And now, let us hope this thread remains relevant long enough to get more than 10 posts!

Liriano to go against Cueto in what I'd expect to be a pitching duel. Pirates seem to struggle a lot against Cueto; while Liriano has been tough to hit at home (huge ERA difference even though the only real performance difference is that he gives up more line drives on the road) and is brutal on left-handed hitters, of which the Reds' offense has a lot.

If Liriano gets into trouble or whatever, the team has Cole ready to eat innings out of the bullpen, as he wasn't needed on Sunday. And he was as good as any of the team's pitchers down the stretch in September, so that's a positive.

Just need to offense to keep clicking like they were during those final regular season games and for the pitching to keep kicking ass. About the only scary thing is that the only poor pitching effort in their season-ending six-game road trip was Liriano's at Chicago.

Might be a 2 hour, 1-0 game.
Lets Go Bucs!

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Wow, I'll take things you never figured that would be typed in the next 30 years for a Thousand Alex.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/pirates--andrew-mccutchen-gets-seal-of-approval-from-relatives-of-icons-clemente-and-stargell-234601958.html

Pretty sweet column about McCutchen.

Let's go Bucs!

6 more outs boys!

Here we go...3

..2

..1

RAISE IT!!!

Kudos to Pirates fans for getting this thread to double digits during your playoff win..

LOL

SportsAndLady;1511080 wrote:QQ I'm butthurt QQ

FIFY

Only bad thing is if the Pirates got Dusty fired.

GFY

Pick6;1511084 wrote:FIFY

How did your Yankees do this year?

You are a Yankees fan aren't you?

In all serialness..i'm drunk so disregard my posts. Congrats to the Pirates fans...clearly the better team.

Fire Dusty

Best of luck to the Pirates....I like them offensively and how they play. If the bullpen does well they could surprise a lot of people.

Congrats guys. I think all of you are real pirate fans. So I respect that. All these new "but fans forever" people drive me nuts. Pirates were the better team all year.


FIRE DUSTY!

SportsAndLady;1511080 wrote:Kudos to Pirates fans for getting this thread to double digits during your playoff win..

LOL

Hit em where it hurts. Lol

I think I'm just going to randomly chant "KWAYYYY-TOOO" all day while I'm dicking around at home. lol

Guessing against the Cards it'll be Burnett and Morton on the road and then Liriano will be back for Sunday's home game and if needed, they could use Cole in game 4.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/76614/five-takeaways-from-the-reds-pirates-wild-card-game

Nice column about the game and some of the factors that went into how it ended.

Heretic;1511273 wrote:I think I'm just going to randomly chant "KWAYYYY-TOOO" all day while I'm dicking around at home. lol

Guessing against the Cards it'll be Burnett and Morton on the road and then Liriano will be back for Sunday's home game and if needed, they could use Cole in game 4.

I don't know. I might try Cole in Game 2 and back with Liriano in Game 3 at PNC. Morton for Game 4

Two hours until first pitch.

Afternoon is d-r-a-g-g-i-n-g for me at the office.

This is a lousy game.

I'm happy for pirates fans, but I'm rooting for the Cards because my roommate actively rooted for the Indians the whole last month.