2016 WORLD SERIES Game #7 -|- Indians vs. Cubs -|- November 2, 2016 @ 8:00 PM EST

[Stark]

Woke up today and damn this hurts.

I tried reasoning with myself last night that we were badly injured and this Cubs team is one of the best in decades, but fuck that, I wanted to win.

 

[GreasySpread36]

No, he's a Cubs fan in October. He literally took down his White Sod stuff, put up Cubs stuff, and said they're his NL team.

Probably more of a Cubs fan all along, imo. I used to ghost at White Sox Interactive and SoxTalk during the 2005 season and those people hate the Cubs with the intensity of a thousand suns.

 

[Mr. Orange]

What a great fucking game and a great fucking season.

Indians had no business beating the Red Sox, much less sweeping them. They had no business beating down the Jays, though beating them was reasonable.

They had no business being back in that game last night...but the fuckers pulled it up.

They made mistakes not to seal it. And that sucks. But there isn't shit Tito or anyone can do about that now.

It's unfortunate that they lost a 3-1 lead due to the jokes, (wish they'd have been down 3-2) but they were beaten by a better team.

The Indians got through more challenges that any baseball team in recent memory in losing their best hitter and their #2 and #3 pitchers and still managing to play dominant regular season and playoff baseball.

It's time for fans to reward the franchise with attendance next year. In a city where they are competing with the Browns for fans' money, that means NOT spending money on the Browns.

I sincerely hope that both franchises are treated with what they have earned by recent performance.

It will depend on how they start the season. If they middle along at .500, the casual fan won't care.

They had their chance to OWN the town, and they blew it. Big time. 3-1 lead big time.

Such is life in Cleveland. All the more reason to spend your money on the Cavs.

 

[Surge]

Will probably never forget Davis' HR in the 8th.

Same feeling as when Kyrie hit the shot...

 

[BMAN]

It will depend on how they start the season. If they middle along at .500, the casual fan won't care.

They had their chance to OWN the town, and they blew it. Big time. 3-1 lead big time.

Such is life in Cleveland. All the more reason to spend your money on the Cavs.

For fucks sake please stay off the tribe bandwagon then.

 

[TheLand1287]

Still very proud, yeah last night was disappointing. Great season. Indians weren't suppose to be there, but took the best team in baseball to seven games and had them on the ropes last night. Just shows the fight in the team.

Did anyone else thought that Kipinis foul ball was a home run?

Yes

 

[bigfoot5415]

Still very proud, yeah last night was disappointing. Great season. Indians weren't suppose to be there, but took the best team in baseball to seven games and had them on the ropes last night. Just shows the fight in the team.

Did anyone else thought that Kipinis foul ball was a home run?

I was at the watch party and couldnt see it. The way it came off the bat, it looked like it would barely clear the RF wall. How amazing would that have been?

Anyone have a clip of that? I would like to see it again.

 

[DJTJ]

It will depend on how they start the season. If they middle along at .500, the casual fan won't care.

They had their chance to OWN the town, and they blew it. Big time. 3-1 lead big time.

Such is life in Cleveland. All the more reason to spend your money on the Cavs.

Jump off a bridge.

 

[AZ_]

It will depend on how they start the season. If they middle along at .500, the casual fan won't care.

They had their chance to OWN the town, and they blew it. Big time. 3-1 lead big time.

Such is life in Cleveland. All the more reason to spend your money on the Cavs.

Your feel for team, it's character, construction and attitude has been just consistently off-base and terrible since the beginning of the season.

You embody the type of fan this team proved wrong so many times over the course of the season, and the type of fan who didn't deserve to see it pay off in a World Series championship.

To pretend that the Indians lacked some sort of intestinal fortitude or toughness necessary to win the World Series is so devoid of any sort of understanding of how baseball is played, coached and admired by so many who truly understand the game.

 

[The Oi]

Your feel for team, it's character, construction and attitude has been just consistently off-base and terrible since the beginning of the season.

You embody the type of fan this team proved wrong so many times over the course of the season, and the type of fan who didn't deserve to see it pay off in a World Series championship.

To pretend that the Indians lacked some sort of intestinal fortitude or toughness necessary to win the World Series is so devoid of any sort of understanding of how baseball is played, coached and admired by so many who truly understand the game.

To me, the Indians loss could best be explained by the fact that three of their best pitchers got rocked all over the place last night. I don't mean that in regard to BLAMING them. I just mean that it paints a picture of what was happening out there.

When's the last time you saw Kluber, Miller and Shaw's best pitches hang in the zone the way they did last night?

I would venture to guess the answer for Kluber is never, for Miller is probably when he was a starter and the answer for Shaw is also probably never. All of them were exhausted.

Granted, so was Aroldis (Madden's fault)...but I think Kluber and Miller in particular were just beaten down from this series.

The Cubs pitching is ridiculously great. Their hitting caught up to it in game 5.

I don't think there was any other explanation than that the Indians best pitchers were juiced in game 7 and their lack of SP depth started catching up to them in Game 5 when they were forced to throw their 4 guy against the Cubs deep rotation.

 

[bigfoot5415]

Apparently the 3rd precinct was packed last night. One group of Cubs fans attacked 2 Indians fans, and another group of Cubs fans defaced public property.

I heard many other complaints in regards to Cubs fans being complete assholes.

Savages. When we won, we just climbed shit.

 

[TheLand1287]

Apparently the 3rd precinct was packed last night. One group of Cubs fans attacked 2 Indians fans, and another group of Cubs fans defaced public property.

I heard many other complaints in regards to Cubs fans being complete assholes.

Savages. When we won, we just climbed shit.

These fans from a city that kill each other every day at alarming rates. Not surprised.

 

[bigfoot5415]

To me, the Indians loss could best be explained by the fact that three of their best pitchers got rocked all over the place last night. I don't mean that in regard to BLAMING them. I just mean that it paints a picture of what was happening out there.

When's the last time you saw Kluber, Miller and Shaw's best pitches hang in the zone the way they did last night?

I would venture to guess the answer for Kluber is never, for Miller is probably when he was a starter and the answer for Shaw is also probably never. All of them were exhausted.

Granted, so was Aroldis (Madden's fault)...but I think Kluber and Miller in particular were just beaten down from this series.

The Cubs pitching is ridiculously great. Their hitting caught up to it in game 5.

I don't think there was any other explanation than that the Indians best pitchers were juiced in game 7 and their lack of SP depth started catching up to them in Game 5 when they were forced to throw their 4 guy against the Cubs deep rotation.

Thats what it boils down to. I keep hearing people say, "If you told me the Indians would lose in extra innings in game 7 of the WS to the Cubs despite all their injuries...then I would take it". In all reality, if you told me Kluber, Miller, & Shaw would run out of gas with the game on the line...I would call you a lying meth head. Despite the lack of rest for Kluber, the entire staff outside of Allen & Bauer looked like ass. Never saw that coming. If you have one of the two guys who went down to cover game 4, then we may have closed it out in 5.

 

[polska2211]

It will depend on how they start the season. If they middle along at .500, the casual fan won't care.

They had their chance to OWN the town, and they blew it. Big time. 3-1 lead big time.

Such is life in Cleveland. All the more reason to spend your money on the Cavs.

Man the ignore function is fantastic. Eventually so many people will have Mr. Orange on ignore that his posts won't be read by anyone...

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody was there to hear it....

 

[AZ_]

To me, the Indians loss could best be explained by the fact that three of their best pitchers got rocked all over the place last night. I don't mean that in regard to BLAMING them. I just mean that it paints a picture of what was happening out there.

When's the last time you saw Kluber, Miller and Shaw's best pitches hang in the zone the way they did last night?

I would venture to guess the answer for Kluber is never, for Miller is probably when he was a starter and the answer for Shaw is also probably never. All of them were exhausted.

Granted, so was Aroldis (Madden's fault)...but I think Kluber and Miller in particular were just beaten down from this series.

The Cubs pitching is ridiculously great. Their hitting caught up to it in game 5.

I don't think there was any other explanation than that the Indians best pitchers were juiced in game 7 and their lack of SP depth started catching up to them in Game 5 when they were forced to throw their 4 guy against the Cubs deep rotation.

Agreed.

You look at a game where you've burned Kluber and Allen by the 6th inning and they've put six runs on the board. The win expectancy at that point, especially in a game where your hitters are facing Hendricks, Lester and Chapman, is minimal.

Not sure you can blame fatigue, even if Kluber was on short rest he still hadn't thrown a high volume of pitches in any start. Couple that with the few weeks off he had at the end of the year (blessing in disguise?) and he was fine.

Miller was working off two-days rest, it was the first game as a reliever in which he'd allowed four hits. Kluber had NEVER entered a game and came away without a strikeout. Tip your hat to the Cubs hitters, who found a way to make consistently hard contact and come up in big spots.

The three-run rally may have honestly been the happiest sports moment of my life. Right up there with Zeke going 85 to the house against Bama in 2014. I was a few rows from the field and Rajai's homer landed right in front of me, just sheer disbelief and pandemonium. Hell of a moment, but the Cubs never blinked.