BoxingAg84 said:

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SIAP
Astros social media team reaction…

astros friends i thought this was cool pic.twitter.com/6lJPM184DH

— string (@propjoesays) October 21, 2023

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Unfortunately for the short girl, the Baseball Gods now demand that she remove an article of clothing before every Altuve at bat.

McInnis said:

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Ranger fans have to be thinking that the baseball gods don't like them much. Thursday night Altuve appears to have hit a meaningless homer run but replay showed it didn't clear the yellow line by a foot. Then last night his homer cleared the left fielder's glove by a foot.

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I always see other fans complain about why the baseball Gods haven't punished the Astros for 2017 and at this point I'm starting to be convinced the baseball Gods are punishing the rest of the league for trying to offer up a scapegoat when we all know teams were doing all sorts of **** to steal signs. The Astros, and especially Altuve, were sacrificed to relieve the constant hate and ire of everyone and the baseball Gods said, "**** that, we know you're all guilty. If nobody else is gonna go through the hate ringer, the Astros just get tossed stay dominant."

Cromagnum said:

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LOL. Going full NCIS with Abreu's fastball tendencies.

Adding to mystery of intent: Bryan Abreu threw 1,211 fastballs this season, hit a right-handed batter with exactly one before plunking García.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 21, 2023

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This kind of stuff is so stupid and is up near the top of my old man pet peeves list. Person that doesn't mess up that much messes up and it's a full-blown conspiracy. He doesn't walk folks or give up runs that often either evan, and yet he has done both in this series, neither of which the evan or the rangers thought was some vast conspiracy.

Cromagnum said:

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LOL. Going full NCIS with Abreu's fastball tendencies.

Adding to mystery of intent: Bryan Abreu threw 1,211 fastballs this season, hit a right-handed batter with exactly one before plunking García.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 21, 2023

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What a waste of time… Who cares, Evan Grant?

Wear the fastball. Wear the loss.

Rangers fans are the softest and whiniest little bishes in baseball.

512Ag said:

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Which ***** ass player hid behind anonymity? I guess he's afraid mean old Maldy might target him next.
From The Athletic:
"Another Rangers player, granted anonymity in exchange for his candor, essentially accused Maldonado of masterminding the whole thing.

"One of the best relievers in baseball just suddenly lost command?" the player asked, referring to Abreu. "Maldonado's smart. They got exactly what they wanted, Adolis riled up. Crazy coincidence, isn't it?"

Maldonado is certainly smart. He also can be an irritant. And evidently, he is inside the Rangers' heads."

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Maldonado is a clever player, but the mythology surrounding him is fantastic, and it's kind of self fulfilling. The more people believe these things, the more they come true.

Cromagnum said:

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LOL. Going full NCIS with Abreu's fastball tendencies.

Adding to mystery of intent: Bryan Abreu threw 1,211 fastballs this season, hit a right-handed batter with exactly one before plunking García.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 21, 2023

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Latin American batters pimp home runs, and Latin American pitchers throw at Latin American batters that pimp home runs. The only mystery here is why Garcia thought he was a special snowflake who ought to be exempt from the consequences of his actions.

Bob Lee said:

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512Ag said:

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Which ***** ass player hid behind anonymity? I guess he's afraid mean old Maldy might target him next.
From The Athletic:
"Another Rangers player, granted anonymity in exchange for his candor, essentially accused Maldonado of masterminding the whole thing.

"One of the best relievers in baseball just suddenly lost command?" the player asked, referring to Abreu. "Maldonado's smart. They got exactly what they wanted, Adolis riled up. Crazy coincidence, isn't it?"

Maldonado is certainly smart. He also can be an irritant. And evidently, he is inside the Rangers' heads."

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Maldonado is a clever player, but the mythology surrounding him is fantastic, and it's kind of self fulfilling. The more people believe these things, the more they come true.

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They've built him up to be the evil mastermind genius.

This is the best. Doobie and the Captain!

Mauricio Dubón telling Derek Jeter, he’s the reason he fell in love with the game.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?!

🎥: @MLBONFOX

pic.twitter.com/KnPjAAuseZ

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) October 20, 2023

Papi the photographer returns for a special moment between Mauricio Dubón and his childhood baseball idol, Derek Jeter. ❤️📸@kevinburkhardt | @AROD | @davidortiz | @derekjeter pic.twitter.com/fM5aUka1MF

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 20, 2023

Or maybe the moment was simply too big for Bryan Abreu and he choked. He couldn’t handle the pressure and accidentally plunked him. That would be a more palatable narrative for a Ranger fan than yours: the moment was too big for the Rangers once again, yall can’t handle success.

— John Young (@john_young_3) October 21, 2023

Cromagnum said:

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LOL. Going full NCIS with Abreu's fastball tendencies.

Adding to mystery of intent: Bryan Abreu threw 1,211 fastballs this season, hit a right-handed batter with exactly one before plunking García.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 21, 2023

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They are idiots. Not only is it insane to hit then in that game, high and inside is where you are supposed to pitch him. That's what JV was so mad about. He was trying to pitch there and it moved to the plate and down.

I'm just glad they tried to fight us instead of doing what real gangsters do and scoring the runner we just put on second base with 0 outs.

I really wish game 6 was tonight.

Owners of Globe Life

Another underrated play from last night. Tucker's double to knock Chapman out.

If Tucker gets out there, LeClerc comes in for the 9th to face 7-9 and isn't sitting a long time between pitches through bottom of 8th

Big Al 1992 said:

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Pretty cool interview and good insight.

Such a special moment.

Interviewing your brother on the field after a massive win >>>

pic.twitter.com/U73YZgwypS

— Ben Verlander (@BenVerlander) October 21, 2023

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Every time I watch Verlander celebrate I think about the look on his face when he left the game and then how elated he was after the home run. He really does not want to go home to Kate

The Rangers fans are *****ing (and rightfully so) that their $300 and $200 million dollar players couldn't get it done in both the 8th and the 9th inning when they had runners in scoring position both innings. Hell in the 9th they has 2 on with no outs. (Thank you Presley)

Meanwhile the Astros get two on in the 9th for Altuve. What are the conbined salaries for Diaz and Singelton? Do they even make $1 - $2 million a year together ? I know it's no where close to $300 million.. not even close

*** So I looked it up.. Diaz and Singleton make $770,000 a year each.

Cromagnum said:

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LOL. Going full NCIS with Abreu's fastball tendencies.

Adding to mystery of intent: Bryan Abreu threw 1,211 fastballs this season, hit a right-handed batter with exactly one before plunking García.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 21, 2023

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This is factually incorrect. That's the amount of total pitches he threw this season. Not fastballs. He's been informed of that but he's keeping the tweet up because he's a piece of **** who can't admit he's wrong.

García is hit by first pitch. He's livid with Maldonado. They have history. Benches clear. Adolis has had enough of Maldonado talking. He seriously wanted a fight. Eventually Yordan Alvarez pulled him away.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 20, 2023

And this one too. Madly literally stood there while Garcia lost his mind.

They called McTaggart for that BS a while back but their own guy is just talking out of his ass.

Part of me wants the beaning to have been intentional. Then the players have the mentality.... we're down 2.. we don't care. We're going to bean your ass for being such a punk. Not only are we going to do that, but we're going to give you a free runner and then we're going to kick your ass in the 9th.

The thing is it doesn't matter if intentional or not. Garcias inability to keep cool hurt his team.

I don't think it was intentional because I don't think this generation of players is offended by home runs being pimped.

I believe Grant called McTaggart unprofessional for… simply saying they partied. Which was correct. There was videos.

And now Grant is quite literally making **** up. It's wild.

texasaggie2015 said:

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García is hit by first pitch. He's livid with Maldonado. They have history. Benches clear. Adolis has had enough of Maldonado talking. He seriously wanted a fight. Eventually Yordan Alvarez pulled him away.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 20, 2023

And this one too. Madly literally stood there while Garcia lost his mind.

They called McTaggart for that BS a while back but their own guy is just talking out of his ass.

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Lol yea. "Wanted a fight". He wanted no part of a fight. He had his chance but was too big of a p***y. Fake tough guy.

Maldonado being Moriarty is hilarious

Bob Lee said:

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512Ag said:

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Which ***** ass player hid behind anonymity? I guess he's afraid mean old Maldy might target him next.
From The Athletic:
"Another Rangers player, granted anonymity in exchange for his candor, essentially accused Maldonado of masterminding the whole thing.

"One of the best relievers in baseball just suddenly lost command?" the player asked, referring to Abreu. "Maldonado's smart. They got exactly what they wanted, Adolis riled up. Crazy coincidence, isn't it?"

Maldonado is certainly smart. He also can be an irritant. And evidently, he is inside the Rangers' heads."

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Maldonado is a clever player, but the mythology surrounding him is fantastic, and it's kind of self fulfilling. The more people believe these things, the more they come true.

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The mythology continues to grow the more he massively over performs in the playoffs and is constantly involved in crazy scenarios through no fault of his own. Everyone knows his analytics are among the best in the league so there is already a mystic surrounding his brain wherein everyone thinks he knows just how to get into other player's heads.

He's reaching stratospheric levels now since hitters go straight for him instead of the pitcher who hit the batter.

He will carry this over when he becomes a coach. The guy is going to be able to coach in this sport the rest of his life if he wants.

Even if this is all true, that the Astros purposely hit Garcia. Garcia still brought on the delay himself. This whole conspiracy theory makes zero sense.

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texasaggie2015 said:

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García is hit by first pitch. He's livid with Maldonado. They have history. Benches clear. Adolis has had enough of Maldonado talking. He seriously wanted a fight. Eventually Yordan Alvarez pulled him away.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) October 20, 2023

And this one too. Madly literally stood there while Garcia lost his mind.

They called McTaggart for that BS a while back but their own guy is just talking out of his ass.

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Lol yea. "Wanted a fight". He wanted no part of a fight. He had his chance but was too big of a p***y. Fake tough guy.

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Threw zero punches

I'm in the minority but I do think he was beaned on purpose. I went back and forth until this morning. But it wasn't retaliation. I think we knew he would react the way he did and it would A) Light a fire under our asses and B) Cause them to lose their composure

That's just my opinion. No inside info obviously.

All we need is a ghost Orbit in the corner (like the howling Reveilles)