October Non-Surprises
Oct. 16th, 2012 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelThe Guardian's live-blogger was complaining about a lack of drama to tonight's ALCS game.
No shit. This series is FE4 "Second-Gen strategy" bad.
"Throw Holsety at it!"
By which I mean the Detroit Tigers pitching strategy appears to be "Put Justin Verlander in for nine straight innings every time he takes the mound 'cause our bullpen can't be trusted."
Throw Verlander at the Yankees, cross your fingers, and hope Raul Ibanez doesn't "crit" him in the ninth inning.
Too bad for the Tigers that pitching rotations, unlike FE4, take fatigue into account. :P
ETA: Well, that last inning was reminiscent of a Todd Jones nail-biter, but Ibanez didn't crit Phil Coke, our non-closer closer. And Cano finally hit the damn ball, go figure.
You'd think that pennant race baseball would be good baseball, but this is just kind of boring for all that I spent the last two hours hitting the "refresh" button like a rat banging its food bar. Watching multiple innings of nobody hitting nothin', night after night, is not that great. At least the Giants scored seven runs off the Cards last night.
No shit. This series is FE4 "Second-Gen strategy" bad.
"Throw Holsety at it!"
By which I mean the Detroit Tigers pitching strategy appears to be "Put Justin Verlander in for nine straight innings every time he takes the mound 'cause our bullpen can't be trusted."
Throw Verlander at the Yankees, cross your fingers, and hope Raul Ibanez doesn't "crit" him in the ninth inning.
Too bad for the Tigers that pitching rotations, unlike FE4, take fatigue into account. :P
ETA: Well, that last inning was reminiscent of a Todd Jones nail-biter, but Ibanez didn't crit Phil Coke, our non-closer closer. And Cano finally hit the damn ball, go figure.
You'd think that pennant race baseball would be good baseball, but this is just kind of boring for all that I spent the last two hours hitting the "refresh" button like a rat banging its food bar. Watching multiple innings of nobody hitting nothin', night after night, is not that great. At least the Giants scored seven runs off the Cards last night.
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Date: 2012-10-17 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-17 03:54 am (UTC)I mean, if the Yankees actually had their shit together, we'd be in trouble. But they don't. That kid they have filling in for Jeter scored their only run tonight.