Malike

The Braves were glad they got the 4 days rest last year, then played like garbage and the Phillies knocked their dicks in the dirt.

Eh, if he could keep calling no-hitters they would have kept him around.

Hey, listen to Palmer talking about why Cleveland should try to win games. Shocking that an MLB team won't just pack it in. Shocking.

Been a strike all night. Bad one, too.

Rays walk it off.

It's not true.

Ex-Oriole, Cam Gallagher to kill us tonight!

Pitch around the dangerous Straw.

True, Westburg's bat has been on fire lately.

Ump wants a nailbiter. First pitch was a called strike.

Bases loaded walk. 6-5. Fairbanks can't find the zone.

Wild pitch tied it up.

Vlad Jr. is a bust. He'll probably K.

Means' K/9 is up to 1.7

Big difference in pitching too. Cleveland is 7th in MLB.

Means may have a K/9 of 0.1 but if he can keep getting 1 pitch groundouts, I'm okay with that.

Exactly, this. Nobody was complaining that Tampa was on the final stretch of a 17-game-in-a-row stretch when they played us last weekend.

He's been terrible this year with the bat.

Shawn Armstrong. The water always finds its level.

Yeah, a guy who played 4 seasons and was worth 4 wins. I'd have waited for Longoria to retire and given him a statue, but the way the Rays flip players, Iwamura was one of the few "career" Rays players. Edit: They just showed on the broadcast they made a statue for Longoria.

Feels like the FO and nearly every else on the board and in the industry figured this would be a development year for a competitive team. I highly doubt they thought they'd be fighting for the division with a week left in the season. The covid year pushed everyone back in their development and for getting them stretched out for more innings pitched.

Relying on Tampa to help is a fool's errand, they need to win games for themselves.

They have their pride to play for. Do you expect guys who are competitive enough to make an MLB roster to just roll over because they can't make the playoffs? You have a lot of bad takes, this might be one of the silliest. Professional athletes are great competitors, they are playing for contracts, jobs on the team next season, and stats to boost said contracts and they are going all out to win every game. That fact that you think there is something strange about a team that just got eliminated from the playoffs tonight when MIN won, giving 100% is mind-boggling to me.

There were so many fails, I can't recall them all. This cannot be put on one guy, this might have been the biggest team loss of the season, all of them.

Francona can't knock us out of the playoffs. It's his last season, his team are professional baseball players and they are trying to win every game. This is their world series.