's pedro Alvarez in the 3rd inning. Nice managing. Rodriguez didn't even hit. He was just in there to screw up at first lol.

Alvarez pinch hitting for Rodriguez.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 07:54 PM) My cubs friend just texted me what a bomb from Rizzo. To be fair, Rizzo and Schwarber have similar stances and are both lefty.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 07:54 PM) Liriano was a much tougher matchup for Cubs Some of their best hitters are lefty (or at least better as lefties, like Fowler). So yeah, Liriano would have made a lot of sense. But you don't sit your #1 starter with a 2.6 ERA and 2.66 FIP for a one game playoff.

WTF was Bryant doing?

This game feels over already.

Pirates need to get a running game going. Arrieta's weakness is holding runners.