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It is not often the eyes of baseball fans are focused on Coors Field in Colorado, but in about 20 minutes, that's exactly where they'll be. We couldn't be more excited.
It has been eight years since we had one of these fun playoff games, and we love it, not just because we get to watch two teams play their guts out for the right to take a trip to Philadelphia. It's Jake Peavy, strategically held for tonight's game, against Josh Fogg, who's exactly whom you want in this game. The winner goes crazy, the loser twiddles its thumbs for a few months. This rarely happens, now we get it before the playoffs even start.
We recommend checking out how the fans of each team are hanging in at Purple Row and Gaslamp Ball. We suspect the mood will be "tense."
Oh, and the game's on TBS, so if you're curious how they're gonna work out this postseason, here's a preview.
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So begins the first time I ever tuned in to TBS.
That skyline looks like the rapture.
Your pregame entertainment is Everyone Loves Raymond!
@Rob Iracane: I've watched it only very recently for the syndicated episodes of the Office.
Josh Fogg is a hell of a major league pitcher.
/cam bonifay
For A Trip To Philadelphia!
Even when you win, you lose.
Everybody Loves Raymond! Go Rockies!
Damn! Did they preempt Tyler Perry for this?
are mustache rides with the balls complimentary?
When did deadspin go to 24 hour posting?
@44 in a Row: Yaaaay!
@jwaves: I think Will is secretly trying to screw over the DU!AN people
Don Orsillo's calling the game on TBS! Every baseball game is a Red Sox game! Hooray!
If they are going to give me playoff Orsillo can't they give me playoff Remy too?
Happy Birthday Mark McGwire.....
@StuScott Booyahs:
Be carefull or you might get a suspension like pacman.
If the Rox wins, every headline in every remotely-Coloradoan paper will have something to do with "Rock-tober"
As of today, here in Atlanta, we have two TBS channels. One local and one national. I get to watch the game on two channels with about a two second delay between the two.
@jwaves: ?
@UkraineNotWeak:
Disregard the previous statement. Local TBS is showing Family Guy.
I can't believe TBS didn't pair up Caray and Stoney for the postseason. That's not relevant to this game, but I felt like getting it off my chest.
Padres @ Rockies for a chance to go to Philly, and it's all Tony Gwynn's fault?
TBS says: Kinda funny. Go ahead and have yourself a chuckle.
To add insult to injury for Mets fans, Kaz Matsui is going to hit a walkoff homer.
@GreatOdensRaven: Hey, TBS knows comedy. Some small part of me really wants Rockies/Cubs for the NLCS, just because it would be so utterly random, and hilarious when fate steps in...
Unless the Cubs win the NLCS and play the Fighting Braves of the Cuyahoga in the World Series, because that would be the first chance we'd ever get to see two entire fan bases just waiting for the world to collapse around them.
So the loser has to got to Philly as punishment, right?
This has to be better than the Niagara-Florida A&M Play-In game.
@metroville: He's like Sean McDonough, but fatter.
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: Remy is already untertaking his postseason tradition of driving to South of The Border and buying dozens of cartons of discount cigarettes.
@Camp Tiger Claw: Did he say 'untertaking?'
"So begins the first time I ever tuned in to TBS."
I don't believe that. You must've caught The Shawshank Redemption at least once amongst the 10,000 times it has played on TBS in the past 10 years.
@Camp Tiger Claw: And with more hair, I'll thank you very much.
Red sky at night, sailor's delight
Red sky at morning, sailor's warning.
I guess the Padres will be winning this one.
Paul Lukas shit his pants when he turned this one on. Poor fellow.
@The Fan's Attic: Oh, Oh, Oh, oh-oh-Oh-oh-oh?
@Camp Tiger Claw: I don't think Orsillo can handle a game where 2 innings aren't occupied by a paper airplane/air guitar/rat incident.
Wait does this count as a regular season game? I mean for career or season stats?
...against Josh Fogg, who's exactly whom you want in this game.
Will, for the benefit of the Pirate fans in the reading audience... was that sarcasm, or were you serious?
@metroville: So it is him, then? I just turned on the game and thought I was hallucinating (and of course had to come here and see if anyone knew). He sounds weird, though - like Orsillo, but, I don't know...off. Like he's constipated or something.
@snitchesget-----:
It's considered a regular season game for stat purposes.
am i the only one who thinks the padres should have come with the camo tonight?
@snitchesget-----: Counts as a regular season game for standings, stats, everything.
@major disaster: He's just nervous. He's in the big show!
...Or at least as big a show on TBS can be.
@Rob Iracane: Years ago TBS was the go-to place for Georgia Championship Wrestling with Tommy "Wildfire" Rich battling The Iron Sheikh.
Is anybody else having trouble getting the comments to refresh?
@Innings Eater: Ok so if holliday hits say...30 home runs in this game then he would be the single season home run champion? (I have no idea how many hms he has)
hrs* im an idiot
@supastah: I think they should wear those every game
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: Yeah. It's funny hearing Orsillo without a laugh track.
If the Rockies win this game, the league ought to force them to switch to jerseys with actual sleeves.
@snitchesget-----: Yes, he would. Basically this game has to break the regular season tie that exists. So everything that happens today is the real deal for the stat book.
Or so is my understanding.
ROCKIES!!
@snitchesget-----: You joke, but I read somewhere that if he goes 0-for-5, he loses the NL batting crown to Chipper Jones.
So... huh. DU!AN but with 800% more Rockies baseball. Interesting.
Is it still okay to bitch about the fact I got rear ended on I-75 about an hour and a half ago? And not in a good way?
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: just wish we could have seen tony gwynn's swallowed-basketball-stomach in one of those unis
@snitchesget-----: There used to be three game playoffs in the NL, and those stats counted as well. Crazy, but they count.
@Becky_MI: Absolutely it is. Because I-75 is evil and I am sort of pissed at the State of Michigan today anyway. Fire at will Becky.