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Not sure if this was brought up but the Robert Andino game lost Terry Francona his job in Boston. He has coached this series pretty hard when being 99 percent chance of not making the playoffs. I thought there would be no way he would throw his elite closer 2 days in a row after 29 pitches the day before.

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3 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Not sure if this was brought up but the Robert Andino game lost Terry Francona his job in Boston. He has coached this series pretty hard when being 99 percent chance of not making the playoffs. I thought there would be no way he would throw his elite closer 2 days in a row after 29 pitches the day before.

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.

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42 minutes ago, Malike said:

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.

They have nothing to play for. It's not their WS. They have played and he has managed as if it is, which is strange.

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34 minutes ago, Uli2001 said:

They have nothing to play for. It's not their WS. They have played and he has managed as if it is, which is strange.

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.

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55 minutes ago, Malike said:

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.

Thanks for the compliments. Professional players are human, not robots. This has been a disappointing season for them, they are eliminated. They have matched the Orioles intensity, who are in a pennant race, and then some. You say it's their WS, if they win tomorrow and Sunday, they will clinch it 4-0. Parade will be on Monday.

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I doubt Francona is managing any differently because some other Orioles team beat another team Francona managed 12 years ago.  I fully expect the also-ran teams to try to play spoilers, regardless of any past history.  

As an aside, Clase has 12 blown saves.   That has to be close to a record.* Our fans rode Jim Johnson out of town on a rail for blowing 8 out of 58 back in 2013.

*Edit - I looked and believe the record is 14 blown saves, but that’s from before the days of the one-inning closer.  The most recent time was 1984.   The list of players to do this can be found in this Wiki article.
 

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