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[Ziggy Stardust]

Now I'm no Baseball-ologist, but I don't think it's good when your 2 starting pitchers don't make it out of the first 2 innings in the first 2 games of the postseason.

Imagine if the Kings sent out Jonathan Quick as their starter in the playoffs this year, that’s pretty much what the Dodgers did with Kershaw.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Imagine if the Kings sent out Jonathan Quick as their starter in the playoffs this year, that’s pretty much what the Dodgers did with Kershaw.

Kershaw is a perfect depth pitcher at this point in his career. Good for a few innings. Good as 4th starter on a decent team. A nice send off to a wonderful career. He's not a game 1 starter anymore. It's Roberts and his "I believe" idiot gear that kicks in all the time. He thinks these games are disney movies or something.

 

[LeftKinger]

So glad I didn’t put much emotion into the Dodgers season this year. This would be much more frustrating to watch.

 

[Master Yoda]

Imagine if the Kings sent out Jonathan Quick as their starter in the playoffs this year, that’s pretty much what the Dodgers did with Kershaw.

Well he was pretty good in the regular season.
He is just a horrible playoff pitcher. And he seems to have given the bad playoff energy to Mookie.
Too bad they decided appeasing the woke is more important than winning.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Even with no expectations they found a way to look even more terrible. It's insane.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Betts and Freeman are complete ghosts. The frustrating thing isn't that they're losing. It's that they're not even trying. They're actually boring to watch. The MNF had more action in it.

 

[tigermask48]

To be fair, this Arizona team is about the worst possible match-up for the Dodgers and their lack of pitching depth.

 

[Buddy The Elf]

How does MLB play 162 games in the regular season then go on to have 3 game wildcard series and then follow it up with 5 game division series? How about cutting back the regular season by 10 games and make the playoffs interesting? It's like running a marathon and the gold medal come down to a 100 meter sprint.

Is anyone else not able to load this site on their phone? I have an android phone for reference. Havent been able to load it in close to a week.

 

[Lt Dan]

How does MLB play 162 games in the regular season then go on to have 3 game wildcard series and then follow it up with 5 game division series? How about cutting back the regular season by 10 games and make the playoffs interesting? It's like running a marathon and the gold medal come down to a 100 meter sprint.

Is anyone else not able to load this site on their phone? I have an android phone for reference. Havent been able to load it in close to a week.

no problem here.

Have you tried clearing your history and cache and cookies?

 

[The Butcher]

Dodgers are trash. I've never seen a team with such poor preparation for a playoff series. It's time to clean out that front office. Completely embarrassing and inexcusable. I'd rather have Rob Blake running that team.

 

[The Butcher]

How does MLB play 162 games in the regular season then go on to have 3 game wildcard series and then follow it up with 5 game division series? How about cutting back the regular season by 10 games and make the playoffs interesting? It's like running a marathon and the gold medal come down to a 100 meter sprint.

Is anyone else not able to load this site on their phone? I have an android phone for reference. Havent been able to load it in close to a week.

The format isn't the problem in my opinion. Other teams seem to figure it out. The Dodgers peak every year in August, can't seem to ever be ready for the big lights of October. I'm convinced it's a leadership and management issue, not personnel.

 

[redcard]

Well he was pretty good in the regular season.
He is just a horrible playoff pitcher. And he seems to have given the bad playoff energy to Mookie.
Too bad they decided appeasing the woke is more important than winning.

Don't worry, I left a message at AOCs office to make sure she knows it's her fault the dodgers are about to get swept.

 

[kingsholygrail]

TBF, it was the first time Kershaw melted down early in a playoff game. His meltdowns usually happened in the 6th+ inning where he'd get left in too long and start giving up chain hits and bombs.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

This is why it grates me so much when these fools celebrate winning the division like they just won the World Series, then completely choke in the playoffs.

 

[Schrute farms]

This is why it grates me so much when these fools celebrate winning the division like they just won the World Series, then completely choke in the playoffs.

It's really lame. Sure, back in the day, when one team won in each league and immediately went into the WS, it made sense. I can even see when it was four divisions and you went straight to the league championship (ended maybe in the 80's sometime). But now with several rounds, it's a really stupide tradition.

 

[The Butcher]

This is why it grates me so much when these fools celebrate winning the division like they just won the World Series, then completely choke in the playoffs.

All the teams do it. But ya it's weird to me too.

 

[kingsholygrail]

This is why it grates me so much when these fools celebrate winning the division like they just won the World Series, then completely choke in the playoffs.

I've really never understood it in baseball, but it's not out of the ordinary. I did think their little dances after every hit were kinda cringe though.

 

[Master Yoda]

The weird thing is I found that a lot of Dodgers fans are fine with just having good regular seasons.
Maybe part of that is because of the long regular season and the short post season.
Dodgers front office obviously thinks it's fine to have probably the worst post season manager in baseball.

Or maybe it's because the fans have been conditioned to accept that they are rooting for chokers.

 

[Bandit]

What's weird to me is that they play 350 regular seasons games and then the first round is best of 5.

 

[Buddy The Elf]

The format isn't the problem in my opinion. Other teams seem to figure it out. The Dodgers peak every year in August, can't seem to ever be ready for the big lights of October. I'm convinced it's a leadership and management issue, not personnel.

This wasn't directed towards the Dodgers playoff performances and I agree more racetrack isn't going to help them. I just find it odd that the league plays so many regular season games and then plays an abbreviated postseason. To me it seems like the reason for having such a long season is to weed out the weaker competition so that you have the absolute best in the post season. If hockey is playing four 7-game series you would think MLB could do the same. It's also more revenue.

I actually hate the Dodgers. True story I got kicked out of a game twice in one night back in September of 2019. I promised myself I'll never go back there. The cliff notes of the story is they have facial recognition technology and they can easily identify you if you go back after being booted. I disclosed that my water bottle was filled with vodka when I was entering the first time and was told I was being deceptive and had to leave. Meanwhile they demanded my drivers license and voided my ticket without telling me what was going on. The irony is when I bought a cheap outfield ticket and went to the outfield entrance, a guy had beers in his backpack and was told to take them back to his car.

I was at MSG for the first time a few weeks while on a work trip to NY. They had signs for it everywhere. I'm guessing it's now at Staples. Be on your best behavior because they know who you are!

 

[The Butcher]

The weird thing is I found that a lot of Dodgers fans are fine with just having good regular seasons.
Maybe part of that is because of the long regular season and the short post season.
Dodgers front office obviously thinks it's fine to have probably the worst post season manager in baseball.

Or maybe it's because the fans have been conditioned to accept that they are rooting for chokers.

I personally don't know any happy Dodger fans

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Will a sweep get Dave Roberts fired? Probably not.

 

[The Butcher]

Will a sweep get Dave Roberts fired? Probably not.

I think he just does exactly what the supposed metrics genius Andrew Freidman tells him to.

 

[Vamos Rafa]

What's weird to me is that they play 350 regular seasons games and then the first round is best of 5.

A best of 7 series is even too little for a baseball series considering an NBA or an NHL series is best of 7 and they both play half of regular season games than baseball.

 

[Schrute farms]

I gave up baseball a few years back. But dang, pretty crazy the LAD sweep. Last year losing to SD was shocking...but this even more so.