Saturday, October 24, 2015

KC 4, TOR 3 (Jays eliminated)

Did that series seem to take a long time to anyone else -- like a protracted, doomed struggle? It's hard to explain; I just kind of feel like we were waiting for the inevitable for like a week, like the dominant Jays we were expecting to roll through October had been replaced by an emotionally unprepared and overwhelmed squad that didn't have a real chance. Even Game 6 was like that, with the rain delay, like, what are we doing here.

Not to take away from the Royals' win here; I'm not exactly psyched to face them next week.

Buncha housekeeping to do in here today so let's get to it. Points!

Cain 2
Gordon -1
Hoz 0
Morales 1
Moose 6

Ventura 8.33

Bautista 12 (!)
Donaldson -6 (!!)
Encarnacion 1
Tulowitzki -3 (!&$(*#)

Price 13.67

Leaving us:

Bats
Cecil
Dickey
Donaldson
Encarnacion
Price
Tulo

We'll get to which poolies are leaving us a bit later. First, your current standings as we head into the Classic, after the jump.


Currie 146.67
Yuhan 2 143.01
Brady 139.01

Yuhan 1 138
Bunting 2 137.67
Cameron 2 135.68

Drake 129.34
Bingham 1 124.34
Powell 123.67
Stempel 122.01
MacEachern 121.01

Green 115.01

Tormey 1 109.01
Williams 106.34

Reid 2 98.34
Bunting 1 98
Simone 95.33
Winklepleck 94
Shee/Bell 93.67
Elodie 93.34

Tormey 2 89.67
Reid 1 86.34
Cameron 1 82.67
Rogers 81.67

Bingham 2 68

Joining Shee/Bell on the no-picks-left list:
Yuhan 2
Bingham 1
Reid 2
Bunting 1
Elodie

Yuhan 2 I'll leave in for a couple games; some of these LOBs can knock points off in a pretty brutal fashion. The rest of those picks, I'm afraid, are getting pulled from the board with thanks and a salute, and we'll see you next year.

Everyone who has an active pick is still "live" as far as I'm concerned even if it's mathematically impossible, because why not. I'M mathematically impossible sometimes, so as usual, please note or email any arithmetic/ranking concerns.

The World Series begins Tuesday at 8 ET; not sure if KC has announced a starter, but it's deGrom for the 7-Liners...and the FOX booth for the viewers, blegh. See you then!

4 comments:

Jill said...

1) What's up w Joe Buck's hipster beard this year?
2) Let's go Mets! Suck it, Kansas City!

Daniel M. said...

"If we're going down, we might as well take MacEachern with us." — Donaldson/Tulowitzki

Steve said...

Is Donaldson's -6 a BPP record? Because wow.

Sarah D Bunting said...

Pretty sure it is. I do know I got a little electronics handiwipe and cleaned that part of my screen to make sure I read it right.