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If Houston wins it all this year...7 years, 7 ALCS appearances, 5 WS appearances, 3 titles. Will have won back to back. The Yankees 96-2003... 8 years, 6 ALCS appearances, 6 WS appearances, 4 titles. Had a three-peat Still a big if on Houston bringing it home. But pretty nuts that they are...

I can't believe we beat the Astros in the WS... What they / Altuve do in the playoffs is impressive

I'd love for Arizona to win, but make no mistake. At least Philly is a playoff caliber team. Designing a playoff system that enables an 84 win negative run differential Arizona team to be on the brightest stage is just so bad. Its funny - we talk about the sport struggling with ratings. How...

I know the playoffs can be random - and I know Philly also is playing great. But the one shame of it to me that I keep thinking, is I can't believe we could have had freaking Arizona in the NLCS. I just don't believe their staff would have been capable of containing us. Truist would have truly...

Bump. Looking back at this thread is amusing. I can't do a full victory lap though, because Murphy admittedly was dog **** for the final two months of the year as well. With the way the season ended, it does set-up for a story line to monitor heading into next year

No doubt we played like sh*t this series. But its just bonkers to me to put a choke label on a team that just won it all not but 24 months ago . I mean as of today the Astros are still literally the only team in baseball that has won it all more recently than us. TD, Albies, Arcia, Riley...

Rather than viewing 2023 as a waste (which it admittedly feels like in the lingering frustration), I'm going to try to focus on a potential bigger picture and some positive vibes. 6 division titles. A WS. Two NLCS appearances. Two hundred win seasons. Two MVP seasons (Freeman / Acuna)...

With a good offseason, we should be primed to once again win around 100. Crazy - we won 104 with 14 starts from Fried. Our rotation most of year was basically Strider, Morton, Elder and a revolving door of minor leaguers. Be interesting to see how Grissom is handled. We all know that...

I still can't believe a team that had 623 extra base hits in the regular season (3.85 per game), had 4 in the entire series. I've seen postseason efforts from the Braves offense in the past that were frustrating, but that I could understand or rationalize. I'm actually just at a loss for just...

For Acuna, honestly it comes down to what we've said all season. As good as he already is - and he is arguably the best in baseball - since his injury his fly ball rate is uniquely low. In the regular season it just meant rather than hitting 50+ homers, he his 41 - still incredible, but his...

A few thoughts: Lay-off - can't be a coincidence seeing elite teams not only lose, but largely get dominated. This is having an impact . At the very least, WC teams just need to literally start like the day after the season ends and then get no rest between games. Murphy - I can't help but...

Tough and unfortunate way to go out. Guys just didn't perform. Not much to say, they just didn't get it done. We had Strider vs. their three starter... twice.... we gave up 3 runs in both games... and we lose both games. That's just not good enough. Shame as it was an unbelievable regular...

We've just been out classed. Randomness - maybe? Meaningless? Sure we can talk about how playoffs are random and therefore meaningless. But there is still some level of performance accountability. The team just performed really, really badly. Shockingly badly tbh. The "competitiveness" of...

Obviously just want to win, but sometimes just feels like we need more than that. It feels like in order to win, we really need the ****ing bats to get going. Not trying to eek out some close win but really, really get going We need the best modern day offense ever to simply even be a shell of...

Does anyone have a stat based on just overall batted profile on how our three games in this series rank amongst the season? Had seen this for Game one but not the others. It feels like we've had 3 bottom 10-15 games all year on basics like exit velocity and expected results, etc. Curious if...

I just can't believe so much from this game and series. Acuna is by far and away my favorite player, but everyone knows the ground ball rates the past two years have been frustrating and he doesn't even remotely look like he is capable of driving the ball this series Has Olson grounded out to...

Only fitting that AJ came in and has looked nasty. Is it just me or have we really over-thought so many decisions these last several years? I will never forgive Soroka starting game 3 to ensure he got all of one start But in this case, no one in their right mind thought Elder would get the job...

I'm not going to get into theories or choking accusations, or narratives like our guys are soft or scared, etc. But I will simply say its disappointing the quality of at bats we are having. Its not like we've been lining out all over these past few games, driving balls, etc. Its just been...

I'm not a believer in October choking narratives, but what's going on with the offense right now is also just comically bad. Like really bad. Like last year the offense wasn't great, but I didn't think we got bitched either. This though is now 3 straight games of looking uniquely bad at the...