BobbyWhioux

Oddly enough, in the pre-LCS days the leagues used different tiebreaker formats; the NL did the best of 3 series while the AL had a one-game playoff (which only came up once). Quick glance at wikipedia shows the NL's best 2 of 3 pre-LCS tiebreaker came into play 4 times (46, 51, 59, 62) and bizarrely the Dodgers were involved all 4 times.

Not since the NLCS has become an official annual thing, although there were Giants/Dodgers tiebreaker playoffs in 1951* and 1962 *i.e. when the Bobby Thompson Shot Heard 'Round The World occurred.

Basically the Dodgers and Nationals are better teams and it doesn't matter because the Giants and Cardinals have a horseshoe and a rabbit's foot firmly lodged up their respective asses and thus are Invincible. Freddy vs Jason 2014 NLCS

Senator Rand Paul ‏@SenRandPaul 6m6 minutes ago I didn't realize you could filibuster a baseball game.

During that at-bat I was very relieved Jordan Zimmerman is not Justin Verlander (or Tom Glavine)

Last I remember was a Summerslam 96 preshow loss to Austin wherein the ropes/turnbuckle snapped

It's like Andre. When you're that big you only need three moves, because your hiptoss looks and sounds like most guys' powerbombs. I could buy Yoko's belly to belly as a finisher, far more than I ever could with, say, Shane Douglas who actually used one as such. Yoko's legdrop could have been a finisher -- it even was, occasionally -- and again it really looked something that could destroy someone, unlike Hogan's, which only worked as a finisher because it was Hogan and everyone got so used to Hogan always winning with it. Yokozuna's legdrop made the guy's head disappear.

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar

The Jerry Lynn vs Steve Corino ECW match where Lynn writes "Die" on himself with Corino's blood sticks with me years later. Well not really the match itself, but that one moment.

Enough to make you wish the WWF/E did Dominant Heel Champions more often. What a nice run his 1993 was. Shame his run -- and life -- were so short. Lot of non-verbal charisma, which is fun to think about and keep in mind when "Charisma" is so often translated to "promo skills". And an elegantly simple and believable finisher still among my all time faves. A Fat Man Sitting On You. I still don't think most of those jobbers were actually selling. I can still buy them all legitimately being hurt. Surely there's a youtube montage of him killing scores of jobbers with Banzai Drops, spliced together, somewhere

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The top of the 4th inning is the Equal and Opposite reaction to a shutdown inning.

Remember how that LA Kings team that won the Stanley Cup last season was, at one point, down 3 games to 0 to San Jose and the Sharks were on the cusp of sweeping them out in the first round? Because I do.

I was under the impression this already happens.

I do quite like the fighting spirit -- or gallows humor? -- of those guys starting up the "Cueto" chant last inning. It's an even numbered year. You need a wooden stake and large quantities of garlic to eliminate the Giants from the playoffs.

He actually has been saying he's retiring after the year since at least the moment the A's picked him up.

With a hand halfway up the length of the steel chair as they swing it, so it resembles a bunt

Tremendous game for the neutral observer. If you have a rooting interest, though, this really isn't very fun at all.

The play by play man just summed up the game as "offense offense offense, and a couple Mirage Penalties" which I find poetically apt (as The Raiders continue to consider rushing defense to be a Foreign Concept and prompt me to further explore alternate football viewing options)

Vine really is a godsend for sharing sports wackiness https://vine.co/v/OZUArXvO5ep/embed/postcard

Even after a decade of futility, Raider Fans travel well. It may be a testament to how cool the uniform/replica jersey still looks, though, as much as anything else.

Good lord was that an actual opening drive passing TD by the Raiders? I mean, it's early on a Sunday morning, I could just be hallucinating that while half-asleep. Would like some independent second-source confirmation on this. Oh and a 15 yard penalty on the PAT for headbutting. Okay I guess it's a real Raider TD

And it was only our curious reverence for Favre that led to the change in the first place Prior to that we were for decades just fine with teams getting "screwed" by conceding a field goal on the opening drive.

Every once in a while, I think the person in charge of selecting FOX's bumper music during Sunday games is a parallel universe version of me. Just heard them use the opening riff to Master Of Puppets. Well Then.

See, NFL refs can take even "the arbiters of justice are colorblind" and fuck it up/make it a terrible thing.