third coast.. said:

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Damn, I wanted a free hat. I even have an Astros tattoo

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Pass mine on to third coast, and thank you for your service sir.

Severino's line: 0.1 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1BB, 0 K, 29 P, ERA 81.0 and a WHIP of 15.00. Ace.

Santana is just ***** 4 HRs total in this game already between the two teams...

This is entertaining

Man at this rate this is gonna be an 8 hour game.

1 hour and 45 mins in and not even through 3.

Not be outdone, Santana's line is now complete. 2.0 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 64 Pitches, an ERA of 18.00 and a WHIP of 2.5

These guys together managed a combined 2.1 IP, 7 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 2 BB, 0 K and 93 total pitches. Aces extraordinaire. The Indians are licking their chops at the thoughts of exhausted BPs because both teams have to throw their best from here on out.

Wow. Severino gets a total of 1 out in the first and now the Yankees now find themselves in front. Unbelievable.

174 total pitches combined and barely in the 4th.

And Buxton is out of the game

When were MVP votes due

That ball barely cleared the short fence. If the LF doesn't run into it and knock himself to the ground he might have been able to go up and get it.

Aaron Judge makes Matt Holliday look small. Man.

Castro going for the golden sombrero tonight. Classic.

Am I too late

Is the catcher not wearing at least some kind of protection down there? I can understand in the field but not catcher.

Looks like it hit his thigh right under the cup

Twins are imploding. Had Judge dead to rights at third and sailed the throw by a good 10 feet.

Absolutely no media bias:

Lead page of mlb.com right now is:

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All Rise! Judge homers on WC stage

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Then is small print below:

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Didi Gregorius and Brett Gardner homered to dig the Yanks out of an early hole, then Aaron Judge also went deep.

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The funny thing is if you do an overlay, at that angle and flight path, that ball is only a home run in one of the other stadiums of teams still in the playoffs (Wrigley). Minute Maid is the only questionable one, depending on how high it was and if it caught the corner of the Crawford boxes.

I checked BOS, MIN, CLE, HOU, LAD, ARI, COL, WSH

That being said, a homer is a homer, but it's laughable as a headline. Didi had a real man homer (and a much more important one due to timing)...

Judge is such a sparkle name right now (mostly because of how much they've hyped him), and they'll keep pushing his stats and headlines as much as they can, unfortunately.

You dint think 52 HR and 114 RBI is worth some hype?

Anyone going to hit up the Astros street-fest thing before the game? Worth checking out?

NotGibbs said:

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I don't think he's saying that at all. Judge has been crazy good this year, and if anyone argues that, they're nuts.

However, the media is definitely loving getting their rocks off every time he does something noteworthy. He has gotten 10x the publicity of any other player in baseball this season

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He's a giant rookie player in New York who hit 52 bombs. The attention he gets is not media bias or anything else, it's money. Fact is, more people are interested in Judge than Altuve.

That being said, IMO Altuve obviously is the MVP and I think he wins it, regardless of how much attention Judge gets.

I won't be going this week since I'll be working, but I've been before and it's kind of cool. It's by no means a must see, but if you don't have anything else to do, it's probably worth stopping by for a while

Well when you're that size, you'd better mash a bunch of home runs. I don't see what the big deal is.