World Series Game 2: DODGERS @ BLUE JAYS - Saturday @ 8pm

[LBJKB24MJ23]

How the hell are the Dodgers allowed to have so many All-Stars on their team? We get Glasnow next, then Ohtani. Snell in Game 5 again. Wtf! MLB needs to do something about this. It's ridiculous!

Cap how much these teams can spend. Deferring salary should not be allowed either. Such boooolshiiieeeet..

Jays could spend the same amount

i'm not sure the Jays can afford to. Their operting income was -60m based on the latest Forbes reports. their revenue is around 380m. so that's a reason why the Jays don't spend more money.

Dodgers have 700m in revenue.

so there we go.

https://www.forbes.com/teams/toronto-blue-jays/

Mets are a perennial loser and they don't care. so theres the other spectrum of operating an MLB franchise lol

[Randle McMurphy]

How the hell are the Dodgers allowed to have so many All-Stars on their team? We get Glasnow next, then Ohtani. Snell in Game 5 again. Wtf! MLB needs to do something about this. It's ridiculous!

Cap how much these teams can spend. Deferring salary should not be allowed either. Such boooolshiiieeeet..

Jays could spend the same amount

i'm not sure the Jays can afford to. Their operting income was -60m based on the latest Forbes reports. their revenue is around 380m. so that's a reason why the Jays don't spend more money.

Dodgers have 700m in revenue.

so there we go.

https://www.forbes.com/teams/toronto-blue-jays/

Mets are a perennial loser and they don't care. so theres the other spectrum of operating an MLB franchise lol

Rogers’ accounting tricks. The Jays/Rogers give all of the games to Sportsnet (run by another Rogers subsidiary, Rogers Sports and Media) for well below what actual market value is and make a ridiculous amount of money off this team/those games through Sportsnet/other Rogers owned media and always have (especially this year).

Rogers could easily afford to spend what the Dodgers are spending, there’s not even a question. Not that I’m complaining about the current payroll at all given where we’ve come from.

[Potential]

If we lose this little interleague series I'm calling for a 2027 lockout

[Madvillainy2004]

We had 6 baserunners in the first 3 innings. He pitched a great game. But it was not the type of thing where you would say his next game is an automatic loss. That kind of projection is when a guy goes through a game without pitching out of trouble or under stress/pressure.

They gotta play small ball when Yamamoto pitches... bunts, steals and squeeze plays to move the runner(s) over... I don't know why they didn't do it last night.

Probably because they didn’t have any baserunners

We basically didnt get anyone on after the sac fly in the 3rd lmao we blew our chance with 1st and 3rd nobody out. Thats how good Yamo was yday.

[Mehar]

If we lose this little interleague series I'm calling for a 2027 lockout

That is going to happen regardless based on an article I read last month on ESPN, that pretty much all of the owners (even from big market teams) are on board for a lockout if the players do not accept a Salary Cap.

[LoveMyRaps]

I missed most of the 8th inning last night (after Hoffman came in) and just watched it back.

Why on earth did Giminez attempt a double play? He should’ve thrown home. Easily would’ve gotten Ohtani.

[Randle McMurphy]

I missed most of the 8th inning last night (after Hoffman came in) and just watched it back.

Why on earth did Giminez attempt a double play? He should’ve thrown home. Easily would’ve gotten Ohtani.

Was a mistake.

Better question is why a lefty wasn't used in the Ohtani/Freeman window rather than Varland, they continue overusing that guy.

[Randle McMurphy]

They gotta play small ball when Yamamoto pitches... bunts, steals and squeeze plays to move the runner(s) over... I don't know why they didn't do it last night.

Probably because they didn’t have any baserunners

We basically didnt get anyone on after the sac fly in the 3rd lmao we blew our chance with 1st and 3rd nobody out. Thats how good Yamo was yday.

We had baserunners on in basically two innings in the whole game and it was with our top of the order up both times (and Yamamoto pitched out of those jams with great pitches).

There's nothing they could or should have been doing, he was that good. Maybe they could have taken a few more pitches and he might have been pulled after 8 innings rather than 9 innings but at the rate he was throwing strikes, it wasn't gonna make much difference.

[LoveMyRaps]

I missed most of the 8th inning last night (after Hoffman came in) and just watched it back.

Why on earth did Giminez attempt a double play? He should’ve thrown home. Easily would’ve gotten Ohtani.

Was a mistake.

Better question is why a lefty wasn't used in the Ohtani/Freeman window rather than Varland, they continue overusing that guy.

That’s exactly why I stopped watching.

I was pissed at the decision making by John.

Idiotic. I would honestly have brought in Little for Varland. Made no sense to have a righty face Ohtani.

[Mehar]

I missed most of the 8th inning last night (after Hoffman came in) and just watched it back.

Why on earth did Giminez attempt a double play? He should’ve thrown home. Easily would’ve gotten Ohtani.

Was a mistake.

Better question is why a lefty wasn't used in the Ohtani/Freeman window rather than Varland, they continue overusing that guy.

That’s exactly why I stopped watching.

I was pissed at the decision making by John.

Idiotic. I would honestly have brought in Little for Varland. Made no sense to have a righty face Ohtani.

I would have brought in Fluharty, instead of an overworked Varland. Idiotic decision not to bring in Fluharty with Ohtani and Freeman coming up.

[Randle McMurphy]

I missed most of the 8th inning last night (after Hoffman came in) and just watched it back.

Why on earth did Giminez attempt a double play? He should’ve thrown home. Easily would’ve gotten Ohtani.

Was a mistake.

Better question is why a lefty wasn't used in the Ohtani/Freeman window rather than Varland, they continue overusing that guy.

That’s exactly why I stopped watching.

I was pissed at the decision making by John.

Idiotic. I would honestly have brought in Little for Varland. Made no sense to have a righty face Ohtani.

If Little isn't gonna pitch in a 2 run deficit in that window, no point in him being on the roster at all. They'll never use him.

[Boogie!]

I missed most of the 8th inning last night (after Hoffman came in) and just watched it back.

Why on earth did Giminez attempt a double play? He should’ve thrown home. Easily would’ve gotten Ohtani.

Was a mistake.

Better question is why a lefty wasn't used in the Ohtani/Freeman window rather than Varland, they continue overusing that guy.

That’s exactly why I stopped watching.

I was pissed at the decision making by John.

Idiotic. I would honestly have brought in Little for Varland. Made no sense to have a righty face Ohtani.

Honestly none of these pitching decisions matter if we can’t score runs. We’ve shown these whole playoffs that we’re not winning low scoring affairs so idk why people are obsessed with the pitching decisions in x game we only scored 1 run and couldn’t even get into the dodgers bullpen. We had no shot. We win games when we score that’s been our identity the whole playoffs

[LoveMyRaps]

Was a mistake.

Better question is why a lefty wasn't used in the Ohtani/Freeman window rather than Varland, they continue overusing that guy.

That’s exactly why I stopped watching.

I was pissed at the decision making by John.

Idiotic. I would honestly have brought in Little for Varland. Made no sense to have a righty face Ohtani.

Honestly none of these pitching decisions matter if we can’t score runs. We’ve shown these whole playoffs that we’re not winning low scoring affairs so idk why people are obsessed with the pitching decisions in x game we only scored 1 run and couldn’t even get into the dodgers bullpen. We had no shot. We win games when we score that’s been our identity the whole playoffs

Well Bo should've been starting the game as well. So that was another idiotic decision by John.

Bo definitely would've brought in at least a run in that first inning (when we had men on first and third).

[Randle McMurphy]

That’s exactly why I stopped watching.

I was pissed at the decision making by John.

Idiotic. I would honestly have brought in Little for Varland. Made no sense to have a righty face Ohtani.

Honestly none of these pitching decisions matter if we can’t score runs. We’ve shown these whole playoffs that we’re not winning low scoring affairs so idk why people are obsessed with the pitching decisions in x game we only scored 1 run and couldn’t even get into the dodgers bullpen. We had no shot. We win games when we score that’s been our identity the whole playoffs

Well Bo should've been starting the game as well. So that was another idiotic decision by John.

Bo definitely would've brought in at least a run in that first inning (when we had men on first and third).

Schneider isn't deciding whether or not to start Bo Bichette

[Randle McMurphy]

Was a mistake.

Better question is why a lefty wasn't used in the Ohtani/Freeman window rather than Varland, they continue overusing that guy.

That’s exactly why I stopped watching.

I was pissed at the decision making by John.

Idiotic. I would honestly have brought in Little for Varland. Made no sense to have a righty face Ohtani.

Honestly none of these pitching decisions matter if we can’t score runs. We’ve shown these whole playoffs that we’re not winning low scoring affairs so idk why people are obsessed with the pitching decisions in x game we only scored 1 run and couldn’t even get into the dodgers bullpen. We had no shot. We win games when we score that’s been our identity the whole playoffs

Probably not winning anyway, but that fact alone is no reason to use Varland against those hitters when you have lefties in the bullpen

Maybe Little or Fluharty hold it to a 3-1 game and Yamamoto allows a baserunner in the 9th and chokes? Exceedingly unlikely, but I like it better than being down four runs.

[Raptors Realtor]

We had 6 baserunners in the first 3 innings. He pitched a great game. But it was not the type of thing where you would say his next game is an automatic loss. That kind of projection is when a guy goes through a game without pitching out of trouble or under stress/pressure.

They gotta play small ball when Yamamoto pitches... bunts, steals and squeeze plays to move the runner(s) over... I don't know why they didn't do it last night.

Probably because they didn’t have any baserunners

Leave it to Mr Contrarian... Did you watch the game? They stranded baserunners early on.

[dchoye]

Yea easy to be arm chair manager after results of the game
Yoshi was elite and we needed a way to figure him out and get more hits to win that game.

[PushDaRock]

He got 20 straight batters out on a ridiculously hot offense

We had 6 baserunners in the first 3 innings. He pitched a great game. But it was not the type of thing where you would say his next game is an automatic loss. That kind of projection is when a guy goes through a game without pitching out of trouble or under stress/pressure.

They gotta play small ball when Yamamoto pitches... bunts, steals and squeeze plays to move the runner(s) over... I don't know why they didn't do it last night.

lol well they got nobody on base after the 3rd inning

First inning, they got 1st and 3rd with Vlad up. Obviously you aren't bunting there. Kirk is up next, obviously you aren't bunting there either and he hits a liner right to Freeman right after that, not much you can do there.

2nd inning, Clement gets on from a flukey pop up. Barger up next isn't going to bunt when he's been one of our hottest hitters. IKF up next isn't going to sacrifice himself to get to 2 outs and set up Gimenez of all people to drive in a run.

3rd inning, We got 1st and 3rd with one out and Kirk executed a sac fly to score our only run.

So, I'm not sure what kind of small ball you were expecting us to play.

[dchoye]

Dodgers big payroll spending is ruining baseball
Of course if Jays could’ve sign top Japanese stars I wouldn’t be complaining.

[LBJKB24MJ23]

I missed most of the 8th inning last night (after Hoffman came in) and just watched it back.

Why on earth did Giminez attempt a double play? He should’ve thrown home. Easily would’ve gotten Ohtani.

definitely a mistake in terms of the throw, at least in the results. he underhanded it to Bichette. that took way too long.