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

Walter White said:

Warriors fans are having a field day. It really makes no sense on so many levels. Like how do you talk crap when you blew a 3-1 lead yourself, except much much worse? The Indians were the underdogs just for starters. Probably isn't the first time it has happened in baseball unlike the NBA, etc. etc. It's such drastically different situations.

It's easy to tell the difference when it seems like most of you guys are proud of your team. While Warriors fans are so salty and clearly ashamed of their team and still trying to make excuses to this day. Whatever makes them feel better I guess.

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That Warriors team was being talked about and compared to the 80's Showtime Lakers and the 1996 Chicago Bulls.

The Indians were having guys like Paul Hoynes and ESPN saying that they wouldn't make it past the ALDS.

You're damn right I'm proud of this team. It was fun as hell to be a part of October Baseball again, and that's something I hope we can be apart of for a long time (along with a trophy or two).

You know what made me feel better, putting a blue W on some toilet paper and wiping my ass with it.

Triple-S said:

That Warriors team was being talked about and compared to the 80's Showtime Lakers and the 1996 Chicago Bulls.

The Indians were having guys like Paul Hoynes and ESPN saying that they wouldn't make it past the ALDS.

You're damn right I'm proud of this team. It was fun as hell to be a part of October Baseball again, and that's something I hope we can be apart of for a long time (along with a trophy or two).

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They still have strong prospects and still have the Catcher Yandy Diaz and great pitching depth. As long as the Indians keep this pattern going we will see some more October Baseball.

Real Deal said:

You know what made me feel better, putting a blue W on some toilet paper and wiping my ass with it.

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Whatever it takes man.

Eh. Was an awesome year, and an even better postseason run. This team pulled out a fantastic stretch there where they did just about everything right. Tito managed his ass off as the team pulled rabbit after rabbit out of their plain-blue-in-spirit hats. They did it while battling injuries and an apathetic city that only found out they still existed come October. One hell of an accomplishment to come within one win of a fake world title running a rotation of Kluber and the Bullpen Days. Hopefully they hang their heads high, they fought to the end, and the real baseball fans of the city are proud of them.

macbdog said:

Eh. Was an awesome year, and an even better postseason run. This team pulled out a fantastic stretch there where they did just about everything right. Tito managed his ass off as the team pulled rabbit after rabbit out of their plain-blue-in-spirit hats. They did it while battling injuries and an apathetic city that only found out they still existed come October. One hell of an accomplishment to come within one win of a fake world title running a rotation of Kluber and the Bullpen Days. Hopefully they hang their heads high, they fought to the end, and the real baseball fans of the city are proud of them.

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Could not be more right... I mean they had no right even taking this to extra innings and they did. Great learning experience and hard fought and hopefully I will be posting with you about a WS win next year.

I just keep thinking of how a 2-2-1-1-1 series would have change the whole dynamic of this series. The extra days off for travel would of helped the pitching on both sides. As a fan that use to watch baseball alot more and it has faded in interest over the years I just saw over this playoff run how the game has changed. It's such a pitchers game now. Is elite fielding talent this poor through out the league? I felt like Lindor was the only player with range. am I just remembering the game of yesteryear with glossy eyes?

inliner311 said:

I just keep thinking of how a 2-2-1-1-1 series would have change the whole dynamic of this series. The extra days off for travel would of helped the pitching on both sides. As a fan that use to watch baseball alot more and it has faded in interest over the years I just saw over this playoff run how the game has changed. It's such a pitchers game now. Is elite fielding talent this poor through out the league? I felt like Lindor was the only player with range. am I just remembering the game of yesteryear with glossy eyes?

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It is for sure a pitchers game now and why we lost. Do no let anyone fool you if we had Salazar and Carrasco we win this.

BooyaCS said:

For starters we need a true power bat that isn't an out machine like nap or santana.

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Santana was our best hitter this season...

Mr. Orange said:

They blew an all time comeback.

They blew a 3-1 lead.

These guys will not want to go through 162. It's got to be crushing and soul sucking.

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They experienced Game 7 of the World freaking Series in their first playoff run and you don't think they'll have the willpower and fight to get back there? That instead they'll just wilt, roll over, and die?

They're literally already talking about wanting to come back in March, a half hour after losing Game 7. This team is hungry.

OptimusPrime said:

There is no guarantee that the Indians will be good next year.

We got career years from Ramirez and Napoli. Hopefully Ramirez is for real, but we've seen enough cases where they aren't over the years. Napoli showed his true colors in the playoffs.

Chisenhall had a good year, but he's never put two in a row together. Davis is 35. Who knows what he'll give you next year. We could be missing a lot of the offense we got this season.

The pitching should be solid, but bullpens can be inconsistent from year to year.

If Ramirez is real and Chisenhall is solid and Naquin and Lindor get better and you get the same production out of 1B (whether it's Napoli or someone else) and Brantley is healthy, then they should be good. But that's a lot of ifs, and you know K.C. will be good again and the Tigers and White Sox will throw a bunch of money around in the off season.

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You concentrate on the offense yet only say the pitching (a pitching staff that was historically good) "should be solid".

Funny how you don't mention we got to the World Series without our #2 and #3 SP and with our offense struggling for the majority of it. Or any of the stuff that went wrong this season, like Gomes/Perez being uncharacteristically bad at the plate, Brantley being out practically the entire season, us having to reshuffle our entire OF plan throughout the season.

Next season, we'll have our pitching staff back, a full season of J-Ram as the everyday 3B, improvement from Gomes/Perez, Brantley back, and a very good, young core locked up for years.

There is literally no reason to think this team isn't set up to compete for years to come.

Good, let the Tigers keep throwing away money on aging players. That's the team that's not a guarantee to be good again next season in this division. They're in terrible shape and are only aging more & more.

To say "you know KC will be good again" while saying "there's no guarantee the Indians will be good next season" is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

MoFlo said:

Santana was our best hitter this season...



They experienced Game 7 of the World freaking Series in their first playoff run and you don't think they'll have the willpower and fight to get back there? That instead they'll just wilt, roll over, and die?

They're literally already talking about wanting to come back in March, a half hour after losing Game 7. This team is hungry.



You concentrate on the offense yet only say the pitching (a pitching staff that was historically good) "should be solid".

Funny how you don't mention we got to the World Series without our #2 and #3 SP and with our offense struggling for the majority of it. Or any of the stuff that went wrong this season, like Gomes/Perez being uncharacteristically bad at the plate, Brantley being out practically the entire season, us having to reshuffle our entire OF plan throughout the season.

Next season, we'll have our pitching staff back, a full season of J-Ram as the everyday 3B, improvement from Gomes/Perez, Brantley back, and a very good, young core locked up for years.

There is literally no reason to think this team isn't set up to compete for years to come.

Good, let the Tigers keep throwing away money on aging players. That's the team that's not a guarantee to be good again next season in this division. They're in terrible shape and are only aging more & more.

To say "you know KC will be good again" while saying "there's no guarantee the Indians will be good next season" is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

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I want to give this post 5 winner reps.

Snarly said:

It is for sure a pitchers game now and why we lost. Do no let anyone fool you if we had Salazar and Carrasco we win this.

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I get that the injuries played a big part in this with the pitchers all having to take on more to compensate.

As for fielding, can someone explain how it isn't as solid as it once was? Are front offices looking for stronger batters than fielders now? Or is it just a causation of the game and pitchers controlling the game so players aren't getting the reps to be elite?

inliner311 said:

I get that the injuries played a big part in this with the pitchers all having to take on more to compensate.

As for fielding, can someone explain how it isn't as solid as it once was? Are front offices looking for stronger batters than fielders now? Or is it just a causation of the game and pitchers controlling the game so players aren't getting the reps to be elite?

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Two of the best fielders were in this game and Lindor out played Baez overall on defense. In general yes and this is where Tito might have really over thought himself. He should had Davis for game 6 and 7 but Davis and Naquin were slumping and he trusted rookie like he does. So it was pick your poison but he should went Davis both games for defense alone.

BooyaCS said:

Cubs had 9 players making over 8m per season. with fowler at 8 and lester at 25.

The Indians? 1 @ 9m and that was Miller

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And we took them to the 10th inning of Game 7 (in a game we should've won) of the World Series in a series everyone thought we'd get swept in, which quite literally proves that you don't have to spend ridiculous amounts of money to compete with the teams who do.

The Cubs literally had to bench their big time FA acquisition because he sucked so badly. And their 3rd, 4th, and 7th highest players were virtually nonexistent in the WS. And their 8th highest didn't do anything until tonight. Yet who were the people who came up biggest for them? Lester, Zobrist (I'll give you those 2.. hell, I'll even give you Fowler too, since he finally decided to show up in Game 7), Rizzo, Russell (huge game 6), Schwarber, and Bryant. Of those final four names, only 1 (Rizzo) is making over $1M...

You can throw all the money around you want, but if you don't have the right mix of guys, you won't sustain success. Just ask the Yankees, who throw all their money around every year, yet have less playoff appearances and 12 less wins than the Indians do over the past four seasons.

MoFlo said:

And we took them to the 10th inning of Game 7 (in a game we should've won) of the World Series in a series everyone thought we'd get swept in, which quite literally proves that you don't have to spend ridiculous amounts of money to compete with the teams who do.

The Cubs literally had to bench their big time FA acquisition because he sucked so badly. And their 3rd, 4th, and 7th highest players were virtually nonexistent in the WS. And their 8th highest didn't do anything until tonight.

You can throw all the money around you want, but if you don't have the right mix of guys, you won't sustain success. Just ask the Yankees, who throw all their money around every year, yet have less playoff appearances and 12 less wins than the Indians do over the past four seasons.

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Yeah and credit to the Cubs the young talent they have they will be a near dynasty if they all play out to potential after this. People act like the Cubs were not a great team but they were. Our team did this with out our all stars. Again people won't play it like a broken record.

Mr. Orange said:

I don't feeel like it. But you probably know how to use google.

Ok I'm out of here. You baseball guys need to relax. They lost. Sun will come up. Here's a tip, support the Cavs. The winners in town.

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Man, did experiencing a championship go to your head or what? So, because the Indians lost in extra innings in Game 7 of the World Series instead of winning it all, it becomes "fuck them, they're losers, stick with the Cavs because they're the only winners in this town"?

Good grief, man.